AZMEX UPDATE 22 AUG 2018
DPS seizes $630k load of black tar heroin.
Posted: Aug 22, 2018 10:35 AM MST
Updated: Aug 22, 2018 1:13 PM MST
By azfamily.com News Staff.
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38939468/dps-seizes-630k-load-of-black-tar-heroin
(Source: Arizona Department of Public Safety)
HOLBROOK, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -
A traffic stop for an unsafe lane change led to a huge drug seizure in northern Arizona.
On Aug. 15, an Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) trooper stopped a 2007 Nissan Armada for failure to signal a lane change and excessive window tint.
This happened along eastbound Interstate 40 at milepost 298 near Holbrook.
An AZDPS K9 was brought to the scene to check out the vehicle.
A subsequent search revealed 47.2 pounds of black tar heroin, which has an estimated street value of $630,000.
The two suspects were reportedly traveling from Phoenix to Oklahoma.
DPS says the driver was Loreto E. Meza, age 24, a Phoenix resident. The passenger was Francisca Meza Aramburo, age 43, also from Phoenix. The pair was arrested and booked into the Navajo County Jail.
They were charged with possession of a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic drug for sale and transportation of a narcotic drug for sale. Additional charges are pending.
"This is excellent work by our troopers. Interstate 40 is known to be used frequently by drug couriers trying to get their product to the East and West Coast. Taking this dangerous drug off the streets helps to ensure the safety of communities everywhere. Troopers will be continually vigilant as we deter and dismantle criminal drug smuggling statewide," said Col. Frank Milstead.
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Agents find drug tunnel after significant drug bust
Fentanyl found could to supply three million doses
By: Crystal Bedoya
Posted: August 22, 2018 10:25 AM MST
Updated: August 22, 2018 01:06 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/top-stories/agents-find-drug-tunnel-after-significant-drug-bust/784599445.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
SAN LUIS, Ariz - Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol held a press conference Wednesday morning disclosing more details of the cross-border found in San Luis, Ariz. believed to be used for drug smuggling.
San Luis Tunnel Video
HSI said a traffic stop conducted Monday, August 13, by the San Luis Police Department led to the discovery of narcotics that were removed from the former Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant located at 552 San Luis Plaza Drive in San Luis, Ariz.
San Luis police stopped Ivan Lopez, a resident of Yuma, Ariz. and a canine unit alerted officers to two toolboxes that were found in the trailer of the truck Lopez was driving. Authorities said they found 168 kilograms of hard narcotics inside the toolboxes.
HSI's Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown said authorities found 118 kilograms of methamphetamine, six grams of cocaine, three kilograms of fentanyl, 13 kilograms of white heroin, and six kilograms of brown heroin inside the toolboxes. The fentanyl alone could supply three million dosage units.
Brown said Lopez, who is also the owner of the building that formerly served as a KFC restaurant, had been seen removing the toolboxes from the building earlier that day.
Agents executed a search warrant at both the former restaurant and Lopez's residence. The entrance of the tunnel was found in the kitchen area. It is only eight inches in diameter.
HSI officials said the tunnel was 22 feet deep and extended to 590 feet long towards its end point at a residence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico.
photo Yuma Sector Border Patrol
At the Mexican side, a trap door was found underneath a bed. Authorities believe the narcotics being smuggled through the tunnel were being pulled up with a rope.
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More: updated SLRC just south of Yuma, AZ.
They locate military 'narcotúnel' in SLRC
Details Published on Friday, August 17, 2018,
Written by Writing / The Journal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=116939
Nogales, Son
Personnel of the Secretariat of National Defense, through the Commanders of the II Military Region, and 45 / a. Military Zone, located a tunnel located in a construction area, which is presumed was used for the transfer of illicit drugs, between the border of the United States and Mexico, located in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, where the entrance was to that excavation, coordinating with the civil authorities for the release of the technical investigation order (search).
For this reason, the Mexican Army is conducting joint operations with the Federal Police-Regional Security Division in the national territory, providing security in the operation and assisting the aforementioned authorities to obtain results.
With actions like these, the Mexican Army reaffirms its commitment to the people of Mexico to ensure and safeguard their well-being, through the materialization of activities that contribute to public needs in a prompt and timely manner.
We appreciate the collaboration of the population for their support in reporting illegal activities in an anonymous and completely confidential way to the following telephone numbers and emails: Headquarters of the II Military Region (01) 686 557 1095 or email denuncia.iirm @ mail.sedena.gob.mx, which are available 24 hours a day.
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New record of intentional homicides in Mexico: SG
Fabiola Martínez |
Tuesday, 21 Aug 2018 11:34
http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/08/21/nuevo-record-de-homicidios-dolosos-en-mexico-sg-2552.html
Police personnel and experts at the scene of a crime committed in Baja California. Photo 'La Jornada Baja California' / Archive
Mexico City. Once again, a new record of intentional homicides was reached in the country. The previous maximum monthly figure was last May with 2 thousand 535 intentional murders; Now, the level reached 2 thousand 599 folders investigating this crime.
In a context of an equally high record of robberies, the use of firearms to commit these crimes also increased, reaching 67.9 percent of the total of intentional homicides.
In 2017 an unprecedented peak of 2 thousand 352 murders had already been reached in October, and almost a year later the level was exceeded with 247 more cases, in accordance with statistics compiled by the National Public Security System of the Ministry of the Interior.
This body collects data that is sent to it by the state prosecutors and prosecutors; the historical recount dates from what happened from 1997 to the date.
This is how the last year of the sexennium is confirmed as the most violent, even above the already critical 2017, 17.2 percent more than the first seven months of last year.
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Note;
Note; did those gringos make them do it? More drugs staying in Mexico and the locals practicing and supporting their drug habit?
Thx
81 robberies and 75 vandalized schools on vacation
Details Published on Friday, August 17, 2018,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=116944
Hermosillo, Son
A total of 81 robberies and 75 damages to schools were recorded in the period from June 27 to August 12 in Sonora.
According to information from the General Coordination of Health and School Safety of the Ministry of Education and Culture (SEC), no campus had severe damage that prevents the start of classes next Monday.
Based on information from C4, it is detailed that Hermosillo headed the crime incidence statistics in schools with 43 robberies and 27 vandalized schools.
They are followed by Cajeme with 21 robberies, Nogales with seven, San Luis Río Colorado with three and Navojoa and Guaymas with two each municipality, while Etchojoa, Ímuris and Empalme presented only one theft.
Among the main items that were stolen include electrical wiring, computers, projectors, sound equipment, air conditioners and furniture.
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