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Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX]
#7740793 - 12/10/07 02:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles December 10, 2007 - kpho.com
EL PASO, Texas -- A 17-year-old boy tried to smuggle 30 pounds of marijuana hidden in holiday candles across the U.S.-Mexico border, customs officials said.
Customs and Border Protection officers stopped the boy at the Ysleta crossing in El Paso, Texas, late Saturday as he tried to cross into the U.S. in a taxi.
Officers searched the taxi and said they found a large cardboard box in the trunk with six holiday candles inside, and that a drug-sniffing dog alerted them to the candles.
Officers said they found marijuana inside the candles.
CBP said the boy told the officers his grandmother had given him the candles as a gift for his mother.
The boy was taken into custody by El Paso police.
"This is certainly one of the most unusual concealment methods we have seen in a while," said Polly Figueroa, CBP acting El Paso Port Director, in a press statement. "This seizure proves again that smugglers are only limited by their imagination."
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: veggie]
#7740806 - 12/10/07 02:03 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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How is that unusual?
I've heard of that so much... maybe just an availability bias though
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: johnm214]
#7740836 - 12/10/07 02:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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> tried to smuggle 30 pounds hidden in ... six holiday candles.
30 / 6 = 5 lbs per candle. I'm no expert, but looking at the picture above, I don't see how you could get five pounds of cannabis into a candle that small. Using the hand as a reference, the candles aren't that big. I suspect the 30 lbs is the weight of the cannabis, jars, and candles all combined.
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: Seuss]
#7740999 - 12/10/07 02:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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dude you can fit shwag into anything.
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: 2859558484]
#7741189 - 12/10/07 03:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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But five pounds in one candle is a stretch even for brick. One or two sounds a little more on the realistic side.
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: CollegeGuy]
#7741325 - 12/10/07 03:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well, based on what most articles here say, divide the amount of drugs in half and the proposed value into a fifth of what they say...
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: mebesideme]
#7744192 - 12/11/07 08:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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heh heh, there's a candle missing.......
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: veggie]
#7744207 - 12/11/07 09:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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looks like there's just pot in the cilinders, not even imbedded in candle wax!?
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: stefan]
#7744227 - 12/11/07 09:15 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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pretty smart idea though. wrap a brick in some vacuum sealed bags, place in a jar and fill the remaining space with wax. i don't see any smell penetrating that barrier.
The pic does make it look like it is just pot placed in a jar though.
Dumb asses.
I like the tunnel idea of importing pot better.
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: Jabensis]
#7744348 - 12/11/07 09:47 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here is another picture, this one showing the "candle".

Here is another novel approach to smuggling, this time cocaine, from today: Arrested man had cocaine stuffed in false leg
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: veggie]
#7745303 - 12/11/07 02:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The weight was most surrely that of the wax and cannabis, feds love to fuck you over like that.
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Re: Teen Boy Smuggles Marijuana In Candles [TX] [Re: Jabensis]
#7747979 - 12/12/07 03:21 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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> pretty smart idea though.
Not that smart... he got caught.
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