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For: The opinion Posted Jan 19, 2023, 15:33 pm EST
Although drug trafficking is a criminal activity that has permeated all of Mexico, the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, continues to be a key point for this crime. A major blow was recently dealt against drug lords when 23,000 fentanyl pills were seized from a courier company.
Part of the actions that the Government of Mexico has undertaken against drug trafficking are focused on inspections of this type of company, since criminal groups try to traffic the drug by hiding it in packages that they later send to different destinations.
This confiscation was achieved during a National Guard operation in which canine pairs participated. The shipment was found hidden in the false bottom of an automotive accessory identified as a snorkel.used for off-road vehicles.
Randomly, the national guards selected packages for the canine elements to sniff them out, in one of them they showed a reactive attitude to drugs, for which they proceeded to open the package and inspect it carefully, finding in it the 23,000 blue pills with the characteristics characteristic of fentanyl.
The drugs were distributed in four plastic bags, placed in the holes of the automotive accessory, which in turn was plastered. The confiscated was made available to the delegation of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) in Culiacán, to carry out the corresponding investigations.
Two weeks after the arrest of Ovid Gunzman In Jesús María, a community in Culiacán, things in the city have not fully returned to normal. An elementary school remains closed, patrols by military elements are still a constant and many people suffer from post-traumatic stress.
In addition, in recent days, 10 grenades were found thrown at different points, which could be deactivated, but it is not ruled out that there are more in the area.
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