Puertecitos BC: Arms, Equipment and 700 Kilos of Drugs Seized

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Mexicali BC:  Another hard blow to the narco was given by the Secretary of National Defense by Soldiers of the 67th Infantry Battalion, (SEDENA) who in their patrol work managed to seize more than half a ton of various drugs, weapons, vehicles and communication equipment south of San Felipe, which were hidden among thickets, in the area of ​​Puertecitos, in the municipality of Ensenada, reported the II Military Region, with an amount exceeding 1 thousand 800 million pesos.

These actions were carried out by the personnel of the 2nd Military Zone, corresponding to Tijuana and Ensenada, who were performing surveillance tasks framed in the “Operation Puertecitos”, the military personnel  carried out land surveillance on a gap adjacent to the “Puertecitos-San Felipe old road”, they observed 2 vehicles without people on board between the bushes, they then proceeded to make an visual inspection to said vehicles which contained arms and drugs.

The seizure was 925 plastic packages with cinnamon tape, weighing approximately 800 grams each and whose content was crystal, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, for a total of 700 kilos of drug .

In addition to three weapons : a rifle M16 caliber 5.56×51, a carbine M1 caliber 30; a .38 super automatic caliber pistol, and six magazines for M16, a charger for M1 cabin, three chargers for .38 super caliber pistol, 835 useful cartridges of different calibers.

A gun chest, a chest for rifle chargers, a white truck with blue brand Ford F520 XLT, a Ford Explorer Sport Trac XLT black color, two vehicle base radios and two ground-air radios to link with aircraft were also confiscated.

The seizure was made available to the corresponding authority to start the investigative folder.