Overview
- Two burns in Ensenada and Tijuana destroyed roughly 12 tonnes of marijuana and 7,654 kilograms of assorted drugs, respectively.
- At the 28th Infantry Battalion in Tijuana, FGR delegate Teófila González Lozada oversaw the destruction of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, opium and morphine totaling 7,654 kilograms.
- Gusts pushed flames into brush during the Tijuana burn, and Army troops with city firefighters contained the spread with no injuries reported.
- In Ensenada, the Navy coordinated with the federal prosecutor’s office as internal-control officials and forensic experts verified compliance and confirmed the drugs’ chemical identity.
- Officials said the public incinerations remove contraband from circulation and aim to weaken production and distribution networks in a state long used for trafficking routes.