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…
Two ex-Border Patrol agents convicted of alien smuggling
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Raul Villareal Two former San Diego-area U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents face up to 50 years in prison following their conviction on Aug. 10 for running a lucrative human smuggling ring that brought hundreds of Mexicans and Brazilians illegally…
Patrol boat operator convicted for metal theft at Army base
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Image Caption: Aberdeen Proving Ground The 62-year-old civilian patrol boat operator who was responsible for keeping people away from weapons testing areas at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland was convicted of stealing more than 27,000 pounds…
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…
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…
Border Patrol works with NY Naval Militia on Lake Champlain
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Patrol Boat 230 The Border Patrol is again getting help from state authorities in inspecting pleasure boats on New York’s Lake Champlain on busy summer weekends. Lake Champlain straddles the New York, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…