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Texas: Anti-Drug Politician Arrested by DEA for Marijuana Trafficking (BTW he's a Democrat)
The Daily Chronic ^ | 2/24/2012 | Thomas H. Clarke

Posted on 02/25/2012 1:52:35 PM PST by Beave Meister

EL PASO, TX — A critical opponent of drug law reform in Texas has been indicted on charges of trafficking 50 kilograms of marijuana and money laundering.

El Paso County Commissioner Guillermo “Willie” Gandara Jr., 37, who is currently a Democratic candidate for the Texas legislature, along with Juan Canales, 50, were arrested late Wednesday night following a multi-agency investigation that included the DEA and FBI.

A federal grand jury indictment charges the defendants with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The indictment also charges Gandara with three counts of maintaining property for the distribution of marijuana.

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KEYWORDS: corruption; dea; democrats; drugcartel; drugs; elpaso; fbi; fraud; immigration; liberals; marijuana; mexico; money; moneylaundering; obama; texas; wod; wodlist; wosd
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To: dragnet2
This guy had a damn good reason to keep it illegal.

Can he be charged with anti-monopoly laws? ;^)

21 posted on 02/25/2012 4:29:06 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Joe Boucher
Government has created a massive industry for their WOD costing tax payers tens of hundreds of billions to run their ever controlling WOD machine.

But did ya notice anyone can buy drugs anywhere?

What a farce.

They keep the borders wide open intentionally, for the cheap labor their corrupt big biz constituents want, all while arresting, fining, and seizing assets of those fish they do net...As they line their courts with more cash registers than a super Walmart. It's a fatgov dream come true.

22 posted on 02/25/2012 4:33:43 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Joe Boucher
Multitudes of spinnoffs that make money as a result of marijuana being illegal.

Including the "Medical Marijuana" business. It would be no business at all if not for FedMob pot laws.

23 posted on 02/25/2012 5:04:20 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: wrencher
Our predecessors were much smarter than us, they recognized and eliminated the failure of alcohol prohibition less than 10 years after it started.

Be interesting to know what percentage of drug war supporters are graduates of our publik skools.

24 posted on 02/27/2012 10:18:44 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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