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
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)back track to where the transport trucks stopped.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)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
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Its even labled SPARE and its the right size.
edbermac
(15,939 posts)Better start building that wall.
3Hotdogs
(12,382 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)(tires full of meth)....
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)... 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"
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)PupCamo
(288 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)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)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)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.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)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)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?
PupCamo
(288 posts)good question