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>In February, Lorenzo Gutierrez Lugo, a driver for a small trucking company that specializes in transporting furniture, clothing and other belongings to families in Mexico, was driving south to the border city of Brownsville, Texas, carrying packages from immigrant communities in South Carolina’s low country.

If you think 'this is just a normal citizen doing good work' at first and you are breaking privacy here, keep reading.

>They unearthed no contraband. But Beltran arrested Gutierrez Lugo on suspicion of money laundering and engaging in organized criminal activity because he was carrying thousands of dollars in cash — money his supervisor said came directly from customers in local Latino communities, who are accustomed to paying in cash.

carrying thousands of dollars in cash over the US Mexico border is so suspicious that there is likely a lot more happening. The trucking company spent 20,000$ to get him out of it.

The more I think of better call Saul and breaking bad, the more I wonder whether this is one of those situations where the reality is actually much worse than television fiction.

90% of the drugs that enter US come from the south border. At 120 tons of drugs being 'seized' not the ones being distributed, I am assuming the scale of this thing is massive. [1]

[1] https://forumtogether.org/article/illicit-fentanyl-and-drug-...

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thesh4d0w|3 months ago

> driving south to the border city of Brownsville, Texas

> from immigrant communities in South Carolina

Not sure where you got that he crossed the border. If they had a case he'd have been arrested, you're making some pretty shady assumptions here.

kart23|3 months ago

Carrying cash isn't a crime. The fact that no charges were brought says that they couldn't prove a crime was committed either. And please read the fifth amendment.

> No criminal charges were ultimately brought against Gutierrez Lugo

mumber_typhoon|3 months ago

>Carrying cash isn't a crime.

No but carrying over $10,000 into the US requires you to declare it and maybe pay taxes if you can't prove its source or risk being sized (which is fine if it's drug money).