19 Tons of Marijuana Seized Amid Mexico's Falling Interdiction Rates Kyra Gurney - InSight Crime
go to original July 12, 2014

Authorities in Mexico have seized nearly 19 tons of marijuana in the state of Sinaloa, but the country's total marijuana seizures in 2014 are still on track to finish slightly behind 2013 levels.

On July 8, agents from the Attorney General's Office and the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) seized 18,843 kilos of marijuana and slightly more than a kilo of methamphetamine on a property in the state's capital city of Culiacan, reported El Universal. Most of the packages of marijuana were discovered in a truck on the property, which was seized during the operation along with a dump truck.

According to official sources consulted by Excelsior, members of the Pacific Cartel - a Sinaloa Cartel faction - were responsible for transporting the drugs. The traffickers fled before the raid on the property, however, and no one was captured during the operation.

Between January 1 and June 30 this year, Sedena seized nearly 300 tons of marijuana in Mexico.

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