Nineteen 'spies who helped drug smugglers and human traffickers enter the U.S. across the Mexican border' are arrested at a makeshift mountain camp
- A four-day operation between Mexican and American federal saw 19 people arrested near the Mexico-U.S. border
- Six of the suspects were Honduran nationals who were part of a group known as 'halcones', a Spanish term for spies
- The suspects worked for a cartel and also provided logistics for human traffickers that operated along the southern border
- Agents also uncovered and destroyed a poppy field, and seized 250 pounds of drugs, long-range weapons and tactical communication systems
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-05-28 |