A Billion Dollar Reefer Ring Popped

Posted on December 24th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, One-Time

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Somebody snitched, and the result was One-Time coming up on a stash worth a Billi:

Authorities have busted a $1 billion pot-smuggling ring that had been sneaking 400,000 pounds across the Mexican border every year. Operation Tumbleweed led to the indictment of 59 people yesterday and 39 arrests for felony charges, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said. The so-called Garibaldi-Lopez drug-trafficking ring had smuggled 200 tons of marijuana into the country annually since 2003, according to Goddard. The 2 million pounds smuggled in over that time period has an estimated wholesale value of $1 billion. Traffickers wearing night-vision goggles and aided by coordinators hiding in the hills would drive stolen vehicles, each holding 2,000 to 2,500 pounds of marijuana, on a weekly basis, authorities said. Authorities have busted a $1 billion pot-smuggling ring that had been sneaking 400,000 pounds across the Mexican border every year. Operation Tumbleweed led to the indictment of 59 people yesterday and 39 arrests for felony charges, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said. The so-called Garibaldi-Lopez drug-trafficking ring had smuggled 200 tons of marijuana into the country annually since 2003, according to Goddard. The 2 million pounds smuggled in over that time period has an estimated wholesale value of $1 billion. Traffickers wearing night-vision goggles and aided by coordinators hiding in the hills would drive stolen vehicles, each holding 2,000 to 2,500 pounds of marijuana, on a weekly basis, authorities said.

At least it was Mexican brown weed, and any decent weed smoker knows that means chronic prices should stay the same throughout the recession, with a slight increase in the price of dirt bud.  Uhhh…that’s according to our sources, not someone on the staff at Bossip who smokes hella weed.

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  • Christilicious

    gold

  • iluvprada

    1ST!

  • Christilicious

    silver

  • Christilicious

    @ iluvprada, no honey I am….

  • iluvprada

    DAMN…2ND!

    THIS IS DEEP THOUGH!

  • iluvprada

    I SEE DAT!

  • Just Jess

    WOOOOOOOOOOOWWW lmao @ operation Tumbleweed ha

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re

    That was enought to make lots of people happy!

    There’s going to be alot of sad people in the world…

  • Redd Tony

    Best beleive the smugglers had help from local DEA and Border Patrol…SMh

  • Ms Christine

    We are in a recession! We need WEED!!!

  • mojojojo

    CLAUDE HAM MERCY
    I AM WEEPING RIGHT NOW!!
    200 TONS! ALL GONE!
    CLUTCH THE PEARLS!
    but watch that 200 tons after a while turn into 20 tons to a 1 ton to an ounce lol

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    OH MY!!

    …one oz to a twamp

  • circa-81

    There is going to be a serious drought of good sh!t withing 2 months. Dammit to hell!!

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re

    So what are they going to do with all the weed?

    Leave it in the evidence control room?

    Or destroy it…I’ll come help…I’m trustworthy….

  • circa-81

    This is disturbing. This has ruined my X-MAS.

  • circa-81

    Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!?!

  • 100%

    *tear*

  • Lacombe Redbone ((Just here for laughs!! ))

    I cosign Circa-81!
    Christmas has just been cancelled due to drought!! lol

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    I remember one time I was so lifted I bushed my teeth for like 25 minutes….

  • derek

    Dang brother gotta go back to smoking that commercial weed. Wit all them seeds in the bag ha ha ha

  • Lacombe Redbone ((Just here for laughs!! ))

    NU…
    I washed dishes in slow-mo for 30 minutes!

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    …then it took like 9 minutes to figure out the DVD player (that I have owned since 2002) I was unable to decipher which remote went with which device…

  • circa-81

    @ Lacombe Redbone

    I sat on the other side of the stove while cooking pancakes.

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    WOW!! You washed the dishes?? I would have stood there with the water running thinking about why the water was running….

  • circa-81

    I stayed stopped at a stop sign waiting for it to turn green countless times.

  • PURPPLE

    LMFAO@NU…..
    xtra funny to a currently stoned person…

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    OH MY!! My hip would have caught fire…

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    I stayed stopped at a stop sign waiting for it to turn green countless times…

    I have done the same…

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    One time…

    I had made a steak…and then I wanted a little pepper on it…the lid came off so I rinsed the steak off with water…then ate it…

  • circa-81

    Have yall’ ever went to the mall high and felt like everbody was looking at you and “saying he’s high.” True weedhead paranoia.

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    Yes…I have…if you go anywhere I feel that way…especially at work…LOL!

    Mind you I don’t smoke anymore…I cant…one toke and I would be gooooooooone.

  • 2DamTrill

    LOL Nikki you got me dead ova here… ROTFLMBAO!!!!!!

