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A Mexican Army detachment designated Task Force Sierra Madre has seized three camps in western Durango they say were manufacturing centers for crystal methamphetimine Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
The Mexican Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) said the detachment found the three camps hidden in trees and terrain in the western Durango town of Tamazula.
In the first camp was found two electric heaters, an oxygen tank, 25 empty drums of 200 liters, and nine meters of hose.
In camp two, soldiers found found 112.34 kilograms of methamphetamine, 250 kilograms of caustic soda, 100 kilograms of tartaric acid, two empty nitrogen tanks, a burner and a centrifuge, and one AR-15 and one AK-47 assault rifle with magazines and cartridges.
In the third camp was seized 550 kilograms of caustic soda, 340 kilograms of an unidentified white granular chemical, 80 gallons brown crystal brown, 42 bins of different capacities, 22 with hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide, 17 LP 30 kilogram gas tanks, 20 empty drums, six water tanks, nine steel vessels, three burners and an electric centrifuge.
No arrests were reported in the raid.
Tamazula, Durango is a few kilometers across the border with Sinaloa in the Sierra Occidental mountains.