“Char” for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
WRITTEN BY: BRANDON SAINZ
08/13/2024
Culiacán, Sinaloa – The Secretary of National Defense, through the III Military Region and Ninth Military Zone, informs that within the framework of the National Public Security Strategy and the Zero Impunity Policy of the Federal Government, Mexican Army personnel, while establishing Military Security Posts on the Mexico 15 International Highway, Culiacán-Mazatlán, received a citizen complaint about armed people getting out of some tractor-trailers near the Costa Rica toll booth, in Culiacán.
Mexican Army personnel went to verify the situation and, upon conducting reconnaissance on foot, noticed two suspicious trucks, which had the doors of the box half-open, perceiving that they had signs of damaged boxes and modifications were observed inside them, so with the use of canine binomials they located inside 200 packages in the form of bricks lined with white tape, which contained a whitish substance with the characteristics of cocaine.
The drug found weighed approximately 200 kg, which means a loss equivalent to 40 million pesos for organized crime.
The seized goods were handed over to the competent authorities for investigation and expert actions, and these actions were carried out in strict compliance with the rule of law.