“Char” for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from LUZ NOTICIAS
The seized laboratories and other materials were destroyed on site.
06/24/2024
Through the Mexican Navy, the Ministry of the Navy reports that on June 20, naval personnel located and dismantled three clandestine laboratories in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Naval personnel, with the support of a helicopter, in cooperation with the Attorney General’s Office, located and neutralized three clandestine laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs, securing approximately 5,307 (five thousand three hundred and seven) kilograms of the finished product (presumed methamphetamine), 4,125 (four thousand one hundred and twenty-five) kilograms of chemical precursors, four reactors, three condensers, and diverse material, in the vicinity of the towns of “El Tecomate” and “Las Flechas”, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, 229 kilometers southeast of the Eighth Naval Zone.
It is worth mentioning that the seized laboratories and other materials were destroyed on-site.
- Likewise, so far this year, a total of 97 laboratories have been located and neutralized, more than 155 (one hundred and fifty-five) tons of methamphetamine, and 381 (three hundred and eighty-one) tons of chemical precursors have been seized.
With these actions, the Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico, in coordination with other institutions, contributes to the sum of efforts to combat criminal behavior, both in the establishment of clandestine laboratories and in the production of synthetic drugs in our country, thus weakening the production and distribution of drugs by criminal groups.