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JULY 5, 2025
INFORMATION BY INFO7MX
Mexican authorities reported the arrest in Colima of three people transporting 427 kilos of drugs on a clandestine aircraft from San Salvador.
Three arrested transporting drugs on a plane in Colima
Mexican authorities reported this Friday the arrest in the western state of Colima of three people transporting 427 kilos of cocaine on a clandestine aircraft detected 200 kilometers south of San Salvador, El Salvador.
In a joint statement, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) stated that in an intelligence and investigation operation, members of this institution, the Secretariat of National Defense (Defense), the National Guard (GN), the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar), the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), and the National Center for Surveillance and Protection of Airspace (CENAVI) located the aircraft carrying drugs and arrested the three people.
According to the information, the arrest resulted from surveillance efforts by CENAVI, which detected the aircraft’s “tracking” 200 kilometers south of San Salvador, the capital of the Salvadoran territory, heading toward Mexico.
The SSPC detailed that the tracking “did not comply with current aeronautical regulations when entering our space, so an alert was issued.”
“Six airplanes and a helicopter were immediately ordered to take off from two aerial platforms to intercept the clandestine aircraft. Security personnel were also deployed in Colima, in areas likely to land,” the statement said.
The SSPC also reported that “officers located the aircraft, which landed on a clandestine airstrip in the town of Tecomán, Colima,” the site of the three arrests, and “seized 11 packages containing 427 kilos of cocaine.”
They added that the seizure “has a financial impact on organized crime of more than $95 million pesos (approximately $5 million USD).”