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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Mexico seizes $11.5 million hidden in strawberry truck near Sonoyta

Lucio R. for Borderland Beat Material from El Economista, PTINews Posted by Siskiyoukid


Mexico City, Jul 14 (AFP) Mexican authorities seized USD 11.5 million in cash hidden in a truck carrying strawberries at a customs checkpoint near the US border, officials said today.

The stash was concealed in 306 packages wrapped with black plastic, at a checkpoint just south of the city of Sonoyta, Sonora.  Sonoyta is 2.5 miles south of the US border and Lukeville, Arizona.

This occurred on Sunday although it was not reported to the public until Tuesday. The discovery was made after a gamma-ray scanner found "a variation" in the cargo, said the defense ministry in a statement.

Some 30 boxes of ammunitions, in various caliber, were also found in the truck.

The statement did not say whether the truck was coming from or going to the United States. The driver was handed over to prosecutors.

Drug cartels regularly ship weapons and cash from their drug proceeds into Mexico from the United States.

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51 comments:

  1. ZETA TIJUANA ,LO PUBLIKO EL DOMINGO 13 ALAZ 8 .15 DE LA NOZHE

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  2. Chapo gift? Chapo man of his word.

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  3. Somebody must be pissed off

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  4. El Senor R5 wont be happy with this bust

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    1. didnt r5 get killed?

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    2. R8 es el jefe de y anda por el charco sonora no en sonoyta. R5 ya tiene tiempo muerto.

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    3. R8 le puso UN cuatro al tito torbellino

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  5. Sargento! Sargento! Mira! Cuarenta millones de dolares en efectivo!

    Capitan buena noticias encuento triente cinco milliones de dolares

    Comandante que milagro los estribadores saca viente milliones de dollars

    La prensa! Tenemos once milliones de dolares en efectico.

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    1. buen chiste pero muy sierto al ultimo solo son unos cuanto pesos jaja

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    2. Now that is some funny shit bro. So true !

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  6. it was not announced until after everyone took some out for their own personal benefit

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    1. Jajaja...do doubt.
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      "This occurred on Sunday, although it was not reported to the public until Tuesday, so they had time to divide the other 10M"

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  7. That was probably meant for the guys who dug chapos tunnel and helped him get out!

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  8. Chapo making money already, now hes going to be pissed for the seizure

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  9. You know damn well it was the even 12...or 15!! Hahaha

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  10. Haha "11.5" meanwhile in the next few days some of those cops that took it are found dead, the killers? Other greedy cops loool

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  11. We need to know much more about this big event.

    It is vital to know which way the truck was headed and who ended up with the $$$$$.
    Mexico -Watcher

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    1. I am pretty sure it was heading sout.

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  12. El dinero hera propiedad de los Beltran Leyva. El destino era el temible sacamielda.

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  13. That's the way Chapo pays for all they do for him in the Mexican/USA side

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  14. Chapo must 'a dropped his wallet...

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    1. After about a.year and a half, el chapo is very well trained in picking up the soap, I mean his wallet, so this means these millions belong to some other billionaire drug trafficking drug lord without connections to big US money laundering banks, or...

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    2. Maybe the dollar bills are "marked!" Ha! But, by whom??

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  15. This was money and bullets to finance the war against Los memos for betraying chapo

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  16. There isn't a million in the picture if those are all $20. But I'm sure there's more cash elsewhere other than the pic huh

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  17. Chapo escape cost 50 million that was what last of the 50 million more than 30 for the USA and a little over 11 for Mexico, who are they trying to bullshit

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  18. there may have been more... much more so someone has had a great payday and someone else is very pissed and an innocent family are soon gonna die because the driver did not deliver the goods... tis the way things are done in Mexico.

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  19. Chapo paying his government tax on time as usual

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  20. Chapo's money!.. Cnt catch him!.. So they hitting his pockets!.. Use common sense!.. JaJaJa

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  21. They should take all that money and give it to the pobres in rural country. Make it rain, baby!!! Think that will ever happen???

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  22. Nit picking maybe, but Sonoyta is directly on the border. The stop may have been south on Rt. 2 toward Caborca (most probable route) or 8 toward Penasco. There is frequently a military stop on 2 and lots of attention through Sonoyta with the heated up plaza there.

    Must have crossed to the West so I bet US officials are pissed they did not get to confiscate the ca$h !!

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    1. The major aduana check point is just a little south of Sonyta. We have been hassled there many times, and the one south of Mazatlan. It was always some drugged out/ Drunk PGR. Hence not much tourism anymore.

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  23. Most likely this cash money and ammunitions came from United States. On its way to sonora or sinaloa, switched trucks so it won't look suspicious.

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    1. @5:31 PM.. sounds like a real possibility, so who's out the $ ?

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  24. This doesn't look like a truck , check point or police station is it textile warhorse

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  25. El centenario is back in business

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  26. That's exactly what I was gonna say, chapo returning the favor..

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  27. One truck caught, the other 9 made it through. LMAO. Are there any fools left who think the War on Drugs stops anything.

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    1. @7:15 PM.. The "war on drugs" is part of the narcos' challenge and thrill, scoring in the face of authority that is "owned," playing "cat and mouse."...Control the drugs, control the politics...

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  28. PRI just getting there payoff from Chapo. LOL

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  29. I'm glad Chapo is back out. Now business will get back to some order. If the Mexican people were smart they'd elect him President and tell the US to F off on this war on drugs. The United States drug use has torn Mexico apart. Tell the US to fight the war on their soil.

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    1. And now Mexicos drug use is tearing it apart further.

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  30. I am uncertain about the photo also. It was with PTI and prob is archive. I did not see it in Mexican media. Just a couple of maps.

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    1. The photo is reportedly from a press conference given by SEDEN, and was published by several Mexican news outlets, although I'm not certain it's not archival. http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2015/07/14/1034625

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  31. Chapo just cut some ones shipment let's see what happens next I think Los Salazar will stay with the plaza

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  32. Sonoyta is a dusty old border town in the sonoran desert that has long been controlled by CDS.. CDS controls all of the border towns west of Juarez ..You never hear that this much money or this much weight is being pushed through the tamaulipas and golfos plazas.. those guys are straight trash... and As much as the cheerleaders of the linias, CDJ, and flechas hate to admit it, El Chapo controls Juarez, I wouldn't be surprised that the aztekas are busy looking for gente nueva members in Juarez not knowing that Gente Nueva is busy running their drugs underground and across the border. How is it then that most of all drug seizures in El Paso are Chapo's?

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  33. dont look 15 million to me even if they were 100 dollar bills

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  34. The total amount was $15.2 mil. We will be looking for the pendejos who took them and they will suffer.

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  35. 'Well Donald, what have you got to say about the missing millions from this stack?'

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