According to Automotive news, employees or owners of auto dealerships are letting drug trafficking happen within the company. A new meaning is brought to the phrase “parts in parts” when marijuana is found amongst a shipment of parts.
Drug traffic ring found in a Honda/Volkswagen dealership in Maryland
According to DealershipForum.com, Maryland police most recently seized 120 pounds of marijuana (worth $ 1.6 million) from a local Honda/Volkswagen dealership. One employee in the parts department was paid $ 100 per illegal delivery. He accepted the contraband, and then passed it on to a drug dealer. Automotive News indicates comparable illicit activity occurred at a Detroit-area Mopar Parts Distribution Center, where two 10-pound bricks of marijuana came in a box of wiper blades. Is good help that hard to discover, when everybody needs a job?
Auto dealership hijinks abound
Think these are isolated cases? Try thinking about this. The previous Huling Brothers Auto Center of Seattle had quite a bit of illegal drug dealing happening in it, reports the Seattle Times. A Florida auto dealership was being used by Richard Carlson, who owns Nova Motor Group, as a “massive drug trafficking business,” reports Fox 29 WFLX of Hollywood, Fla.. Apparently Carlson stashed cocaine in SUVs which were shipped to Sweden. Duane Glenn worked with two partners selling cocaine in a Midway Motors in Abington, Massachusetts. Marijuana offenses were also involved within the arrests.
John DeLorean and his story
The DeLorean Motor Company was a high-end auto manufacturer that made distinctive gull-winged, stainless-steel luxury sports cars from 1975 until about 1982, when the company went bankrupt. The DeLorean DMC-12 was an American pop culture gem of the 1980s, but John DeLorean still had trouble maintaining operating capital. According to reports, DeLorean was filmed in what appeared to be a drug trafficking transaction, where he accepted money in exchange for the illicit substance. Because entrapment was supposedly used in this, DeLorean was cleared of all charges.
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Further reading
Automotive News
autonews.com/article/20100810/BLOG14/100819997/-1
Massachusetts Law enforcement Network
masscops.com/f79/police-make-drug-bust-abington-auto-dealer-38799/
Seattle Times
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003563972_huling09m.html
WFLX
wflx.com/Global/story.asp?S=12740394″>WFLX.com
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company
Man sues Texas auto dealership that sold him ‘drug car’
youtube.com/watch?v=auVGmt9T4uk
