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| 1,270 pounds of marijuana seized in San Diego Bay Posted: 03 Apr 2015 03:13 PM PDT San Diego Mission Bay: 2 Pangas with over a ton of marijuana seized Since Sinaloa began using the Tijuana plaza heavily in the years post 2008, after arrangements were made between Fernando Sanchez Arellano (now detained), Alfredo Azarte Arteaga, (El Aquiles) and the people of Isamel Zambada Garcia, El Mayo, large marijuana seizures have become extremely commonplace.  On a rough average of 8-10 times a year, heavily loaded pangs running up from Baja and Baja Sur, are stopped by US law enforcement assets, often the CBP federal maritime smuggling task force, and the Coast Guard. The pangas are sometimes as far of as the Channel Islands, with boats being found off Catalina Island, and washing ashore in Orange County, the product destined for Los Angeles. In many instances they are laden with human cargo too, as immigrants paying over 6,000k apiece are bundled with the marijuana. On San Diego's beaches, from Del Mar to Imperial Beach, brazen smuggling attempts are documented. Sometimes they lead to chases and smugglers throwing their cargo overboard. The boats are often quick, some being stripped of anything besides the engines, and loaded with fuel and bales of marijuana, coming up from Sinaloa and the Golden Triangle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jq9s_1hYY 10news video report Occasionally crystal meth in multi pound quantities is found as well, but normally only marijuana is trafficked in this method. It's bulkiness and relatively low cost of production and transportation make this a relatively practical method. For those in upper tier positions, if 4 get through and one get stopped, the losses are easily absorbed. In this weeks case, members of the Federal Marine task force approached a 29 ft Amato panda headed for the Dana Landing, and executed a document check, and subsequent K-9 search of the vessel, after noticing an anomaly on the deck. 104 bales of marijuana were found concealed, and the three men were arrested on federal charges. Later that evening, after 6:00 PM, task force officers conducting searches using a dog, discovered another boat, docked at the same landing, containing 109 bales of marijuana, no arrests were made. In total the drugs were said to be worth just over three quarters of a million dollars, at 760,000 dollars. According to that estimation the pounds were each equal to about $600. This is what they are worth in San Diego, roughly, depending on quality and amount purchased. Their final destination likely will somewhere South or East where the cost is substantially higher. News reports and statements from arresting agencies say nothing regarding the seizure, however based on the facts as they have been reported it is likely the two seizures were related. It is also a possibility the boats were not randomly found, but the result of an investigation. Given the chronology and proximity it is also likely information from the first arrests, prompted the second seizure, either by information given, or taken from the suspects. Sources: UT San Diego, NBC 7, 10news.  | ||||
| Leader of La Linea in Chihuahua captured Posted: 03 Apr 2015 06:04 AM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article by J. Cheever Loophole The State Attorney General informs that an operation carried out in the town of Cuauhtemoc achieved the detention of Cesar Ivan Guttierrez Chavez, alias "El Sonric's".
Agents of the State Police of Chihuahua, detained a presumed leader of La Linea, and discovered a field with 84 hectares of poppy, as well as a camp and various amounts of drugs and controlled medication. The Prosecutor General of the State (FGE), detailed the actions deployed in several regions of the state, reported that in the operation which took place in the Municipality of Cuauhtemoc, Elements of the operation detained Cesar Chavez Gutierrez Chavez, alias "El Sonric's". Together with the suspect, who is considered to be a leader of a criminal group in this region, elements also detained Erick Apodaca Trevizo. They also report that "El Sonric's" offered a bribe of 20,000 dollars to the State elements to leave him at liberty. "El Sonriic's" is accused of committing homicides and kidnapping people who are rivals to his band of dealers and independent dealers, while Apodaca Trevizo is the main distributor in Cuauhtemoc and surrounding areas, they confirmed.
The subjects were travelling in a Jeep on the streets of Margarita Maza and Cascada de Cusarare in the Basaseachi Colonia. During the arrest they found 29 wraps of cocaine rocks, and 11 wraps of powder, with the initials NCDJ (Nuevo Cartel de Juarez). For the other part, Agents of the Prosecutor General of the State with, Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, destroyed a poppy field of more than 84 hectares, located close to the community of Arroyo Largo in the town of Guadelupe and Calvo. The site superficially was divided into 8 plantations with a density of 10 plants per metre squared, with a total of 840,000 plants, it was discovered by agents carrying out hiking tours in this region. Finally elements located the camp of Villa Coronado, Chihuahua, is very close to the state boundary with Durango. The people who were protecting the camp fled when they realised the police were closing in, with fresh perishable food still in the camp. The agents secured 7 large black bags with 36 kilos of Marijuana inside, 7 small bags of cocaine, a short firearm in 10mm calibre, Municipal Police Uniforms, three scales, and 197 doses of a controlled medicine. The investigation revealed that the medicine and the drugs were being utilised to refine the cocaine further to obtain the best quality for the number of doses, concluded the FGE. Original article in Spanish at Milenio  |
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