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Mexican Police Seizes 2.5 Tons of Drugs
Mexican Federal Judicial Police agents have seized almost 2.5 tons of drugs in two different raids, one in the Tiburon rural cooperative community in the state of Sonora, and another in the city of Oaxaca, in the state of the same name, said Saturday the Federal Attorney Office (PGR).
The PGR said that Federal Judicial Police agents attached to the Specialized Prosecutor Office for the Attention of Crimes Against Health seized Friday a Chevrolet pickup truck that was transporting marihuana.
The federal agents found, when they stopped the van to revise the cargo of coal, 52 white jute bags with 1,560 packages with the drug.
A total of 1,662 packages of marihuana with a total weight of 2.4 tons were secured by the agents. In a related case, intelligence personnel of the PGR delegation in the state of Oaxaca was told that Mexicana de Aviacion airline flight 222 would bring to the city of Oaxaca from Mexico City a person who would carry an amount of drug.
PJF agents saw at the arrival of the flight a person that agreed with the description sent and followed him to the "Antequera" hotel in downtown Oaxaca City.
The Federal Judicial Police agents showed their identity cards to the person whose name was Jose Merced Campana Quiroz, and when they inspected a suitcase he was carrying, they found eight packages with 11.8 kilos of opium gum.
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