Chivis Martinezz Borderland Beat TY Gus source
ATLANTA — A tour bus parked in Rockdale County usually doesn’t draw a lot of attention, but on a spring day in March the bus, and a nearby tractor trailer, drew enough suspicion from law enforcement officers that they called in the local fire department.
The ceiling of that Mexican tour bus didn’t look quite right, so firefighters pulled out a tool similar to the Jaws of Life and cut into the roof of the bus -- revealing an enormous haul of methamphetamine.
Channel 2 investigative reporter
Mark Winne obtained the exclusive video of agents and firefighters working to
cut through the roof of the bus and the enormous stash found inside. Once the
Drug Enforcement Agency totaled it up, they found 2,000 pounds of meth.
Special agent-in-charge Robert
Murphy says the amount of drugs found in the bus and the nearby truck
underscore Atlanta’s role as a hub for drugs run by Mexican cartels. The
majority of meth was tucked into the tractor trailer, about 865 kilograms of
the 900 kilogram total, but all of its was hidden.
“Both these tags were from Guadalajara, the tourist bus and the tractor trailer. That’s how comfortable and brazen they are,” Murphy said.
Murphy says several arrests have been made in the case and the drugs were destined to be shipped up and down the east coast, but much of it would stay in metro Atlanta.
Another video provided to Winne from the DEA shows a mammoth meth conversion lab in metro Atlanta discovered in February. The lab is used to convert smuggled liquid into crystallized meth. Enough drugs to keep 2 million people high for 12 hours, agents said.
Agents say Operation Crystal has yielded 530 arrests, 6,000 pounds meth, $9 million in currency and 116 firearms in just Georgia and the Carolinas.
That's some truly fine police work if no tip was involved and it was based solely on fact the ceiling of the bus didn't look quite right and presence of a nearby tractor trailer.
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ReplyDeleteWhat the f*** is it Mexican tour bus stuff full of meth when the border is supposedly is closed to non-essential travel?
ReplyDeleteMeth is essential to the economy.
DeleteThe border is not closed.
DeleteBologna! The boys were waiting for someone to touch it ,so that they could see who exactly was involved. C'mon now.
ReplyDeleteThats exactly what this was...and they been making HUGE busts in atlanta the past 2-3 months-
DeleteWhoever left that ledger with the suppliers names on it probably got his head chopped off- someone high up is talking- obviously
Mosluggo is probably right on this one
Deleteat the end just 35kg inside the bus and 865kg inside the tractor trailer but asking myself one question: how can you see when you stand next to the bus that not everything is OK on the roof of the bus?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....
DeleteThe ceiling didn’t look quite right...
ReplyDeleteGotta love how they try to word it- acting like they some engineering experts when its clear they only make busts like this when someone TELLS THEM where its at smh..
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