BajaNomad - 100 Tons Of Pot Confiscated In Tijuana After Shootout With Narcos

100 Tons Of Pot Confiscated In Tijuana After Shootout With Narcos

sanquintinsince73 - 10-18-2010 at 04:01 PM

TIJUANA BC 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2010 (AFN).- Tras un fuerte enfrentamiento ocurrido la madrugada de este lunes en Tijuana, la policía local logró el mayor golpe de los últimos años, al obtener un decomiso de casi ¡Cien toneladas de mariguana!, según lo que pudo saber Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias de Tijuana.

Hasta el momento, ha trascendido que en la bodega ubicada en un predio del bulevar Manuel Clouthier o “Gato Bronco” y calle Murúa, en la zona del arroyo Alamar, hay al menos 8 detenidos y se encontraron 6 tráilers.

En torno al decomiso, se informó que, con el Secretario de Seguridad Pública Municipal, Julián Leyzaola Pérez, al frente, los agentes municipales descubrieron a los delincuentes, aparentemente cuando algunos de éstos abrieron fuego en contra de los ocupantes de una patrulla municipal, que hacía su recorrido en la zona de la delegación Centenario, alrededor de las 3:00 horas, esta madrugada.

Al ocurrir esto, los agentes solicitaron apoyo por la radio frecuencia de la corporación, por lo que de inmediato llegaron refuerzos, iniciando un enfrentamiento con los delincuentes, que derivó en un elemento herido.

Sin embargo, varias personas -se dice que alrededor de ocho- pudieron ser finalmente detenidas en este exitoso operativo.

Por la hora en la que ocurrieron los hechos, no fue posible que AFN pudiera obtener mayores datos al respecto, sin embargo a las 13:00 horas o una de la tarde se ofrecerá conferencia de prensa en las instalaciones militares del Cuartel Morelos, donde se espera la presencia del comandante de la Zona, General Alfonso Duarte Mújica así como autoridades del estado y municipio.

Por la cantidad de la droga decomisada -que está siendo pesada- éste sería uno de los golpes más fuertes realizados en los últimos años, ya que representa una cantidad de droga que sólo se ha logrado en innumerables

With all of the military checkpoints everywhere, how does one move 100 tons of mota??

[Edited on 10-18-2010 by sanquintinsince73]

mtgoat666 - 10-18-2010 at 04:20 PM

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Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
With all of the military checkpoints everywhere, how does one move 100 tons of mota??

the checkpoints are for catching small-time crooks or lords-not-in-favor.

the lords that run TJ shipping probably own the checkpoints they need to own.

100 tons is a large number, that's a lot of 40-ft trailers and over $300MM retail value,... I think some info may have been inflated...
or perhaps the warehouse was stocking up in anticipation of passage of Prop 19 and skeet smoking his first legal whacky tobacco.

when i hear these mega-tonnages, I think perhaps they put the vehicles on the scale then report the scale reading (conveniently not subtracting the vehicle weight) :lol:

BajaBlanca - 10-18-2010 at 04:30 PM

that really IS a lot of mota.

BillP - 10-18-2010 at 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by sanquintinsince73

With all of the military checkpoints everywhere, how does one move 100 tons of mota??

In five semis with lots of bribe money.

Bajahowodd - 10-18-2010 at 04:36 PM

I'd like to believe that the transport of so much ganga does not involve the compromising of the military checkpoints. Rather that they have devised alternative routes. I only say that because if the military is compromised, Mexico is in worse shape than anyone is willing to admit. And devil goat, I'm as cynical as they come, but the idea that, in a country that has basically legalized small personal amounts, the checkpoints merely represent a hindrance to tourism.

BajaNomad - 10-18-2010 at 07:00 PM

That'll be one heck of a toxic (?) cloud if they incinerate it like the 46 tons they lit up in May, 2010:

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=46356

BillP - 10-18-2010 at 07:31 PM

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/18/mexican-autho...

TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana on Monday, by far the biggest pot bust in the country in recent years.

Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in pre-dawn raids in three neighborhoods after police arrested 11 people following a shootout, army Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica said at a news conference.

The marijuana was found wrapped in 10,000 packages, which were displayed to journalists by soldiers in masks. Duarte said the drug had an estimated street value in Mexico of 4.2 billion pesos, about $340 million.

Duarte said authorities were still counting and weighing the packages and the amount could increase. He said the drugs would be incinerated immediately after the weighing and counting is completed.

The bust began when Tijuana municipal police on patrol came under fire from gunmen in a convoy of vehicles, Duarte said. One police officer and one suspect were injured.

