Gustavo Castillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday February 4, 2023, p. eleven
Mexican Army and National Guard personnel seized 276,000 fentanyl pills, opium gum, weapons, and vehicles in the community of Costa Rica, in the municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa.
The Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) reported that When carrying out intelligence work and inter-institutional coordination (…), information was obtained about an address used to store synthetic drugs
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When monitoring, the military and national guards observed that two vehicles and their occupants left the indicated property. they fled and abandoned the vehicles, for which reason military personnel established a security perimeter for the members of the National Guard to carry out a search
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In this way, 276 thousand fentanyl pills weighing approximately 30 kilograms, 18 kilograms of fentanyl powder, two kilograms of opium gum; three weapons (two long and one short), chargers, cartridges and a motorcycle.
Subsequently, they seized a property that was set up as a clandestine laboratory for the production of synthetic drugs.
They destroy 33 tons of coal with cocaine
In Altamira, Tamaulipas, members of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Mexican Navy-Navy Secretariat (Semar) destroyed 2,399 sacks containing 33 tons 552 kilos of coal contaminated with cocaine.
The ministerial proceedings complied with the Narcotics Destruction Program and the disposal was carried out at the facilities of the Naval Port Protection Unit number 12, in the Port of Altamira.
In that act were present expert personnel, from the Federal Ministerial Police, the Criminal Investigation Agency, Semar, as well as from the Altamira Customs, the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection and the Internal Control Body of the FGR.
