http://hstoday.us/content/view/4738/128/



By Anthony L. Kimery    

Hstoday.us

16 August 2008 



In the trunk of the fake utility company's car was hundreds of pounds of 

pot



This past Tuesday, alert US Border Patrol agents pulled over a 

suspicious white Ford Taurus bearing the logo of San Diego Gas & 

Electric (SDG&E) company on its doors near the border town of Campo, 

California.



What raised the agents' suspicions is SDG&E vehicles typically 

encountered in the outback around this community of 3,200 are trucks.



Radioing in for a verification of the car's tag, the vigilent Border 

Patrol agents learned that the car’s license plate was registered to a 

Chevy Cavalier.



With something clearly untoward, the Border Patrol agents dutifully 

attempted to get the driver to pull over. But instead of complying, she 

made a swift U-turn back toward the border, apparently lost control and 

crashed.



The woman exited the Taurus and made a dash for Mexico. The Border 

Patrol agents though were able to catch her before she made it to the 

border. In the trunk of the car they found more than 200 pounds of 

marijuana.



The two Border Patrol agents didn't just get a lucky break. Border 

Patrol agents are actually routinely on the lookout for vehicles bearing 

what look like official company logos and other ostensibly legitimate 

identification markings.



The reason? Drug and human smugglers trying to cross the border from 

Mexico increasingly have resorted to using what the Border Patrol and 

law enforcement refer to as “cloned” vehicles to conceal their illegal 

operations. Some of these fake vehicles have actually been disguised as 

federal vehicles, like vehicles belonging to the US Border Patrol, FEMA, 

and the National Security Agency.



[...]





__________________________________________________      

Visit Defcon Pics - Defcon Memory Repository 

http://www.defconpics.org



Received on Tue Aug 19 2008 - 03:07:34 PDT