Man who bought car full of pot wins case




U.S. purchase led to year in Mexican jail
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

August 18, 2008

FEDERAL COURT – A federal judge has awarded $551,000 to a Mexican printer who spent a year in prison after soldiers near Ensenada found 37 pounds of marijuana in a sport utility vehicle he bought from the U.S. government.
Francisco Rivera Agredano's case against the government took six years to go to trial but never resolved the central question: How did this happen?

“The court does not know how Customs missed the contraband in the (Nissan) Pathfinder,â€