Overview
- Soldiers at the Estación Doctor military post in San Luis Río Colorado stopped the vehicle on Jan. 28 at about 4:30 p.m.
- A gamma-ray scan revealed anomalies in the improvised cash box, and a Gemini field device indicated the 165 packages contained cocaine hydrochloride.
- The haul is reported as roughly one kilogram per package for an estimated gross total near 165 kilograms, with exact net weight and lab confirmation pending.
- Two men were detained: driver Manuel “S.”, 42, from Curumbeo, Michoacán, and copilot Miguel Ángel Miranda Díaz, 54, from Mexico City.
- The pickup, described as a company vehicle traveling from Mexico City to Tijuana, the suspects, and the suspected drugs were turned over to the Federal Public Ministry, with National Guard participation noted in the inspection.