MEXICO CITY – A total of 21 tons of monomethylene, a chemical used to manufacture methamphetamine, were seized in a multi-agency operation in Manzanillo, a port on Mexico’s Pacific coast, officials said.
The operation was conducted by the Attorney General’s Office, the navy and the SAT tax agency at the customs zone in Manzanillo, where authorities found a container packed with the substance, the agencies said in a statement. “The illegal substance came from the port of Callao, Peru, with a final destination of Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala,” the agencies said.
The container was turned over to the AG’s office, which is handling the investigation. Some 229 tons of chemical precursors used to produce illegal drugs were seized at the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas, officials said last Friday. A total of 575 tons of chemical precursors have been seized this month in Mexico, officials said.
Shipments of 205 tons and 100 tons, respectively, bound from China for Guatemala were seized earlier this month at the same Pacific port.
Mexico’s biggest-ever seizure of drug precursor chemicals was the confiscation of 839 tons in July at a warehouse in the central city of Queretaro, a bust that topped the previous record of 200 tons of precursors discovered last year at the port of Manzanillo. Mexico, which produces most of the crystal meth consumed in the United States, has imposed tight restrictions on the import of chemicals used to make illegal synthetic drugs.
Due to pressure from the security forces, some Mexican drug cartels have increased the production of synthetic drugs in Guatemala, analysts say. http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=456421&CategoryId=14091
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6-7-19 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian officials have seized the nation’s largest haul of methamphetamine at the Melbourne waterfront, nearly 1.6 metric tons (1.8 tons) of the illegal drug hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok (major transport hub), authorities said Friday.
The Australian Border Force said the drugs were in a form known as crystal meth, or ice, and were seized along with 37 kilograms (82 pounds) of heroin. They had an estimated street value of 1.2 billion Australian dollars ($835 million) and AU$19 million ($13 million) respectively, it said in a statement. https://www.apnews.com/58eab39d7cfc4ee69c57e2b46bfebc98
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8-29-19 SYDNEY – Australian police announced on Thursday the seizure of 755 kilograms (1,664 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine that had been imported from Mexico hidden inside raw animal hides.
In a joint statement by the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Border Force, authorities said they had also arrested a 42-year-old man on Wednesday who is allegedly involved with a Mexican-based organized crime syndicate.
The two law enforcement agencies launched the joint operation on Aug. 13 following the arrival of a shipping container in Sydney from Mexico, whose manifest declared that the shipment contained “salty bovine skin.”
ABF officers inspected 18 pallets of frozen cowhides and found 161 silver packages of high-grade crystal meth, a potent stimulant also known as “ice” due to its crystalline form.
According to the statement, the haul has an estimated street value of AU$566.3 million (some US$381 million) and could have generated over 7.5 million individual street deals
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5-3-18 Today's meth is cheaper, easier to get — and more lethal.
"It's deadlier than the public perceives," said Russell Coleman, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and a former FBI agent who has worked drug cases.
Most of it is being made in Mexico by cartels. And sometimes its secretly mixed with fentanyl, which is even deadlier than heroin.
"Methamphetamines are the next phase of the drug epidemic in this commonwealth," Coleman said.
Meth on the streets today, dubbed "ice," has a purity often close to 100 percent, much more lethal than the 50 percent purity of local one-pot labs — a disconcerting national trend, said Steven Bell, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/03/meth-resurgence-drug-epidemic-fentanyl/447191002/
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Bob Paillet, left, hugs his daughter Gena in this photo from the late 1980s or early 1990s.
(Photo: Submitted by family)
One textbook released in 2014 called Paillet "arguably the Johnny Appleseed for the spread of local meth production throughout the Midwest." Journalist Frank Owen, in his own book released in 2007, wrote that Paillet “effectively decentralized the local meth trade … broadening the appeal of the drug."
In other words, Bob Paillet reinvented meth.
How did he do it? The story he told law enforcement revolves around the Springfield campus of Missouri State University, which at the time was known as Southwest Missouri State.
“Bob claims he went to SMS’ library, and in a research manual he found this method of converting pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine using sodium metal as one of the catalysts," Cornille said. "He claimed that at the top of the page was a swastika.”
Thus the moniker: The new process was the "Nazi method." The new stuff, "Nazi dope."
“I really believe that his method, here in Springfield, was the bounce to get meth spread throughout the rest of Missouri and the United States," said Nick Console, who ran the DEA's Springfield office from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/27/man-who-reinvented-meth/330877001/
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8-29-19 BOGOTA – Leftist Venezuelan incumbent Nicolas Maduro is behind a group of dissident leaders of the now-demobilized FARC rebels who are calling for a renewal of the armed struggle in Colombia, President Ivan Duque said on Thursday.
“We Colombians must be clear that we are not seeing the birth of a new guerrilla movement, but rather the criminal threats of a band of narcoterrorists who enjoy the hospitality of Nicolas Maduro’s dictatorship,” Duque said in a televised address to the nation. http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2482682&CategoryId=12393
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