US arrests 2,200 in Mexican drug trafficking probe

[SeniorBuzz]

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,200 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

The probe, called Project Deliverance, focused on the transportation networks that carry methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana into the United States, with return trips of drug proceeds and weapons.

Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference the initiative struck a significant blow against the cartels, but called it "just one battle in what is an ongoing war."

Over 400 of the more than 2,200 arrests were made Wednesday.

To read the full story click here.http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-arrests-2-200-545882.html

 

[OjoRojo420]

Wonder how many decent Mexican Restaurants will go out of business...

No more war on what?????

 

[Skip]

That is what they should be focusing their law enforcement efforts on - hard drug imports.

Leave domestic cannabis production alone, unless it's cartels using our forests. The more we grow here, the less we need to import from foreign drug gangs.

 

[SeniorBuzz]

To read the full story click here.http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-arrests-2-200-545882.html

Over 40% of the drugs come across in the Tucson Sector

UNITED STATES BORDER DRUG INTERCEPTS
(Source DHS/CBP)
FYEAR---MARIJUANA (lbs)---COCAINE(lbs)---HEROIN(oz)---METH(lbs)
1999-------1,170,941------------29,672-------------771-------------xxx
2000-------1,316,849------------23,203-----------1,209-------------18
2001-------1,166,764------------18,535-----------1,491------------144
2002-------1,234,329------------14,334-----------2,516------------229
2003-------1,350,809------------14,892-----------3,852------------356
2004-------1,347,356------------14,819-----------2,316------------977
2005-------1,208,663------------11,903-----------3,206------------728
2006-------1,369,602------------12,885-----------2,758------------594
2007-------1,859,299------------14,242-----------1,866------------342
2008-------1,642,420-------------9,272--------------735----------- 483
2009-------2,591,215------------10,907-----------3,056------------951
2010*------1,358,654-------------5,624-----------2,089------------557

*FY2010 stats as of 4/1/10 (6 months)

Drug Movement Into and Within the United States
http://bit.ly/cuck5W

Drug Transportation Corridors in the United States
http://bit.ly/ap3WKp


http://bit.ly/aoYsWx

 

[MrBluntfaced]

It seems as if I read too quickly and didn't quite take this at face value!

 

[Guiness]

That is what they should be focusing their law enforcement efforts on - hard drug imports.

Leave domestic cannabis production alone, unless it's cartels using our forests. The more we grow here, the less we need to import from foreign drug gangs.

This is what I was going to say too, Skip. But not just the hard drugs, I truly believe a lot of the schwag that they import is poisonous by the way it is handled. I have tasted rubber and petroleum type taste when smoking that stuff. Not to mention, the cartels, the way they operate, the fact that they are thugs, they commit murders and kidnapping and others organized crime activities. They do more damage to our image than all the mom and pop growers in the USA combined.

 

[!PeAcE!]

lol i liked the "how many decent mexican resturaunts will go out of business" comment

 

[SeniorBuzz]

24 face drug charges related to Missouri marijuana operation

ST. LOUIS | Federal authorities in St. Louis say 24 people from Missouri, Arizona and Oklahoma are facing drug-related charges for their role in an interstate marijuana trafficking organization.

The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis announced the arrests today. A federal indictment alleges that 36-year-old David Ingram Henderson of Maryland Heights, Mo., is the leader of an organization that, starting in 2006, transported bulk quantities of marijuana from Arizona to St. Louis.

Henderson did not have a known phone listing, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Members of the conspiracy are also accused of operating indoor marijuana growing operations at various locations in the St. Louis area.

http://bit.ly/9rlUWD

Major Drug Bust Leads to 10 Arrests in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - Drug agents from across the United States cast their net wide and picked up ten members of an alleged marijuana ring here in Milwaukee.

The arrests are part of a national crackdown federal authorities call "Project Deliverance". It dealt a major blow to drug traffickers here in the U.S. and Mexico.

A news conference was held in Washington D.C. this morning. Michele M. Leonhart of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said: "I would also like to commend our law enforcement colleagues in Mexico for their extraordinary collaboration with us which included the recent arrest of (drug) kingpin Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, a major Mexican heroin trafficker."

Besides the ten people arrested locally, Milwaukee law enforcement officials also seized five vehicles, nearly 15 pounds of marijuana, six firearms --- including two assault rifles and a submachine gun --- and about $5,000 in cash.

The criminal complaint alleges all of the accused in this case distributed over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana from November 2008 until June 9, 2010.

The drugs allegedly came from a source in Mexico. Attorney General Eric Holder praised law enforcement in that country.

Holder said: "The efforts that are made south in Mexico help us here in the United States. We think what we have done today in regard to dismantling the transportation capabilities of the cartels in the United States will help Mexico as well."

If convicted, the ten people arrested face a minimum of 10 years in prison, and a fine of up to four million dollars.

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/96091469.html

Hundreds Held in Drug Raids in 16 States

WASHINGTON — A coordinated series of law enforcement raids across 16 states this week resulted in the arrests of 429 people accused of participating in smuggling and transportation networks for Mexican drug cartels, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday.

The raids, which took place Wednesday and involved more than 3,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers, were a “very significant blow” to the cartels’ ability to move drugs across the border and distribute them in the United States — and to smuggle cash and weapons into Mexico, Mr. Holder said.

“This interagency cross-border operation has been our most extensive, and most successful, law enforcement effort to date targeting these deadly cartels,” Mr. Holder said at a press conference.

