In 1998 I was running a railroad smuggling investigation. This investigation was being managed under a large-scale, multi-agency operation with the Union Pacific Railroad Police, the Burlington Northern Railroad Police, The San Bernardino Police Department and Customs. This operation had received OCDTF status from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles, CA. OCDTF - is a fancy government acronym for Organized Crime **** Enforcement Task *****. In this operation, we had very high-level information that tons of narcotics were entering the U.S. via pressurized rail tanker cars. We learned that there was a large rail yard in Guadalajara that was controlled by the Arellano-Felix Cartel, and this yard was on of the Cartel’s largest narcotics distribution points. In this yard, hundreds of these cars are loaded with narcotics each week destined for the U.S.
Our information turned out to be very accurate. In April 1998, we seized a pressurized tanker car concealing 8 thousand lbs of ********* and 34 Kilos of *******. Subsequent to making . . .