Police arrested 11 people who were traveling in the convoy and called the army and state police for reinforcements, Duarte said.

The detainees led the security forces to three different Tijuana neighborhoods where the drugs were found stored in tractor trailers and houses, he said.

Duarte said local criminal gangs were gathering the drugs to smuggle into the United States. He did not identify any of the gangs or say where the marijuana originated.

Although Mexican drug cartels smuggle marijuana from South America, the drug is increasingly produced in Mexico.

Cannabis production in Mexico increased 35 percent to 12,000 hectares (29,652 acres) in 2009, from 8,900 hectares (21,991 acres) the previous year, according to the U.S. State Department's 2010 International Narcotics Control report.

The report attributed the increase to drug cartel efforts to "diminish reliance on foreign suppliers."

The Tijuana bust dwarfed marijuana seizures of recent years. Major pot seizures this year in Tijuana and other parts of the country have amounted to about a dozen tons each.

The seizure comes as overall marijuana confiscation and crop eradication has dropped in Mexico.

Security forces seized 1,385 tons of marijuana in 2009, down from a yearly average of 2,000 tons in previous years, according to the U.S. report. It said Mexico eradicated 14,135 hectares (34,927 acres) of cannabis in the first 11 months of last year, compared to 18,663 hectares (46,116 acres) in all of 2008.

The report said the decline comes as Mexican security forces focus more on hard drugs like methamphetamines - but also as resources are increasingly deployed to confront drug cartel violence.

Upon taking office in December 2006, President Felipe Calderon deployed tens of thousands of troops and federal police to fight drug cartels in their strongholds. An unprecedented 28,000 people have been killed in drug gang violence since.

Before the intensified crackdown, marijuana eradication had averaged about 30,000 hectares (74,130 acres) a year, according to the State Department report.

The Tijuana bust came a little over a week after Calderon visited the border city and called it a success in his drug war.

Violence peaked in Tijuana in 2008 amid a showdown between two crime bosses - Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye.

Garcia was arrested last January. While killings have continued, the most gruesome displays of cartel violence - decapitations, hangings and daylight shootouts - subsided.

Last week, in the wake of Calderon's visit, several bodies were found beheaded and hanging from bridges in Tijuana, leading to fears that the cartels were resuming brutal tactics to send a message that the government is not in control.

Drug gang violence continued elsewhere in Mexico.

Gunmen stormed two homes and killed nine people in one neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, a city across from El Paso, Texas, the Chihuahua state Attorney General's Office said in a statement Monday.

The gunmen first burst into a home where a family was having a party, the statement said. Three women and two men died at the scene Sunday night, and a man and a woman died at the hospital.

Assailants attacked a second home in the neighborhood minutes later, killing two men.

Police had no suspects and did not give a possible motive.

Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's deadliest cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in the city, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas.

bajalearner - 10-18-2010 at 09:25 PM

Maybe this explains what I saw today in TJ at 11:45am. I drove on Agua Caliente road and started through a green light at Revolucion when a city cop ran from the sidewalk and stopped traffic. He furiously waved his arms at the stopped traffic to my right and sent them through the intersection. He then kept the intersection clear and some city cops in pick-ups, a military pick-up with a large machine gun and man at the trigger, several unmarked vans with lights flashing and two semi trucks passed through. behind them were several more various cops vehicles whisking through. I wondered what that was all about. May have been some of the evidence. The convoy would have been heading south but I can't guess to where.
I don't know but is a coincidence for sure...

BornFisher - 10-18-2010 at 09:44 PM

whoa... about 100,000 bricks!! You could build a real house with all that material!!

bajalearner - 10-18-2010 at 09:53 PM

More coincidence. At 5pm, I saw a huge dark smoke plum beyond a distant hill. I thought to myself it must be a grass fire because it is too much smoke for a house or structure. It was probably a few miles east of the TJ beach area. If I would have know what it might be, I would have positioned myself downwind. Just so I could confirm and enlighten you readers of course.

sanquintinsince73 - 10-18-2010 at 11:21 PM

On TJ news this evening they showed thousands upon thousands of bales of yesca....hadn't seen that much since high school.

tjBill - 10-18-2010 at 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by bajalearner
More coincidence. At 5pm, I saw a huge dark smoke plum beyond a distant hill. I thought to myself it must be a grass fire because it is too much smoke for a house or structure. It was probably a few miles east of the TJ beach area.....

Sounds like they could have been burning it at the Morelos military base where the police chief lives. About 3 miles east of the beach.

