Posted on 04/04/2008 5:57:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers looking for drug traffickers found $6 million in cash inside a truck near the U.S. border and arrested five men at the scene, the army said on Friday.
Army drug squads in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a smuggling hot spot over the border from Texas, found the U.S. currency stuffed into eight suitcases as they inspected a tractor trailer and smaller truck parked along a highway.
They also found four pistols, the army said in a statement.
Army and federal police units deployed in President Felipe Calderon's 15-month-old crackdown on drug cartels are grappling with a spike in violence that has left more than 800 people dead in gangland-style killings so far this year.
The U.S.-Mexico border is the main entry point for South American cocaine and other drugs smuggled north to U.S. consumers.
Mexico's powerful cartels buy masses of U.S. arms and their safe houses brim with cash from their organized crime businesses. Army raids have turned up big hauls of guns and cash since Calderon's operation began.
Also on Friday, the daily El Universal reported that five soldiers had been arrested for passing information to the Sinaloa alliance of Pacific Coast smugglers.
Must have been all in pennies.
You beat me to it.
6 million that they told us about!
What! No drugs?
They probably found 12 mil or more. LOL!
60 million
6 million...OK to print
Sounds like No Country for Old Men.
Life imitating art, perhaps?
That movie is on my list of movies to see.
Was it next months payment to D.C.?
Actually, I just misplaced $6 million, and was about to check with Lost and Found. It’s my lucky day.
If I found 6 mil in a truck on the border I’d turn it right over to the government. :)
It’s a good movie (lots of layers that you pick up on subsequent viewings). Saw it in the theater and bought the DVD last month.
That said, if they’re claiming they found $6M, it’s got to be more than just double that, probably $18 to $24m!
That’s where I left it!!!
Oye govachos enviame mi dinero!
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