rpleger - 6-13-2009 at 11:55 AM
Ensenada (Ensenada, Baja Calif.) , El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/11/09
Federal police stopped a northbound vehicle for speeding on the highway between San Vicente and Camalú, Baja Calif. (some 60 + miles south of
Ensenada). The driver, Luis Alberto Verdugo Ramirez, gave answers which led to a search of the Jeep Cherokee he was driving. Police found a double
bottom to the rear of the gas tank; inside were 19 vacuum-sealed plastic packages which turned out to contain 17 kilos 621 grams of pure heroin.
M3 Report
JESSE - 6-13-2009 at 12:02 PM
Ouch! better pack for a lifelong vacation.
DianaT - 6-13-2009 at 12:10 PM
Gosh, seems like he would have been not speeding, considering.
Bajahowodd - 6-13-2009 at 12:11 PM
Only an idiot would draw unnecessary attention in that type of situation.
bent-rim - 6-13-2009 at 12:30 PM
Seems to me going the speed limit would draw attention.
Von - 6-13-2009 at 12:38 PM
lol
Bajahowodd - 6-13-2009 at 12:53 PM
Actually, there's approximately 25 miles there with a surprising presence of Federal Police. I often wondered why there? And there's a tremendous
amount of dangerous passing going on through there seemingly caused by the slow bus trafffic.
shari - 6-13-2009 at 03:28 PM
And a pot bust in Pta.Prieta...the fish camp near here...a drug panga ran out of gas and they came into their to try to get fuel and someone noticed
the huge dark painted panga with 4 outboards...uh...yeah....called the Marines and it was game over for those guys.
Bajahowodd - 6-13-2009 at 04:51 PM
Just starting to wonder if I should cheer or boo. Truth is that intercepts of drug shipments serves to drive up the price on the street. It doesn't
curb the desire. After all this time, decades, billions spent on advertising. Taxes increased to the roof, still somewhere between 20 and 25% of
Americans smoke cigarettes. So, apply that to the drug trade.
Geo_Skip - 6-13-2009 at 10:24 PM
Bajahowodd, although I personally consider the USA "War on Drugs" to be a repressive and misguided effort......never the less USA drug users, like
alcohol and nicotine users are proven to respond to price increases by reducing use. In the current collapsing USA economy...the costs and therefore
the reduction in use (demand) for RECREATIONAL DRUGS in response to cost increases will also increase. Get It Cost Increases....increase in the
decline of demand!
Bajahowodd, I am very tired of your chicken little reactions to every bit of news you can spin as BAD about Baja/Mexico. I travel south with
reasonable precautions and my eyes open. I have had no notable crises since my first trip in 1974. I feel more comfortable traveling in Baja than in
many ares of the Bay Area Urban Matrix.
Please get help for your obsession....Thanks.
Bajahowodd - 6-14-2009 at 01:00 PM
You must
be thinking of someone else.