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TMCNet: CBP Seizes Heroin Hidden in Man's Shoes at Laredo, Texas Entry

[November 06, 2009]

CBP Seizes Heroin Hidden in Man's Shoes at Laredo, Texas Entry

Nov 06, 2009 (DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- (Friday, October 9, 2009) Laredo, Texas -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo, Texas port of entry seized nearly three pounds of heroin Wednesday.

The seizure occurred at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge when Oziel Anzaldua Lopez, a 38-year-old Mexican citizen from Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon applied for admission to enter the United States as a pedestrian. A CBP officer referred the subject for a secondary inspection.

When CBP officers inspected the subject's shoes they discovered two bundles, one in each shoe, that contained a total of nearly three pounds of heroin. The heroin has an estimated street value of $290,000. CBP officers arrested Anzaldua Lopez and turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents who investigated the seizure and processed him on federal drug charges. CBP officers seized the heroin.

"This is the second heroin seizure of this type this week," said Gene Garza, CBP port director, Laredo. "Our frontline officers' experience and thorough inspections have resulted in yet another significant heroin seizure." Richard Pauza, CBP Public Affairs, Phone: (956) 753-1749Fax: (956) 753-1750 CBP Headquarters, Office of Public Affairs, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 3.4A, Washington, DC 20229 Phone:(202) 344-1780 or, (800) 826-1471Fax:(202) 344-1393

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