Troops seize 91 rifles and 880 pounds of cannabis in Tijuana raid
Soldiers seized 91 rifles, 18 grenades and more than 880 pounds (about 399 kg) of marijuana from a house in Tijuana's La Mesa district on 7 March 2008, arresting three suspects after an overnight shootout in which no one was hurt.
Soldiers seized assault rifles, grenades, marijuana and bulletproof vests bearing police insignia after a brief overnight shootout at a house in Tijuana’s La Mesa district.[1][2]Nobody was wounded in the exchange with three suspects, army General Sergio Aponte Polito told reporters on 7 March 2008.[1][2]Troops took 91 assault rifles, some with gold and ivory butts, with 18 grenades and the vests, plus more than 880 pounds (about 399 kg) of marijuana.[1][2]The three suspects, aged 25 to 33, were arrested.[1][2]
Aponte’s troops were policing a trafficking corridor amid weeks of confrontations between security forces and cartel gunmen along the border.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
7 March 2008 is the dispatch's publication date and describes an overnight exchange; no separate calendar date for the raid itself was published.
The same dispatch reports a separate Tuesday gunbattle with one dead and two arrested, a police commander's murder and arrests in Tamaulipas; those are different events left out here.
Both opened pages reprint the same Associated Press dispatch; no separate newsroom account was opened.
The reports do not name the three arrested suspects or say what charges or sentences followed.
No photograph of the seized arsenal or cannabis with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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