Mica for cartelinsider.com
In an unprecedented operation, the Attorney General’s Office of Justice of Nuevo León (FGJENL), together with state and federal authorities, incinerated a total of 900 kilograms of different drugs at the facilities of the Seventh Military Zone.
This was the first time that the FGJNL proceeded to burn narcotics in a public event and specified that the destroyed drugs (cannabis, cocaine, and methamphetamines) were confiscated between 2020 and 2022.
The destroyed substances consisted of 818 kilograms of 250 grams of marijuana, 84 kilograms of 100 grams of cocaine, and 8 kilograms of 350 grams of methamphetamines, whose estimated value on the illicit market was over 23 million pesos.
In addition to the destroyed drug, the Acting Director of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGJENL), Pedro Arce Jardón, reported that public security actions during 2023 resulted in the arrest of 8,358 people for drug-related offenses, with 6,702 individuals facing legal proceedings and 66 convictions.
In his message to the media, Arce Jardón highlighted the institution’s firm stance to counter the problem of drug dealing in collaboration with the Civil Force, the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). He also reported that during 2023, 534 raids resulted in these significant detainments, reaffirming the importance of inter-institutional coordination.
Gonzalo Sánchez Betanzos (FGR delegate in Nuevo León), Antonio Melchor Ruiz, and Juan José Montiel Maldonado (zone and brigade commanders, respectively), as well as Esteban Cantú Montes (Director General of the State Agency of Investigations of the FGJNL), were also present during the incineration to emphasize the interagency collaboration between different areas of the justice administration and the military sector in the fight against drug trafficking.
At the end of December 2023, authorities in Nuevo León managed to remove from the streets a shipment valued at half a million dollars, according to information from the FGJN.
Just two blocks away from Monterrey’s City Hall, elements from the Prosecutor’s Office, who had been following the steps of two drug traffickers using intelligence work, managed to apprehend two individuals while they were attempting to exchange a shipment of 49 kilograms of cocaine.
The capture took place in the facilities of a public parking lot in the heart of Monterrey, which showed that drug dealing in the metropolitan area of Nuevo León is on the rise.
The arrested individuals, accused of crimes against health, were also seized a total of seven thousand dollars in cash and a firearm. Everything was handed over to the federal Public Prosecutor’s Office.
This shipment was registered one month ago, but at the limits of the border between Nuevo León and Texas, officers of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detected 102 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a tractor pulling a trailer and attempting to cross into the United States.
At the time, US authorities classified the shipment as one of the largest in history to be recorded at the borders of Nuevo León. According to their estimates, it would have represented a profit of 3.5 million dollars for organized crime.
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