U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Baltimore businessman imprisoned for undervaluing Chinese imports

2012-11-28 16:15:00

A Chinese national selling plastic bags, restaurant supplies and other merchandise from China out of a warehouse in Baltimore was sentenced to 16 months in prison Wednesday for dodging customs duties on the imported products, according to the Maryland U....

Getting high on the high seas?

2012-05-08 10:50:00

For the few who want to get high on the high seas, watch out for customs. U.S. Customs officers said they've had a busy week at the South Baltimore terminal -- issuing what it called seven $500 "zero-tolerance" citations to passengers trying to board a...

Border crossings: prosperity, peril

2004-06-03 00:00:00

TENENEXPAN, Mexico - The route that Noemi and Andrea Quezada traveled from this small farming village into the United States is an inhospitable passage, but one that many of their family members have chanced over the years in an effort to escape...

Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond

2013-05-21 05:34:00

DETROIT (AP) — A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday. Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at...

Dead monkey, elephant meat and reptile purses seized at LAX

2013-05-20 15:55:00

In what even U.S. Customs officials are describing as a “weird” week of sorts, border protection officers seized nearly half a pound of exotic meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made with reptile skin coming in from Nigeria....

Global Entry: Help may be at hand for those who wait to get OK'd

2013-05-17 07:00:00

If you’re waiting…and waiting…for an interview appointment to complete your application for the Global Entry fast-pass-through-customs program, help may be at hand. In a blog post Monday, I� explained that I had been conditionally...

El Paso mayoral candidates accentuate issues, stress differences

2013-05-19 00:04:02

Mayoral candidates Oscar Leeser and Steve Ortega have two basic things to prove to voters before the June runoff election, a local political expert said. "They have to say, 'Not only am I the right guy for the job, but (the opponent) is the wrong guy...

Case against ship in Portsmouth is expedited

2013-05-18 00:00:00

A federal appeals court on Friday agreed to speed up the case of the coal ship that's been held up in Hampton Roads for a month. The timetable, however, may not be fast enough to prevent the owner of the ship from running out of money, according to...

'Magnificent' Portland landmark reopens

2013-05-17 02:34:02

When its doors first opened in 1872, the U.S. Custom House became the gateway to one of the nation's busiest ports and a symbol of the federal government's role in promoting commerce. It was designed to be awe-inspiring. Today, 141 years later, it...

Valley Police Beat: Cocaine and heroin found in muffler, 18-year-old arrested

2013-05-14 23:55:00

CALEXICO - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 32 pounds of heroin and cocaine hidden inside a vehicle’s muffler and arrested an 18-year-old suspected of drug smuggling at the Calexico downtown Port of Entry on Sunday morning,...

Cocaine and heroin found in muffler, 18-year-old arrested

2013-05-14 09:34:00

Immigration bill would restrict drone use in California

2013-05-14 14:21:00

WASHINGTON – Concerned that border surveillance drones might fly over much of Southern California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) successfully amended the proposed Senate immigration overhaul bill Tuesday to limit such flights to within three...

Shadow, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois that is a drug-sniffing dog for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Chicago.

2013-03-19 00:00:00

Some of the opium-soaked cloths U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog Shadow found at an O'Hare mail facility on Monday. U.S. CBP photo

2013-03-19 00:00:00

U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel walk along a section of the recently-constructed fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona. The newest generation of fencing allows Border Patrol agents to see through the fence and is harder to scale from the Mexican side.

2013-02-26 00:00:00