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'Shadow Wolves' use old ways in drug hunt

The Tucson Citizen

In an age when securing the border increasingly means big-budget, high-tech measures, an elite unit of Native American trackers employs ancient methods to track pot smugglers through the desert. Called the Shadow Wolves, these Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol officers painstakingly probe the dust and vegetation for the slightest sign that a "mule" has passed. Inch by inch, they cover the Tohono O'odham Nation, a desolate stretch of land the size of Connecticut that straddles the international border.

Posted by Editor at May 5, 2007 04:05 PM

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