Suspects arrested in theft of cocaine from Mexican federal storage facility

Two more who were traveling on the transpeninsular highway between La Paz and Constitución.

Five hundred packages of cocaine hydrochloride that had been seized by authorities were sitting in a warehouse in La Paz, Baja California Sur when thieves stole them back. The thieves targeted a federal storage facility by entering an adjacent home, subduing the occupants and cutting a hole in the wall. They made off with 504 packages of cocaine. A coordinated immediate response team implemented a search operation. They arrested three men yesterday in the town of Las Pocitas, La Paz.