Posted on 07/18/2017 4:11:08 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
The cars were manufactured at the Ford plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and were shipped by rail into a CSX yard in Lordstown, Ohio, Balzano said.
Now, investigators are trying to discover where along the supply line the marijuana was packed into the cars — and who failed to retrieve it.
“Clearly, something went wrong,” Balzano said. “Generally speaking, they could take it off anywhere else along the way.”
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Must have missed this one when checking out the factory options
How many mega-tons have already shipped in this way to various distribution points all over America?
Imagine some poor soul buying one of the cars that was used to transport dope this way.
Here she is in her brand new Ford Fusion getting checked out at a routine police traffic checkpoint and the dope sniffing dog hits on her car.
Drug dealers don’t mess around. Somebody dropped the ball on this drug shipment. Somebody is going to end up dead if they aren’t six feet under already.
Charge Ford Motor Company with drug smuggling! That will get their attention.
Someone in Mexico is going to pay for his mistake big time.
Some of those Fusions have showed up in Minnesota.
Sell it to Colorado and use money toward the wall.
How many trunk-full’s have not been found?
Gee, why haven’t they began Civil Asset Forfeiture proceedings and seize FORD!!! They wouldn’t think twice if it was an individual or mom and pop business.
Sig Heil
The DEA's got their best men working the case
Now that one was LOL
This is no way to run a giveaway contest. Nobody knew anything about it until it was all over.
I’ve been working on the railroad
All the live long day
I’ve been working on the railroad
Just to get some Mary-J
Can’t you hear the druggies blowing
There’s no stalk or seed
Can’t you hear the Captain shouting
Dinah blow some weed
Another thread from a couple days ago about the topic if
anyone cares to scan thru the comments.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3569471/posts
$1M pot found in Mexican-made Fords transported through Warren to Kent
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Yep and here's a picture of some of the stash
oh’ come on ! its just the Cheech and Chong car promotional the dealer was having....free car with a million dollar purchase of weed.
Cops aren’t very bright if they can’t figure out where cars from Mexico got filled up with Mexican weed.
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