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[*] posted on 6-26-2005 at 02:58 PM
SENTRI motorist busted for drugs at border


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20050624-1...

June 24, 2005

SAN DIEGO ? A prescreened driver who passed a security background check was arrested with drugs in her car as she attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs officials said Friday.

A suspicious Customs official stopped 21-year-old Jhuliana Aramis Cohen of Tijuana, Mexico in one of the SENTRI lanes at San Diego's San Ysidro crossing.

Cohen was jailed Wednesday after a search turned up 202 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of her car.

About 80,000 pay up to $129 each to enroll in SENTRI, or Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection.

Adele Fasano, field operations director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in San Diego, said despite "a very small number" of violations each year, the majority of SENTRI participants were law-abiding travelers.

"Our vetting protocol is sound," Fasano said.

A transponder in SENTRI-registered vehicles beams passenger information to U.S. inspectors as the vehicles approach a booth, similar to prepaid toll systems. If passengers' faces match those on file, they get less scrutiny than people in other lanes.

Earlier this week, Customs officials doubled the number of SENTRI lanes at the San Ysidro crossing following complaints that wait times were more than an hour.
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[*] posted on 6-26-2005 at 06:50 PM


Did she not declare it?



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