- September 12, 2024
As US authorities continue to crack down on the drug trade and the cartels involved, drug traffickers have begun to adopt “creative” ways of plying their trade. If they did their homework well, these dealers could avoid detection and evade the authorities, keeping the long chain of drug pushing going. However, luck ran out on some of the dealers, leaving them in the tight clutches of the law.
On Thursday, 22nd August, 2024, US Customs and Border Protection officials reported that their officers had stopped a truck hauling a trailer at the border with Mexico in Otay Mesa.
The paperwork suggested the driver was transporting a shipment for watermelons, but a inspection revealed the parcels containing methamphetamine. The drugs were wrapped in plastic painted in two shades of green to resemble the fruit and placed among real watermelons. The officers seized more than two tonnes of methamphetamine, in a total of 1,220 packages.
16th July 2024 – Five people were arrested in Ecuador after a cocaine shipment of 6.23 tonnes destined for Germany was intercepted by the Ecuadorean police. Sniffer dogs discovered the cocaine hidden in a banana shipment and alerted their handlers, who seized 5,360 parcels filled with a white substance that later tested positive for cocaine. Officials estimated the intercepted shipment to have been worth $224 million.
Police said they had found the massive cocaine haul during a routine inspection of container stored at Posorja deepwater port south-west of Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. The cocaine parcels had been hidden beneath crates of bananas destined for export.
On 3rd May, 2023, Saleem Chaudri and courier Rieadul Mohabath were arrested after they were caught with $17 million worth of cocaine hidden in cheese. Both admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine at Preston Crown Court. Chaudhri was jailed for 27 years and six months, while Mohabath was given a 16-year sentence.
The Lancashire police found Chaudri taking possession of a Toyota Estate from a drugs courier and driving it to the Old Fire Station in Blackburn.
Officers then ordered him to open the shutters on his unit and found 478lb (217kg) of cocaine, estimated to be worth more than £17m, hidden inside blocks of Gouda cheese imported from Belgium.
In October, 2020, Police in Paraguay found a record 2.3 tonnes of cocaine hidden among a charcoal shipment destined for Israel. The cocaine was found in a container at Terport, a private port in the city of Villeta, near the capital, Asunción.
They said the drugs had an estimated street value of $500m (£383m). At that time, it was the largest drugs seizure police have made in the South American country. A tip-off from Belgium was said to have alerted Paraguayan police to the drugs shipment in the first place.
In May 2022, U.S authorities announced the discovery of a major drug smuggling tunnel, running about the length of six football fields, from Mexico to a warehouse in an industrial area in the U.S.They seized 1,762 pounds (799 kg) of cocaine, 165 pounds (75 kg) of meth and 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) of heroin in connection with the investigation and arrested six people for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
The secret passage from Tijuana to San Diego featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity and reinforced walls. It was discovered near San Diego’s Otay Mesa border crossing in an area where more than a dozen other sophisticated tunnels have been found in the last two decades.
The tunnel was found in one of the most fortified stretches of the border. It showed the limitations of border walls against sophisticated passages that ran deeper underground as compared to smaller tunnels called “gopher holes”.
The tunnel exited the United States in a nondescript warehouse named “Amistad Park” on a street that was busy with large semitrailers during the day but quiet at night.
After staking out a home that was recently used to stash drugs, officials began making traffic stops of vehicles that had been there or at a warehouse near the border, turning up boxes full of cocaine, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in San Diego. They raided the properties, finding no other drugs at the warehouse, but a tunnel opening carved into the cement floor. .
The cross-border passages date back to the early 1990s and have been used primarily to smuggle multi-ton loads of marijuana. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in 2020 that they are generally found in California and Arizona and associated with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Authorities declined to link the tunnel to any specific cartel.
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