El Rosario, BC: 780 Kilos of Drugs in Jumex Juice Cans

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

A shipment of 780 kilograms of crystal meth, heroin, opium gum, fentanyl in pills and powder, cocaine and clonazepam tablets, hidden in 4,800 cans of “Jumex” brand juice, was discovered by soldiers at the El Rosario military revision checkpoint, in the south of the municipality of Ensenada.

Within the 4,800 cans of juice were found various synthetic drugs such as crystal, heroin, opium gum, fentanyl in pills and powder, cocaine and clonazepam tablets.

In a statement, the 67th Infantry Battalion announced that on September 25, within the framework of the “El Rosario II” operation, 4,800 cans of fruit juice, containing various synthetic drugs, as well as a white Volvo truck tractor trailer, and the driver were stopped and searched at the military revision checkpoint on Mexico #1.

When they were at the town's military security post, the soldiers observed that a tractor-trailer vehicle traveling from south to north approached the area of ​​the post's review; the driver was told that a search would be conducted.

After an exhaustive search, it was detected that the juice cans contained various synthetic drugs, so the vehicle and drugs confiscated and a civilian was detained after the search was carried out, in order to carry out the corresponding procedures for making all available to the Tijuana authorities.

According to the Army, with this confiscation the distribution of one million 560 thousand doses of drugs was avoided.