Janet says this type of thing doesn’t happen.
A federal magistrate has denied bond in a marijuana case involving the brother of a New Mexico mayor who faces gun smuggling charges.
Gilbert Espinoza faced a detention hearing Wednesday in Las Cruces after he was arrested on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Who says the cartels aren’t inside our borders?
According to a criminal complaint, Border Patrol agents who stopped Espinoza on Saturday afternoon on Interstate 25 near Las Cruces found 113 pounds of marijuana hidden in the gas tank of his vehicle. The agents said they had become suspicious of how Espinoza answered their questions and called in a drug-sniffing dog.
Espinoza, who also is known as Gilbert Espinoza-Saenz, was turned over to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos said Espinoza is the brother of Columbus Mayor Eddie Espinoza.
Eddie Espinoza was among a dozen people accused by federal authorities earlier this month of participating in a scheme to illegally buy guns in the U.S. and smuggle them to Mexico. The Columbus police chief and a trustee of the town near the Mexico border also are among those facing federal charges.
A federal probation officer filed a notice in court Tuesday that the government intends to petition to revoke Gilbert Espinoza’s supervised release in a 1996 drug case.
Court records show he was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release on charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
March 31, 2011 at 12:42 pm
This isn’t the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Bradmcnorman!March 31, 2011 at 1:10 pm
ROFL Nom. No, it is not the JCC.
April 3, 2011 at 8:11 am
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/04/wachovia-paid-trivial-fine-for-nearly-400-billion-of-drug-related-money-laundering.html
“God bless Lili St. Cyr!”
April 3, 2011 at 8:42 am
Nom, Janet says that the cartels are not in our lives…you believe her, don’t you?
April 3, 2011 at 9:14 am
I think she means, they are not a problem in her life; which, after all, should be our overriding concern.
April 3, 2011 at 6:50 pm
OT: well, they found one of those mass graves in Cote D`Ivoire that the UN had been claiming was there. the trouble is, it is filled with 1,000 people killed and chopped up with machetes by their guy, Ouattara, that they claimed beat the dictator Gbagbo who will not step down because he claims there was election rigging in the north.
They both appear to be horrible choices for a president.
heh, of what does that remind one?</del[Of Cote D`Ivoire's 2 northern neighbors, Mali and Burkina Faso, the US has better dealings with Mali. The US has probably for about a decade used them as a base for its "war on
terraterror”; its neighbor Niger has uranium, oil, and also phosphates (which are increasingly hard to come by), also some goldwe wantand its neighbor Algeria has Salafistswe want to kill.)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8423651/Ivory-Coast-aid-workers-find-1000-bodies-in-Duekoue.html
April 3, 2011 at 6:54 pm
I just really hate html,
They both appear to be horrible choices for a president.
heh, of what does that remind one?[Of Cote D`Ivoire's 2 northern neighbors, Mali and Burkina Faso, the US has better dealings with Mali. The US has probably for about a decade used them as a base for its "war on
terraterror"; its neighbor Niger has uranium, oil, and also phosphates (which are increasingly hard to come by), also some goldwe wantand its neighbor Algeria has Salafistswe want to kill)]