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Top meth seller caught with $3.6 million
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6539306.html
Associated Press
July 21, 2009
TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican soldiers have arrested a suspected drug trafficker in the border city of Tijuana who was carrying jewelry, narcotics and
$3.6 million in cash.
The Defense Department says Luis Ibarra belongs to a cell in charge of making and trafficking methamphetamine for alleged drug kingpin Teodoro Garcia
Simental. Ibarra was detained Saturday.
Garcia Simental has been waging a bloody battle against his former bosses in the Arellano Felix drug cartel.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNews
$3.6 million in cash.
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Not that it matters to the story but, I wish these papers would indicate dollars or pesos.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNews
$3.6 million in cash.
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Not that it matters to the story but, I wish these papers would indicate dollars or pesos. |
I think its always dollars unless stated.
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I don't know how many legal prescriptions for amphetamines (Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat) and methamphetamine (Desoxyn) are sold every year (that
information, if available, is not easily gleaned), but I'll bet the legal pharmaceutical companies made a lot more than $3.6M USD.
If we've learned nothing else from Michael Jackson hysteria, it is that only the poor need use bathtub drugs, because the wealthy can just get the
good stuff from their local pharmacy.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tjBill
I think its always dollars unless stated. |
You're probably right, Bill, except when the story comes from a translation. Then they just print the number without translating it.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by tjBill
I think its always dollars unless stated. |
You're probably right, Bill, except when the story comes from a translation. Then they just print the number without translating it.
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It was a mexican news story .... I am sure it was in pesos.
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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
I don't know how many legal prescriptions for amphetamines (Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat) and methamphetamine (Desoxyn) are sold every year (that
information, if available, is not easily gleaned), but I'll bet the legal pharmaceutical companies made a lot more than $3.6M USD.
If we've learned nothing else from Michael Jackson hysteria, it is that only the poor need use bathtub drugs, because the wealthy can just get the
good stuff from their local pharmacy. |
So, are you complaining about the high price of "The good stuff"? Only the poor need to use "the bathtub drugs"
...oh boo-hoo
Your comment has no relavance here. The legal pharmaceutical companies are not waging war in Baja with each other, shooting u pth place and turning
once thriving tourist areas into ghost towns, tanking the local economy.
Congratulations to the Tijuana Police!
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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I'm very sorry--had I known you were the relevance police, Jeans, I would have sent in my manuscript for editing before posting it.
I think most people understood that my point was about the disparity of access to drugs between the poor and the not-so-poor. If the wealthy can have
"the good stuff" with no legal ramifications, then why shouldn't the poor have access to the same drugs? This would put the illegal Meth Makers out
of business and save a lot of Tijuana Police officer's lives.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Many of you guys are like lawyers, just looking for a technicality.
IT WAS DOLLARS!
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Hey,
I gotta complain about this thread. When was the balloting conducted for this guy to be named the "TOP" meth seller?
I demand a recount.
Since Cabron has made his Know it All declaration it must have been pesos. That is even more reason for me to want a recount.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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