Liquor, brought by whiskey traders, rolled across the border, through several unpatrolled gaps.
Mr Holden said the greatest dangers were when people swam outside patrolled hours or on unpatrolled beaches.
The beaches are a bit quieter than the main ones but they are also unpatrolled.
The 'withdrawal' into fortified positions also left the large unpatrolled countryside free to armed bandits who were there just to loot.
They have paid for officers and yet their areas go unpatrolled.
Young men under 21 - some guilty of violent crimes - can be assigned to a facility where most of them sleep in large dormitories which are essentially unpatrolled at night.
Maybe they'll duck under the ropes up top and enter an unpatrolled backcountry area on the far side of the mountain known as Canyon Creek.
Today the streets of our town have gone mostly unpatrolled.
The settlement is nestled between population centers, where unpatrolled rural roads lend themselves to secrecy.
By yesterday morning the army had moved more than half a mile north into a no-man's-land that had been unpatrolled since the rebels called a cease-fire 10 days ago after routing the army.