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Nov 18, 2008
Tractor-Trailer Load of Drugs is Worth $4.6 Million Laredo, Texas Border Patrol agents from the Hebbronville station seized more than 5,700 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer. This case illustrates that the immigration checkpoints are an effective element of the…
Nov 12, 2008
Laredo, Texas Border Patrol agents from the Laredo North station disrupted an attempt to smuggle cocaine this morning. Agents patrolling in Laredo became suspicious of a small white Chevrolet cargo van and attempted to stop the vehicle by activating the…
Nov 11, 2008
Company Plans to Defer Restart of Climax Molybdenum Mine PHOENIX, AZ Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) announced in response to the recent sharp decline in molybdenum prices plans to reduce production from its Henderson primary molybdenum mine and…
Nov 3, 2008
San Luis, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Luis port of entry intercepted several attempts to smuggle cocaine and marijuana in the last week. Our officers work very hard to prevent drugs and other harmful items…
Oct 30, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona A $60 million settlement has been reached with Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) after a lengthy investigation by Attorneys General from 32 states and the District of Columbia into the companys promotion of the drugs Celebrex® and Bextra®. Arizonas share…
Oct 22, 2008
Three-Year Investigation Links Suspects to Murder, Drug, and Firearms Trafficking SAN FRANCISCO Twenty-two individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area were indicted on federal racketeering and other charges arising from their participation in La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, the U.S.…
Oct 22, 2008
A photograph of one of the letters. More than 50 identical or similar letters were sent to three different financial institutions in at least 11 states. A photograph of the envelope that was used with the letter above The FBI…
Oct 15, 2008
El Paso, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working anti-terrorism operations at the Bridge of Americas commercial cargo crossing in El Paso intercepted 6,820 pounds of marijuana in a commercial shipment of coffee. The tractor-trailer came across from…
Oct 15, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona - Douglas Ross Zuber, 40, of Phoenix, has been indicted on one count of money laundering, one count of theft and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices. The charges relate to Zubers alleged embezzlement of nearly $11…
Oct 14, 2008
A federal judge has banned Kevin Trudeau from infomercials in which he has an interest for three years and ordered him to pay more than $5 million in profits from his book, The Weight Loss Cure ËœThey Dont Want You…
Oct 14, 2008
Phoenix, Ariz. - A multi-state settlement has been reached with Countrywide Financial Corp. (Countrywide), relating to the companys alleged use of deceptive practices in their mortgage lending business. According to the settlement, Bank of America, which acquired Countrywide Financial on…
Oct 5, 2008
Nearly 400,000 Countrywide Borrowers Could Benefit After Program Launches December 1 CALABASAS, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America announced the creation of a proactive home retention program that will systematically modify troubled mortgages with up to $8.4 billion in interest…