Dam no wonder my dealer hit me up for more money tonight
Harsh times ahead for American potheads/liberals if seizures continue at this rate.
I thought illegals were just coming here to work the jobs American’s won’t.
Boy, those Amish drug smugglers have been busy.
Border
More jobs illegals are taking from Americans.
Reffer is up over 700 a pound? Man the good old days of 210 for a pound of gold bud c-bo are long gone.
How much of it was being shipped through indian reservations?
Let’s give the Border Patrol police a “high five” salute. On second thought, they might be giving themselves a “high five” salute on their own.
Just kidding.
Good job guys.
Is this a joke?
You can put that much in the bed of a pickup....lol
Mexicans are bringing in 2000 TONS of dope in a year..Some feel it could be as much as 7,000 tons...
Sinaloa Cartel May Resort To Deadly Force In US
May 6, 2010
Authorities say Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the reputed leader of the Mexican cartel, has given his associates the OK, if necessary, to open fire across the border.
Reporting from Sells, Ariz. — The reputed head of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel is threatening a more aggressive stance against competitors and law enforcement north of the border, instructing associates to use deadly force, if needed, to protect increasingly contested trafficking operations, authorities said.
Such a move by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive, would mark a turn from the cartel’s previous position of largely avoiding violent confrontations in the U.S. — either with law enforcement officers or rival traffickers.
Police and federal agents in Arizona said they had recently received at least two law enforcement alerts focused on Guzman’s reported orders that his smugglers should “use their weapons to defend their loads at all costs.”
Guzman is thought to have delivered the message personally in early March, during a three-day gathering of his associates in Sonoita, a Mexican town a few miles south of the Arizona border, according to confidential U.S. intelligence bulletins sent to several state and federal law enforcement officials, who discussed them on the condition of anonymity.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/sinaloa-cartel-may-resort-deadly-force-us
“Times have changed,” Gilbert said. “The tactics, the aggressiveness. We’re victims of our own success.” Now, he said, “they’ll fight us.”
An internal report from the agency, obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch, appears to support Gilbert’s assessment. It shows reported weapons-related assaults against border officers rose 24% last fiscal year, compared with 2007, and assaults involving vehicles rose 7% in the same period.
Among areas with sharp increases in assaults was the Tucson corridor, the report said. Mario Escalante, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, said there were 113 assaults against agents in the sector between October and March, and an additional 26 last month.
“They’re losing money and they are frustrated, and they are using other tactics to get their loads across,” Escalante said.
The tactics include throwing barrages of rocks at agents, ramming their cars into agents’ vehicles and sometimes shooting. He said the Guzman warning had put agents on edge.
October 3, 2003 Highly developed drug tunnel discovered in Arizona. During the second week of September, one of the most complex drug smuggling rings was discovered. It was connected to the notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzmán Loera. Guzmán Loera is one of the most feared and sought-after Mexican drug kingpins. He is known to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for his use of underground tunnels as a means of smuggling, like the one that was recently discovered. In 2001, he escaped from a maximum-security prison in Guadalajara, Mexico. His current whereabouts are unknown, but it is certain that he is fully established and producing massive amounts of cocaine. The Guzmán Loera tunnel stretches under the border, from a poor border town in Sonora to the clean-cut, well-groomed suburban town of Nogales, Arizona. The tunnel is thirteen feet deep, nine hundred and eighty-five feet long and is the best-equipped drug tunnel ever discovered. It contains rails and rail cars believed to have shipped tons of cocaine and marijuana.
January 27, 2006 SAN DIEGO — Federal officials, who are stunned by the discovery of the longest border tunnel ever found, think the tunnel was constructed by a well-known drug cartel. John Fernandes, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Diego office, said he suspected the tunnel was the work Tijuana’s Arellano-Felix drug smuggling syndicate or another well-known drug cartel. Fernandes said tougher enforcement above ground had forced smugglers to dig below
Mexican investigators found the tunnel entrance Tuesday inside a warehouse near the airport, about 150 yards south of the border. A 6-by-10-foot cement shaft equipped with a pulley dropped about 75 feet to the tunnel. The tunnel exited into a large, two-story white cinderblock warehouse in an industrial San Diego neighborhood near the border. Authorities found more than 2 tons of marijuana in what they say is the longest and one of the most sophisticated cross-border tunnels ever discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border.
September 17th, 2008 Eight people have been charged in Los Angeles for their connection to a 150 yards long underground drug tunnel. From the Los Angeles Times: The men, one of whom was identified as a suspected Los Angeles-area gang member, were arrested this month inside a small house where the well-constructed passageway began. The tunnel, equipped with ventilation, electricity and a rail-and-cart system to ferry material and dirt, stretched 150 yards, ending within feet of the California border. Mexican authorities say the sophisticated design suggests that a major drug cartel financed the project. Drug trafficking in Mexicali is controlled by the Sinaloa-based cartel led by Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, but authorities have yet to determine whether the group was responsible. The tunnel appeared destined for a quiet neighborhood in the Imperial Valley city of Calexico. In recent years, organized-crime groups have tried to build at least seven tunnels in the Calexico-Mexicali area, taking advantage of flat terrain and dense cross-border neighborhoods. The tunnels, which can cost $1 million, are closely guarded secrets that often enjoy protection by local police
Mexican drug war money sliding through cracks of border crackdown
Bundles of $100 bills that add up to billions are sneaked in each year and then laundered into ostensibly legitimate funds at car dealerships, banks, pharmacies, restaurants and resorts
Dec. 17, 2009
Every day, criminals shove proceeds from U.S. drug sales in their shoes, tape it to their torsos, stash it under dashboards — or just wire it electronically to Mexico. It all adds up to $25 billion a year.
A highly touted U.S. Treasury Department program aimed at starving Mexican drug cartels of that cash is currently blocking just $3 million, an Associated Press investigation has found.
That’s in addition to $58 million seized under a new initiative at the U.S.-Mexico border. The figures suggest that $99.75 of every $100 the cartels ship south is getting through — money that is fueling a brutal war that has killed 14,000 people in three years.
That money pays Mexican farmers to grow more marijuana and Colombian smugglers to sneak in more cocaine. It bribes Mexican soldiers and U.S. border patrol agents, and pays assassins and mercenaries to take out rival smugglers or would-be prosecutors.
“This is the brilliance of the drug cartels. They pay ordinary people to get cash across the border for them, and then easily launder it into working capital to build and expand their violent and illicit operations,” said Louise Shelley, who directs the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University.
In another scheme, smugglers give legitimate bank account holders a small cut to use their accounts to deposit in the United States and withdraw in Mexico. Smugglers also are starting to ship cash through the postal service and shipping companies, allowing them to track it from start to finish.
That's nice. Did they seize the illegals too, or did it just come across the border all by itself?
Legalize it and tax the hell out of it. It’d solve most of the drug gang problem, solve some of our prison overcrowding problem, and bring in revenue.