$340M Marijuana Seize

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/19/3042574.htm

 

Mexico seizes $340m worth of marijuana

Posted 1 hour 30 minutes ago

 

Mexican soldiers have seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a US street value of more than $340 million in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.

 

Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers.

 

Troops found the narcotics wrapped in 10,000 brown and silver packages in houses and a parked truck.

 

The marijuana was brought together from across Mexico over several months and was bound for the United States.

 

"The seizure of these drugs is without precedent in the country," General Alfonso Duarte told reporters at a military base in Tijuana, adding that the drug was worth 4.2 billion pesos ($344 million).

 

The marijuana was carefully wrapped and labelled with signs and logos for a series of specific distributors in the United States, the army said.

 

The bust came as US Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano visited San Diego to underscore efforts on the northern side of the border to crush the cartels.

 

US president Barack Obama authorised the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops along the border in May to stop smugglers and migrants trying to cross illegally.

 

"Over the past two years our seizures of illegal drugs, currency and weapons have increased significantly," Ms Napolitano said.

 

Ms Napolitano said arrests by US agents had fallen by more than a third to 463,000 in fiscal year 2010, compared with 2008, meaning that fewer people are attempting to cross into the United States.

 

The bust is also good news for Mexican president Felipe Calderon, who has staked his reputation on beating back powerful drug cartels in a military-led campaign he launched in December 2006.

[SamAK420]

Oooh....that's a lot of bud:bongon:

[The Hash Nibbler]

Damn, they found my Tijuana Micro grow........NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well the Americans will just have to grow their own now they shafted Marc Emery and busted the Mexicans. Now if I can just find that Chiuauwa that narced on me...........here puppy puppy...... .

Gh72

[Burnz]

105 tonnes... Fuck me... That would pretty much supply Australia for a year...

[everest]

105 tonnes... Fuck me... That would pretty much supply Australia for a year...

 

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aye , for sure , but don't worry the army will still share it out ..

 

ev

[CaptainFingers]

Yeah, government is cheering!! Selling back to California as we speak....

105 tonnes....bloody hell.

[rosscopico0]

Interesting......I had thought most of the weed here in the US was grown here. A hell of a lot of it is coming from California

[Syb3 rm3nt41_%20]

wow, cali alone will smoke that in a weekend, good work... bahahhaa. You are losing the 'war on drugs' motherfuckers.

Legalise and tax, you have no other choice, the truth will be heard, we the people will beat you anti cannabis swine with nothing but ...... fact.

 

Mahalo'

 

Peace n pot. Take it easy, but errrrr .. . ... take it