They arrest a person who tried to enter 1,500 electronic cigarettes into Baja California

In Baja Californiamembers of the National Guard (GN) and National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), stopped to one person who intended to enter Mexican territory with 1,500 electronic cigarettesin addition to 250 cigarettes of apparent dope.

During surveillance and crime prevention inspections in the “El Chaparral” checkpoint of the Tijuana customselements from both institutions spotted a van coming from the United States, which received a green light at the tax traffic light, that is, free from customs inspection.

The staff realized that the unit traveled with polarized glasseswhich prevented visibility inside the vehicle, so they told the driver to stop to carry out a preventive inspection in order to verify that he was not transporting prohibited objects, to which he voluntarily agreed.

The members of both institutions searched the truck and in the trunk they located nine cardboard boxes containing 1,500 electronic cigarettesas well as 50 transparent jars with 250 cigarettes of green and dry grass with the characteristics of the dope.

By presidential decree, the circulation and marketing of Electronic Nicotine Administration Systems, Alternative Nicotine Consumption Systems, electronic cigarettes and vaporizing devices with similar uses is prohibited within the Republic, which, coupled with the possession of apparent marijuana of this person, led to his detention.

The person was read the Booklet of Rights that Assist Persons in Detention, their registration was made in the National Registry of Detentions and, together with the vehicle and cigarettes, it was made available to the Public Ministry agency of the Federation in the entity to continue the corresponding investigations.

I have a degree in Psychopedagogy. I began my career in journalism at El Debate Mazatlán as an Editorial Corrector, where my main function was to review, analyze and restructure the texts before being published in all the products generated by this publishing house, later I served as closing editor in the printed newspaper. A few months later, I made a big leap in the digital area as a web reporter, writing articles of all kinds, ranging from politics, entertainment, national and international news. My interest in continuing to learn more led me to be a web editor of Debate and I currently direct the Soy Vida portal, a health media that was born in 2020 and specializes with scientific support in its main sections: Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity and Depression.

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