Pubdate: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 Source: Houston Chronicle (TX) Copyright: 1999 Houston Chronicle Contact: Viewpoints Editor, P.O. Box 4260 Houston, Texas 77210-4260 Fax: (713) 220-3575 Website: http://www.chron.com/ Forum: http://www.chron.com/content/hcitalk/index.html Page: 9A 700 LBS. OF ECSTASY SEIZED SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The U.S. Customs Service said Thursday it seized its largest shipment ever of the drug Ecstasy -- 700 pounds worth $30 million on the street. Customs spokeswoman Jennifer Eisner said six people, all U.S. citizens, had been arrested in San Bernardino and charged with federal drug smuggling offenses. Eisner said that a week ago, customs agents stationed at a mail facility in Memphis, Tenn., discovered and tracked a package containing 100 pounds of the drug shipped from France to an address in the San Bernardino area in Southern California. There, agents working with the Inland Regional Narcotics Taskforce found an additional 600 pounds of the drug, and made arrests. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek Rea