Mexican police discover truck with bazooka to send drugs into the United States

Drug peddlers continue to come up with innovative measures to spread drugs and the latest one is from Mexico where Police have discovered a truck fitted with a home made bazooka designed to send consignment of drugs into the United States.
Mexico’s National Security Commission has announced over the weekend that federal police officers have found a panel van kitted out with an air compressor and a metal tube nearly 10 feet long. They believe the contraption was used as a bazooka to blast packets of narcotics across the border into the United States.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 19 September 2016.

The van was designed with a cut in the roof toward the rear to enable the tube to be used to launch projectiles, possibly from close to the border into the United States. The van was found abandoned in the town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, across the border from Douglas, Arizona. It had no license plates, and it had been reported stolen in Hermosillo, some 220 miles south of Agua Prieta, on July 1.
Illicit drugs are smuggled into the US from Mexico in a number of ways like hidden in cargo, carted in tunnels, via drug mules, catapulted or carried by drones. In the opinion of the authorities, drug traffickers have been using homemade cannons since as early as 2012. Packets of crystal meth, cocaine and marijuana that might have been fired from such cannons have turned up on the U.S. side of the border.


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Scuba diver smuggles cocaine across US-Mexico border via underwater tunnel

Drug smugglers have now resorted to using scuba divers to transport cocaine across the US-Mexico borders and this has been admitted by a Honduran national who has been apprehended while trying to smuggle drugs into the US via an underwater tunnel.
He was arrested in his scuba gear and a breathing tank with a "rebreather" to prevent surface bubbles, apart from 25 vacuum-sealed and giftwrapped packages that held a total of 55 pounds of cocaine. He has pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego. He would face 20-years in prison if sentenced.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 20 August 2015.

As revealed by Border Patrol agents, they discovered near him a soaked Padilla in a wetsuit next to the All-American Canal, about 7 miles east of Calexico, California.
The police also discovered a 150-foot-long tunnel that began at a house in Mexicali, Mexico, and ended under the water of the canal. The modus operandi was to put the drugs on a trolley system on the dry Mexico side of the tunnel. The smugglers would then use scuba gear to retrieve it from under the canal's water from an opening normally invisible because of being obscured by rocks.
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#cocaine #drugmule #NiceAirport #drugsmugglers #FrenchRiviera A tourist became an unsuspecting drug mule when Directorate-General of Customs in France discovered 18 packages of cocaine weighing 46lbs (21-Kg) stuffed inside a suitcase that was abandoned on the baggage carousel. The suitcase had the name of the tourist on it but it did not belong to him.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 April 2015.

The tentative value of the illicit drugs was more than €1.3million (£950,000) in street value and the stuff were in a suitcase that arrived at the airport in Nice on a flight from the Dominican Republic.
Customs officers detained the individual who was waiting for his luggage at the airport and after interrogation were convinced that the bag did not belong to him and that he had nothing to do with the smuggling of drugs.
The investigators believe that this could be the handiwork of smugglers in the Dominican Republic who would have filled the suitcase with cocaine and used the tourist’s identity. Their intention could have been to sneak the drugs into France through Nice Cote d’Azur International Airport.
The authorities are trying to find out who packed the bag and how it wound up on the transatlantic flight.

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