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On his way to TJ by bus: U.S. Citizen Arrested With Nearly $4 Million at Mexico Border
http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1373-us-cit...
Mexican authorities have arrested a U.S. citizen and a Ukrainian traveling on a bus carrying over 3.7 million dollars in cash.
The pair were arrested by customs agents in the city of Sonoyta in the northern state of Sonora, while traveling en route to Tijuana.
The cash was discovered in their luggage. According to the Attorney General's Office, the pair said they were planning to "start a business" with the
money. The suspects have been identified as American national Adam Gerardo Cazares Valenzuela and Ukrainian national Lesya Fergeyevma.
A statement released by the Attorney General's Office stated that both detainees will be held for at least 40 days, while investigations begin to
determine the origin of the money.
Mexico reportedly seized $260 million in cash from criminal organizations since President Felipe Calderon assumed office in 2006. This is just a
fraction of the estimated $18 billion to $39 billion in drug cash thought to flow into Mexico every year, according to U.S. government numbers.
Cash shipments are notoriously difficult to spot and seize at the U.S.-Mexico border: American officials reportedly confiscated just $85 million in
illicit funds at the border in 2009.
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DENNIS
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They must have been coming down to buy my house. 
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Bajahowodd
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A Ukrainian? Looks like this thing is more widespread than I ever imagined.
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tjBill
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The article does not make clear whether they were crossing the border. They were arrested in Sonoyta, Sonora; a border town. While in route to
Tijuana.
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Dave
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What?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
A Ukrainian? Looks like this thing is more widespread than I ever imagined. |
Lying?
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Bajahowodd
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On a side note, I've been to Ukraine a few times. While the older women all look like Khruschev's wife, the younger generation of Ukrainian women are
gorgeous.
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I just love it how a nomad thread starts with a particular subject and one of us hijacks the thread however our ADD minds will take us... 
Did any one find any chorizo in Baja that taste just like Kielbasa (koubasa) ?
Don't believe everything you think....
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I totally agree with Howard. My visits to the Ukraine have always left me with the same impressions.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Hijack
Odessa girls would like to come to Baja and wear their bikinis.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Stickers
Odessa girls would like to come to Baja and wear their bikinis. |
Chernobyl at it's best? I am of Ukrainian descent according to ancestry.com, and it only cost me $19.95 a month to find out.
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Can we assume the money was heading southbound? American officials don't confiscate cash because they don't check southbound traffic.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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you guys are losing it- "c'mon, take the money and run-" woot woot woot,,
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rhintransit
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so, I should have declared those millions I brought in last time?
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
Can we assume the money was heading southbound? American officials don't confiscate cash because they don't check southbound traffic.
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Au Contraire. They check frequently at the entrance to TJ. That is one of their questions, "Do you have more than 10,000 bucks?"
Then...they look at me and laugh.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
On a side note, I've been to Ukraine a few times. While the older women all look like Khruschev's wife, the younger generation of Ukrainian women are
gorgeous. |
Eventually they all look like Khruschev's wife....
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In a somewhat heated exchange with a US agent at the Tecate border I was asked if I had more than $10,000 with me. I said hell if I had $10,000 I'd be
going to Europe not Mexico.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
Can we assume the money was heading southbound? American officials don't confiscate cash because they don't check southbound traffic.
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Umm, you are def wrong on that- at the San Ysidro crossing at least. They (USA) have a checkpoint after the plate readers and have caught millions of
dollars leaving the country without the proper declaration. At times they hold up traffic for hours checking cars going into Mexico. It has been a
few months since I have run into that there though.
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A few yrs. back, walking toward the turnstiles to TJ
for a Bus to La Paz, SD Police had an xray set up,
asked me if I exceeded the $10,000, xrayed my bag, at which
time they found a suspicious object, after they calmed down,
put away their weapons, I showed them my packed
lunch, which included the object they were concerned
with, a banana
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Proud to be an Alaskan on this one.
His plan was pretty damn good until the border----------
Employee charged with stealing from bank's vault
By CASEY GROVE
casey.grove@adn.com
Published: August 17th, 2011 06:17 PM
Last Modified: August 17th, 2011 06:17 PM
An Anchorage Key Bank employee is charged with embezzlement after stealing millions of dollars in cash from a bank vault and smuggling the money to
Mexico, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Gerardo Adan Cazarez Valenzuela -- also known as Gary Cazarez -- is accused of stealing $4.3 million on July 29 from a Key Bank in Anchorage.
Valenzuela was employed by Key Bank as a cash vault services manager, federal authorities said.
Authorities aren't saying which Key Bank location Cazarez is accused of stealing from.
The heist is detailed in a redacted copy of an FBI special agent's affidavit filed in federal court Aug. 9.
The court papers say Valenzuela, 26, was seen on the bank's security camera footage entering the bank vault about 6:40 p.m. July 29 while pushing a
rolling cart carrying three large computer boxes. Valenzuela turned off the lights and began loading cash into the boxes, the affidavit says.
According to the court papers, Valenzuela told federal agents he then loaded the boxes into a vehicle and drove to his Juneau Drive home, where he
transferred the cash into several suitcases. He then boarded a private charter flight arranged two days earlier and flew to Seattle, the affidavit
says.
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Valenzuela hopped in a cab. He asked the cab driver if the driver knew where to find a gun. The driver took
Valenzuela to an unknown place where Valenzuela bought an AK-47 and a handgun for $4,000 cash, the affidavit says.
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Valenzuela and his girlfriend -- named as Leysa S. Bindas in the court document -- borrowed a silver BMW from Bindas's sister and drove to a hotel in
Auburn, Wash. There, security cameras captured the couple bringing multiple suitcases to their hotel room. They checked out the next day, bought a
Ford Fusion from an Auburn car dealership, and headed south to California, the agent wrote.
On July 31, the couple decided to drive to Mexico to visit Bindas's uncle, the affidavit says.
But the uncle suggested they ditch the car -- the Fusion couldn't handle terrain on the roads in Mexico, he told them -- and the couple bought bus
tickets to Sonora, Mexico instead, the affidavit says.
During the bus trip in Mexico the couple was pulled aside for screening at a security checkpoint.
"Upon realizing they were flagged, Valenzuela told Bindas they were in serious trouble," Agent Susan Cusack wrote.
The Mexican authorities asked Valenzuela to open his suitcases, and Valenzuela asked to go to a private room. When Valenzuela finally opened his
luggage, the officers found guns, ammunition and about $3.8 million in cash, according to Cusack's affidavit.
On Aug. 1, a Monday, Valenzuela didn't show up for work at Key Bank. The next day, bank employees were at first unable to open the vault. They opened
the vault later in the day and discovered about $4.3 million in cash missing, the affidavit says.
Valenzuela is charged with one felony count of embezzlement.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, Valenzuela was arrested Aug. 2. Valenzuela remains in custody in Mexico, and U.S. authorities are working to have him returned
to Alaska to face criminal charges, according the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/08/17/2019620/worker-charged-with-st...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by akmaxx
Meanwhile, in Mexico, Valenzuela was arrested Aug. 2. Valenzuela remains in custody in Mexico, and U.S. authorities are working to have him returned
to Alaska to face criminal charges, according the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Screw this guy. Let him burn, but lets keep track of the bucks. I wonder how much is really missing?
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