$1M Worth of Weed Smuggled Into US in New Ford Cars Built in Sonora Alexander Simon - RT America
go to original July 17, 2017

Marijuana found in brand new Ford Fusions (Scripps National News)

Chunks of marijuana in the shape of half-moons were found smuggled in the spare tire wells of newly manufactured Ford Fusions in Ohio, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The authorities are still investigating how they got there.

Workers at a local car dealership found a package of marijuana hidden in the trunk of a vehicle and called in the Portage County Sheriff Department and the DEA, WKYC reported.

“Clearly something went wrong,” Silverio Balzano, a DEA agent in Youngstown, Ohio, told WKBN. “Generally speaking, they take it off anywhere else along the way.”

The vehicles were manufactured at the Ford plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico before being shipped by rail to Lordstown, Ohio.

Investigators found new Ford Fusions at the railyard, and found five more packages of marijuana, also hidden in the trunks of cars. In all, investigators recovered nine additional packages of marijuana, over 400lbs (217kg) in four different counties.

Officials believe drug smugglers made some kind of mix-up to allow large quantities of marijuana to get lost. Each of the 15 Ford Fusions had approximately 32lb (14.5kg) of marijuana in their respective trunks, officials said. The street value of the marijuana is estimated at over $1 million.

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