Mexico Hghy 5

Was talking to a local yesterday and he saw I had a small travel trailer. Ye wanted to know if I wanted to sell it as the Fed Hghy Patrol wanted to buy one for it's checkpoints on Hghy 5 between San Felipe and Mexicali. They stay overnight at these checkpoints. He told me they are there 24 hrs a day when set up but only stop traffic at night. In the last couple weeks they caught 3 substatial shipments of drugs. I had been wondering about it as I had seen the set up but they always were just sitting around the trailer. Always in the daytime i might add. So for others who also wondered, now we know.

Of course, they might start using the radar gun any time also.





[Edited on 3-3-2005 by bajalou]

Hey, Bajalou

Since it is probably gringo tax dollars that will be indirectly paying for that trailer, maybe you should price yours in the manner of a Space Shuttle toilet seat?

Since April 1999 while making 69 round trips on Mex 5 (That's 138 total passes along any one spot.), we've never encountered any stops by personnel other than the military.

Last trip was March 2, 2005.

How can we have been so lucky? Where are these guys? These Fed Hwy Patrols.

Once in a while we see a black-and-white parked in the vicinity of La Ventana, but none has ever stopped us.

Bufeo

Thats the spot - I was told they only stop vehicles after dark. Told a story about catching a couple americans a few weeks ago with a bunch of grass. They told them - if you'd made this run in the daytime you'd have got by here.

Just what a local Mexican told me. But I watch my speed cause they have radar if they decide to use it.

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Originally posted by bajalou Bufeo Thats the spot - I was told they only stop vehicles after dark. Told a story about catching a couple americans a few weeks ago with a bunch of grass. They told them - if you'd made this run in the daytime you'd have got by here. Just what a local Mexican told me. But I watch my speed cause they have radar if they decide to use it.