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 Carlito
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 1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle
#6317939 - 11/29/06 02:50 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/158176
1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle
Finding more than 1,100 pounds of marijuana Tuesday on the Tohono O'odham Reservation wasn't unusual for Border Patrol agents.
Discovering it in 50 bundles tied to the front and backs of three ATVs covered in camouflage blankets, however, wasn't normal, said Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman Gustavo Soto. ATVs are most often used to smuggle small amounts — 20 to 30 pounds — of drugs in quick dropoffs near the border, Soto said.
"This is extremely unusual," Soto said. "It just shows how much success we are having out in the Ajo area."
Agents found the ATVs Tuesday morning near the village of Gu Vo, northeast of Lukeville near Federal Route 1, Soto said. Agents followed tracks from southeast of Lukeville near Menager's Dam until they found one ATV concealed in the brush. They found the other two about a mile north, Soto said.
The 1,100 pounds of marijuana has an estimated street value of $550,000, using figures from the Arizona High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, the federal anti-drug analysis and intelligence center.
Tuesday's seizure is the latest bust in a busy start to fiscal 2007 for the Tucson Sector. Since Oct. 1, agents have seized more than 107,000 pounds of marijuana, a 27 percent increase from the same period during the record-setting fiscal 2006, Soto said.
The 616,534 pounds seized in fiscal 2006 was a six-year high for the sector and more than doubled the total of any other sector along the U.S.-Mexican border.
The 107,000 pounds seized so far this fiscal year nearly equals the total of marijuana seized from 2004 to 2006 in the Yuma Sector, according to Border Patrol figures.
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thetonebone72
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Re: 1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle [Re: Carlito]
#6319139 - 11/29/06 06:22 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I want to find an ATV in the woods with 2 hundred pounds of weed on it!!
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Nephlyte
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Re: 1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle [Re: Carlito]
#6319753 - 11/29/06 09:46 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Carlito said:
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/158176
1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle
"This is extremely unusual," Soto said. "It just shows how much success we are having out in the Ajo area."
Ya, no success.
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Booming
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Re: 1,100-lb. pot find has a new wrinkle [Re: Nephlyte]
#6319860 - 11/29/06 10:24 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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yeah... 1,100 lbs of pot may sound like a lot.. but i GUARANTEE you, that 50 times more (maybe more?) comes through than what they catch. fuck pigs
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