Overview
- Mexican officials said the operation with U.S. counterparts targeted a vessel west of Clarion Island, about 680 miles from Manzanillo, Colima.
- Roughly 188 packages containing several tons of cocaine were recovered from the ship, according to the Mexican Navy.
- Multiple people were arrested in connection with the bust, though authorities did not disclose how many.
- The navy released photos and video showing the cocaine bundles displayed on a naval deck before being transported to shore.
- Mexico’s Security Cabinet credited information-sharing with the U.S. Coast Guard and JIATF South, as both governments faced conflicting claims over a brief El Paso airspace shutdown linked by U.S. officials to cartel drones and denied by President Claudia Sheinbaum.