105 tons of marijuana seized in Baja California (yes you read that right 105 tons...)

[Tr1p]

Reporting from San Diego — Baja California authorities seized 105 tons of marijuana Monday morning in what is believed to be one of the largest drug busts in recent Mexican history, according to Mexican authorities and media reports.

About 10,000 packages of marijuana were hidden inside six cargo containers stored in a warehouse in an industrial area of the border city of Tijuana. The marijuana was discovered after police on routine patrol intercepted a convoy of vehicles escorting a tractor-trailer that had left the warehouse, officials said.

After a shootout, 11 people were arrested. Police and soldiers, acting on information from the suspects, raided the warehouse and two homes near the coast, where smaller amounts of marijuana were found.

The neatly packaged cannabis — guarded by masked, heavily armed soldiers — was later displayed for the media at Morelos Army Base in Tijuana. Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mugica, the military's top commander in Baja California, said the drugs had an estimated street value of 4.2 billion pesos, or about $340 million.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/19/local/la-me-1019-mexico-pot-bust-20101019

 

[mgrady3]

bummer
give me just one of those bricks ...

 

[SDforever420]

Oh thank god its just that mexican brick shit. I was scared the swiped the dank!!

 

[Jak3]

Oh thank god its just that mexican brick shit. I was scared the swiped the dank!!

Hahaha!

 

[Herbal~Jah]

yeah 105 tons of mexican brick brown weed is worth about as much as 1 lb. of sweet sensimilla! BY GOD BY GOD BY GOD!

 

[Dragynfyr]

Good, sheds more light on how most of mexicos drug $ comes from pot, not hard drugs like the media likes to portray. Legalize, win the 'war'

 

[psychomimetic]

Here's some video of it- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rtudsGpf0w

I like the stoned faces drawn on the bricks. I also feel sorry for those guys that got busted, I bet that both they and their families are now in a lot of danger. But that won't make the news.

 

[Atlien3]

bricked up reginald denny, no ty

 

[Ody]

To play devil's advocate : perhaps less "Mexibrick" is a better situation for everyone?

 

[Atlien3]

To play devil's advocate : perhaps less "Mexibrick" is a better situation for everyone?

right

 

[GBM]

Hahaha being from Canada, Alberta to be specific, I've never had this fabled Mexican brick weed, only to good ole BC buds
a convoy of people leading a semi truck out of a warehouse is kinda screaming suspicious activity isn't it?

 

[childofthenight]

yes get those dirty bricks out! ..no loss there hahahah

 

[Budisti]

if youd sell that for 2 bucks a gram youd make 210million, and they still got more where thats coming from. Theres some good money the all caring goverment aint getting.