Via the BBC: Mexico cocaine ‘hidden in sharks’
The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks.
Armed officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than 20 sharks aboard a freight ship in the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan state.
Correspondents say cartels are coming up with increasingly creative ways of smuggling drugs into the US.
You don’t say.
Plus, they found:
one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country.Sphere: Related ContentWhen officers stumbled across the enormous holding tank in a remote part of the northern state of Sinaloa last week they thought it might be used to water a marijuana plantation.
Instead, the tank fed water into two enormous sheds where investigators found 12,905 gallons (49,640 litres) of ephedrine, a chemical used to make methamphetamine.
