Thread: U.S. Police Bust Mexican Drug Gang

U.S. police bust Mexican drug gang

Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:32pm EST

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested dozens of suspects and broken up a smuggling network that hauled up to 200 tons of marijuana to Arizona each year from Mexico, authorities said on Tuesday.

The operation carried out by federal, state and local police in Arizona arrested 39 people on felony charges, and dismantled the Garibaldi-Lopez drug trafficking network, the Arizona Attorney General's office said in a news release.

Arizona is the principal corridor for human and drug smuggling from Mexico, an illegal trade that generates billions of dollars in illicit profits each year.

Investigators said the network spirited multi-ton drug loads to Phoenix across the remote desert wastes of the Tohono O'odham Indian reservation, for Mexico's top Sinaloa cartel.

The network routinely used scouts out in the desert to spot for U.S. law enforcement, to safeguard multi-ton drug shipments on the move each week in vehicles stolen in the United States.

Over the past five years the network moved up to 1,000 tons of marijuana with an estimated wholesale value $1 billion dollars through Phoenix, much of which was subsequently redistributed throughout the United States, the office said.

Most illegal drugs used in the United States enter the country from Mexico, where drug trafficking has become an increasingly bloody activity in recent years.

Mexican cartels have killed around 5,300 people south of the border so far this year, as they fight each other for turf and wage an all-out war with Mexican authorities.

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; editing by Doina Chiacu)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... BF20081223

People who think the WAR IN MEXICO has nothing to do with the U.S. need to look at articles like this to see that the same people come here to deliver their drugs and sell them here too.

I wonder how much this investigation cost, and how much cheaper it would be to build a wall with armed guards-it would save so much money going into the future to just build a wall. America loves to build walls in other countries, but the image of a wall on a US border is to negative, too close to home, so they let the IAs and drug runners have a field day in our country.

Both parties fight for the Latino vote by pandering to illegals and American citizens continue and will continue to lose out.

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