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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 03:31 AM Feb 2019

Sinaloa Cartel: Police find meth smuggled into Canada through new Ford cars built in Mexico

Source: Borderland Beat/The Canadian Press

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat Thank you 'Tu Fren' from The Canadian Press


Police find meth smuggled into Canada through new Ford cars built in Mexico. Police bust international meth import operation. The investigation started when OPP received reports from Ford dealerships in Ontario about odd spare tires found in Ford Fusions.



VAUGHAN, Ont. -- Police say they have busted an alleged drug smuggling operation where methamphetamine was being hidden in new cars built in Mexico that were then transported by rail to Canada.

Ontario Provincial Police say employees at four Ford dealerships discovered the drugs stashed within spare tires that didn't match the cars.

They worked with the car company in December and found vehicles that had been dispersed to Quebec and New Brunswick.

Police say they found 180 kilograms of meth during the investigation.


Read more: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/02/sinaloa-cartel-police-find-meth.html

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Sinaloa Cartel: Police find meth smuggled into Canada through new Ford cars built in Mexico (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2019 OP
Well its not a new tire and presumeably the cars were inspected before loading... Historic NY Feb 2019 #1
My money is on the meth being loaded in the United States, via over-land freight. nt DRoseDARs Feb 2019 #3
I bet it is the opposite: loaded in Mex to be unloaded in USA. Connection missed. Explains used tire Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2019 #9
This is an actual ford Fusion option spare tire.... Historic NY Feb 2019 #11
The Mexican Connection. edbermac Feb 2019 #2
Yeah, no crappy Ford product is strong enough to break through a wall. 3Hotdogs Feb 2019 #8
The wall needs to be very tall to stop some of those monster SUVs with giant tires lagomorph777 Feb 2019 #16
Thousands of dollars worth of drugs being smuggled, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #4
Oh. I thought that was part of the Ford option package jberryhill Feb 2019 #5
LOL Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #6
It's the first time in 30 years I've gotten any speed out of a Ford jberryhill Feb 2019 #7
Great! Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #12
that is pretty funny PupCamo Feb 2019 #19
Global free trade at it's best Farmer-Rick Feb 2019 #10
I'm always amazed at the depts of the drug trade DirtEdonE Feb 2019 #13
Many cartels have given up on marijuana for that reason IronLionZion Feb 2019 #14
Canada needs to build a wall to keep out Ford cars IronLionZion Feb 2019 #15
I wonder, who was supposed to find them? treestar Feb 2019 #17
Just wondering, oneshooter Feb 2019 #18
possibly PupCamo Feb 2019 #20

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
1. Well its not a new tire and presumeably the cars were inspected before loading...
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 03:37 AM
Feb 2019

back track to where the transport trucks stopped.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
9. I bet it is the opposite: loaded in Mex to be unloaded in USA. Connection missed. Explains used tire
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:20 AM
Feb 2019

1) Take new tires off in Mexico, install spares loaded with meth.

2) Ship the new spare tires separately to the US connection point.

3) At the US connection point, swap the new spares for the old loaded spares and retrieve the meth. Nobody's the wiser. May even have been done several times before. This time it failed: a) the tires were late or b) the connection crew got scared off or c) the shipment (probably a train) unusually took a different route around the connection point.

So the loaded tires continued to destinations in Canada where they were eventually discovered.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
11. This is an actual ford Fusion option spare tire....
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:34 AM
Feb 2019

[link:|]

Its even labled SPARE and its the right size.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
16. The wall needs to be very tall to stop some of those monster SUVs with giant tires
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:12 PM
Feb 2019

(tires full of meth)....

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,343 posts)
4. Thousands of dollars worth of drugs being smuggled, ...
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 07:16 AM
Feb 2019

... and you can't even buy a "correct" spare tire?

But, I'd bet the smugglers were hoping to retrieve the tires before the cars arrived at dealerships for their delivery-preparation. I wonder how many drivers are enjoying their new cars, not knowing there's a fortune in the trunk.

"Dear, I really, really, am liking this new car smell"

Farmer-Rick

(10,175 posts)
10. Global free trade at it's best
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:24 AM
Feb 2019

With the global transport of goods and money crossing borders left and right, so too do all the crimes, diseases, insects and pests.

Japanese beetles, Chines stink bugs, sweet orange scab, Chili thrips, rice cutworms, gladiolus rust, Mexican drugs, American greed and Russian mobsters all get shipped around the world with global free trade.

 

DirtEdonE

(1,220 posts)
13. I'm always amazed at the depts of the drug trade
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:30 AM
Feb 2019

And the lengths people will go to to make money selling drugs. Get rid of the profit margin by ending nixon's ridiculous, failed war on drugs already. We're seeing the same effects we saw during alcohol prohibition. Drug dealers don't care when enforcement increases. They just raise the prices to match the risk.

nixon has been ruling this country for far too long. End nixon's war on drugs and his DEA. nixon's fifty year old mistakes have done more harm than good.

Go after the real criminals. Big pharma opioid suppliers. Big banks laundering drug money. Politicians who get donations for looking the other way while allowing it all to continue unabated.

IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
14. Many cartels have given up on marijuana for that reason
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:49 AM
Feb 2019

they can't compete with legal marijuana and it's not worth the cost to smuggle and ship large quantities.

That's why they've doubled down on the more profitable hard drugs.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
17. I wonder, who was supposed to find them?
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:25 PM
Feb 2019

Imagine if the customer ended up with it!

The wall would have stopped this, and Canada needs a wall too. Or maybe they could make a deal with the USA and we could work jointly on the wall. Canada will help pay for it!

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
18. Just wondering,
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 02:45 PM
Feb 2019

If you buy a new car, have a flat, and find this in your trunk. Are you, according to Canadian law, now a drug smuggler?

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