Post by joebill on Dec 11, 2018 19:05:20 GMT
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I just got this from a neighbor and added a whole bunch of entries to my "suspicions confirmed" file already.
Written by an ex Viet Nam sniper turned border patrol then special customs agent, he has been in on most of the extreme violence in our valley and south of here for years until his retirement. I recall lots of the events he relates, including one chase near here that wrecked an interceptor mustang, burned a BP pickup to the ground, lit up a thousand acres of grass, ruined untold miles of stock fencing and netted 1800 pounds of fresh Mexican pot in one truck.
He covers the corruption on both sides of the border, the "REMF" stupidity on ours, and LOTS and lots of desert chases, fights, wrecks, successes and failures.
He resigned from the BP when the first amnesty happened in the 80's and went to the customs service where he could go for the big loads and the big fish.
One of the things he reveals is that across the border the cops and the smug drugglers are one in the same, and bales of pot sometimes, either where theyu are farmed or in a warehouse, get mouldy or unsalable for one reason or another. When that happens it is dropped off at a central warehouse, and when they have a huge load of it, they call in the reporters from both sides of the border to show off what they just "captured" and get their pictures taken while burning it. I have seen those "news reports".
Best of all, it has that indefinable quality of a "dang good read" and is a true story, straight from one of the old timer rabble rousing border guards that are slowly being replaced with "gentlemen"....much to the distress of the locals. We much preferred the wild ones like Mr. Morgan......Joe
I just got this from a neighbor and added a whole bunch of entries to my "suspicions confirmed" file already.
Written by an ex Viet Nam sniper turned border patrol then special customs agent, he has been in on most of the extreme violence in our valley and south of here for years until his retirement. I recall lots of the events he relates, including one chase near here that wrecked an interceptor mustang, burned a BP pickup to the ground, lit up a thousand acres of grass, ruined untold miles of stock fencing and netted 1800 pounds of fresh Mexican pot in one truck.
He covers the corruption on both sides of the border, the "REMF" stupidity on ours, and LOTS and lots of desert chases, fights, wrecks, successes and failures.
He resigned from the BP when the first amnesty happened in the 80's and went to the customs service where he could go for the big loads and the big fish.
One of the things he reveals is that across the border the cops and the smug drugglers are one in the same, and bales of pot sometimes, either where theyu are farmed or in a warehouse, get mouldy or unsalable for one reason or another. When that happens it is dropped off at a central warehouse, and when they have a huge load of it, they call in the reporters from both sides of the border to show off what they just "captured" and get their pictures taken while burning it. I have seen those "news reports".
Best of all, it has that indefinable quality of a "dang good read" and is a true story, straight from one of the old timer rabble rousing border guards that are slowly being replaced with "gentlemen"....much to the distress of the locals. We much preferred the wild ones like Mr. Morgan......Joe
