Posted on 07/15/2017 12:10:31 PM PDT by Eddie01
The head of the Youngstown Federal Drug Enforcement Administration says a recent marijuana-smuggling operation with ties to Warren is the first of its kind he has seen in this area.
In fact, said Bob Balzano, who runs the local DEA office, the only time he has heard of the method being deployed was in April, when a similar discovery was made in Minnesota.
The marijuana was found last week inside the wheel well for a spare tire in a new Ford Fusion which was manufactured in Sonora, Mexico, at a Ford dealership in Kent, after one of the vehicles was unloaded from a car carrier, Balzano said.
Investigators were then able to find 14 more packages of marijuana in other Fusions, which all came through a rail yard in Warren.
All together, about 14.5 per kilos per car, or 400 pounds of marijuana, was found. It has a street value between $400,000 to $1 million.
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office is also investigating, along with the DEA.
Read more about the case in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.
So, the Ford Fusion finally has found a useful purpose?
OUCH! Lol.
Trump really going to make Mexico to pay for that wall now.
A $1M pot belongs in a museum.
Talk about your “new car smell”.
You mean they haven’t been checking everything coming in from Mexico all these years? How stupid can you be.
Hmmmm...
Wasn’t this the plot of the only GOOD Cheech & Chong movie?
When oh when are people going to learn to write! What was found was $1M worth of pot, not a $1M Ming vase.
Butbutbut I thought legalization would stop illicit drug trade from the south!
You mean they haven’t been checking everything coming in from Mexico all these years? How stupid can you be.
My thoughts exactly. . .except maybe not checking “on purpose”.
So of course they destroyed the pot and continue crying about the budget.
If it's worth all that money there are legal places to offload it.. for the money.
Derp.
Looks like someone forgot to pay their bribe.
I learned a little lesson today that I’ve never thought about before. Watching one of those police shows and they had ICE preparing for the Super Bowl. They decided there was a suspicious ship in port so they decided to check it out. They checked one ballast tank on the ship. They had to get pneumatic tools to open the hatch covers, pumps to pump the water out, a gas meter to check the atmosphere for hazardous gases and then an agent had to crawl the ballast tank. It took I believe six or seven agents several hours to check one ballast tank. I never thought about it before, and I work in the shipyard, but it’s impossible to check every potential hiding place on every ship that comes into this country. And you can hide some big stufff.
Smugglers are getting desperate to get loads across; the border is being tightened up. In spite of the liberals claiming Trump is not doing anything things are changing!
Peter Rowan wrote this. And better than this lame journalist wrote this wacky headline
ANAMA RED
(PETER ROWAN)
CHORUS
PANAMA RED, PANAMA RED
HE’LL STEAL YOUR WOMAN, THEN HE’LL ROB YOUR HEAD
PANAMA RED, PANAMA RED
ON HIS WHITE HORSE, MESCALITO
HE COME BREEZIN’ THROUGH TOWN
I’LL BET YOUR WOMAN’S UP IN BED WITH
PANAMA RED
THE JUDGE DON’T KNOW WHEN RED’S IN TOWN
HE KEEPS WELL HIDDEN UNDERGROUND
BUT EVERYBODY’S ACTING LAZY
FALLING OUT AND HANGIN’ ‘ROUND
MY WOMAN SAID, “HEY PEDRO
YOU’RE ACTIN’ CRAZY LIKE A CLOWN”
NOBODY FEELS LIKE WORKING
PANAMA RED IS BACK IN TOWN
CHORUS
EVERYBODY’S LOOKING OUT FOR HIM
‘CAUSE THEY KNOW RED’S SATISFIES
LITTLE GIRLS LOVE TO LISTEN TO HIM
SING AND TELL SWEET LIES
BUT WHEN THINGS GET TOO CONFUSING, HONEY
YOU’RE BETTER OFF IN BED
AND I’LL BE SEARCHING ALL THE JOINTS IN TOWN FOR
PANAMA RED
If there are two sugar companies and one imports Hawaiian sugar and the other from Mexico. Difference is, the one from Mexico is cheaper and every tenth bag is full of cocaine. Which company will survive? This is globalism.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.