{"id":1782483,"date":"2022-12-21T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782483"},"modified":"2022-12-21T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:48:36","slug":"border-patrol-hunt-down-honduran-drug-traffickers-on-texas-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-hunt-down-honduran-drug-traffickers-on-texas-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Hunt Down Honduran Drug Traffickers on Texas Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-patrol-hunt-down-honduran-drug-traffickers-on-texas-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Officers have apprehended a group of drug traffickers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/border-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas-Mexico border<\/a>, with one member being just a teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A group of border-crossers was noticed by officials on Saturday, prompting officers to track down the group of four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/regions\/central-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honduran<\/a> migrants. The arrests were spearheaded by Lt. Jimmy Morris, who was honored at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fox-nation-celebrates-america-honors-everyday-heroes-2022-patriot-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation Patriot Awards<\/a> last month for his continued service to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>After backtracking the group&#8217;s path, authorities discovered a stash of 172 pounds of marijuana and 2.04 pounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fentanyl pills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6315791056112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TEXAS DPS OFFICER GETS SURPRISE PROMOTION AT PATRIOT AWARDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Image-19-e1671547040360.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"A group of Honduran drug traffickers was apprehended in the Big Ben sector of the Texas border.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      A group of Honduran drug traffickers was apprehended in the Big Ben sector of the Texas border.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One trafficker detained by officers was reportedly only 14 years-old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fox-nation-celebrates-america-honors-everyday-heroes-2022-patriot-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FOX NATION CELEBRATES AMERICA, HONORS NATION&#8217;S EVERYDAY HEROES DURING 2022 PATRIOT AWARDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Image-18-e1671547056739.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Authorities backtracked the path of a group of Honduran drug traffickers and found a stash of marijuana and fentanyl pills.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Authorities backtracked the path of a group of Honduran drug traffickers and found a stash of marijuana and fentanyl pills.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Border Patrol made the arrest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mexico-border-area-big-bend-sector-illegal-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Ben Sector<\/a> of the border \u2013 a notoriously dangerous area that has become a favorite of drug traffickers seeking to avoid U.S. law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Bend Sector covers all of Oklahoma, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas panhandle<\/a> and parts of west Texas. The area is dry and hot in the summer and cold and windy in the winter with hardly any water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Image-17-e1671547067513.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"The Big Ben sector of the Texas border is a notoriously dangerous area that has become a favorite of drug traffickers seeking to avoid U.S. law enforcement.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The Big Ben sector of the Texas border is a notoriously dangerous area that has become a favorite of drug traffickers seeking to avoid U.S. law enforcement.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since the beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-lethal-doses-fentanyl-operation-lone-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Lone Star<\/a> in March 2021, over 354 million lethal doses of fentanyl has been captured at the border.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Ashley Soriano contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers have apprehended a group of drug traffickers on the Texas-Mexico border, with one member being just a teenager.A group of border-crossers was noticed by officials on Saturday, prompting officers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,3811,5642,10796,10223,6705,3819,3694,5645],"class_list":["post-1782483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-border","tag-drug","tag-honduran","tag-hunt","tag-patrol","tag-report","tag-texas","tag-traffickers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}