It must have been the Chevy SUV's fault...
Posted on 02/11/2005 4:31:07 PM PST by SandRat
PALOMINAS - More than $1 million worth of marijuana was seized Wednesday by agents from the U.S. Border Patrol's Naco Station after a vehicle pursuit.
At approximately 9:45 p.m., agents observed a pickup truck illegally enter the United States about eight miles west of the Naco Port of Entry, according to a press release from the agency's Tucson Sector.
The truck's driver was unaware he had been spotted and drove slowly along local ranch roads until the truck reached Highway 92.
When an agent attempted to stop the vehicle on the highway near Miller Canyon Road, the driver performed an illegal U-turn in the middle of the highway and headed east.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent put out tire deflation device near Ash Canyon, but the driver went around them.
The pursuit continued, with the drug smuggling driver going into a parking lot near Palominas Road and Highway 92, where he turned around and headed west again on the highway.
The driver then left the highway and headed south at the Palominas Cemetery, ramming a vehicle driven by an ICE agent. He went through part of the cemetery fence and continued to drive cross country heading back to Mexico.
The pickup traveled along the bank of the San Pedro River when it abruptly was turned west into the brush when it became stuck.
Two people fled from the vehicle and successfully made it back into Mexico.
Bundles of marijuana, weighing 1,580 pounds and valued at more than $1.2 million, were discovered inside the 1997 gold Chevrolet.
Further investigation revealed the Chevrolet had license plates registered to a 1991 Ford station wagon. Neither the Chevrolet nor the license plates were reported stolen.
Drug smugglers
If it were legal, none of the criminal enterprise would exist. It's a classic case of a solution creating its own problem. Gotta fund that WOSD.
When an agent attempted to stop the vehicle on the highway near Miller Canyon Road, the driver performed an illegal U-turn in the middle of the highway and headed east.
Note to self, new driver dipping into inventory.
Also why is a pile of dried leaves worth $1.2M? I'll leave that for FR academics to figure out.
It must have been the Chevy SUV's fault...
Don't give money to foreign drug dealers. Legalize it..prohibition didn't work with alcohol anymore than it is working with marijuana...or else grow your own.
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They (the ddrug smugglers) are going to get somebody else killed it they keep this up.
Exactly, the WOSD is funding foreign drug dealers with possible terrorist ties, $1.2 million in a single pickup truck load, all because of political correctness.
I wish I could remember who and ping them to this. I was having a WOD argument with some anti MJ legalization Freeper who thought I was crazy when I said that MJ is imported into this country. Idiot.
Ok, while we're at it lets legalize cocaine and meth and hash.
Lets' make smoking a cigarette without government interference before we go headfirst in to the illegal stuff.
I'll be there are two dead mexicans somewhere!
You can be sure that Mexico and Canada and countless other countries don't want it decriminalized. Not at all! For then, no one would pay them $1.2 million for a truckload of dry leaves. Their illegal cash cow would croak.
Meanwhile, perverts, thieves and murderers are acting out. But damnit, we'll devote resources and time to get that thar mary jane!
Yep! And I can hear the "Legalize it Now" types now.
It spooks me when I hear prominent conservatives like Buckley go soft on the drug war, drawing the inevitable 'Thirties-era Prohibition comparisons, bemoaning the futility of the whole thing, et al.
Drug addicts only get well if they reach an emotional, financial, and/or legal bottom. The system should be so constructed to give them just that. The implementation of Drug Courts here in Indiana has proven highly effective, giving treatment alternatives to those that genuinely want a better life, and putting those in jail who don't. Drug dealers--and I mean the heavy hitter, by-the-ton and -kilo career criminals, not the strung-out junkie sort--should be given years upon years upon years of hard time, making little rocks from big ones.
Marijuana is far from harmless. It sucks the life and ambition from its users, causes long-term and sometimes permanent cognitive problems, and opens the door to other, harder drugs. (Good luck finding a heroin addict who didn't try weed first.) The campaign by mass media to normalize its use is unconscionable.
The MJ crowd and it doesn't matter if they live on DU or any where else can not be swayed by facts about MJ.
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