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| Mexican Agents Seize Pot, Heavy Weapons |
| 2010-05-02 |
| Even though this amount of pot probably represents the daily usage of your standard rock band, the heavy weapons seized are what is notable about this story. Mexican federal agents seized a ton of marijuana and several heavy weapons and munitions in Baja, according to a published Mexican news report. The four suspects arrested in the raid are suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, according to the Mexican federal State Preventative Police ( PEP ). The raid took place on the east side of Puebla along the highway to San Luis. According to the translation, the pot, packaged in one kilogram packages, were lowered from a tractor-trailer rig to a basement in a warehouse and were found in the small underground area. With the drugs agents also seized two .50 caliber rifles ( AR-50 ), two AK47s, an AR-15, a Ruger Mini-14 rifle, 98 .50 caliber rounds and 48 7.62x39mm rifle cartridges. Agents also seized a 40mm grenade launcher along with four rounds,three of them fragmentation rounds. Agents noted the grenade launcher was the same type use in an attack of a Mexican public security official. Agents also seized a tractor-trailer rig, a 1996 Ford Sedan, a 1988 Ford Econoline van, a Nissan 200X and a motorcycle. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Be tough on the civilians, but nuking Nogales would let the drug cartels know we're playing for real for once. Of course, that's COMPLETELY above Obumble's pay grade... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-05-02 19:04 |
| #5 Ready brigade, 82nd Abn....jump in, CLEAN IT UP! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-02 16:15 |
| #4 MS-13 has fired .50 cals at border officials for several years now. They and the Mexican cartels also are sporting body armor, night vision equipment, encrypted comms gear, RPGs and launchers and more recently helicopters. This is a step or two beyond your basic law enforcement situation. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-05-02 09:58 |
| #3 This ain't 1915, the troops don't need the exercise and we don't have a Arango to betray. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-05-02 09:40 |
| #2 NAFTA allows some registered tractor-trailers to by-pass customs at the border, if the driver speaks English. Grenade launchers and .50 cal shows they are prepared for an insurgency. We need troops NOW. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-02 09:33 |
| #1 Two .50s? Those suckers are expensive, and uncommon. Shouldn't be too hard to track where they came from. Next question is what did they want them for? Sniper overwatch of a drug transaction (they'll need more than 98 rounds to practice with)? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-05-02 08:46 |