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250 tonnes of drug-making chemicals seized in Mexico
Sunday December 25, 2011 07:08:27 AM,
EFE
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Mexico City: At
least 252 tonnes of synthetic drug-making chemicals have been
seized at a Mexican port in one of biggest seizures of such
substances in the country.
The monomethylamine chemical, used to make illegal synthetic drugs
such as crystal meth, were seized at the Pacific port of Lazaro
Cardenas.
The shipment, reportedly sent from Shanghai, was destined for
Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala, said the navy secretariat, the
federal attorney general's office and the internal revenue service
in a joint statement.
The drug precursors were found by customs officials inside 1,160
barrels at the port, located in the western state of Michoacan.
The seizure came on the heels of two other cases this month at the
same port. Both the earlier shipments, of 205 tonnes and 100
tonnes of monomethylamine, were destined for the same Guatemalan
port.
Mexico's biggest-ever seizure of drug precursor chemicals was the
confiscation of 839 tonnes in July in Queretaro, which topped the
previous record of 200 tonnes discovered last year in Manzanillo.
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