Crime Time

Texas game wardens seize nearly $4 million worth of pot

When you hear about game wardens busting someone, you think of poachers, or anglers over their limits.

But pot busts?

It happened Wednesday, but this wasn’t just an outdoorsman caught with his personal stash.

Wardens, with help from the U.S. Border Patrol seized more than two tons of marijuana worth nearly $4 million (shown here in this photo from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.)

This is one of the biggest drug seizures in TPWD's history.

It happened about 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Starr County near the U.S.-Mexican border.

Read more in this report from Mike Cox, TPWD.

— Bill Miller

Agents find pot, guns while looking for illegal alien in Fort Worth

Federal authorities have arrested four men in Fort Worth on suspicion of conspiracy to distribute marijuana after finding 36.5 kilograms in a storage shed.

Agents got the marijuana when they first went to Javier Ruiz-Guzman's house Oct. 24 to serve an arrest warrant.

He was being targeted for administrative arrest and deportation for being a criminal alien illegally in the United States, officials said.

Agents recovered a handgun and a rifle from the home.

The suspect, however, cooperated with agents and showed them a large cache of marijuana. Arrests of three other men followed.

Read how in this Bill Hanna report.

 

Pot brownies sicken Trophy Club student

A 15-year-old student at Byron Nelson High School faces drug charges after authorities say he gave a marijuana-laced brownie to a classmate, a 17-year-old girl, who became unconscious and had to be rushed to a hospital, Trophy Club police said Tuesday.

The boy faces a charge of delinquent conduct/delivery of marijuana, Trophy Club police commander Lee Delk said on Tuesday.

"We don't get many calls like that," Delk said.

Read the full report by Domingo Ramirez Jr.