Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Home Meets: McCurdy Track...
Major league baseball teams are springing all around Florida, but the Grapefruit League state seems to have lost track of itself...
...paunchy, middle-aged Mexican is lying on the side of the track. His arm is bleeding, and he has been hit in the stomach. An agent radios for an ambulance. "He turned on us with this," says Trevino, a 9-mm semiautomatic Taurus pistol in his hand. "We were lucky, real lucky...
...thick brush that borders the track another agent has pinned to the ground a second member of the gang, this one unarmed. Around the prisoner are nearly a dozen 30-lb. sacks of marijuana abandoned by his fellow "mules." The total load will weigh out at 317 lbs., worth about $250,000 in South Texas and much more elsewhere in the U.S. If they hadn't been busted, the mules, who earn $200 a trip, would have carried the marijuana up to the highway and loaded it into a waiting...
Gunning the engine, Laurel races down the rutted track. Even before the truck comes to a halt, Trevino is out and running. Suddenly shots are fired, and bullets buzz overhead. Muffled shouts and the sounds of breaking branches come from a thicket of mesquite. Then more shots, this time a short burst from an automatic weapon. A handgun replies purposefully. The shooting stops as abruptly as it started...