Interstate Transportation, Highway Interdiction HOTSPOTS

2cimdma

2cimdma

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You ordered the seeds from a seed bank overseas. They made it through the customs and were delivered with no problems. You germinated those seeds and nurtured them and they grew to become beautiful mothers giving you many many clones. You planted them clones and babied them for months on end until harvest time. When harvest time came you cut, trimmed, dried, cured, weighed, and packaged it. For months you have stayed under the radar of law enforcement and in just a few days all that work and risk will pay off; for all that's left is getting your product to market. For some this just means having your buddy stopping by to pick it up, but for others this means having your product driven hundreds, or even thousands of miles for those California to east coast runs. All that stands between you and your payday for the year is the open highway.

I looked around on RIU and I didn't come across any thread dealing with this topic. So please post anything dealing with interstate interdiction hotspots. If the info on this thread saves just one person from getting busted then we did our job. So enough with the intro. and onto the topic.

AVOID I-80 IN LASALLE COUNTY FROM PERU, ILLINOIS THROUGH MARSEILLES, ILLINOIS.
This stretch of I-80 has always been risky but since November last year it has gotten much worse with the creation of a new task force named SAFE(State's Attorney's Felony Enforcement). SAFE was created by Lasalle county State's Attorney(States attorney=District attorney) Brian Towne. Besides SAFE you also have to deal with Illinois state police. But that's not it. On that stretch of I80 you pass through a few towns and all those towns police departments patrol 80 as well. Those towns are Peru, Lasalle, Utica, and Ottawa. The town police dont patrol as much as SAFE and state but they are out there. Peru police sit right off of 80 and have busted a few people who have gotten off the highway to get gas or stop at the fast food places on Route 251. All the different police units on I80 are looking for the same thing... out of state plates. The plates that will get the most attention are California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Really any out of state will get attention but the ones I just listed will get the most. As far as reasons to pull you over. The most common are of course following to closely, improper lane usage(not using your turn signal), and speeding. Speeding can be as little as 2 mph over the limit, which is 65mph in Illinois. I was in Lasalle county jail last fall for a couple weeks. I was in a small cell block with only 14 people or so. Out of those 14 people 2 were in there for weed. They were separate cases but both coming from Cali. One of them was pulled over for 2 mph over and the other was part of a 3 person operation were one car with 2 people were driving a few miles ahead of the car carrying the weed. The car carrying the weed was pulled over and the cops found the 50+ lbs of weed. The cops then had the driver call the blocking car that was a few miles ahead and tell them that his car broke down. So the people in the blocking car came back and of course the cops were there waiting for them. Anyways I kinda got off topic. If you are driving through with out of state plates and get pulled over with drugs then its basically already over for you. The cops are going to ask to search the car. If you say no they are going to bring the dog around the car. A few years ago a guy was pulled over by police and he refused to give consent to search his car. So the cops,with no probable cause, took a dog around his car. The dog hit on the car and the cops then had probable cause and searched his car which contained a few hundred pounds of weed. He was found guilty. He took his case all the way to the US supreme court. The supreme court ruled that cops didn't need consent or probable cause to bring the dog around his car cause it didn't violate his constitutional rights cause the search wasn't invasive. That case all began in Lasalle county and the guy was pulled over on I-80.

Well I didn't intend to type all that I did, I kind of got carried away. So my best advise is DO NOT TAKE I-80 east bound(east bound they are looking for drugs) or west bound(west bound they are looking for cash). If heading to Chicago you can bypass this stretch of highway by getting off I-80 as soon as you cross into Illinois from Iowa and get onto I-88. Or you can take I-74 to I-55 North or I-57 north and it will take you right into the city. If you decide to say fuck it and try to make it through this section of I-80 save $15,000 for bond money if you want to bail out immediately. Or you can ask for a bond reduction and they should lower it to $100,000 which means you pay $10,000. Illinois does not use bail bondsmen. If you want to bail out you pay 10% of the bond. So if bond is set at $150,000 you need to have $15,000 cash brought to the jail to bond ya out. Also if caught in Lasalle county money talks. Meaning you pay enough in fines you may not even see the inside of a prison cell or if so it could be a few months instead of years. For example you get caught they may offer you 6 years in prison, or if you pay a $10,000 fine before your next court date you can get 60 days county time instead, and off 60 days county time you only have to do 30 days cause they cut your time in half. Ok once again I'm getting carried away on typing. Below are a few links about I80 and Lasalle county. Take care everyone and be safe. Later

