Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Our Lady of Guadalupe delivered meth
Paintings concealed drug deals at San Ysidro border crossing
Crystal meth
Tijuana police say an anonymous tip led them to search merchandise at a roadside curio shop at the San Ysidro border crossing on August 26, where they discovered individual doses of heroin or methamphetamine hidden inside secret compartments in paintings being sold by a street vendor.
The Baja California daily El Mexicano reported that the paintings included images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Last Supper, and Pink Floyd.
According to El Mexicano, the scheme worked like this: Travelers in motor vehicles would ask the vendor for their drug of choice, which would be brought to them in individual doses as they waited in traffic. Once they removed the drugs and consumed them, the same vendor would return and take back the painting on the pretext that the buyer had changed his mind.
"That's how they sobered up before crossing the border," one police officer told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
El Mexicano’s account did not explain how the driver or passengers in a specific vehicle knew which of many vendors to ask for drugs, nor how the single vendor allegedly involved in the drug sales knew which travelers might be interested in the contraband.
Most of the alleged drug sales took place in the early morning hours of Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, police said.
Officers arrested David Durán Guzmán, 40, at his curio shop, El Mexicano reported. Police said they found 60 doses of heroin and meth at Durán's shop but did not specify the quantities of each drug.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Our Lady of Guadalupe delivered meth
Paintings concealed drug deals at San Ysidro border crossing
Our Lady of Guadalupe delivered meth
Paintings concealed drug deals at San Ysidro border crossing
Crystal meth
Tijuana police say an anonymous tip led them to search merchandise at a roadside curio shop at the San Ysidro border crossing on August 26, where they discovered individual doses of heroin or methamphetamine hidden inside secret compartments in paintings being sold by a street vendor.
The Baja California daily El Mexicano reported that the paintings included images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Last Supper, and Pink Floyd.
According to El Mexicano, the scheme worked like this: Travelers in motor vehicles would ask the vendor for their drug of choice, which would be brought to them in individual doses as they waited in traffic. Once they removed the drugs and consumed them, the same vendor would return and take back the painting on the pretext that the buyer had changed his mind.
"That's how they sobered up before crossing the border," one police officer told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
El Mexicano’s account did not explain how the driver or passengers in a specific vehicle knew which of many vendors to ask for drugs, nor how the single vendor allegedly involved in the drug sales knew which travelers might be interested in the contraband.
Most of the alleged drug sales took place in the early morning hours of Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, police said.
Officers arrested David Durán Guzmán, 40, at his curio shop, El Mexicano reported. Police said they found 60 doses of heroin and meth at Durán's shop but did not specify the quantities of each drug.
Comments