Drugs in cars
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/canadian-ford-dealerships-find-meth/
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Not for the first time, new Ford vehicles have been shipped from Mexico with drugs stashed inside.
Canadian authorities seized 180 kilograms of methamphetamines that had been concealed in the vehicles’ spare tires.
Ontario police recovered an estimated US $3.4 million worth of the drug, in what is apparently part of a larger international investigation.
The vehicles had been sent by rail and, according to police, there is no doubt the shipments were made by the Sinaloa Cartel.
Authorities were alerted when a Ford dealership in Ontario discovered beige-taped packages lining the inside of the tires.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/more-pot-found-in-shipment-from-mexico/
Friday, July 28, 2017
Ford vehicles appear to have become a popular means of transporting marijuana to the United States.
Authorities seized 277 pounds of pot Wednesday from a shipment of new Ford vehicles from Mexico, the second such seizure in two weeks.
Employees at a Ford Motor Company rail distribution facility in Woodhaven, Michigan, found the drug inside rail cars holding new Ford and Lincoln vehicles that had been shipped from Mexico.
The earlier drug haul netted 400 pounds of marijuana, valued at more than US $1 million, hidden in the spare tire compartment of Ford Fusions, also manufactured in Mexico.
The discovery was made by an employee at a Ford dealership in Ohio and led to the seizure of more pot in another 14 vehicles at different dealerships.
https://www.wnd.com/2017/07/new-auto-built-in-mexico-check-your-spare-tire/
Published: 07/16/2017 at 2:12 PM
In April, a truck driver transporting new Ford Fusions originating in a Mexican Ford plant to Minnesota discovered two of the cars had 20-pound blocks of marijuana molded into the shape of spare tires. His find led to an investigation by railway police of 15 more new Fusions loaded similarly with pot – 13 of which had already been delivered to dealers in the state.
Ford is said to be cooperating with the investigation. All of the vehicles were assembled in Ford’s Hermosillo, Mexico, plant, which is located within the territory of the Sinaloa drug cartel previously headed by the notorious “El Chapo,” or Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera.
Only 4 percent of commercial shipments are actually inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol authorities, leaving the vast majority unscreened, representing a huge opportunity for smuggling drugs and weapons into the U.S.