    @ Circa-81… umm yeah, that sh!t don’t feel good… plus that Chronic smell is impossible to ignore from your clothes…. Just stay where you are smokin is the rule to follow…. air out or sumthin..lol

    Man I went to work one day like that.. minus the smell… I will never do that sh!t again… Swore everyone was starring and whispering about me… lol I think it was all in my head tho…

    LOL

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    ‘that Chronic smell is impossible to ignore from your clothes’

    I have a Leather coat from ’02 I promise it STILL smells like green…

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    I too was a toker in my younger days…I could drive with my knee, sip some lean and twist at the same time…now I would be happy just getting out of the driveway…

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    Okay…one more thing…

    I notice that ppl cant hear me when I smoke…in my mind I am speaking as I usually so…but ppl always hit me with the ‘hunh? what you say’? I am Mumble-lina when I puff…

  • circa-81

    I promoted myself to drinker years ago. I’m more grounded when I drink.

  • circa-81

    *with better dialogue*

  • Lacombe Redbone ((Just here for laughs!! ))

    ROTFLMAO@ Circa-81 and NU!!!

    …We a mess! But being high is so fun!

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    Lacombe Redbone…

    OKay…one time I remember goin’ out with my friend (a dude but a friend) anyhoo, I was SO HIGH I couldnt walk…like I kept kickin my foot trying to land on solid ground…SMH@ me

  • circa-81

    @ Nikki

    Exactly…..it’s like prejudice is manifested all of a sudden when your high and shopping at Macy’s.

  • Lacombe Redbone ((Just here for laughs!! ))

    LMAO…Nikki, i swear i’ve been there before. My girlfriends still make fun of me cause i was stuck in the back seat of a car saying my legs feel like jello! :lol:

  • kanye’s a faggot

    some people are saying president o might legalize weed. . . . .wouldn’t that be nice. . . . but I’m not holding my breath. . . .he’s trying too hard to everything to everybody–which means he’ll wind up not being too much of anything to anybody.

  • circa-81

    One thing that is never altered when my mind is….is my ego.

  • Andreas2g

    It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas!!! I thought those were trees. Not TREES!!! LMGAO

  • http://www.yahoo.com Man, I just don’t care

    I just knew Mock Rock would be all up in this thread. LOL.

  • ava unknown

    @ nikki u

    you gave me my first good laugh in a long time, makes me want to smoke again…i keep telling myself i won’t relapse

    do ya’ll think it’s a sin to smoke?

  • http://myspace.com/mockrockstar Mock Rock Star is a Pimp name Wild Dolphin

    Man, I just don’t care

    I just knew Mock Rock would be all up in this thread. LOL.
    —————————————
    I’m just seeing it and I’m crying…this is so sad

  • http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HOODLAWAMERIKA MICHAEL BLACKSON

    Check this out i worked at the m&m’s store…i went to work one day after burning 2 gars of purp..i wlaks in and i see two big a55 m&m’s jumpin around (people in character uniforms) man i was laughin my a55 off everybod ywas looking at me like WTF!!..man i ran out the door took me 20 minutes to collect myself

  • http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HOODLAWAMERIKA MICHAEL BLACKSON

    Then one time i was going back to the hospital after my son was born….and i stopped at a redlight..the funny part is i was like 50 feet away from the light and i couldnt even tell until cars kept passing me honking their horns…

  • http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HOODLAWAMERIKA MICHAEL BLACKSON

    Another time i was riding to m peoples crib..and i kept stopping every 10 minutes because my tires would feel like it was flat..just the front two..but at different times…i swear i felt that falt tire man..till this day

  • http://copthat.com CLICK HERE

    yeah… that’s going to stop us from smoking weed. great job uncle sam!!

  • InsertDopeWordsHere

    Lol @ Michael Blackson

  • Kigali (Roughly 70% of USA Black females suffer from cognitive dissonance)

    Brings new meaning to the phrase Christmas Trees.

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    Lacombe…
    That old sin of gluttony….

    Well…MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my friends…

    NIK U
    XOXOXOXO (those extra hugs and kisses cost)

  • Lacombe Redbone ((Just here for laughs!! ))

    Same to you, Nikki!! :)

  • turkishjamaican

    if they only that weed is good for u ..if u dont over doit!

  • damnmn

    looks like a christmas tree lot!!

