The Million Dollar Quartet

Seizures of money bound mostly for Mexico's murderous drug cartels more than quadrupled this year on the Arizona border, and government officials are crediting beefed-up screening at checkpoints. Read More

Brian Levin, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said the seizures reflect a new focus in the smuggling clampdown and the U.S. efforts to help Mexico fight its bloody drug war, though the amount confiscated is just a fraction of the millions of dollars in drug-and human-smuggling profits funneled back to Mexican syndicates each year. Read More