Joshua
10-31-2003, 06:48 AM
*From News of the weird:
(N) In August, U.S. Customs confiscated an SUV being used to
smuggle Mexican immigrants into the country, but later admitted
that their thorough search of it had overlooked a 13-year-old girl
hiding inside; she was discovered 42 hours later. And in July,
Adrian Rodriguez was imprisoned (but released by an appeals court
a month later) because Mexican authorities found 33 pounds of
marijuana that U.S. Customs had failed to find in a vehicle it had
just sold to him at auction. That was the third time recently that
someone had bought a vehicle from U.S. Customs that contained
overlooked marijuana and for which the purchaser spent at least
some time in prison (in one case, one year) before things were
straightened out. [San Diego Union-Tribune, 8-12-03] [Tampa
Tribune-AP, 9-7-03] [San Diego Union-Tribune, 1-11-03] [U.S.
District Court opinion in Cervantes v. U.S., 6-2-03]
(N) In August, U.S. Customs confiscated an SUV being used to
smuggle Mexican immigrants into the country, but later admitted
that their thorough search of it had overlooked a 13-year-old girl
hiding inside; she was discovered 42 hours later. And in July,
Adrian Rodriguez was imprisoned (but released by an appeals court
a month later) because Mexican authorities found 33 pounds of
marijuana that U.S. Customs had failed to find in a vehicle it had
just sold to him at auction. That was the third time recently that
someone had bought a vehicle from U.S. Customs that contained
overlooked marijuana and for which the purchaser spent at least
some time in prison (in one case, one year) before things were
straightened out. [San Diego Union-Tribune, 8-12-03] [Tampa
Tribune-AP, 9-7-03] [San Diego Union-Tribune, 1-11-03] [U.S.
District Court opinion in Cervantes v. U.S., 6-2-03]