Two US Embassy Staffers and Chihuahua AEI Director & Agent Killed in Car Accident After Narco Lab Raids in Rural Morelos

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Chihuahua FGE head, César Jáuregui Moreno, announced the deaths of two members of the State Investigation Agency (AEI), as well as two instructor officers from the United States Embassy.

As previously reported by Borderland Beat, two large drug laboratories were raided in a rural area between Morelos and Guachochi, Chihuahua.

Two AEI agents and two US Embassy personnel, along with four other vehicles, were returning from the area near Morelos where authorities found the two clandestine synthetic drug and methamphetamine laboratories, when their vehicle was involved in an accident resulting in their deaths.

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Navy secures two clandestine laboratories in Culiacán: Sinaloa

 "Char" for Borderland Beat

This information was posted by RIODOCE 

Author | Editorial Ríodoce

Date | January 20, 2025

Time | 8:13 am

Navy personnel located and neutralized two clandestine laboratories in the town of Los Cedros, municipality of Culiacán.

The “narco-laboratories” with dimensions of approximately 1,600 and 6,000 square meters, where 3 kilos of finished product, 100 liters in cooking, 5,150 liters of phenyl-2 propanone (P2P), 5,500 liters of benzyl chloride, 3,000 liters of acetone, 13,600 liters of ethyl alcohol, 100 liters of hydrochloric acid, 100 liters of gasoline, 11,265 kilograms of tartaric acid, 4,775 kilograms of caustic soda, 1,700 kilograms of sodium cyanide, 120 kilograms of azobisisobutyronitrile, 2,000 kilograms of phenylacetic acid were seized.

Likewise, three stainless steel reactors, five distillers, a stainless steel pot, four plastic vats, two plastic pots, 37 LP gas tanks, four motor generators, four motor pumps, a welding plant, two stainless steel centrifuges, 54 aluminum boxes, a current amplifier, an emery, 20 pressure pliers, 11 burners, a stainless steel shovel, 60 welding electrodes, 20 cutting discs for emery were found.

The laboratories and the various materials were neutralized and destroyed on site, preventing them from being used for the production of synthetic drugs, and the corresponding records were kept by the ministerial authority.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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Fentanyl Lab Captured in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Authorities located and captured a fentanyl production lab complete with pill press machines and lab chemicals inside a home in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora yesterday. The seizure matches reporting that synthetic drug production has moved north from Sinaloa to border states like Baja California and Sonora.

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Second Largest 'Narco-Laboratory' Of The Current Government Dismantled In Eldorado: Sinaloa

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE 

JULY 22, 2024

Personnel from the Mexican Navy of the Semar in coordination with the Federal Attorney General's Office (FGR) located and dismantled in the vicinity of ElDorado, what is considered to be the second largest clandestine synthetic drug laboratory neutralized so far in the current Federal Government.

According to the data, the site was located when naval personnel and representatives of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office were carrying out land surveillance patrols, approximately 198 kilometers southeast of the Eighth Naval Zone, based in Topolobampo, Sinaloa.

The authorities located 3,920 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine; 28,600 liters and 2,250 kilograms of precursor chemicals, essential chemicals and dual-use substances; as well as 28 reactors of different capacities; nine condensers; 19 distillers with a capacity of 500 liters; seven centrifuges; 124 plastic tubs of different sizes; 81 LP gas tanks of 30 kilograms; five submersible pumps; four motor generators; 28 current amplifiers; 23 fans; 60 aluminum rolls; 51 metal and plastic drums of 200 liters; 63 plastic drums of 50 liters; as well as diverse material presumably used for the elaboration of synthetic drugs.

In a press release, the Semar announced that the materials were destroyed on the site “with prior authorization of the competent ministerial authority, who integrated it to the corresponding investigation folder”.

According to the authorities, with this seizure, more than 1.5 billion pesos were seized from organized crime.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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Military Captures Largest Meth Lab in Mexican History in "Los Chapitos"-Controlled Angostura, Sinaloa

 By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

The Mexican Military recently captured the largest methamphetamine lab in Mexico's history in Angostura, Sinaloa, reported newspaper Milenio. This capture comes one week after another major drug lab bust and a methamphetamine seizure in the countryside surrounding Culiacán.

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Mexico Rises to Meet Demand for Synthetic Drugs as the Number of Labs In The US Declines

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

National Guard in front of a seized drug lab. Photo: @GN_MEXICO_

As the United States suffers a synthetic drug use crisis marked by record overdoses, US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) figures show the number of drug labs in the United States is decreasing. In Mexico, government data suggests that synthetic drug production has increased to meet demand.

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