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Bounties Placed on Border Agents NewsMax.com WiresBROWNSVILLE – Bounties of up to $200,000 were hanging over the heads of U.S. border enforcement officers Wednesday. In an advisory circulated this week, U.S. Customs said it received bounty-like threats on federal agents after 9,000 pounds of marijuana was seized at a Brownsville home Dec. 13, the Brownsville Herald reported. "Every time there's an operation like this and drug traffickers take a hit, bounties and threats frequently surface against federal agents," said Art Moreno, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. INS and Customs officials said they would continue with their duties as usual. Generally, organized drug cartels are behind the threats, Moreno said. In Mexico, an official at the federal attorney general's office in Ciudad Victoria said the threats were being taken seriously there. "We have an alert just to prevent something from happening related to these threats," Cmdr. Guillermo Narvaez told the Herald. Narvaez said federal agents in Mexico also receive such threats, and they are usually made by drug cartels in an effort to scare officials. Border Patrol officials said in the past there have been similar threats against agents in El Paso and other border areas. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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