Russ - 10-19-2010 at 04:42 AM

BBC report with pics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11571362

Cypress - 10-19-2010 at 05:49 AM

Have hauled hay in a 3/4 ton pickup. One ton is a load. The pot's in 20 lb. blocks. 100 tons! Someone, probably quite a few people, must have been paid to look the other way.

Mexitron - 10-19-2010 at 05:55 AM

Hope that doesn't start another war in TJ...its been quiet for a couple years now.

BajaNews - 10-19-2010 at 06:15 AM

A soldier guards a detainee during a presentation for the media in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. On a conjoined operation with the army, local and state police seized 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana Monday, by far the biggest drug bust in the country in recent years. Eleven suspects were detained. Photo by Guillermo Arias.

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BajaNews - 10-19-2010 at 06:18 AM

Narcotics wrapped in 10,000 brown and silver packages are on display in the patio of the Morelos military base in Tijuana October 18, 2010. Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a U.S. street value of more than $340 million on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers. Photo by Jorge Duenes.

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BajaNews - 10-19-2010 at 06:23 AM

Soldiers stand guard next to narcotics wrapped in silver packages with stickers of Homer Simpson and the writing in Mexican slang "I'm going as a ******* bro," in Tijuana October 18, 2010. Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a U.S. street value of more than $340 million on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers. Photo by Guillermo Arias.

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bajalearner - 10-19-2010 at 06:24 AM

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Originally posted by Cypress
Have hauled hay in a 3/4 ton pickup. One ton is a load. The pot's in 20 lb. blocks. 100 tons! Someone, probably quite a few people, must have been paid to look the other way.

I think you are right but it is encouraging that there are enough honest ones that this bust went down.

bajalearner - 10-19-2010 at 06:27 AM

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Originally posted by BajaNews
Narcotics wrapped in 10,000 brown and silver packages are on display in the patio of the Morelos military base in Tijuana October 18, 2010. Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a U.S. street value of more than $340 million on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers. Photo by Jorge Duenes.

Cypress - 10-19-2010 at 07:10 AM

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Originally posted by bajalearner
it is encouraging that there are enough honest ones that this bust went down.

Or maybe they paid the wrong people?

surfer jim - 10-19-2010 at 09:01 AM

And now to ask how was all this going to cross the border? :?:

BillP - 10-19-2010 at 09:22 AM

I wonder how severe the cartel retaliation will be? I'm betting they aren't very happy about losing what amounts to a very hefty chunk of change.

Dave - 10-19-2010 at 09:49 AM

I have to ask...Who buys this crap? The smokers I know wouldn't touch typical Mexican dirt weed now that designer pot is easily and readily available.

woody with a view - 10-19-2010 at 09:51 AM

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Originally posted by surfer jim
And now to ask how was all this going to cross the border? :?:

i was commenting to my wife after crossing sunday and watching 5 dog teams working the lines at SY how you'd have to be CRAZY to even try to smuggle anything. secondary was full so the inspector had me pull up by the k-rail and park. 10 minutes later two guys and a dog circled my rig and said, "okay brother, have a nice day!"

Barry A. - 10-19-2010 at 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by BillP
I wonder how severe the cartel retaliation will be? I'm betting they aren't very happy about losing what amounts to a very hefty chunk of change.

To Law Enforcement, that can NEVER be a consideration. To do so just leads to more chaos and corruption and death------a never ending cycle.

You just keep pounding them-------------using every tool at your disposal.

Barry

Bajahowodd - 10-19-2010 at 01:49 PM

I've read at least four different news reports on this, and one thing seems strange. One report did comment on the purported intent of the cartels to wean themselves of foreign product, and control the entire profit by trafficking in homegrown. But, still gotta wonder the origin of this stuff, and how such a huge amount, hauled in numerous trucks could somehow evade the highway checkpoints, which are all over the highways of Mexico.

sancho - 10-19-2010 at 02:23 PM

I would think if that stuff came up from the East,
it came from Durango, if it came up Baja
I would come from the Mainland,
Michaucan sp? , maybe. Whichever I don't
think the transporter would have jeopardized
his load, someone wasn't paid off or
not enough, but to compare US Law Enforcement
to Mexico's is naive

BajaBruno - 10-19-2010 at 10:07 PM

The cartels have lots of ways to import their product without bribing officials on either side of the border. They have trans-border tunnels, groups of backpackers (mules) who ferry the drugs by night through the canyons, semi trucks with drugs mixed in with legitimate cargo, planes, boats, and submarines.

