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Drug bust seizes five tons of marijuana
October 24, 2011 - wthr.com
INDIANPOLIS - Indiana State Police have taken on a major supplier with
a historic drug bust involving huge amounts of pot and millions of
dollars.
The stack of marijuana bricks would have made it to the streets, but
instead is in police custody, along with several suspect drug dealers.
"It's not a good time to be a drug dealer in Marion County," said
Deputy Prosecutor Rick Frank.
The huge drug bust is part of an investigation started back in March of
this year on Jairo Ramirez. Narcotics officers arrested the 26-year-old
after having him and other suspects on 24-hour surveillance.
"They followed all of these people around town until they could
determine where was the warehouse that contained all this marijuana,"
said Deputy Chief Josh Minkler, Department of Justice.
Warrants served at a house rented by Ramirez uncovered $750,000 stashed
inside the home. Investigators also secretly followed their suspects to
places like a hotel on Rockville Road. The investigation eventually hit
a warehouse on South Girls School Road, where a narcotics dog hit on
drugs inside.
After finding six bins of marijuana full of drugs just inside the
loading dock door, investigators waited to see who would come and claim
the drugs.
"That happened around 10:50, there was a van that left the warehouse
and we did a traffic stop," Frank said.
Investigators are now promising to not only go after the dealers and
their drugs, but also their spoils.
"We are going to find you. You are going to be arrested. We are going
to take your cars, your money and we are going to take everything you
have gotten in illegal proceeds in narcotics," Frank said.
"If you plan on distributing drugs here, then plan on going to jail,
whether it's state prison or jail," said Marion County Prosecutor Terry
Curry.
Because of the huge amount of both drugs and money, investigators are
now working on possible ties to a Mexican drug cartel.
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U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced Monday the largest drug bust
in Marion County history and one of the largest - if not the largest -
in state history.
The bust followed a six-month investigation between the Drug
Enforcement Administration, Metropolitan Drug Task Force and other
state and local agencies.
Authorities seized more than five tons of marijuana and a total of
$4.3-million in drug proceeds The bulk value of the drugs seized
would be roughly $5 million, but the "street value" could be more than
ten times that amount.
"The DEA and Metro Drug made history last week," Hogsett said. "Not
only will taking these drugs off of the streets have a profound direct
effect on this community, I am also proud to announce that the millions
in cash taken from the Mexican drug lords will help fund public safety
efforts in Indianapolis and throughout central Indiana for years to
come."
The bust was at least the fourth major operation this year using
federal-state cooperation to DEA with drugs and guns in Marion County.
After seizing a tractor trailer leaving a west side grocery store in
the spring, agents in Indianapolis identified Jairo Ramirez, 26, and
began surveillance in mid-October. Ramirez was observed repeatedly
meeting with both Efren Perez, 20, and Julio Cesar Castaneda, 36, who
were similarly put under surveillance. Officers noticed that Perez and
Castaneda frequently visited a west side warehouse.
A K-9 search found a large stash of marijuana at the warehouse, and
police arrested Tomas Toledo, 29, driving a van containing 600 pounds
of marijuana from the warehouse on October 17.
Perez, Castaneda and Ramirez were arrested at separate locations within
an hour of Toledo's arrest. That led officers to multiple stashes
of money.
The next day, they raided the warehouse and recovered 9,000 pounds of
marijuana.
Ramirez, Perez, Castaneda and Toledo now face charges of conspiracy to
possess with the intent to distribute, and distributing 1000 kilograms
or more of marijuana.
Castaneda and Toledo were inside the United States illegally.
I'm sure the city is so happy that the police are keeping that money to help fund safety efforts(kidding). How bout donating it to organizations who aren't funded by the government and truly need it. Reading another story like this deepens my disgust for government and many police officers.
How many of those officers do you think pocketed money while finding all that cash stashed away?
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That's like a billion dollars.
