Overview
- Federal forces and the Lázaro Cárdenas maritime customs unit located 20 bultos containing an alleged cocaine-like substance weighing roughly 1,187 kilograms aboard a merchant vessel.
- Naval personnel carried out physical inspections of containers and used specialized canine teams to detect the packages before customs placed the shipment at the disposal of the Ministerio Público.
- Authorities said the seizure would prevent an estimated more than two million doses from reaching the streets and gave an official street-value estimate exceeding 259 million pesos.
- The Ministerio Público will integrate the official case file and forensic testing of the seized material is expected to determine purity, origin and handling chain as investigators probe who packed and where the shipment was headed.
- Lázaro Cárdenas is a major Pacific transshipment port frequently targeted by traffickers, and officials framed the operation as evidence of strengthened interagency port security and ongoing surveillance measures.