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Mexican Agents Seize Pot, Heavy Weapons
Even though this amount of pot probably represents the daily usage of your standard rock band, the heavy weapons seized are what is notable about this story.Mexican federal agents seized a ton of marijuana and several heavy weapons and munitions in Baja, according to a published Mexican news report. The four suspects arrested in the raid are suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, according to the Mexican federal State Preventative Police ( PEP ). The raid took place on the east side of Puebla along the highway to San Luis. According to the translation, the pot, packaged in one kilogram packages, were lowered from a tractor-trailer rig to a basement in a warehouse and were found in the small underground area. With the drugs agents also seized two .50 caliber rifles ( AR-50 ), two AK47s, an AR-15, a Ruger Mini-14 rifle, 98 .50 caliber rounds and 48 7.62x39mm rifle cartridges. Agents also seized a 40mm grenade launcher along with four rounds,three of them fragmentation rounds. Agents noted the grenade launcher was the same type use in an attack of a Mexican public security official. Agents also seized a tractor-trailer rig, a 1996 Ford Sedan, a 1988 Ford Econoline van, a Nissan 200X and a motorcycle. Posted by: badanov 2010-05-02 |
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