Quite the Bust
 

An "overwhelming odor" led investigators to about 20 tons of narcotics stashed in pallets in the back of the truck, including about 38,000 pounds of marijuana, 2,700 pounds of cocaine and 67 pounds of methamphetamine, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

:eek::eek:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/26/...ex.html?hpt=T2

Hard to believe it was only worth $45 million. Drugs must be cheap right now.

thank goodness for poor driving criminals.

you're right. Boring rainy morning for me obviously

In the northeast and midwest sections of the US, today, the average price of marijuana runs from $700 - $2000 per pound, while in California the market jumps to $2000 - $6000 per pound.

http://www.marijuana-seeds.net/The-R...Marijuana.html

But it remained a tiny fraction of the cost of pure cocaine in the United States: roughly $17,000 per pound among major distributors, $48,000 per pound at the retail level.

http://www.cocainehelp.org/Article14...hreshold0.html


· Prices for methamphetamine vary throughout different regions of the United States.
· At the distribution level, prices range from $3,500 per pound in parts of California and Texas

http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/meth_factsheet.html

so at $2000 per lb for the pot (lowest price), 17K/lb for the coke, and $3,500 for the meth you’re talking $76 million, $45.9 million and $234,000 respectively or $122,134,000 total. Check the cops at the door.

eh.. I calculate the pot to be worth 12.5mil and the c to be worth about 31 mil. Have no idea what the other stuff is worth.

But those are just my calculations :o

There is no way that it was 38,000 lbs of Cali's finest. It had to be mexican commercial bud. $300 a pound at the very most with that much quantity. more like $100 a lb.

17k for a lb of c is also too high. could be about 13k tho.

I only know this from internet research