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...more agents, who arrived and confirmed his identity by the mole on his left cheek. Lester, dressed in shorts and sweatshirt after a 14-mile run, looked up to find three agents crouching with their pistols leveled at him. When he got out of the car, one of the lawmen barked an order: "Drop that hamburger!" Lester smirked, but his levity quickly vanished: "Who are you guys...
Even in Arizona, which has the nation's toughest plant-protection law and pistol-packing lawmen to back it up, cactus rustlers make away with an estimated $500,000 to $1 million worth of plants each year. Among them: the giant saguaro (pronounced sah-vrar-o), Arizona's state flower, which grows to 50 ft. or more. The fruit of the saguaro is an important food source for practically all desert birds and is used as well by humans to make preserves and, yes, cactus wine...
Until last week, police in at least 24 states could arrest a felony suspect in his home without a warrant. No longer. In a 6-3 decision on two New York cases, the Supreme Court ruled that lawmen everywhere need warrants for such arrests, except possibly in "exigent circumstances," like hot pursuit of a criminal. Otherwise, evidence seized at the time cannot be used by the prosecution...
News of the FBI's ploy inspired several other politicians to proclaim that they had been enticed into the lawmen's game but had refused to play. Most of these had been approached by Joseph...
...even as the lawmen upgrade their equipment, courtesy of the smugglers, they find themselves losing out in the war of technology. Drug runners are using ever faster ships, and planes; four-engine Constellations, for example, are replacing some twin-engine planes. And some law enforcement officials in Florida frankly admit that they probably stop only one-tenth of the drug traffic, which means that shipments worth upwards of $3 billion a year are getting through...