AZMEX EXTRA 27-9-16

AZMEX EXTRA 27 SEP 2016


ARMY SEIZES WEAPONS AND DRUGS
IN THE COLONIA EL RASTRO IN TWO ABANDONED CARS
27 / Sep / 2016
JC Vasquez

http://www.nuevodia.com.mx/Nota.aspx?p=18656

New Day / Nogales, Sonora

Drugs and weapons were located by members of the Department of Defense during surveillance patrols in various sectors of the city, including the colony El Rastro, the seizures were in two cars in an apparent state of abandonment, one had been reported stolen.

Through a press release, the Secretariat of National Defense, announced that it was long guns, handguns, magazines and several hundred rounds of ammunition and more than a hundred kilos of drugs.

In total there were 13 firearms eight rifles and five handguns, about 1,400 cartridges, 59 magazines, and 166 kilos of marijuana .

The drug was located within 16 packages in the vehicles, which were in apparent state of abandonment during yesterday morning in the El Rastro and its surroundings.

One of the cars is a Ford, F350, with a theft report from three months ago, and there was hid two rifles, a pistol, four magazines, and packets of drugs, in the other vehicle, found six guns rifles, four pistols, plus 55 magazines and more than 1,400 cartridges.

The weapons, drugs and vehicles were turned over to the Attorney General's Office to continue with the relevant legal procedures, but the assurance was conducted with the participation of police elements of other organizations.

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