Personnel from the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGJ) of the State of Nuevo León arrested two people with a cargo of cocaine valued at half a million dollars in the drug market.
According to a statement from the FGJNL, the insurance was taken out inside a public parking located at 206 Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla Street, just two blocks from Monterrey City Hall.
At the location, two men were arrested, identified as Jesus “N,” 42 years old, and Guillermo “N,” 37, who had hidden in a Chrysler Town Country car a shipment of 49 kilograms of cocaine and 7,520 dollars in cash divided into $20 bills.
After reviewing the two detained individuals, the New Leon Prosecutor’s Office agents seized a handgun, a digital scale, and ten cartridges. Everything was made available to the appropriate authorities, reported the New Leon Joint Attorney General’s Office.
It was leaked unofficially that both characters were arrested when they were about to carry out a transaction for the sale of cocaine, between one of them from Tamaulipas and another presumed to be based in the center of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Only a week ago, municipal police officers from Monterrey pursued a drug dealer around the vicinity of the Nuevo León State Government Palace, on the other side of Marcoplaza that separates it from Monterrey City Hall.
In his escape, the drug dealer threw two backpacks that inside contained 140 packets of white powder with characteristics similar to fentanyl, 50 with cocaine, 14 with crack, 40 with amphetamines, and 47 doses of marijuana, in addition to a short gun caliber nine millimeters.
At the beginning of November, a shipment of cocaine with a value of 3.5 million dollars was intercepted by the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as it entered the country through the border bridge in the municipality of Anáhuac, Nuevo León.
It was one of the most significant shipments seized in the area, weighing in at 102 kilograms of cocaine that was hidden in a tractor-trailer carrying a flatbed trailer.
Given its status as a point of transit for drug trafficking, federal authorities have dismantled drug labs for the manufacture of synthetic drugs in Nuevo León.
The last one of them was found last December 18th in the town of Pesquería, located in the Northeast region of the outskirts of Monterrey; there, the State Investigations Agency detained four people and confiscated 100 kilograms of crystal, utensils, and chemical precursors used for the manufacture of synthetic drugs.
Last October, an operation of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) achieved the dismantling of a drug laboratory in the municipality of Salinas Victoria, north of Monterrey, where 41 sacks, 20 metal containers, and seven tanks full of chemical precursors were seized.
Given the above, which evidences the production and sale of synthetic drugs such as fentanyl in the central area of Nuevo León, local activists and legislators have asked the State Prosecutor’s Office for a report that reflects the actual situation of drug consumption in the entity.
It should be remembered that at the beginning of December, the Federal Ministerial Police seized 41 thousand pills of fentanyl that a passenger of the bus line that connects the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa was transporting, a shipment that in the black market could cost more than 100 thousand dollars.
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