Largest Drug Cash Seizure Ever: A Quarter of a Billion Dollars!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Money & Finance, Pictures on March 26, 2007 at 11:03 am


From US News and World Report, authorities made two extraordinary seizures not long ago: the largest drug cash seizure and the largest maritime drug seizure in history.

On March 15, Mexican authorities raided a villa in one of Mexico City’s poshest neighborhoods and found what they say is the largest drug cash seizure on record– anywhere – $205 million in cash, most of it in $100 bills. Total weight of all that cash: at least 4,500 pounds. "This is like law enforcement hitting the ultimate jackpot," said DEA top cop Karen Tandy. Also seized were 200,000 euros, 158,000 pesos, eight luxury vehicles, and a small arsenal. Officials say the money is tied to Chinese and Indian suppliers of raw materials for methamphetamine, which is brewed in Mexican superlabs and then exported to the United States.

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13 comments to "Largest Drug Cash Seizure Ever: A Quarter of a Billion Dollars!"

  1. Jimbo
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    Just wondering, isn’t the 158,000 pesos worth about 4 dollars ?

  2. Bryan
    March 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

    About 14 grand.

  3. El Chile Grande
    March 26th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Actually, Bank oficials after seeing this picture contested the 158,000 pesos saying that it looked more like 4 million pesos…

  4. mrgoodbar
    March 26th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    Obviously the War on Drugs is working…

  5. Chad
    March 27th, 2007 at 1:10 am

    WooHoo, now the national debt is a little less

    ::rollseyes::

  6. yopichoi
    May 3rd, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    We have superlabs in México?

  7. drug user
    May 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    thats why people do drugs

    the money is great

  8. buckshotb
    June 12th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    SO THATS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN A-ROD CASHES HIS CHECK!!!

  9. smee
    July 11th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    oh my

  10. ***Chris***
    September 5th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Heh yeah my bed used to look like that… Now it’s alot bigger.

  11. tay
    October 1st, 2008 at 9:41 am

    what a shame it makes me so sad that all that money got confiscated

  12. Jim
    November 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    Yeah I’m sure it’s WAS a half billion till the cops busted him ;-)

  13. Serafim
    January 31st, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    looks something like my allowence ;)


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