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Personal Injury & Torts

Jun. 4, 2003

Free, With the Car: A Stash of Marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO - When 67-year-old Jose Cervantes bid on and won a car auctioned by the U.S. government in San Diego in July 1999 he got a lot more than he bid for - 119 pounds of marijuana hidden in the bumpers.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - When 67-year-old Jose Cervantes bid on and won a car auctioned by the U.S. government in San Diego in July 1999 he got a lot more than he bid for - 119 pounds of marijuana hidden in the bumpers.
        The marijuana had been overlooked by immigration agents when they seized the car...

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