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Mexico Finds Cocaine in Frozen Sharks

Reuters

posted: 6 HOURS 47 MINUTES AGO

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MEXICO CITY (June 16) -- Mexico's navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.

Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said on Tuesday.

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Crackdown on Cartels

Mexican naval officers found a ton of cocaine inside more than 20 frozen shark carcasses in a container ship bound for the United States Tuesday.

Argely Salazar, Reuters

"We are talking about more than a ton of cocaine that was inside the ship," Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs. "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine," he said.

Drug gangs are coming up with increasingly creative ways of getting drugs into the United States -- in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture -- as Mexico's military cracks down on the cartels moving South American narcotics north.

President Felipe Calderon has sent 45,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to crush powerful smuggling cartels. But traffickers armed with a huge arsenal of grenades and automatic weapons are far from defeated, worrying Washington as violence spills over into U.S. states like Arizona.

Some 2,750 people have died in drug violence in Mexico this year, a pace similar to that of 2008, when 6,300 were killed.

Led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa are fighting a turf war with rivals. Guzman seeks to control Mexican and Central American smuggling routes into the United States.

(Reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Patricia Zengerle)

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Jamesbond986745

05:35 PMJun 17 2009

Got coke?

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HellsFury616

05:29 PMJun 17 2009

Well the sharks clearly died from drug overdose. Now to get the turtles off of downers....

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Jjmsctt727

05:26 PMJun 17 2009

I thought they would find it under Obama's desk. We have to ask Pelousy, she spends a lot of thime there!!!!

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renfield101

05:26 PMJun 17 2009

eric holder's stash got held -up by the mexican navy ? there'll be sanctions and a real good talking to coming your way mexico ! keep that shit up and brutha O. WILL close down the borders tighter than michelle's wig band .

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YOGAMEWS

05:24 PMJun 17 2009

Why do you think Mexico has not been able to defeat these cartels? Because they are outgunned, and the guns are coming from the US ! Duh !

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JusBythew

05:23 PMJun 17 2009

NickCherryl 05:16 PMJun 17 2009 Wonder how much of that was for Washington D.C.? /////////////// You know more than half Was for Barack, since he's trying to quite smoking !!!

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MrOkieDokie22

05:21 PMJun 17 2009

ggreyspy05:18 PMJun 17 2009Who In America could eat shark meat? I have yet to meet a person that likes to eat shark meat. In this way, that could raise suspicion anyway. Good job, Mexican navy!=================================================================== ====Hey shark is good, seriously, and the price reflects it....

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JusBythew

05:20 PMJun 17 2009

Mattdoh40oz 05:03 PMJun 17 2009 But nobody is doing anything about the horrific slaughter of those poor poor sharks.They were dead and couldnt even realize how great it is to be full of coke. /////////////// If they would of been alive, they damn sure would of OD'ed. Ever take a shark to the vet and have it's stomach pumped?

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MrOkieDokie22

05:19 PMJun 17 2009

Laurarvail105:14 PMJun 17 2009Cocaine was illegal until 1914, they really put it in Coca-Cola... but coca and cocaine are two entirely different things, coca is an apetite supressant when chewed. Cocaine is a life supressant... it can kill you on the first whiff...================================================================ ======Have to be a mighty big whiff....

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ggreyspy

05:18 PMJun 17 2009

Who In America could eat shark meat? I have yet to meet a person that likes to eat shark meat. In this way, that could raise suspicion anyway. Good job, Mexican navy!

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