  • always knew

    Coming from AZ, this has Mexican Drug Cartel, all over it……..When I first found out, I was hoping that was not a brother..But then sheer size- $1 billion…Somebody didn’t get their cut, of the profits….Oh,well another batch of illegals off the street..And they should legalize it, It would also stop ALOT of the crime, passing through here….Out here, they are shooting cops in the face, blacks, anybody who gets in their way..Border patrol doesn’t do anything, 2 latin americans, or Hispanics, are in jail right now,for shooting an illegal drug runner in the butt, they sill are in jail, so moral of the story:

    Don’t shoot the illegals, even though they might shoot you…(I wish it was a joke)Just food for thought…

    LMBAO @ Michael Blackson- Stopping the car every 10 minutes to see if tires were flat?? hahahahahaha, you are so crazy….

    @Nikki U- I never would’ve thought you indulged, previously or otherwise…Some of you other folks, I’m glad to see everyone still has a sense of humor…You guys have a good holiday and try not to eat too much /drink/ smoke too much…Take care, I’m out..

  • Joy

    Damn… we all gonna be smokin that “Huckabee”

  • Flawdagurl

    “When you smoke the herb it reveals you to yourself.” ~Bob Marley

  • leave-it-be

    WEED TREES???? BILLION Dollars?????THEY LOOKED LIKE XMAS TREES TO ME…. THOUGHT IT WAS A TREE LOT LOL

  • Moreaces

    Well they’re very pretty, They look like christmas trees,, I want one. QQ

  • Moreaces

    NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    WOW!! You washed the dishes?? I would have stood there with the water running thinking about why the water was running….

    ^^^^^^^^^^
    Six Feet Under…

  • 100%

    @NIKKI UNDERWOOD, @ Michael Blackson

    Watch any DOLEMITE movie, when you get sum real gud.

  • BKLYNZ OWN

    DONT DRINK AND DRIVE…….SMOKE AND FLY

  • BKLYNZ OWN

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE

  • Adiamondcenter

    Damn wish I had all of that……….

  • brightseat_bully

    i ain’t wanted to smoke in YEARS and that picture got me a little tingly.

  • Flawdagurl

    BKLYNZ OWN

    DONT DRINK AND DRIVE…….SMOKE AND FLY

    _______________________________________________

    I like that lil sayin! lol

  • http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/ We “Blacks” Are The Real Hebrew Israelites

    Awwww
    :(

  • 2DamTrill

    “BKLYNZ OWN

    DONT DRINK AND DRIVE…….SMOKE AND FLY”

    Real Talk….

    @ We “Blacks” Are The Real Hebrew Israelites
    Can you explain that a lil bit fo’ me?

  • [B]

    MAN….=(

  • Flawdagurl

    and how do i get one

  • Tiesha

    Damn break me off some of that bud !!

  • http://myspace.com/mockrockstar Mock Rock star is a Pimpette name Momma Mia

    I’m up here yall, come on in and get blazed with your girl

  • BE

    I wonder if all the trees got reported??

  • BE

    Hey Mock you ever see Roll Bounce?

    Do you want to drink the bath water of that main character “Sweetness”

  • http://myspace.com/mockrockstar Mock Rock star is a Pimpette name Momma Mia

    I’ll be back yall

  • Z

    how many ppl do u think will die behind this take down?

  • BE

    how many ppl do u think will die behind this take down?

    *******
    39…before the sentencing and snitching takes place

  • Z

    sorry BE, I am borrowing music to my mp3 playa

  • eyecandy

    I had to go and blaze some of their cousins in effigy!

  • Proud White Woman

    You weed smokers need to be ashamed of yourselves. It’s always the coloreds.

  • CoCoPops

    @ Dr. Sigmund Freud..would you say that his Super EGO, ID, or EGO is out of whack? Or simply all 3?

  • http://myspace.com/mockrockstar Late Responder(MRS)

    BE

    Hey Mock you ever see Roll Bounce?

    Do you want to drink the bath water of that main character “Sweetness”
    ————————————————–
    Naw I never seen that movie…Bow wow was in that movie right…I would drink my own bath water if I had too…I really don’t put women too far up ahead of myself…that’s why it usually doesn’t work out.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS

  • denne

    @Nikki… went to work high once… will never do it again.. i felt like everybody was standing too close to me and staring directly into my eyes when we were talking…

    i read somewhere that blowing hot air on yourself helps get smokey scents off clothes and hair a little faster…

    top 3 ridiculous things i’ve done while blunted… that i can actually remember…

    1. dropped a half a blunt in my parents drive-way… only to have my dad find it and (thankfully) give it back to me a day later after a brief inquisition… (“Why are you smoking reefer?”)
    2. pulled over and made a music video to Kanye’s Work Out Plan in front of my car’s headlights w/ 3 friends outside an elementary school…
    3. sat at a red light at a big empty intersection for about 30 seconds not paying any attention to the light… then all of a sudden i “realize” i’ve been sitting there forever so the light MUST be green… and then proceed to make my left turn… the light was still red…

  • always knew

    Mexican drug gang tentacles reach Europe, Africa

    By Mica Rosenberg

    MEXICO CITY, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Violent Mexican cartels that have killed thousands in a drug war at home this year are increasingly smuggling drugs to Europe by way of Africa.