Officials seized $5.8 million in cash, 2,951 pounds of marijuana, 247 pounds of cocaine, 17 pounds of methamphetamine, 141 weapons and 85 vehicles.

Those raids were part of a larger, 22-month effort, called Project Deliverance, in which a series of related operations aimed at delivery networks resulted in some 2,200 total arrests and the seizure of 74.1 tons of illegal drugs, the Justice Department said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/politics/11drugs.html

 

[OjoRojo420]

lol i liked the "how many decent mexican resturaunts will go out of business" comment

Thank you!

 

[Fuzz420]

Ok let me get this straight. They Bust 2200 people in a 22 month investigation. It takes 3000 agents and officers to bust those same 2200 people. Thats 1.37 agents/ officers per arresties. They claim to have siezed $154 million in this bust. Lets assume each one of the agents/officers makes 60k a year. Thats around $180 million a year to pay each one of the agents/officers, but it took roughly two years so thats $360 million to pay the officers there yearly salary over the course of this investigation. Now they come up $206 million short, so i guess they would have to redistribute the "1,262 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.5 tons of cocaine, 1,410 pounds of heroin, 69 tons of marijuana, 501 weapons and 527 vehicles during the entire course of the operation." just to break even, and im pretty sure the feds dont take any loses

 

[SeniorBuzz]

Certainly is a positive for local growers

it helps keep the money in the local economy.

we could probably run some guestimates on how much money was leaving the country, as a result of drug cartels, just by extrapolating how much was seized at the border.

UNITED STATES BORDER DRUG INTERCEPTS (Source DHS/CBP)
FYEAR---MARIJUANA (lbs)---COCAINE(lbs)---HEROIN(oz)---METH(lbs)
2009-------2,591,215------------10,907-----------3,056------------951

this is after they added 10,000 to the BP, and started doubling up on the checking at the border checkpoints. I'd say they were pushing catching 25%

If so, let's say 9 million pounds of mj made it into the market

and sold for ??? $140 an oz ..how much would it/does it sell for?

 

[Tony Aroma]

That's it then. Game, set, match. The drug war is finally over. The feds can now declare victory. They've finally succeeded in eliminating illegal drugs from our country once and for all. Looks like all that money was well spent after all.

Right? Surely they wouldn't make such a fuss if this operation didn't make any difference with respect to drug use in the U.S. of A. Or am I missing something here?

 

[SeniorBuzz]

It was mentioned that the CA has a $14 Billion Dollar mj market.

In round numbers that's roughly $350 person

which is not much more than 1 oz a month for 1 out of 10 people

at $250/oz, $3000

there was another CA 23,000 plant bust a few days ago...cartel grow...

some/most cartel CA grows are much larger,

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

Honestly I appluaud their efforts. Fuck mexican cartels. Close that shit down and let us americans legally produce and distribute quality regulated cannabis.

 

[SKUNK420]

Honestly I appluaud their efforts. Fuck mexican cartels. Close that shit down and let us americans legally produce and distribute quality regulated cannabis.

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My World Cup reference

 

[SeniorBuzz]

Honestly I appluaud their efforts. Fuck mexican cartels. Close that shit down and let us americans legally produce and distribute quality regulated cannabis.

We all need to be cheering on the Feds with their efforts...

The Feds have been cranking up the pressure at the border, and on the cartel grows.

There's still a long way to go

 

[Skip]

We all need to be cheering on the Feds with their efforts...

The Feds have been cranking up the pressure at the border, and on the cartel grows.

There's still a long way to go

Yes, indeed! It's great to see the Feds PROTECTING our growing domestic cannabis industry from foreign competition. We don't need multinational corporations (drug gangs) outsourcing our ganja production. We need to employ more Americans to grow cannabis. We need to bring down the cannabis prices so these foreign gangs can't compete anymore.

Get average stuff to price retail around $100-$150 an ounce and you'll probably price the cartels out of the market...

Of course I can hear the growers whining already that they're not gonna make enough profit. Well if it becomes LEGAL, then your risk goes way down, and so should the price...

 

[SeniorBuzz]

Yes, indeed! It's great to see the Feds PROTECTING our growing domestic cannabis industry from foreign competition. We don't need multinational corporations (drug gangs) outsourcing our ganja production. We need to employ more Americans to grow cannabis. We need to bring down the cannabis prices so these foreign gangs can't compete anymore.

Get average stuff to price retail around $100-$150 an ounce and you'll probably price the cartels out of the market...

Of course I can hear the growers whining already that they're not gonna make enough profit. Well if it becomes LEGAL, then your risk goes way down, and so should the price...

We agree 100% on this, and I have been working on it.

Maybe we could team up

you can fill in all of the blanks

I can sell this

I want to see the growers end up with the tamale

 

[kmk420kali]

Get average stuff to price retail around $100-$150 an ounce and you'll probably price the cartels out of the market...

Of course I can hear the growers whining already that they're not gonna make enough profit. Well if it becomes LEGAL, then your risk goes way down, and so should the price...

I agree with you Skip....as long as we can grow it on land we don't have to pay for...use local ppl for $5 a day for labor...and dry it all quickly on hot roofs!!

Yes, that was a dig, on your dig on Commercial Growers...
Actually, when it is legal to have large outdoor grows, I agree...it can for sure be done for those prices....even lower!!
But then ppl will have to remember there will be a huge difference between that, and top-shelf Meds--

 

[Fuzz420]

Skunk420- By your negative rating i take it you support the wasting of tax dollars, and the arrest of victimless crimes? Cartel smartel, just another boogieman in there faux war.