Bad news South of our neighborhood

From the Everett Herald:

Police, agents haul in 9 pounds of heroin potentially worth millions
At first it probably just looked like a couple of friends dropping by for a visit.

Two men pulled up in a silver Mercedes outside a Snohomish apartment Wednesday afternoon, and two others, who'd come out of the building on Fourth Street, walked up to the car and started chatting.

Moments later an army of police and federal agents converged on the Mercedes. All four men took off running but didn't get far.

Inside that Mercedes were four kilograms, or nearly nine pounds, of Mexican brown heroin, potentially worth millions of dollars on the street, according to court records released this week. The high-quality heroin likely came straight from Mexico, more specifically from the violent Sinaloa drug cartel.

“That variety, the Mexican brown heroin, showing up means there is a direct pipeline to the cartel out of Mexico right to Snohomish County,” Snohomish Police Chief John Flood said.

This is a prime example of what unsecured immigration can lead to - the border is so porous that anyone can come across either looking for a new life or looking to transport weapons or narcotics. Whatcom and Snohomish Counties are among the 16 sanctuary counties (and two sanctuary jails) in Washington State - something I really disagree with. They need to enforce the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers visa - that is the system in place to deal with the need for farm workers.