Tjuana.- An anonymous tip led state agents to a van in Mexicali loaded with more than 1,600 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $2.4 million, authorities announced Thursday night.
Police agents also detained nine people who were allegedly guarding the drug at a car wash, according to a release from the state police agency.
A caller to the anonymous crime tip line 089 on Wednesday at around 7 p.m. warned that various people were apparently loading drugs onto a van in a neighborhood called Santa Clara de Mexicali.
State police agents mounted an operation and confronted a man armed with a rifle who was guarding a white van. They searched the vehicle and found 71 packets of marijuana, weighing a total of 1,630 pounds, worth an estimated $2.4 million.
The release identified the detained as Carlos Fava Corella, 47; Víctor Daniel Campos Ruiz, 32; Juan Manuel González Cisneros, 39; Arturo Hernández Carrasco, 53; Armando González Cisneros, 38; Alejandro Lora Yucupicio, 37; Leobardo Pedroza Navarro, 44; Carlos Enrique García Marrón, 22; and Verónica Fava, de 44.
[p]Omar.millan@sandiegored.com
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