Soldiers seize 17.6 tons of marijuana from a Tijuana mobile home
Mexican soldiers seized 1,632 packages of marijuana weighing 17.6 tons from a mobile home in Tijuana's Mesa de Otay district on 12 April 2017 after an anonymous tip. Two suspects fled before the soldiers arrived, so no arrests were reported.
🇲🇽 Mesa de Otay, Tijuana, Baja California · Mexico
Mexican soldiers found 1,632 packages of marijuana weighing 17.6 tons inside a mobile home in the Mesa de Otay district of Tijuana on the night of Wednesday 12 April 2017.[1]An anonymous caller had tipped off the Morelos army barracks that three people were unloading marijuana packages in front of a mobile house on Garita de Otay Street, but two of them had fled by the time a squad arrived, abandoning the drug.[1]
Some packages were decorated with images of superheroes and cartoon characters such as Homer Simpson, Batman and Captain America.[1]The commander of Baja California’s Second Military Zone, Gilberto Landeros, suggested the load could belong to two men known as “El Aquiles” and “La Rana”, who led cells linked to the Sinaloa cartel, and called the seizure one of the army’s largest on the border.[1]
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