CBP Officers Seize Almost 9 Tons of Marijuana

Customs & Border Protection ^ | 19 NOV 07 | News Release

[Not A Snowbird]

It certainly kept this batch of drugs out, didn’t it?

[RobRoy]

First gas prices are up, and now this...

/s

[Old Professer]

That’s about 60 acres worth of a bumper crop.

[Perchant]

The FAST program allows known low risk commercial shipments to receive expedited border processing at cargo ports of entry.

Good thing this was one of the "low risk" shippers. This was the official Mexican Government drug trafficking cartel and the proof of that will be the lack of arrests or any sort of real investigation of this incident, especially south of the border. The truck driver, who is probably innocent anyway, will be released in a month or two ( or however long it takes Americans to forget the incident ) and it will be like it never happened. They might even send the drugs back to the Mexican Government to be repackaged and sent on another northbound shipment; Mexico will need that material as "evidence" for their sham investigation.

Is there any wonder that they got this program rolling at the same time they stepped up border patrol presence and fence building? Gotta keep the narcotics flowing.

[wildbill]

tried your link. Got a 404 message.

[purpleraine]

Just as the last 100 busts did and the next hundred will do and on and on.

It is a sign of mental illness to keep doing what were doing and think we're going to get a different result. And wasting my tax money in the meantime.

[Marine Inspector]

It’s not worth our time arguing with the idiots that permeate these threads!

[End Times Sentinel]

It’s not worth our time arguing with the idiots that permeate these threads!

I agree.

They generally break into one of two groups: Guys who got busted buying pot in a police sting, or guys who wish they were LEOs but couldn't cut it.

[Terabitten]

Try this google search. It should be the first link that comes up, from the cbp.gov website.

[Terabitten]

They might even send the drugs back to the Mexican Government to be repackaged and sent on another northbound shipment; Mexico will need that material as "evidence" for their sham investigation.

I can guarantee you that the drugs will be destroyed. The bulk of it has most likely already been destroyed.

The official number was 8.85 tons. That's 17,700 pounds of marijuana. At a half-gram of marijuana in a typical joint, and 453 grams in a pound, that makes 16,036,200 joints that aren't on the street. Sixteen million.

Thought of another way, that's a year's supply of marijuana for 43,934 people who smoke one joint a day, every day.

[Not A Snowbird]

It’s not worth our time arguing with the idiots that permeate these threads!

True.

I supposed if we can't stop every single gram of pot from coming in, we should just pack it in and go home.

[Marine Inspector]

They generally break into one of two groups: Guys who got busted buying pot in a police sting, or guys who wish they were LEOs but couldn't cut it.

Agreed!

[Marine Inspector]

I supposed if we can't stop every single gram of pot from coming in, we should just pack it in and go home.

Thank god these guys aren't in charge of the military, they would have cut and run long ago!