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sanquintinsince73
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100 Tons Of Pot Confiscated In Tijuana After Shootout With Narcos
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]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
With all of the military checkpoints everywhere, how does one move 100 tons of mota??
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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) 
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that really IS a lot of mota.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
With all of the military checkpoints everywhere, how does one move 100 tons of mota??
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In five semis with lots of bribe money.
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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.
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That'll be one heck of a toxic (?) cloud if they incinerate it like the 46 tons they lit up in May, 2010:
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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.
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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...
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whoa... about 100,000 bricks!! You could build a real house with all that material!!
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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.
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On TJ news this evening they showed thousands upon thousands of bales of yesca....hadn't seen that much since high school.
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| Quote: | 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.
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BBC report with pics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11571362
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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.
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Hope that doesn't start another war in TJ...its been quiet for a couple years now.
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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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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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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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| Quote: | 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
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I think you are right but it is encouraging that there are enough honest ones that this bust went down.
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| Quote: | 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. |
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