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Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
2011-07-26
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Mexican military and security forces seized a total of 9.75 kilograms of marijuana, 6.78 kilograms of opium gum and one kilogram of cocaine in counternarcotics operations since July 14th.

• A unit of the Mexican 34th Military Zone found one kilogram of cocaine near Puerto Morelos in Quintana Roo July 20th. The drugs were contained in one package buried in the sand on the beach in Benito Juarez municipality.
• A detachment of the Mexican 9th Military Zone found an abandoned drug laboratory in Sinaloa state July 20th. The lab was near the village of La Esperanza in the La Cruz de Elota municipality, measuring 20 by ten meters in size. Several containers, lab equipment and safety wear for use in a lab were found.
• A unit of the Mexican 35th Military Zone seized a quantity of opium gum at a checkpoint in Guerrero state July 21st. The unit had set up the checkpoint near the village of Carrizal de Bravo in Eduardo Neri municipality. Soldiers stopped one vehicle with three suspects aboard, and searched it finding 6 packages of opium gum weighing a total of 6.78 kilograms.
• A joint operation of the Mexican Navy, Army, Customs and the taxing authority located 22,000 kilograms of chemicals to be used in the production of synthetic drugs July 14th. The seizure took place in the port of Veracruz, Veracruz where the diethyl succinate which had been shipped in from the Republic if China was found. The chemicals were stored in a shipping container when they were found.
• Mexican MArines arrested eight individuals and seized nearly ten kilograms of marijuana in three separate incidents in Tamaulipas state.
  • On July 14th, a marine unit arrested four individuals and seized 4.75 kilograms of marijuana. The arrested took place on the San Fernando to Reynosa highway in the Gabriel de la Garza colony at a residence. Marines also seized four rifles, one handgun and 127 rounds of ammunition. The detainees were identified as Jesus Alberto Avila Molina AKA El Flaco, 18, and and Hipolito Galvan Yanez AKA El Polo, 19.The other two detainees were minors who names were not disclosed.
  • At a traffic stop in Miguel Hidalgo colony in Ciudad Madero July 15th, Marines searched a vehicle in a traffic stop and found quantities of marijuana, cocaine and crack cocaine apparently divided up for retail sale. Detained were Pilar Pilares Ruiz, 54, and Jorge Cesar Galvan Ramon, 29.
  • On July 15th in Ampliacion Loma Alta colony in San Fernando at a traffic stop Marines seized five kilograms of marijuana and arrested two individuals. The detainees were identified as Juan José Carrillo Bäez, 21, and Miguel Angel Fuentes Rios,20 .