Culiacán, Sinaloa.- Mexico confiscated 2.5 tons of methamphetamine i 100,000 fentanyl tablets in the state of Sinaloa, bastion of a powerful drug cartel, the Secretary of the Navy and the Attorney General’s Office reported this Saturday.
The agents “secured 956 containers with two tons 535 kilos 89 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, 100 thousand 20 fentanyl tablets, 247 thousand” that were transported in a boat, the prosecution statement said. Two men were also arrested in the operation, he added.
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the confiscation was carried out when elements of the Navy carrying out a surveillance patrol on the coastal strip, adjacent to the Bay of St. Ignatius, municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa (northwest), detected “a boat manned by two men, the which did not have navigation lights “.
On boarding the boat they discovered methamphetamine hydrochloride, road known as “glass,” and fentanyl tablets, in addition to cash and geolocation devices.
Boat with drug loading / Photo: Courtesy
This region is a stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, sentenced to life in prison in the United States.
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Following the extradition of El Chapo to the United States in 2017, the Sinaloa cartel came under the control of his children and Ishmael. “in May“Zambada, according to authorities.
Methamphetamine and fentanyl, highly addictive drugs, are a source of safety and health issues in both Mexico and the United States, but they are also trafficked to other parts of the world.
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Last November, Hong Kong authorities confiscated more than half a ton of methamphetamine in a container that sailed from Mexico.
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The government of this country explained that the pandemic forces traffickers to charter larger drug loads in the face of the impossibility of making travel to the “mules” that transport smaller quantities.
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Mexico has accumulated 300,000 homicides, most of them attributed to organized crime, since the government militarized the drug strategy in 2006.
While in the United States overdose deaths exceeded half a million in the last decade, according to legislative analyzes of that country.
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