What Three Tons of Weed Looks Like
Jul 12th, 2007 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
These images come from the 45th Military Zone in Caborca. Yesterday morning, three tons of dope were seized in the little town of Pitiquito, about 15 minutes west of Caborca.
The military’s been steadfastly hunting the Quintero Paez family in the area, an old drug trafficking family that owns property along the border with the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation.
Since June, rather, since the June 24 military plane crash, 54 tons have been seized, a lieutenant, Rodolfo Hernandez said.
Officials still are not saying what caused the plane crash where three soldiers died, but I do know that after that crash, the Army embarked on an intense dope seizure in the area.
An official with the Federal Attorney General’s Office tells me investigators believe an M-60 was used to drop the plane but the Army has still not released official word on the cause of the crash.
Four trucks were seized, heavy-duty Ford and Dodge haulers stolen from Arizona. Twenty-seven baseball caps and half a dozen sweatshirts emblazoned with the Mexican FBI’s insignia, AFI, were also found in the load, along with an AK-47 and 55 rounds of ammo.
– Michael Marizco
[...] Over at the more moderate BorderReporter.com lots in coverage of drug busts inside Mexico. I guess someone went too far and is paying a price. [...]
You’d think that everyone in those little pueblos would know exactly what is happening. They are tiny places, ans I can hardly imagine everyone not knowing everyone else’s business.
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In those towns, everybody knows about it, is kind of family bussines, cause their dream is have what the BIG HEADS have, Their childs grow dreaming about drive a big truck just like narcos, and girls goals is marry one of them. Probably all of them know better what happens, because in some way they are inside.
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