US faces tough fight in cash smuggling crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico border — and professed ignorance about the $277,556 officers found hidden inside. The bags were handed to her at a bus station, gifts to be given to a child upon her return to Mexico, she told investigators.
The crime she pleaded guilty to — bulk cash smugg...
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