Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Covert vehicleantenna fromAntenna Authority CBP has awarded a small business set-aside contract worth more than $18,000 to Antenna Authority, Inc., of Douglasville, GA, for covert mobile antennas, which, according to William Ferrel Bentley, the company’s president, “the Border Patrol uses to find…
Border Patrol finds drug shipment in truck masked as county government vehicle
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Fake county markings A vehicle with what looked to be a Santa Cruz County, AZ government truck was really a drug hauler with a load of almost 2,000 lbs of marijuana, according to the border agents that found it abandon on a…
Border Patrol wants clever equipment to peer into buildings
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Under-the-doorcamera from Zistos CBP plans to buy a handful of tactical surveillance products from Zistos Corp., of Holbrook, NY, or their equivalent, that would enable the U.S. Border Patrol’s tactical team to exploit various building designs, such as entry ways, windows, walls…
Border Patrol will buy gear from G3 Technologies to boost situational awareness in Arizona
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: border_security The U.S. Border Patrol intends to purchase about $160,000 worth of “signal processing equipment” from G3 Technologies, Inc., of Columbia, MD, to enhance the agency’s “tactical situational awareness, surveillance assessment and spectrum management.” Homepage position: 10 read more View full post on Government Security…
DHS wants to extend border zone in New Mexico
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Las Cruces, NM DHS wants to extend the border zone in New Mexico another 30 miles to include three more northerly communities in a move it said will allow less paperwork for visitors and pump more commerce to the area. Homepage position: …
Border Patrol seize over $2 million in methamphetamines and almost two tons of marijuana
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Liquid meth In separate actions, Border Patrol agents at entry inspection stations in California and Texas corralled $2.1 million in smuggled methamphetamine and marijuana in five days. Between Aug. 1 and 2, Border Patrol agents in San Ysidro, CA, near San Diego,…
Border Patrol seize over $2 million in meth, almost two tons of marijuana
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Liquid meth In separate actions, Border Patrol agents at entry inspection stations in California and Texas corralled $2.1 million in smuggled methamphetamine and marijuana in five days. Between Aug. 1 and 2, Border Patrol agents in San Ysidro, CA, near San Diego,…
Border Patrol’s Laredo sector gets seven new agents on horse patrol
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Laredo Sector Horse Patrol In a graduation ceremony in Laredo, TX on Aug. 2, seven Border Patrol agents joined the Laredo Sector Horse Patrol. At a formal ceremony on a parade ground in the border town, Border Patrol assistant chief patrol agent…
Priceless Egyptian antiquities seized at Laredo, TX border crossing
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Seized sarcopohagus Two Egyptian sarcophagi, which U.S. border authorities said were priceless historical artifacts, were seized from a shipment crossing from Mexico into Laredo, TX in early July. The unusual seizure was made by officers and import specialists from the Import Specialist…
CBO puts a price tag on implementing the Jaime Zapata border enforcement program
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)is legislation’s sponsor If Congress passes and President Obama signs the Jaime Zapata Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act — which calls for closer collaboration and better info-sharing among U.S. agencies and foreign governments — it would cost DHS…