[scotian]

This guy made a killing smuggling weed across the border and seems to have lived quite the lifestyle including a $2 million car and hot model girlfriend, from the article:

"A Quebec man accused of supplying potent Canadian marijuana to much of the U.S. eastern seaboard set aside $2-million to finance the murder of anyone who rats on him, New York prosecutors allege.

Further, Jimmy Cournoyer, 33, of Laval, built his $1-billion drug empire by “gaining control over ports and customs checkpoints through a combination of covert operations and outright political corruption” and abusing “sovereign tribal lands” on First Nations’ reserves “that are almost impossible to police,” prosecutors claim.

Mr. Cournoyer, known by the nicknames Cosmo and Superman, was living a playboy lifestyle until arrested in Mexico last year and flown to face trial in New York."

Link: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/06/...rs-allege/

I think there's quite a few guys like him who are involved in cross border smuggling operations from coast to coast, his jet setting lifestyle and ostentatious displays of wealth probably weren't the best idea for someone involved in that racket, have fun in the slammer bud.

[alecks]

the money always gets to you in the end.sounds like a frank lucas remake to me.smarter than the average cat but eventually you'll be caught.

[Asaxon]

The border gets tighter and tighter between ports (in BC/WA sector they literally have cameras and sensors along with 50 f/t border patrol for the 50-mile Vancouver stretch only). This along with the inland checkpoints should make it increasingly hard to get things across unless, of course, you have people on the inside. Just 15 years ago you could literally walk across from Surrey to Blaine without anyone caring. Is it similarly strict on the east coast/ prairies now?

[scotian]

(02-06-2013 06:24 AM)Asaxon Wrote:  

The border gets tighter and tighter between ports (in BC/WA sector they literally have cameras and sensors along with 50 f/t border patrol for the 50-mile Vancouver stretch only). This along with the inland checkpoints should make it increasingly hard to get things across unless, of course, you have people on the inside. Just 15 years ago you could literally walk across from Surrey to Blaine without anyone caring. Is it similarly strict on the east coast/ prairies now?

The Canada/USA border is the longest, undefended border in the world, it would be impossible for them to monitor all areas. I've heard many stories of guys in New Brunswick driving ski-doos across the border with hockey bags full of bud, once unloaded in Maine, a $2000 pound goes for $3000, double that if it makes its way to Florida, its big business.

And of course we have the SWAYZE EXPRESS:

[el mechanico]

Not Florida you can get lbs way cheaper than 2k here. My boy in Tuscon pays 100$ a lb and it's pretty damn good.

[Asaxon]

Undefended it is but you would be surprised to see the amount of high tech they have put up in the more populated spots. Abbotsford, Surrey etc literally have camera trees every 200-300 feet now and I know a guy who lives on the border and sees BP action every night. I guess this might just be the case along the well-known routes in British Columbia but overall the US has amped up the northern border quite a bit I think. You would need some serious logistics to be picked up on the other side, plus 80% of the border is in fairly rough, remote country without easy access.

[Asaxon]

(02-06-2013 10:10 AM)el mechanico Wrote:  

Not Florida you can get lbs way cheaper than 2k here. My boy in Tuscon pays 100$ a lb and it's pretty damn good.

Never heard of $100 per pound anywhere. Maybe per ounce?

[w00t]

Propably mexican brickweed.

[scotian]

(02-06-2013 10:12 AM)Asaxon Wrote:  

Undefended it is but you would be surprised to see the amount of high tech they have put up in the more populated spots. Abbotsford, Surrey etc literally have camera trees every 200-300 feet now and I know a guy who lives on the border and sees BP action every night. I guess this might just be the case along the well-known routes in British Columbia but overall the US has amped up the northern border quite a bit I think. You would need some serious logistics to be picked up on the other side, plus 80% of the border is in fairly rough, remote country without easy access.

You're right the security is very tight out west, especially since the USA DEA opened an office in Vancouver, which I don't agree with as it infringes upon our national sovereignty. The Americans put a lot of pressure on Canada to stem the flow of BC bud to Canada, even arresting Marc Emery, the "Prince of Pot" for selling seeds online, something that is completely legal in Canada. The gutless Canadian government extradited him to the States and he's rotting in a jail somewhere in Georgia.

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"Pot playboy" Jimmy Cournoyer gets 27 years in jail for smuggling 109,000 kilos of marijuana into U.S.

Quote:

The possibility of Cournoyer returning to Canada to serve his sentence was a much-discussed issue from both sides of the case. U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch had asked that Cournoyer serve at least a 30-year sentence because Canada’s Corrections and Conditional Release Act would significantly reduce the amount of time he will actually serve behind bars.

The U.S. does not have a parole system for federal inmates. In Canada, inmates are eligible for full parole after having served one-third of their sentence. They also qualify for a statutory (or automatic) release after having served two-thirds of the sentence if they were previously denied parole and are not considered a risk of reoffending in a violent manner.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/20/...-into-u-s/