http://newstrib.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=78&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=28&S=1

http://wkplaw.com/archives/844

http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=453540

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/illinois&id=8624762
 
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waldo79

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I85 from SC/GA border to Charlotte NC, especially around upstate SC - i.e. Greenville, Spartanburg and Cherokee counties. Frequent combined state/local intercept task forces, they are good at busting folks.
 
droopy107

droopy107

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Heads up on 80/90 (ohio turnpike) in northern Ohio. They use the same bullshit excuses on this section of I80. The cops did pull everyone over in the first county east of the Indiana border (Williams) until the local judge threw out a big case because he called them out on the reasons that these cars were being pulled over for in the first place. since then, low and behold, none of these infractions happen untill the suspect car reaches Lucas county (Toledo area) Kudos to the judge that called bullshit!!
 
dipm0de

dipm0de

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what u guys think of 70? i got pulled over twice for bullshit reason n had 8th in the car, not much but still enough to hassle and shit. but anyways, i was in driving across county, coming from cali and goin to east coast, first one pulled me over in utah, i was driving the speed limit, 5 over but traffic flow and he pulls out the median and starts following, i didnt do anything, didnt change my lane or hit the brake or anything, few miles down turns the lights on and im like WTF did i do and did get a lil nervous and was smoking so right before i opened my window or even he got out the car, i had a spray to clear the smell and he came over and gave me warning for window tint and 2nd one got me in kansas, this mother fuckers was a trick, at night he had parked his charger, the new ones on the left side of the high way with emergency lights on and me thinking its a regular car i passed right by him without changing lanes and pulled me over and gave me warning. WOSHH!!!! man i was the so fucking happy after he let me go, i stopped at a rest area, rolled one up and smoked the whole thing hahahaha it was 8th so wasnt hard to finish all that.
 
futureprospects

futureprospects

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its crazy how often they are pulling people over I hate the fact that they will do anything to pull you over make up any lame ass excuse! Fuck the police!
 
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laced23z

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It's all the interstates the dea trains these little town drug troopers to plate profile all cars outa state tags can I search ur vehicle is the norm for all highway troopers learn to stash ur shit and vac seal everything including ur money yo triple bag I stress triple bag and don't agree to let them search ur car!!!!!!!!!! Door panels come off easy and these lame troopers can't figure that out and u would b surprised how much u can get in a door just sayin and don't bag until the very last minute that way the smell don't permeate threw ur bags one person handles the green and another handles the bags the person handling the green never touches the bags always use rubber gloves I've had the dogs walk around my car on many diff times and not hit on my car but u have to bag the proper way and get to ur spot as soon as you can and do the speed limit and NO smoking in the car that means ciggs to and travel at nite way less drug troopers out and take the back roads stay off the interstate yo PS if you get caught DON'T snitch do ur time don't bring other people down cause ur to pussy to do ur time
 
D3monic

D3monic

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Watch out for I57 in Illinois as well , particularly near St Louis/ Illinois border and Bloomington Normal area.
 
bulletproofhoodies

bulletproofhoodies

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Any interstate highway that comes from the border regardless of how far you actually are from the border. Whatever highway seems the easiest to smuggle through from Mexico or Canada to any major city in the country will be watched heavily. The only one I can speack for is i-95 its from Florida all the way up the east coast mainvain for east coast smuggling
 
bluntmassa1

bluntmassa1

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Spawned said:
Anyone have any info on roads from Cali to fl?
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it would be best to stay off the interstate for sure dirt roads are the best you hardly ever see cops on dirt roads and you'll probally never see a k-9 unit on a dirt road but that haul will take forever on back roads.
 
tumorhead

tumorhead

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Good post. I've wondered about this and really think it's best if you're going to move weight to use more than 1 car with different license plates. Like drive for 24 hours, when you sleep you switch cars to a car registered in that state, drive another stretch, switch cars to one in that state.

