I'm going to get high, dude!

'I'm going to get high, dude!': 105 TONNES of marijuana seized with colour-coded packaging and Homer Simpson labels

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:38 AM on 19th October 2010

• Eleven arrested after blazing pre-dawn gun battle - two injured
• Cannabis wrapped in 10,000 packages and colour coded
• Homer Simpson on one package: 'I'm going to get high, dude!'
• General in charge of bust said drugs were destined for America
• Over 28,000 have died in Mexican drug war in last four years

Some 105 tonnes of marijuana has been seized in Mexico, in what is expected to become the country’s biggest ever drug bust.

Eleven people were arrested yesterday in the city of Tijuana after a pre-dawn gun battle between members of the drug cartel and police and soldiers - two people were injured.

The marijuana was found in six cargo containers in a warehouse, wrapped in 10,000 packages and has a street value of £215million.

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Biggest bust: Police recovered 10,000 packages containing 105 tonnes of cannabis in Tijuana

Inscriptions: The parcels were colour coded and some included a picture of cartoon character Homer Simpson accompanied with the writing: 'I'm going to get high, dude!'

It was discovered after police on a routine patrol intercepted a convoy of vehicles escorting a tractor-trailer that had left the warehouse, officials said.

A shootout ensued before the 11 arrests in the city, which is across the U.S. border from San Diego, California.

Police and soldiers, acting on information from the suspects, raided the warehouse and two homes, where smaller amounts of marijuana were found.

Border: The city of Tijuana is located at the north of Mexico - across the border is San Diego

The neatly packaged cannabis - guarded by masked, heavily armed soldiers - was later displayed for the media at Morelos Army Base in Tijuana. 

General Alfonso Duarte Mugica, the military’s top commander in Baja California, said the drugs had an estimated street value of 4.2billion Mexican pesos - about £215million.

General Duate said that the marijuana was destined for America, and that authorities were still counting and weighing the packages, meaning the amount could increase.

The drugs, he said, were wrapped in different colours and labelled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included cartoon character Homer Simpson.

The inscription on that particular package - 'Voy de mojarra, que wey!' - is roughly translated as 'I'm going to get high, dude!'

On other drug parcel there were the names of animals, such as bulls and wolves, and on some there were symbols, including arrows.

The colours and the symbols are thought to be indicators as to where the parcels were destined.

Rounded up: The suspects are shown standing before the cannabis wrapped in 10,000 brown and silver packages, which had been hidden in six cargo containers

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