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Article: Task force targets cross-border violence; Crimes surge as Mexico drug cartels face off.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2006
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Byline: Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Federal, state and local law-enforcement agents have teamed up along the Texas-Mexico border to target rising violence spreading into the United States from a deadly turf war between drug cartels in Nuevo Laredo.
Since January, the Border Enforcement and Security Task Force (BEST) has arrested 31 cartel members; seized dynamite, grenades and bombs in Laredo, Texas; and taken possession of weapons, drugs and $1 million in cash.
"The BEST task force concept incorporates personnel from existing intelligence groups - involved in both collection and analysis - to help identify and disseminate information ...