It's weird isn't it?
I think that the drug portion of the police agencies in the I-35 corridors are all working together to catch the smugglers. If they suspect people crossing the border or traveling up 35 they sit and wait for them hoping to catch them speeding or something that can give cause to pull them over.

It is like they already know who they are waiting for.That is probably exactly correct. The vast majority of all criminal cases that get solved reach solution because of tips. In the case of drug smuggling, it's long been SOP to tip the narcs about one's competitors...

At one time, long before the repeal of prohibition, I became quite well acquainted with a young fellow who claimed to have been a driver for "the mob" and he had some most interesting stories to tell -- although I never attempted to verify them. I felt it would be much safer not to even admit that I had heard them. Everyone concerned, except myself, is now long dead so I don't see any risk now in saying I heard them.

Luckily it's been about a year since my last ticket and I intend to keep it that way. Just don't support Arcadia at all. I hate that place. I have written them a very strongly worded message letting them know I will no long be buying anything I'm their city limits.

Several of of Arcadia's town administrators are kin in some way or another. The fire chief is related to the police chief who is the son in law of the mayor .. Or something like that. The current police chief served a previous term as chief before being forced to resign back in 1997 for evidence tampering. He became chief again in the mid 2000's after his predecessor had to quit for some of his own crooked activities. Arcadia got in trouble for over patroling hwy 66. Apparently a town can only generate a certain percentage of it's revenue from citations written on a state highway. It is also very common for the police to write tickets for only 1 mph over the limit, which is inside the normal margin of error in most places, but the court makes them stick. When I lived out in that area, one of my neighbors received a citation in Arcadia, and when he failed to show up to pay his fine, the Chief himself showed up at his job over by Memorial & Santa Fe to collect. My neighbor said he told the chief that he was suprised that they didn't have bench warrant out for him, and the Chief told him that they don't write warrants, but he would show up at his work every day untill he paid his fine.

I've seen some interesting cars that I assume are owned by law enforcement entities because of the red and blue lights on them. A couple of years back, I saw a 2008 (or so) black Ford F-150 that had someone pulled over on I-44 near Western Avenue. This last weekend I saw a maroon Camaro (a year or two old) on the side of I-40 near Choctaw Road with lights flashing.