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Using helicopters, horses and dune buggies, the patrolmen found eight men that evening-two dead, the rest barely alive. A ninth man, who may have been the chief Salvadoran smuggler, had fallen behind and was lost...
Next morning the rescue party found three women alive under a paloverde tree. Sprawled about them were the bodies of ten women and a smuggler. Suitcases had been ripped apart in a search for anything with moisture. The group had drunk perfume and aftershave lotion. Some had been hallucinating, swallowing sand they thought was water. One woman cried: "The coyotes stole my baby!" The agents scrambled to find the infant, only to learn days later that the child had been left in El Salvador...
Lawrence's biggest coup was the locally famous Norman-Taylor case. In 1975 nearly 20 agents gave up on a remote airstrip vigil when a smuggler's plane coming in was accidentally spooked and did not return. Changing tactics, Lawrence followed the faint tracks of two trucks that had passed by the site. Forty miles away at 4 a.m. he found tire marks where an airplane had landed on the concrete highway, then a roadside spot marked by footprints, broken shrubbery and more tire tracks. Ten miles later at a dirt turnoff, he found fresh tire tracks that...
When the Coast Guard gets a break, it is often by chance: Coast Guardsmen had boarded one mother ship last July when a smuggler's plane, unaware of the seizure, flew over and dropped a note giving directions for a rendezvous with a cabin cruiser. The officers dressed up as deck hands, kept the appointment with the yacht, sold three 80-lb. bales of grass, and then arrested the American buyers. For each such capture, the Coast Guard cutter gets to display a marijuana leaf on its hull...
...outlines other measures he hopes will cut down the drug flow: "We are going to catch up by hitting their financial base: seizure of assets, real estate, all of the investments that go into a criminal organization. Then get penalties commensurate with the criminal profits; the returns for a smuggler far exceed the risks. Also, we hope to promote a better understanding of the health hazards. And in Colombia, you need the type of commitment that will stop production at the source...