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Mexican Federal police seize ton of cocaine and nab top money-lauderer
- (AP) February 8, 2007 - Authorities dealt two harsh blows to drug traffickers on Tuesday night, seizing a ton of cocaine and arresting four top money-launderers of the Juárez cartel.
- Cops seized US$162,000 in cash in arresting the four, a tiny fraction of the billions moved each year by Mexican drug lords who supply the huge U.S. market with Colombian-refined cocaine, heroin, synthetic drugs and marijuana.
- Also Tuesday, authorities seized a ton of cocaine flown in from Venezuela, the second huge haul here in less than a year of narcotics from that South American nation.
- Officials said the cocaine was in 25 large suitcases weighing some 40 kilograms (88 pounds) each that had arrived on a Mexicana Airlines flight from Caracas. It was the biggest drug bust ever at Mexico City´s international airport, officials said.
- It came 10 months after the seizure of 5.5 tons of coke flown from Venezuela to the southeastern Mexican city of Ciudad del Carmen on a DC-9 cargo plane.
- No arrests were made in Tuesday´s airport bust.
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