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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Pharr, Texas: Officer’s Observation Leads To Seizure Of Nearly 3 Tons Of Meth

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Authorities inspect trucks found to be filled with liquid methamphetamines.

A Pharr police officer who noticed Tuesday that several tanker trailers did not have hazard placards resulted in the seizure of an estimated 700 gallons of liquid methamphetamine, which can be converted to nearly 3 tons of the drug, according to a criminal complaint.

The officer happened to be responding to a call for service on an unrelated matter when authorities say he saw three people pouring a liquid substance from large barrels into smaller buckets on an empty property.

The officer approached one of those people, Juan Carlos Toscano Guzman, and began talking to him, according to the complaint.

“During the conversation, Officer Salinas noticed that several tanker trailers on the property did not have hazard placards and notified dispatch,” the complaint states.

The Pharr Fire Department responded and they noticed crystallization around the barrels and in a clear plastic hose hanging across a chain-linked fence, according to the complaint.

Police and firefighters tested the liquid substance within the barrels and it turned out to be positive for methamphetamine.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrived and estimated that there were approximately 700 gallons inside the tanker trailer and in eight 55-gallon barrels.

The DEA says in the charging document that 700 gallons of liquid methamphetamine can be converted to approximately 5,727 pounds of meth.

During an interview with DEA agents, Toscano said he lived in Mexico and recently traveled to the United States after his brother hired him to unload tanker trailers.

“Toscano further admitted that he was to be paid $500 per week for performing this work. Toscano stated that he believed he was loading soap into the tanker trailers,” the complaint said. “Investigators noticed that the substances did not have any odor of soap.”

During a search of his cell phone, investigators saw photos Toscano sent of the 55-gallon barrels to his brother and messages stating that he picked up the “product” from another location in Pharr and transported it to where the officer found him Tuesday, according to the complaint.

“Investigators also observed that Toscano sent pictures and messages to his brother regarding his daily progress of loading the substances in the barrel to the tanker trailer,” the complaint said. “Toscano also sent photographs of the (Pharr) officers to his brother and a second person during the consensual encounter.”

When investigators searched Toscano’s motel room in Hidalgo, the complaint said they found three bottles containing liquid methamphetamine.

Toscano made a first appearance Wednesday morning in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Nadia S. Medrano, who ordered him temporarily held without bond pending detention and probable cause hearings scheduled for next week, court records indicate.

Myrgv

29 comments:

  1. Damn! $500 for transporting almost 6k lbs of metha! Owners deserve to lose the loads paying dirt wages for transpo!

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    1. Kinda makes you want to believe that he really thought it was soap

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    2. Dirt wages are what is usually paid to cartel members. Unless a boss.

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    3. Greedy cheap clowns always recruiting crash Dummies to do their dirty work? Why don't they do it themselves? If their so tough?

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    4. It's actually worst than that. He said 500 per week. He might make 2-3 trips per week

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  2. It's raining meth...hallelujah !!

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  3. Excellent 👍 catch.
    Law enforcement does a better job, than Mexician government.

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    1. And with trillions$$$ more in budgets! Sheesh! I wonder why there a millions in drug gangs, record OD's and mo drugs than ever are on the streets!

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    2. So, one is a greater failure than the other! How about rattling your empty head and come up with some real solutions!

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    3. Little Nuts Flame Thurther
      WTF you crying about today.

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    4. 8:59 I'll tell you why: because the Waron Drugs is a fantastic business.

      The army of people working in law and drug enforcement have faaat salaries and faaaat pensions, the lawyers, judges, rehabs, prisons, small arms manufacturers and security companies make a good living with most of it financed by billions in taxes.

      That's why!

      And the best thing of all for them: it won't anytime soon for sure!

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    5. I've got a solution for the s*** on the ground lettuce soaked in while laughing like hell and then broadcast it like the son of a b**** has two while they're cutting some Innocents head off

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    6. I've got a solution let the s*** run out on the ground while laughing like hell and then broadcast it like the p**** tweakers do while cutting an innocence head off

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    7. Little butts truther, fk what type of call sign is "TRUTHER"?
      Your fuked in the head.

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    8. Boo Hoo! Give all the low IQ babies a rubber nipple!

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    9. Hey why does the truther have little balls? Is he Asian?

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    10. 4:09 Yes little nuts truther is sic in the head. Yes dumb name TRUTHER.

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    1. Says who? You? You are a nobody with no law enforcement experience. 😂

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    2. If it wasn't random then there would have been way more than a single cop. You dig? Comprends? Why not just believe the story for what it is.??

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    3. Informants were at work for this to have happened. Law enforcement relies on Informants. Without them no busts worthy of recognition.

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    4. 9.41. Yes, says me. How empty do you feel empty to throw an uncalled for insult? . Are you deflecting something?

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    5. Lucas why smarty-pants, you should join the police force, don't forget background checks will be done. Hope you have a clean criminal record.

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    6. All you peeps wrong if you think this ONE cop went there by himself and this was a planned, coordinated take-down. They would have been at least 10-15 officers involved. Let the truth be known!!

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    7. @Lucas (#loser)-
      I am deflecting the poopy fist that pulled from your moms chulo...

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    8. 11:23 your full of poop. There's dash cam video on. Oh here comes unkown, oh but the video is not real....give me a fken break.

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  5. 500 bucks a week, are you kidding, if someone said they'd pay me just 500 to move that much meth I'd ask them if maybe they were shooting that shit because offering to pay that low, you'd have to be high. If I'm going to risk going to prison for over 25 years, you'd be paying a hell of a lot more than 500 dollars a week. I really feel sorry for the average Mexican person working in that field because those at the top are greedy thieves who rip off those who are taking all the real risks, now wonder people are so willing to tell all.

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