    Under pressure from a government and army crackdown at home, the drug gangs are seeking new lucrative markets.

    Recent high-profile arrests of Mexicans around the globe show how the Gulf cartel and its main rival, the Sinaloa federation run by Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, are moving beyond their traditional market in the United States.

    A 15-month international drug sweep called “Project Reckoning” captured 500 Gulf cartel collaborators in the United States, Mexico and Italy, where the Mexicans have teamed with the notorious Italian ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.

    The arrests, which came to a head in September, were one of the biggest busts of Mexican operatives working with European counterparts. They came as Mexican cartels move in on trafficking routes traditionally dominated by Colombians, who produce most of the world’s cocaine, experts say.

    Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police to dangerous U.S.-Mexico border towns to take on drug gangs after coming to office in 2006.

    “Given the pressure from the Calderon government, we are seeing some of the Mexican groups seeking alliances with Europeans,” University of Miami drug expert Bruce Bagley said.

    Cocaine can be sold for more than four times as much in Europe as in the United States and in 2005 some 80 percent of the drug not destined for the U.S. market went to Europe, according to the United Nations.

    The U.S. government estimates cocaine consumption in western Europe has increased nearly 60 percent since 1998, creating huge opportunities for profit.

    The shift comes as Colombian cartels are splintering from years of government pressure, opening more trans-Atlantic opportunities for Mexican gangs either collaborating with or working around the Colombians.

    The capture in Spain in September of top Colombian cartel member Edgar Vallejo, who pioneered trafficking routes to Europe via Africa, has made room for Mexican operatives, a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official told Reuters.

    “This key Colombian trafficker gets popped in Europe and had a fairly big fraction of the market and that arrest may contribute to the flux in of this entire global model of world wide dominance of cocaine distribution,” he said.

    DRUG VIOLENCE

    The major fear is the violence that has plagued Mexico in recent years will spread as the cartels expand.

    More than 5,300 people have died in 2008, many tortured or decapitated as rival traffickers fight each other and the government.

    Seventeen people were killed in Guatemala last month in a shootout between Mexican drug gangs and their proxies and a U.N.-backed study warned this week that Mexico’s drug war is spilling over into Honduras. Europe has so far been free of major narco-violence.

    The poor and weak states of West Africa make an ideal base of operations for international drug traffickers, according to the United Nations.

    In July, two Mexicans were among crew members arrested landing a plane with fake Red Cross markings in Sierra Leone packed with more than 600 kilos of cocaine. It was the largest drug bust in the country’s history.

    As well as being a shipment point for cocaine, Mexico is the No. 1 producer of methamphetamine for the United States. Organized crime groups are seeking more clandestine routes since Mexican authorities have cracked down on the legal import of its main ingredient, pseudoephedrine.

    A seizure in Democratic Republic of Congo last year of several tonnes of pseudoephedrine indicates Mexican drug cartels could be using Africa’s Atlantic seaboard for transport or storage purposes, Interpol says.

    Mexicans also are going straight to coca-growing countries in South America to buy up the raw material for cocaine that may end up in Europe.

    Peruvian President Alan Garcia recently blamed a rash of drug-related violence in his country — the world’s second-largest cocaine producer after Colombia — on powerful Mexican drug cartels collaborating with local drug lords. (Additional reporting by Anahi Rama in Mexico City, Karina Grazina in Buenos Aires, Marco Aquino in Lima, Pascal Fletcher in Dakar and Stephen Brown in Rome; Editing by Bill Trott)

    SOURCE:REUTERS UK

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN23543160

  • http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/ We “Blacks” Are The Real Hebrew Israelites

    It does expire and you have to see the doctor again to renew it.

  • Christmas Jones

    @ always knew and BlackLadyDoctor…

    Yes, this issh is all up in government regulation and undercover popo madness…

    Its really bad in Mexico, I mean people are being killed like crazy, in the afternoon, in the early evening, they just run up on mpeople, and innocent victims are being caught in the crossfires…its really getting heated.

    I personally feell like marijuana should just be legalized, but the reason why they can’t let it go is because Western governments aren’t producing it nor have control over its wholesale so they aren’t getting paid. This is all about money, it has nothing to do with any moral sltandards whatsoever…whites can enjoy cocaine, cuban cigars and vodka like no other but when it comes to us wanting some weed?! This is some bs, I wish I could’ve written this more eloquently but i’m just so mad…

  • Bringthanoize

    Legalize and tax it.

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