U.S. breaks up Mexican drug ring, arrests 34 | Reuters

U.S. breaks up Mexican drug ring, arrests 34 Reuters: "targeted a ring smuggling marijuana over the border into Cochise County in southeast Arizona.
The organization used advanced counter surveillance techniques to spot for police, and deployed ramp trucks to drive vehicles loaded with marijuana over barriers along the border with Mexico. Arizona straddles a heavily trafficked corridor for both human and drug smugglers from Mexico. Last year, U.S. Border Patrol agents made more than 241,000 arrests in the sector south of Tucson, Arizona and seized more than 60 tons of marijuana.
The U.S. government is under pressure to crack down on cross-border crime in the desert state after a prominent cattleman was shot dead on his ranch in southeast Arizona late last month. Police followed tracks from the scene of the shooting to the Mexico border, but made no arrests"