Houston Chronicle, 2/9/12
Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican army said in a statement released late Wednesday.
Soldiers discovered the huge cache in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, a suburb of Mexico’s second-largest city, Guadalajara.The statement had no other details but said it would publicly present the seizure on Thursday. Spokesmen answering the phone at the army’s base in Guadalajara refused to comment further.
No one could say late Wednesday what the largest seizure was previously in Mexico.The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said total meth seizures worldwide were 31 metric tons in 2009, the most recent figures available. The find outside Guadalajra is more than four times the size of a major seizure last summer of 3.4 tons (3.1 metric tons) and more than twice the total amount of meth seized in Mexico in 2009, according to the U.N. report.
