Overview

• Mexico’s navy intercepted 54 bundles holding 1,600 packages of cocaine totaling about 1,600 kg southwest of Acapulco, with authorities estimating 3.2 billion potential doses and a financial hit of roughly 371.8 billion pesos.
• Argentina’s customs officers at the Salvador Mazza–Yacuiba crossing seized 87.89 kg of cocaine hidden in bulk soybean flour inside a Bolivian truck, detaining the driver under the Unidad Fiscal Federal de Tartagal.
• Federal police in Argentina stopped a truck on National Route 34 in Santiago del Estero and found 85 kg of cocaine concealed in crates of bananas and papayas marked with a dolphin logo linked in prior cases, arresting the driver by order of Federal Court No. 1.
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Hidalgo International Bridge discovered 26 packages of suspected cocaine weighing 30.26 kg in a Dodge Durango on September 5, with Homeland Security Investigations arresting the driver and opening a criminal probe.
• Mexico’s security cabinet reported 17 kg of fentanyl hidden in a vehicle muffler in Caborca, Sonora, with three detained, and the disabling of a synthetic-drug materials site in Cosalá, Sinaloa, where 200 liters of methamphetamine precursors were secured.