Feds Take Down Canada-to-Queens Pot Operation

If you've got a suspended license, is it the best idea to be driving with 9 pounds of pot? Federal officials tell the Daily News that a drug runner's "sloppiness" on the way to a drug sale in Queens helped them bust a huge operation smuggling Canadian-grown pot into the United States. Apparently the feds have "seized 50,000 pounds of pot"—street value, $150 million—"and arrested 10 people in the scheme, which used hidden compartments in cars to smuggle weed across the border" over the past six years. The Canadian "masterminds" were arraigned in federal court and face 20 years in prison if found guilty while eight people who "allegedly transported, packaged and distributed the drugs from the Queens home" face 10 years if found guilty. Unfortunately, there are no photos of the many pounds of pot, unlike previous pot busts.

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By Jen Chung in News on February 22, 2009 11:12 AM

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ANGRYGOD11

I'm dumping my White Castle shares tomorrow.

NannyState

FTW!

Jerky

I call BS on the fed numbers....if its so "high-quality", why would there be 50,000lbs stockpiled in a Queens house? That's an awful lot of volume, where was it stashed?? And if its so high-quality, why are they estimating the value at only $187.50/ounce, versus the more likely average of > $400/oz in NYC. Either the DEA is clueless about street prices or is full of shit.

luckmagnet

here's a reporter trying to report on a bunch of drugs being burned up, he gets loopy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04i8RO-P7qg

Barbj8

Well if you ask me...ahh... never mind, I forget.

Smitty025

Thank god the government is spending billions to keep me safe from this vile substance! How we lived without this war on drugs I will never know.

adeez

As part of my ongoing personal social experiment, I have a plea to all:

Does ANYONE think this is a good thing. Marijuana prohibition, that is. Really. I implore you: please reveal yourselves.

MidCFrank

"If you've got a suspended license, is it the best idea of be driving with 9 pounds of pot?"

Please put the bong down and use spelling/grammar checker. Thanks.