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Mexican man charged trying to smuggle nearly $700G out of US
A Mexican man was arrested at an international bridge in El Paso, Texas, Sunday night after trying to cross the border with $689,506.
The man was traveling from El Paso to Juarez when Customs and Border Protection agents asked if he had any money, weapons, or ammunition to declare. The 28-year-old said he didn’t and agents decided to give his car an extra inspection. During the inspection, agents found the bundles of money in a speaker box.
“The currency was found in a large speaker that was operable. It’s easy to let it go because we are used to seeing these large speakers. In this case the officer was vigilant, talked to him a little longer, decided it was time to send it into secondary (inspection) and that’s how it was found,” said Ruben Jauregui, Chief Customs and Border Patrol Officer in the El Paso Field Office.
The driver was arrested and handed over to Homeland Security Investigations and faces charges associated with smuggling.
There is no limit to how much money travelers can bring back and forth across the border, but they have to declare amounts larger than $10,000. Travelers from El Paso are not allowed to bring weapons into Mexico.
Jauregui said a lot of the money that people try to smuggle out is the profit from narcotics drug cartels smuggle in. He added, it’s important to make these seizures because it disrupts the cartels ability to do business...
If this guy is a business owner, he needs to be audited. He should not see a dime of that money unless he can verify and document how he earned it legitimately. He should also go to prison for failing to declare the money. He obviously knew what he was doing since he hid the money in speakers.
Seize the money and put it towards the Build the Wall fund. If he's an illegal, deport him after his prison time.
A Mexican man was arrested at an international bridge in El Paso, Texas, Sunday night after trying to cross the border with $689,506.
The man was traveling from El Paso to Juarez when Customs and Border Protection agents asked if he had any money, weapons, or ammunition to declare. The 28-year-old said he didn’t and agents decided to give his car an extra inspection. During the inspection, agents found the bundles of money in a speaker box.
“The currency was found in a large speaker that was operable. It’s easy to let it go because we are used to seeing these large speakers. In this case the officer was vigilant, talked to him a little longer, decided it was time to send it into secondary (inspection) and that’s how it was found,” said Ruben Jauregui, Chief Customs and Border Patrol Officer in the El Paso Field Office.
The driver was arrested and handed over to Homeland Security Investigations and faces charges associated with smuggling.
There is no limit to how much money travelers can bring back and forth across the border, but they have to declare amounts larger than $10,000. Travelers from El Paso are not allowed to bring weapons into Mexico.
Jauregui said a lot of the money that people try to smuggle out is the profit from narcotics drug cartels smuggle in. He added, it’s important to make these seizures because it disrupts the cartels ability to do business...
If this guy is a business owner, he needs to be audited. He should not see a dime of that money unless he can verify and document how he earned it legitimately. He should also go to prison for failing to declare the money. He obviously knew what he was doing since he hid the money in speakers.
Seize the money and put it towards the Build the Wall fund. If he's an illegal, deport him after his prison time.