We have a huge appetite for drugs on the north side of the border, and although some product gets through via corrupt officials, most comes through means that bypass government controls. It is cheaper that way and after all, it is just business and business likes to minimize operating costs.

krafty - 10-19-2010 at 11:08 PM

The Feds had to be tipped off-3 locations? 115 tons? not that there is anything wrong with that!

krafty - 10-19-2010 at 11:10 PM

Mx pot is not bad and still cheaper than the med. places in Cali-so I've heard.

Beachgirl - 10-20-2010 at 04:58 AM

134.2 tons now per news revision this morning. Wow!

Martyman - 10-20-2010 at 10:25 AM

When is the bonfire? i have a snorkel with a funnel duct taped on ready to go!

bajabass - 10-20-2010 at 10:39 AM

:biggrin:

Highly efficient method sir! Practice makes perfect "eh?

motoged - 10-20-2010 at 10:48 AM

The gasmask option might be preferred.... :cool:

sanquintinsince73 - 10-20-2010 at 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by Beachgirl
134.2 tons now per news revision this morning. Wow!

I heard the same thing....It is the largest seizure of mota on record in Mexico.

Heads Will Roll........

sanquintinsince73 - 10-20-2010 at 11:32 AM

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
The Associated Press
updated 10/19/2010 5:39:36 PM ET 2010-10-19T21:39:36

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's largest-ever seizure of marijuana packaged for sale is even bigger than the original estimate of 105 tons and probably belonged to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, authorities said Tuesday.

The government so far had counted 15,000 packages — 5,000 more than first announced after the seizure during early-morning raids Monday in the border city of Tijuana, said Alejandro Poire, President Felipe Calderon's security spokesman.

Authorities were still weighing the haul Tuesday to determine just how much bigger it is than originally thought, he said.

"There are indications that it belongs to the organization of the Pacific," said Poire, using another common name for the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Soldiers and police grabbed the U.S.-bound marijuana in pre-dawn raids in three neighborhoods after police arrested 11 people following a shootout, army Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica said at a news conference Monday.

He said the drugs had an estimated street value of 4.2 billion pesos, about $340 million.

The drugs were wrapped in different colors and labeled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included Homer Simpson.
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The bust occurred after Tijuana municipal police on patrol came under fire from gunmen in a convoy of vehicles, Duarte said. One police officer and one suspect were injured.

The Sinaloa cartel has long eyed Tijuana's lucrative land and sea routes leading into California.

Territorial warring both inside the local Arrellano Felix cartel and with other gangs result in much of the border city's bloodshed.

Violence peaked in Tijuana in 2008 amid a showdown between two factions headed by Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye. The violence has dropped off since Garcia's January arrest.

Calderon recently praised the new calm in Tijuana as a success story in Mexico's drug war. He discounted speculation that the peace stems from one cartel taking over.

"The truth is that in the last two years, the government has made important hits on the criminal structures," he told The Associated Press in an interview.

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Associated Press Writer Mariana Martinez in Tijuana, Mexico, contributed to this report.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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DENNIS - 10-21-2010 at 11:03 AM

Heads are beginning to roll....in the traditional sense anyway:
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Jorge Alberto Avelar Ruiz, the brother of Jose Avelar Ruiz, president of COTUCO is among 11 arrested by the seizure of 134 tons of marijuana.
Among those arrested on Monday after the seizure of 134 tons of marijuana, is Jorge Alberto Avelar Ruiz, brother of the still President of the Committee of Tourism and Conventions (COTUCO).

Jose Avelar Ruiz is the leader of an agency within the City of Tijuana which is responsible for promoting the city.

According to information obtained by BORDER, Jorge Alberto, rent sound equipment for official events, including the same COTUCO.

Jorge Alberto was arrested on Monday in an operation jointly by the Mexican Army and the Municipal Police, which obtained the arrest of ten other people and the largest recorded seizure at least in the state of 134 tons of marijuana.

Today at 15:00 am will be the incineration of the drug, according to a statement from the Armed Forces of the Second Military Region
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Jorge Alberto Avelar Ruiz, hermano de José Avelar Ruiz, presidente de Cotuco está entre los 11 detenidos por el decomiso de las 134 toneladas de mariguana.
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Entre los arrestados el lunes luego de la incautación de las 134 toneladas de mariguana, está Jorge Alberto Avelar Ruiz, hermano del aún presidente del Comité de Turismo y Convenciones (Cotuco).

José Avelar Ruiz es el dirigente del organismo dependiente del Ayuntamiento de Tijuana que se encarga de la promoción de la ciudad.

