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...most Mexicans believe that U.S. customs agents are also on the take and permit some vehicles to cruise through border inspection stations in exchange for money. Just last month Jose Antonio Olvera, a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector at Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossings, pleaded guilty to taking almost $90,000 in bribes to let drug shipments through. (Olvera claims he did it because the cartel had threatened to kidnap his five-year-old son.) "If relatively well-paid U.S. agents aren't immune to it," says one Mexican prosecutor, "how can we expect Mexican police...
...school and commute. The two local school districts (one larger than the state of Delaware) don't know how many students are from the other side; they are forbidden by law to ask. In any case, the town can't build elementary school space fast enough. Jesse Saldivar, chief inspector for U.S. Customs downtown, recognizes the faces as they pass through the gates. "I've seen them grow up," he says, making step motions with his hand...
...officials waited two more days to analyze the documents before telling Freeh; they were ashen as they left his office. He was, says one insider, "absolutely tear-ass." Bush and Ashcroft learned Thursday as well, and immediately after Ashcroft's Friday press conference, officials from the Justice Department Inspector General's office descended on the bureau to investigate what had gone wrong...
...ecstasy pills. But Hong Kong police concede they're unable to stop the flood of drugs from across the border, which are often hauled back by teenagers to pay for their weekends. "The sheer volume at the border crossing provides opportunities for traffickers," says Paul Lewis, a senior inspector in the Hong Kong narcotics bureau...
...Elvira Mezhennaya, the 52-year-old chief editor of the City Channel, a TV station in Yaroslavl, some 270 km northeast of Moscow. She is due in court next week - the second time in three months - to face charges of slander for broadcasting a report alleging that regional financial inspector Nina Ryzhkova received a free apartment and financial rewards from Governor Anatoly Lisitsyn, the man whose operations Ryzhkova is supposed to supervise...