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Monday, April 29, 2013  When Brownsville police arrived at a Subway restaurant, they found two girls in possession of heroin.

Saturday, April 13, 2013  Customs and Border Protection officers took a woman into custody after they found black tar heroin and methamphetamine inside her car.

Friday, April 12, 2013 

Friday, March 29, 2013  Two employees at a popular McAllen restaurant are among four people arrested in a scheme to ship heroin and methamphetamines north.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  A Tuesday night raid yielded 116 pounds of cocaine and 47 pounds of heroin, making it the largest bust for the drug in city's history.

Sunday, March 10, 2013  A husband and wife were caught at the Falfurrias Checkpoint with heroin and methamphetamine inside their livestock trailer.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  A Mission family told Action 4 News that they are working to get their grandmother out of jail in a decades old drug case.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013  Angelita Treviño spent 25 years on the run after being sentenced in a federal drug trafficking case in Brownsville back in 1987.

Sunday, December 23, 2012  A man was taken into custody at the Brownsville-Matamoros Port of Entry after heroin was found in his car.

Sunday, December 16, 2012  Two men claim they had been set-up to cross speakers carrying heroin across the checkpoint.

Friday, November 09, 2012 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012  Two men are facing criminal charges after authorities discovered that they had a backpack full of heroin during a traffic stop.

Friday, September 07, 2012  A Guatemalan man is behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley after authorities learned he had swallowed 80 pellets filed with heroin in a botched drug smuggling attempt.

Sunday, July 29, 2012  Authorities are investigating a cross-border drug smuggling group after seizing six pounds of heroin headed to New York.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012  A Rio Grande Valley man is behind bars where he claims he was forced to smuggle more than $52,000 dollars worth of heroin by men he met at a bar in Reynosa.