Fishing For Pot in All the Right Places
January 22nd, 2009 by Perry
If I ever run out of weed, I might just want to hang out off the coast of San Diego because there seems to be weed all over the place.
In the latest installment of “Just How Much Weed Did Border Patrol Seize?” this time’s winning catch is 1,100 pounds. Agents arrested two men after finding the vessel in Mission Bay with marijuana located in a compartment underneath the boat’s floor.
This doesn’t appear to be an isolated incident, as the arrests are just the latest in the ongoing battle by border patrol agents to stop the flow of marijuana from Mexico to Southern California.
Fiberglass, Submarines & Drugs
November 4th, 2008 by Alex
We all know the new hot fad in drug smuggling is homemade submarines, but have any of us ever seen one?
Well, here are two images fresh from the wire. A fiber glass submarine with 1.6 tons of cocaine was found and seized in southern Colombia. Good times.
One more after the jump…
[photo via AP Photo/Fernando Vergara]
Can You Dig it?
October 8th, 2008 by Perry
This guy probably can.
Antonio Morales Barrios, 41, received two and a half years for his role – presumably as a watchdog – supervising a house that hid a 120-mile border-crossing underground tunnel. This is just 1 of 60 authorities have found since the post-9/11 heightening of border patrols.
Oh, and more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana was found, so he probably wasn’t acting alone, but no one else was named in the charges. These sort of operations are high risk, high reward and generally don’t stay operational for more than three months. This particular tunnel lasted two months before the Calexico authorities discovered it.
