The Mexican army convoy rolled off a C-130 Hercules plane in the middle of the night, purred through this sweltering port city’s dingy back streets and swooped on traffickers unloading cocaine in a warehouse.Shipped to Mexico hours before in a container labeled ”bread flour”, the 11.7 tons seized last week was Mexico’s biggest-ever cocaine bust and led to the arrest of a string of police and customs officers thought to be in on the deal.
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The Mexican Army seized an estimated 10 tons of cocaine and arrested seven people after a gun battle Friday between agents and traffickers in the streets of Tampico, Tamaulipas, according to an Army news release.No deaths were reported in what was hailed as the largest drug bust in the history of the country’s battle against organized crime, but police sources said there were several injuries.
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