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Caribbean-Latin America
Sinaloa: Mexican Army Busts 19, Seizes Drugs and Weapons
2010-07-22
Google Translate. For a map click here,
Elements of three different Mexican Army units arrested a total of 19 people, seized several kilograms of marijuana and seized a quantity of weapons in operations Tuesday, according to Mexican press accounts.

The Mexican 42nd Infantry battalion was carrying out local recon near the town of Angostura and found two warehouses totalling 10,000 square meters.

Soldiers arrested 16 men and seized 4251 kilograms of marijuana in 623 taped packages, and a vehicle and two trucks, one of which had a trailer with a secret compartment.

Meanwhile elements of the Mexican 8th Infantry Battalion patrolling near the village of El Roble in Mazatlan detained a man and a woman at a residence.

Inside the house the soldiers found: five kilograms of marijuana, a .50 caliber Barrett rifle, 13 AK-47 assault rifles, two AR-15 assault rifles, five handguns, a homemade explosive device, 71 magazines and 2,418 cartridges.
That seems rather a lot. Probably a good thing they've been taken off the street.
Also seized were: two trucks, one armored, 10 tactical vests, tactical clothing and accessories such as belt and holsters, night-vision devices, backpacks, boots, tunics, uniforms and helmets.
These people are serious.
At roughly the same time elements of the Mexican 94th Infantry Battalion operating in the PEMEX barrio in Culican, arrested a man at a residence and found: 248 grams crystal meth, 30,500 pesos ($2,382 USD), three pistols, four magazines and 31 cartridges.
Posted by:badanov

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