Published on Feb 28, 2013
CNN’s Rafael Romo reports makeshift cannons are now the latest weapon smugglers use to get drugs from Mexico to the U.S. For more CNN videos, visit our site at http://www.cnn.com/video/
Tag Archive for Smugglers
Faced with gun-toting drug smugglers, Arizona ranchers demand security at the border (Video Report)
From NBC News
1 Day Ago
By Mark Potter, NBC News correspondent
ARIVACA, Ariz. — Just before nightfall, 73-year-old rancher Jim Chilton hikes quickly up and down the hills on his rugged cattle-grazing land south of Tucson, escorting two U.S. Border Patrol agents.
He wants to show them the disturbing discovery he made earlier in the day: a drug-smugglers’ camp on his private property. Stacked together under a stand of trees are blankets, jackets, food, water, binoculars and bales of marijuana from Mexico wrapped in burlap. The smugglers, themselves, are nowhere in sight and are believed to have fled the area, which is about 10 miles north of the Mexican border. . . . Read Complete Report w/more videos
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Smugglers use cannon to hurl marijuana over U.S.-Mexico border
from Reuters – 7 hrs ago
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Mexican smugglers used a pneumatic-powered cannon to propel cans packed with 85 pounds (38kg) of marijuana into the air and over a fence at the Mexican border near San Luis, Arizona, authorities said on Wednesday. . . . Read Complete Report
Category: Border Wars, Drug Wars & Pot Prohibition /
Tags: cannon, hurl, Marijuana over U.S.-Mexico Border, Smugglers