De acuerdo a información obtenida por FRONTERA, Jorge Alberto se dedica a la renta de equipos de sonido para eventos oficiales, entre ellos los del mismo Cotuco.

Jorge Alberto fue detenido el lunes pasado en un operativo en conjunto entre el Ejército Mexicano y la Policía Municipal, donde lograron la aprehensión de otras diez personas y el decomiso más grande registrado al menos en el Estado de 134 toneladas de mariguana.

Hoy a las 15:00 horas será la incineración de la droga, según un comunicado de las Fuerzas Armadas de la Segunda Región Militar

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnlinea/Notas/Noticias/20102...

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[Edited on 10-21-2010 by DENNIS]

Martyman - 10-21-2010 at 11:07 AM

C'mon man...let 'em slide it's just a little weed. :cool:

Up In Smoke.....134 Tons Incinerated. Where's Cheech?

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2010 at 01:13 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TeXPPOV0rc

Iflyfish - 10-21-2010 at 04:45 PM

It is staggering to consider that this is only a very small amount that we see incinerated and that it represents only a fraction of what is being imported into the US from Mexico. This does not take into account the local production in California, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia where this is the single most valuable cash crop. The value of this underground economy is calculated to be in the billions of dollars each year.

Iflyfish

BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 05:23 PM

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20020114-503543.html

The marijuana was wrapped in silver, grey, yellow and red packages, each with a different logo, which authorities said were meant to identify the area in the United States where the shipments were to be sent.

Some packages depicted a dog, another a smiley face. One even had a scornful looking Homer Simpson with the inscription "Voy de mojarra y que wey!" which roughly translates as "I'm going to get high, dude!"

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Mexicorn - 10-21-2010 at 09:11 PM

Doh!

BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:39 PM

A soldier takes pictures of the smoke produced as packages of marijuana are being incinerated in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. On a conjoined operation with the army, local and state police seized 134 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana Monday, by far the biggest drug bust in the country in recent years. Eleven suspects were detained. (Photo: Guillermo Arias)

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:41 PM

Tonnes of marijuana are being incinerated at the military base Morelos in Tijuana October 20, 2010. Soldiers seized 134 tonnes of marijuana on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers. (Photo: Jorge Duenes)

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:43 PM

Soldiers unload marijuana to be incinerated at the military base Morelos in Tijuana October 20, 2010. (photo: Jorge Duenes)

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:45 PM

Soldiers unload 134 tonnes of marijuana to be incinerated at the military base Morelos in Tijuana October 20, 2010. (Photo: Jorge Duenes)

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:52 PM

A soldier guards next to packages of marijuana that are being incinerated in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. (Photo: Guillermo Arias)

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 09:57 PM

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 10:15 PM

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Baja&Back - 10-21-2010 at 11:00 PM

SKEET: ya watchin' this?????????????????????????????

:lol:

BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 11:18 PM

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BajaNews - 10-21-2010 at 11:53 PM

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durrelllrobert - 10-22-2010 at 10:00 AM

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Originally posted by BillP

JUST CHECKING THE MATH:
..... 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana ......
wrapped in 10,000 packages ...

assming that the density of compacted marijuana is approximately the same as balsa wood (170 kg cu M) each package would measure approximately16 x 16 x 12 inches (which looks pretty close the what the picture shows). With the 10,000 packages diveded equally between 5 trailers (2000 packages each) they would have to hold 3555 cu ft each. For a trailer that is 40 ft long x 8 ft wide x 10 ft high (3200 cu ft) the numbers are pretty close to being possible. :light:

sanquintinsince73 - 10-22-2010 at 09:01 PM

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert

Quote:

Originally posted by BillP

JUST CHECKING THE MATH:
..... 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana ......
wrapped in 10,000 packages ...

Too much math for me...

jeremias - 10-22-2010 at 10:11 PM

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Originally posted by BajaNews
A soldier guards next to packages of marijuana that are being incinerated in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. (Photo: Guillermo Arias)

That' s not a gasmask!! I hope somebody called Pizzahut for these poor stoners.

BillP - 10-23-2010 at 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert

Quote:

Originally posted by BillP

JUST CHECKING THE MATH:
..... 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana ......
wrapped in 10,000 packages ...

Actually, my figures were based on weight, not volume. Mex regs are pretty much the same as the US, 80,000lbs total for a five axle truck. The truck and trailer weighs approx 35,000, cargo can weigh up to 45,000 lbs. Most trailers nowadays are 48-53ft.

BajaDove - 10-24-2010 at 07:14 AM

Hear that inferno brought a day of piece
Got up to behead someone, but could only manage a dumb smile.