Nearly a ton of marijuana found in truck near Ajo

by KTAR.com (February 20th, 2009 @ 11:49am)

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Border Patrol agents found 1,870 pounds of marijuana in a truck abandoned as they chased it on the Tohono O'odham Reservation southwest of Tucson early Friday.

The Border Patrol said the marijuana had an estimated street value of $1.5 million.

Agents assigned to the Ajo Border Patrol Station spotted the truck speeding away early Friday from an area known for narcotics trafficking. They were unable to catch the truck, but found it abandoned a short time later. The driver was missing.

Agents said 107 bundles of marijuana were found in the truck.

In the first four months of this fiscal year, October through January, Tucson Sector agents have seized more than 341,000 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $272.9 million.

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  WHERE??

  Patrick H

  Where is the DEA and all of the other Federal Drug Agencies??? This is a big threat to the youth of America and you don't see the DEA choppers flying over the border.

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  Sell the dope back to the dopes

  Olphart

  That can be our stimulus reprieve.

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  "Unable to catch the truck...."

  Hoozyer

  What were they chasing it with- a balloon tired bicycle???? I cannot imagine a professional law officer that could not keep up with a truck loaded up with that amount of "cargo." The officer that let it get away should be reassigned, and they showed their lack of competancy

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