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HIDALGO, TEXAS—
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge seized $2,770,000 worth of cocaine in two separate, unrelated incidents and arrested two individuals in connection with the failed smuggling attempts.
“These two outstanding interceptions of hard narcotics occurred within a couple of hours of each other and had it not been for the excellent teamwork and great perseverance by our frontline officers, these two significant loads of drugs may have gone undetected,” said Efrain Solis Jr., Port Director, Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas.
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) —
President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation's comforter five years ago, mourning at Fort Hood with families and uniformed comrades of those killed during last week's shooting spree. "We somehow bear what seems unbearable," he declared.
It was yet another sad observance for a president who has had to deliver words of consolation across the nation during his more than five years in office. At Fort Hood, the ceremony was made more poignant as a remembrance for soldiers who didn't die in wars abroad but in the safety of their own compound.
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) —
Police in East Texas have arrested a woman after she called them to complain about the quality of the marijuana she had purchased from a dealer.
Lufkin police Sgt. David Casper said Monday that an officer went to the home of 37-year-old Evelyn Hamilton to hear her complaint that the dealer refused to return her money after she objected that the drug was substandard.
Casper says she pulled the small amount of marijuana from her bra when the officer asked if she still had it.
She was arrested Friday on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Hamilton said Monday that she spent $40 on "seeds and residue." She says she called police when she got no satisfaction from the dealer's family.
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