Authorities say an immigrant suspected of entering the country illegally attempted to make his journey in an unusual but hot place — a shipment of red chile.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at a New Mexico border checkpoint said the man was discovered Thursday face down among a commercial load of the spicy stuff.
Columbus Port Director Robert Reza says next to the "highly intoxicated" 35-year-old was a bottle of tequila.
The man, who authorities described as a Mexican national, told agents that he climbed into the commercial hopper while it was being staged in Mexico hoping to catch a ride to Chicago. But agents said he got less than 100 yards into New Mexico before he was discovered.
The red chile shipment was later released.
Strange tunnel opens under Lubbock yard
A strange tunnel has been
found under the yard of a West Texas home and Texas Tech historians will
try to figure out the function of the space.Lee Smithwick says a hole about 3-feet across formed in the lawn. The sprinkler ended up in the tunnel that collapsed.
Officials with the National Ranching Heritage Center as Texas Tech University were summoned.
Curator Scott White says the tunnel is an "interesting mystery." Officials believe the tunnel was built after 1909 because railroad ties were used in the construction. That's also when a railroad line arrived in Lubbock from Plainview.
Chinese police detain 16 accused of running fake Internet news sites to blackmail companies
Chinese police have arrested 16 people accused of blackmailing companies by pretending to be Communist Party or government officials and threatening to post damaging information about them online, a state news agency reported Sunday.
The four groups were accused of operating 11 websites that said falsely that they were run by the ruling Communist Party or government, according to the Xinhua News Agency. It said they were involved in more than 120 cases and collected a total of more than 3 million yuan ($500,000).
One suspect had help from a local official in the eastern province of Jiangsu who tipped him off when violations by companies were found by regulators, Xinhua said, citing an announcement by the police ministry. The man would pretend to be a ruling party discipline official and demand money not to publicize the problem.
"I just wanted to make some money through reporting stories with negative issues and attracting online visitors," the suspect, identified as Zhong Wei, was quoted as telling police.
Zhong used fake business cards and documents to masquerade as a ruling party discipline official, Xinhua said.
Other companies paid hush money even though they knew the reports about them were false due to fear their reputations might be hurt, it said.
"We've been working so hard to establish a good image of our enterprise, so we'd rather spend money on 'peace' even though their stories were purely fabricated," a real estate company manager was quoted as telling Xinhua.
Other suspects include a schoolteacher who wrote the phoney news items and an engineer who managed websites.
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