THEY SEIZE 41,6 TONS OF MARIJUANA BETWEEN MEXICO AND E.E.U.U.

Mexican authorities seized in Tijuana's city, border with The United States 41,6 tons of marijuana, which was located hidden in the basement of a warehouse behind a house, in one of the major confiscations of cannabis in the country, it reported with commander of the army. At least 5.271 packages of diverse sizes, " that are 41,6 tons of marijuana ", were found in the basement of Tijuana's warehouse (northwest), neighbor of the American San Diego (California), said to the press Gabriel García Ricón, commander of the zone II military. " It is the major confiscation in Low California in years and more than that of last year than 39,7 tons ", indicated the military man. 

In Tijuana, a city of the condition of Fall California, the military men obtained of a judge an order of prospecting after verifying that in this domicile there was drug and of surprising to a marriage that it was living there with 54 kilos of this grass in a light truck. To the moment of the detention, the pair was with his three minor children who were put under the custody of the System for the Development of the Family (DIF), the institution of social Mexican assistance. 

García Corner indicated that agents of the general district attorney's office initiated an investigation, but that the drug might belong to the cártel of " the Arellano Félix (Tijuana) or the Cártel de Sinaloa, which they are those who have more weight in the region ". The regional commander said not to know the way for which such a big quantity of marijuana could come even there, but it anticipated that it could be by sea. 

" A light aircraft can transport 500 kilos, a trailer can transport up to 20 tons, but probably it came by sea ", it made clear. The basement was in the warehouse behind of a housing that it was simulating to be a small mess in the colony Familiar Farms, to Tijuana's North-East. In spite of the capture of big bosses of the drug trafficking in the last years, the production and decanting marijuana continues in the country. In October, 2010 military men located 130 tons of marijuana in the same city, the biggest confiscation of this drug that is realized in Mexico, that he concluded one impressive bonfire in it her was burned in military facilities of this city.