But how to do that? Would require more than 1 person, which is a liability.

Just about every highway has stretches of just intense cop scrutiny, and yes out of state gets you fucked with. I've done plenty of road trips not carrying anything and was hassled multiple times across the country. Maryland, Nevada, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, all suck. Even OH is pretty bad. (Used to live there and commute to MD a lot, always got pulled over in OH or MD)

It's important to dress nicely, I wear something like banana republic pants, nice button down shirt, speak articulately, and when they ask about pot I just laugh and say nah I enjoy a beer every once in a while but I don't mess with that shit, while looking at the cop in the eyes. It's the same reaction I have when they ask about guns, cause it's comical, do I look like a person carrying guns? (assuming you're dressed nicely and speak articulately)

I've been pulled over because I had all my windows down and was airing it out after burning one on I-70. I had a radar detector, slowed down way before the turn where the cop was waiting. He ran up and told me to put the cigar I'd just lit out and roll the windows up. He said I was going 3mph over, and said my radar detector should have been going off, I told him it was going off and I definitely slowed down before coming around the corner, no way I was speeding. He had me get out of the car, stand by the trunk, interrogated me about drugs and weapons, then let me go.

I've been stopped with coke in my pocket and the person I was with was arrested. Because I dress nicely and speak articulately I've gotten through a lot of shitty situations.

In the movie cocaine cowboys, they used tow trucks (made a real company) to transport the car carrying the drugs(but not cross country). It gave some type of deny-ability because if you're just towing a car you shouldn't be snooping through it.

Honestly I think flying would be the best, not commercially but hire a small plane to fly you and your luggage a few states over, then hire another pilot there to go a few more states. My gf's dad has a couple planes and it's not uncommon for people to hire someone to fly them somewhere (even to other states), and as long as you're not at a country boarder airport there isn't shit to worry about. Might cost a couple grand to get across the country but it's safe. Many airports are just unmanned strips. And there are various groups of small pilots that do multi state trips just like bikers or anyone else.
 
EvlMunkee

EvlMunkee

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I 40 east. Ya gotta cross the Mississippi. Stay away from the I40 corridor east of Mem. It looks like a parking lot for DEA. Seriously, find another route out of Mem.
 
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corvettejunkie6

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ok far as cali to fla ill tell you now the whole freaking route is hot but it really turns on when you hit the port of entry in el paso texas then your playing hardball im talking vans on side the interstate with xray vision after that its either 10 or 20 and neither one is a walk in the park also watch the deep south areas mississippi tennessee arkansas louisiana are notorious for drug interdictions along interstates and even lil areas like hoover alabama are deadly and oh lets not forget douglas county georgia basically the whole ride is a lotto pick for copos i 57 has cairo illinois raising he11 i-40 has oklahoma and arkansas and tennessee competing hard for the drug trafficers i-55 has madison county mississippi -i-20 you better watch texas,louisiana,vicksburg ms,ranking co ms and meridian and i -10 is flat foot hot the whole ride state to state florida and louisiana even use helicopters to watch i wish it was a route of dirt roads to take other than the roads of laredo ad the valley oh and the big dog i-95 well it isint as hot as you to be most units are out there sleep these days i hope i info helps ill post as i travel and see where the hot spots are
 
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StonedWhitey

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Man Im from Louisiana, I-10 from Houston to Fl/AL line is a massive LEO hangout. If you find your self on the basin bridge, follow the posted speed 65 mph. louisana state police are huge cocksuckers and will stop at nothing to fuck you over. Hope this helps.
 
buckaroo bonzai

buckaroo bonzai

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you have to be able to get pulled over and survive--

.....if your a professional 'driver':joint:


make a 'faraday'..(?) shield--to wrap paper in....for currency detectors

and they do use X-ray machine that can pick up heat signature in a moving vehicle

be smart--be proffessional or don't be at all-:blsmoke: good thread for headz-up! +rep to you guys protecting yourselves!
 
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