Overview
- Mexico's Guardia Nacional, which scanned a tractor-trailer at the San Luis Río Colorado checkpoint on Thursday, uncovered about 1,800 kilograms of cocaine hidden in 1,877 packages.
- The Kenworth rig was traveling from San Blas, Nayarit, to Tijuana, and agents detained Efraín “N” (28) and Jesús “N” (23), both from Navolato, Sinaloa.
- The seized cocaine, the truck and the two detainees were handed to the Fiscalía General de la República for investigation.
- In Salta, Argentina, Gendarmería patrols found a Toyota Hilux abandoned near Volcán Salín with 379.5 kg of cannabis and 7.1 kg of cocaine after the suspects fled on foot into Chile.
- Authorities say these seizures reflect coordinated border operations that use gamma-ray screening and field drug tests to disrupt trafficking on both major trucking routes and remote high-altitude roads.