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This article was translated and reposted from LA JORNADA
Police in Nuevo Leon detained a tractor-trailer carrying food supplies labeled “Cartel del Noreste”. Photo taken from the social network X @GerardoPPmanes.
The driver of a tractor-trailer was detained in the border municipality of Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, after he was caught leaving a breach, transporting food supplies labeled with the acronym of the Northeast Cartel.
The State Public Security Secretary, Gerardo Palacios Pámanes, informed through his social networks, that the driver of the tractor-trailer was arrested, who said that he crossed from Nuevo Laredo to the municipality of Anáhuac through a breach and not by road.
The detainee revealed that the objective was to distribute the supplies among the inhabitants of the rancherías of this municipality and thus gain their sympathy, in order to prevent them from informing on the criminals.
Upon searching the vehicle, Fuerza Civil found boxes with various items such as flour, vegetable oil, toilet paper, beans, rice, soup, among other items corresponding to a pantry. Also, several doses of drugs were found.
In view of this situation, the subject, identified as César, 34 years old, was placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, while his legal situation is being defined.
This support was intended to obtain the support of the villagers for the criminal group, which intended to distribute more than 500 “narcodespensas” in the north of the state, but they were intercepted by Fuerza Civil in Anahuac.
The packages, which contained at least 25 items, including food and cleaning supplies, were marked with the initials C.D.N, which correspond to the “Cartel del Noreste”, a splinter group of the Zetas which has its main stronghold in Nuevo Laredo, according to police sources.
“Fuerza Civil detained the driver of a tractor-trailer that crossed from Nuevo Laredo to Anáhuac, Nuevo León, through a gap, transporting boxes of groceries labeled with the initials of a criminal group,” the official explained.
“According to the detainee, the objective was to distribute them among ranchers to gain their sympathy, thus avoiding being denounced”. The arrest was made on Donaciano E. Chavarría Street, between Iguana and Ignacio Zaragoza Avenue, in the center of Anáhuac.
Hours later, the state Security Secretariat detailed that in the truck there were 521 boxes, all with the initials C.D.N.
The grocery items would have a cost of approximately 600 pesos, if the average price in supermarkets of products such as rice, beans, flour, cookies and oatmeal, among others, is added.
In addition, 25 doses of crystal meth were found in the truck.
ANÁHUAC, NUEVO LEÓN
