EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Mexican navy has seized 1.5 tons of methamphetamine at the port of Mazatlan.
Members of the Naval Ports Protection Unit found the drug inside a tractor-trailer rig after detecting anomalies as the truck passed through an X-ray machine for inspection, the Ministry of the Navy (SEMAR) said in a statement.
Three drug-sniffing dogs led SEMAR personnel to the bed of the truck, where the drug was concealed in 494 plastic-wrapped bundles and in six plastic bags. A video released by SEMAR shows naval personnel and Mexican army soldiers using tools and welding equipment to pull out the drugs.
The statement said the shipment would have yielded 1.5 million doses on the street.
Authorities did not mention any arrests nor where the truck was headed.
Mexican news media linked the meth to the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel – a transnational criminal organization the United States blames for much of the fentanyl and other drugs coming across the Mexican border and flooding American cities.
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