Editing Sierra Blanca, Texas (section)

==Law enforcement==
[[File:Hudspeth county courthouse 2009.jpg|thumbnail|Hudspeth County Courthouse]]
In September 2012, singer [[Fiona Apple]] was arrested at a [[United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints|checkpoint]] for possession of small amounts of [[marijuana]] and [[hashish]], and spent the night in jail there.<ref name = "AP20Sept2012">{{cite news| agency =  TMZ| title = Fiona Apple reportedly arrested for hash possession | newspaper = Washington Post| date = 20 September 2012| access-date = 2019-01-09| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/fiona-apple-reportedly-arrested-for-hash-possession/2012/09/20/fa44eea4-0346-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html}}</ref> A few weeks later, a [[Nelly]] tour bus was stopped at the same checkpoint, and 10 lb of marijuana were found on the bus along with heroin and a loaded gun. The singer was not arrested, but a member of his entourage was.<ref name = "TMZ">{{cite news| agency = TMZ| title = Rapper Nelly: Cops Raid Tour Bus, Heroin Seized| work = TMZ| date = 12 October 2012| access-date = 2012-10-12| url = http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/11/nelly-arrested-weed-gun-possession-texas-heroin/ }}</ref> Previously, rapper [[Snoop Dogg]], musician [[Willie Nelson]], and actor [[Armie Hammer]] had all been arrested separately for drug possession in Sierra Blanca.<ref name = "AP20Sept2012"/> The [[United States Border Patrol]] checkpoint at Sierra Blanca sends the county thousands of drug cases a year and inspects 15,000 to 20,000 vehicles every day.<ref name = "AP20Sept2012"/> The county is unable to prosecute the vast majority of these cases, as the federal government no longer funds such activities.<ref name="W Shulz 2013"/>