Mexico City -- On Monday October 18, Mexican soldiers and police grabbed the U.S.-bound marijuana in pre-dawn raids in three neighborhoods when 11 people were arrested after a shootout which led authorities to the drugs. This is Mexico's largest-ever seizure of marijuana packaged for sale. The Sinaloa cartel is run by Mexico's most wanted fugitive, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, which is now moving drugs through the Tijuana corridor. Army officials said the drugs weighed 105 tons and had an estimated street value of 4.2 billion pesos, about $340 million. With the Mexican military changing its role and more actively going after organized crime groups, it could have affected that; the drugs were found stored in tractor trailers and houses wrapped in different colors and labeled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included the cartoon character Homer Simpson. It is evident enough to suspect that cartel groups are using new tactics when smuggling narcotics.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101905920.html
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