Mexican Navy Seizes About One Tonne of Cocaine off Guerrero: Six Arrested, With More Than 98 Tonnes Seized at Sea Under This Administration
Mexico's Security Cabinet announced that the Navy Secretariat, acting in its coast guard function, arrested six suspected offenders in an operation off the Pacific coast of Guerrero state, seizing 24 packages of a substance with the characteristics of cocaine weighing about 1,000 kilograms (about one tonne), and impounding a small vessel.
The operation resulted from naval maritime patrol and surveillance. After being read their legal rights, the detainees were handed over, together with the seized substance, to the Attorney General's Office (FGR), with support from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), to open the corresponding investigation file. The forensic weight of the substance is to be confirmed by the competent authority.
Mexican authorities say more than 98 tonnes of cocaine have been seized at sea under this administration, and this seizure will be added to the total once its weight is confirmed. The Navy conducts standing sea, air and land surveillance in national waters to suppress illicit activity and weaken criminal groups' operating capacity. (Source: Security Cabinet of Mexico)
Source: Security Cabinet of Mexico
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