Historic seizure of marijuana found in Mexico
by Magdalena Rosova
The police in Mexico disclosed 105 tons of marijuana. It is the biggest seizure of marijuana that the police has found in many years. Its price on the black market in the United States would be at least two millions euro. During the police operation eleven people were arrested. One policeman and one suspicious were injured. More then ten thousands of packages with drug were found in several houses and cars in Tijuana. The city of Tijuana is on the border with American Sand Diego. Army officials initially estimated the value of the found drug of 4.2 billion pesos which is about $340 million. But after they counted all 15,300 packages they found out that the weight of the dru! g is even bigger - 134.2 tons. The drugs probably belonged to Sinaloa cartel. Gunfight started when convoy of cars started shooting on the ordinary police city guard. Just after the shooting army troops came to the place to support the police guard. After that army searched through the city and found out packages of marijuana hidden in the houses and cars. The drug was assigned for the black market in the United states. Mexico is a transit area on one of the several tracks for drug smuggling especially from South American Colombia. It is also one of the biggest producers of marijuana in the world. Mexico's president Felipe Calderon promised to repress the drug cartels in the country. Since he became a president four years ago, at least 30 thousands people died in the fight with the cartels.
related story (sgx18431): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11571362...
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