comitan
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BIG Drug Bust
Ensenada Drug Bust. Many pictures tell the story.
http://www.afntijuana.info/2008/junio/13junio/narco.html
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
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Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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What a coup for the Military. Viva los Soldados de Mexico.
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Woooosh
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Interesting that the bust took place in a vegetable packing warehouse. Just yesterday a truck with a massive amount of drugs was caught crossing at
Otay Mesa. The drugs were packed in vegetable boxes as well. Maybe it came from the same place and the driver that caught provided the information
for this bust.
"Packages of marijuana valued at more than $2.2 million were found in boxes of jalapeho peppers in a tractor-trailer seized Thursday night at the Otay
Mesa Port of Entry, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokes- man said. Customs officers found 805 wrapped packages of marijuana weighing more than
5,500 pounds hidden in the boxes of peppers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Vince Bond said yesterday. The truck also had boxes of
cucumbers, jicama and husk tomatoes. After the truck entered the United States from Mexico about 5:40 p.m., officers ordered it to the port's gamma-
ray facility to be scanned. The examination, similar to an X-ray, indicated "a discrepancy" inside the re- frigerated trailer, so the truck was sent
to a dock and the produce was un- loaded. A narcotics-detection dog alerted au- thorities to the boxes of peppers. The driver, a 39-year-old Mexican
na- tional, was arrested and taken to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtov n San Diego."
[Edited on 6-14-2008 by Woooosh]
[Edited on 6-14-2008 by Woooosh]
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BajaGringo
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The article says they were tipped off by an anonymous call.
They cut me off so I turned them in!!!
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oxxo
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Window dressing?
I guess I'm cynical.
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DENNIS
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San Carlos.......That's right out there by the Baja Country Club.
I'm more impressed each day.
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BajaGringo
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It was probably run by Gringo retired golfers
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bancoduo
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Wag the dog.
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lizard lips
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If you look at the first picture the, soldier is Comandante Polito. His predecessor had his head cut off by the gulf cartel not long ago. He is in
charge of all of the northern border and the word is he is really making a difference and the cartels want him dead as well. From what I was told he
flew in from Mexicali the day of the bust. The exact location of this bust was just off the road to the Baja Country Club in a warehouse that usually
stores vegetables. The government confiscated all of the big rigs and the large ranch home as well as all of the property. Good job boys!
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CaboRon
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Now I know what you guys up there meant when you spoke of the great veggies 
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fulano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lizard lips
If you look at the first picture the, soldier is Comandante Polito. His predecessor had his head cut off by the gulf cartel not long ago. He is in
charge of all of the northern border and the word is he is really making a difference and the cartels want him dead as well. |
The locals in Baja worship Polito. They are rotating him back to DF and there are all sorts of demands to let him stay in Baja.
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BirdDog
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What was the street value of all those peppers?
[Edited on 6-26-2008 by BirdDog]
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lizard lips
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I don't know how much was seized but it was quite a lot. Not only did the military get the drugs but they also seized the property, 7 semi. trucks,
and a nice little ranch home.
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