Thread: San Diego: Truck With One Ton Of Pot Seized At Border

Truck With One Ton Of Pot Seized At Border

POSTED: 2:42 pm PDT July 7, 2008
UPDATED: 2:52 pm PDT July 7, 2008


SAN DIEGO -- Vehicle inspectors at Otay Mesa Port of Entry discovered a 1-ton haul of marijuana inside a big rig that entered the United States from Mexico over the weekend, a federal official said Monday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents grew suspicious about the contents of the tractor-trailer while examining it with a gamma-ray device and a service dog about 1 p.m. Saturday, CBP information officer Vince Bond said.

Further inspection revealed a secret compartment containing 122 packages of cannabis with a combined weight of 2,017 pounds, Bond said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested the driver, a 34-year-old Tijuana man, and took him to Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego for booking on drug-trafficking charges.

http://www.10news.com/news/16813559/detail.html

Pumping drugs into the country by the Ton after Ton after Ton. I think it would be safe to assume for every pound we find, 10 pounds get through

Was this one of Bush's pilot truck program?

What was the contents of the truck--produce that could be contaminated by the wrapped drug packages (and who knows where they have been stored and come in contact with)?

Wonder what it costs to add secret compartments to a truck and how many Mexican trucks are equipped with them? The trucks should be forfeited and seized by the U.S.

If we wish to get serious about the war on drugs--no trucks from Mexico will enter the U.S. especially those companies with a history of drug or illegal alien smuggling.

It should be easy to backtrack and determine who and where located this truck with drugs.

Americans don't want to purchase tainted food and produce from Mexico.