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Largest cocaine bust! Police seizes 1.6 tonnes of cocaine in 2 trucks
Mexican authorities make record cocaine bust of 1.6 tonnes concealed in two trailers, describing it as the largest discovery in the capital
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Mexico City authorities said they seized 1.6 tonnes of cocaine Tuesday believed to be from Colombia, describing it as the largest such discovery in the capital.
Police found the drugs in hidden compartments in two trailers on a highway on the edge of the city, the capital’s security chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said.
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POLICE MAKE RECORD COCAINE BUST IN MEXICO
It was “the largest seizure of cocaine in Mexico City by far,”
he told reporters.
According to initial investigations, the shipment arrived by sea from Colombia to Mexico’s Pacific port of Puerto Escondido.
Some of the cocaine was believed to be destined for distribution in the capital and some of it in the United States, Garcia Harfuch said.
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’14 SUSPECTS‘
Four suspected gang members from northwestern Mexico were arrested, he added.
It is the second major operation targeting drug cartels in Mexico City in July.
Two weeks ago, police arrested 14 suspects and seized weapons and drugs in the south of the capital.
Most those detained are being held on suspicion of belonging to the infamous Sinaloa cartel.
© Agence France-Presse
