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Texas-Mexico border - Task force targets cross-border violence

Task force targets cross-border violence

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 10, 2006

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.

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