Thread: CA-2 drivers arrested after $3 million in pot found

2 drivers arrested after $3 million in pot found


UNION-TRIBUNE

7:34 a.m. August 5, 2008

SOUTH COUNTY: Two Mexican truck drivers were jailed after trying to smuggle nearly $3 million worth of marijuana into the United States, federal authorities said.


U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers became suspicious when a 32-year-old Mexican citizen drove into the Otay Mesa Port of Entry about 3:30 p.m. Friday in a semi-truck tractor without a trailer. A drug-sniffing dog helped officers find 10 packages of marijuana, weighing 350 pounds and valued at more than $1 million, in two saddle fuel tanks, a Customs official said.
About 6:30 p.m. the same day, officers found what they called an anomaly in the front wall of an empty big-rig trailer. Officers probed the wall and punctured a package. They pulled out 42 packages of marijuana weighing 621 pounds, valued at $1.8 million. The 25-year-old driver, a Mexican citizen, was arrested. –P.R.



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how many of those illicit drugs are actually going through and how much more will go through with this insane jorge boosh trucking agreement with his bro calderon? multi billion dollar drug cartel money and none of our politicians are corrupted by this?

These poor souls probably just didn't know they would have to pay import fees on the load--yeah, right! And just image when the 4 football-field-wide Trans-Texas corridor gets built how much easier it will be to get drugs into this country fast. Forget the old tunnel under the border method.

What? A problem here? Lets look the other direction and ignore this too!