Thursday - November 04, 2010

Every Year Along About This Time It All Goes Dry

Two weeks after the biggest bust in Mexican history ..

The border patrol has uncovered a well-built 1,800-foot-long drug-smuggling tunnel connecting San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. In overnight raids, U.S. agents seized more than 20 tons of marijuana in a California warehouse, while Mexican troops confiscated five tons at their end.

The passageway was lighted, ventilated and had a rail system, the Los Angeles Timesreports. It began in a warehouse in Tijuana and ended in Otay Mesa, California, a light-industrial area outside San Diego where other tunnels have been uncovered.

During the past four years around 75 tunnels in various stages of construction have been found along the border.

In Mexico, army troops raided a warehouse in an industrial area that concealed the tunnel entrance and seized four more tons of dope.

The back-to-back raids occurred Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in a light industrial area with a long history of tunnel activity.

The passageway, equipped with lighting, ventilation and a rail system, is one of the few unearthed in recent years that appears to have been fully operational.

About 75 tunnels along the U.S-Mexico border have been unearthed in the last four years, most of them in various states of construction. The discovery comes two weeks after the Mexican military in Tijuana seized a record 134 tons of marijuana.

About 26 tons of marijuana had been transported through the tunnel to San Diego, and 10 of those tons were intercepted Tuesday by authorities as a tractor trailer was transporting the load from the Otay Mesa warehouse, officials said. About five tons were found by the Mexican military inside the Tijuana warehouse and the tunnel, officials said.

“It’s not a good day for the cartels,” said ICE director John Morton. “They now can’t move that size of drugs without digging a tunnel for 600 yards. It backfired on them.

Video here at Fox News.

Let’s see ... 30 tons here, 134 tons last time; that’s 164 tons. That’s 328,000 pounds, which is about 5.25 million ounces; 42 million eighth ounce baggies worth. Sounds like at least 2 weeks supply for the entire US. Ouch! Tokers gonna be hard up for a hit!



Henry got to Mexico and turned his truck around
He’s talking to the man who’s has it growing in the ground
Henry tasted, he got wasted, couldn’t even see
How he’s gonna drive like that is not too clear to me

And now he’s rolling down the mountain
Going fast, fast, fast
And if he blows this one’s gonna be his last
Run to Acapulco to turn the golden keys
Henry keep your brakes on for this corner if your please

Posted by Drew458     on 11/04/2010 at 09:06 AM   
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