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| - | January 25 | | Area U.S. Customs Service Officers Seize More Than Two Tons of Marijuana
El Paso, Tex. -- U.S. Customs Service inspectors, special agents, and canine enforcement officers in El Paso, West Texas, and New Mexico performing level one alert status anti-terrorism operations confiscated 4,294 pounds of marijuana in 46 seizures in the seven day period ending January 24.
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| - | January 22 | | Customs Heroin, Cocaine Seizures Up
San Diego, Calif. -- U.S. Customs Service officers operating under a heightened state of alert at California border stations seized more cocaine and heroin during the first three months of the current federal fiscal year than they did during the same period last year, officials announced today.
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| - | January 19 | | International Customs Day
San Diego, Calif. -- Highlighting the diversity of its workforce, employees of the U.S. Customs Service will march in the 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade on Saturday, January 19, in downtown San Diego, officials announced today.
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| - | January 17 | | Customs Officers to March in Martin Luther King Parade
San Diego, Calif. -- Highlighting the diversity of its workforce, employees of the U.S. Customs Service will march in the 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade on Saturday, January 19, in downtown San Diego, officials announced today.
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| - | January 16 | | "Operation Wire Cutter" Dismantles Network of Major Colombian Money Launderers
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert C. Bonner; Treasury Undersecretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurule; Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff: Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Asa Hutchinson; and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Colombian Embassy, Juan Esteban Orduz, today announced the results of a two-and-a-half year investigation into Colombian "money brokers" and their laundering organizations.
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| - | January 15 | | U.S. Customs Service Drug Seizure Numbers Up
El Paso, Tex. -- U.S. Customs Service inspectors, special agents, and canine enforcement officers performing alert level one anti-terrorism operations in El Paso, West Texas and New Mexico are seizing drugs at a record pace.
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| - | January 14 | | Customs Agent to Carry Olympic Flame This Week
San Diego, Calif. -- A north county-based U.S. Customs Service special agent who gave part of his lung to save a boy stricken with cystic fibrosis has been selected to carry the Olympic torch this week as it wends its way through California en route to Salt Lake City.
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| - | January 08 | | Top U.S. Customs Canines to Retire
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Two dogs responsible for almost 300 seizures
San Luis, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs Service officers at the San Luis port of entry will say goodbye to two of their best four-footed colleagues on Wednesday.
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| - | January 03 | | Major tanker load
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U.S. Customs Inspectors Seize $79.2 Million in Cocaine
in Laredo, Investigation Continues
Laredo, Tex. -- U.S. Customs officials announced in a news event today that U.S. Customs inspectors recently seized a gigantic load of cocaine in a tanker valued at nearly $80 million.
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