Mexico Reports Billions in Drug Confiscations
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY —
The federal attorney general’s office says it has confiscated drugs with a street value of $10.27 billion in the first nine months of 1986, including 4.6 metric tons of cocaine, the official newspaper El Nacional reported Sunday.
The report said that federal anti-drug campaigners have seized 154,300 pounds of marijuana, 1,025 pounds of marijuana seed and 50 pounds of hashish. The report added that during the same period, authorities destroyed 11 drug laboratories and arrested 5,558 people on drug charges.
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