44 tons of marijuana seized in Tijuana warehouse raid
Tijuana municipal police and soldiers raided a warehouse in the Granjas Familiares del Matamoros neighbourhood on 1 May 2014, seizing 44 US tons (39 metric tons) of marijuana in nearly 4,000 bundles. No one was arrested in what the Attorney General's office called one of the country's largest busts to date.
🇲🇽 Granjas Familiares del Matamoros neighbourhood, Tijuana, Baja California · Mexico
Tijuana municipal police and soldiers raided a warehouse in the Granjas Familiares del Matamoros neighbourhood on 1 May 2014, acting on a federal search warrant.[1]They seized 44 US tons (39 metric tons) of marijuana packed in nearly 4,000 bundles, which Mexico’s Attorney General’s office (PGR) described as one of the country’s largest busts to date.[1][2]
The operation was carried out jointly by the Tijuana municipal police and the Secretariat of National Defence, and the PGR announced the seizure in a statement.[1][2]No one was arrested.[2]
The haul fell short of the record 148 tons seized in Tijuana in 2010, a figure both accounts cite for comparison.[1][2]Tijuana’s proximity to the border makes it a major launching point for smuggling into California, where industrial-scale marijuana busts are common but rarely dent the overall trade.[2]
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