National Guard agents seized live cartridges for an assault rifle hidden inside a guitar case, during a security inspection at the “Garita San Emeterio” Customs Office, as part of the Secure Border Operation.
The discovery occurred when checking the luggage of a passenger bus. With the help of an X-ray scanner, federal agents detected the .223 mm caliber cartridges, commonly used in assault rifles, inside the compartment of the case.
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The cartridges, the guitar and the case were seized and made available to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, which will carry out the corresponding investigations to determine their origin and destination.
Operation Border Results
Since the beginning of the operation on February 5, 139 people have been arrested and 82 firearms have been seized (28 from the United States), 12,515 cartridges of various calibers, 437 magazines, 26.2256 kg of marijuana, 440.0281 kg of cocaine, 538.4106 kg of methamphetamine, 0.0125 kg of heroin, 8.5618 kg of fentanyl, $90,775 in national currency, 109 vehicles and 16 properties.
Operation Northern Border was promoted by the bilateral agreement between the Government of Mexico and the United States to seal off the border zone between both nations and inhibit the flow of drugs, fentanyl and migrants.
The purpose of the action is to strengthen 19 customs offices and establish 23 border corridors to carry out ground interception operations with the support of air posts, as well as patrols, establishment of mobile security posts and humanitarian rescue in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas; with the objective of reducing illegal drug trafficking, as well as arms trafficking.
Mexico and the United States share 3,152 kilometers of border which begins at Monument 258 northwest of Tijuana, Baja California, to the mouth of the Rio Grande in the Gulf of Mexico.
Source: publimetro
