City police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said the cocaine was worth about $20 million on the street in Mexico.
The cocaine apparently was sent to Mexico from Colombia and landed at a port on the Pacific coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, the chief said.Garcia Harfuch is no stranger to the fact that major drug gangs operate in Mexico City. In
, some two dozen gunmen ambushed his armored vehicle before dawn on one of the capital's main boulevards. The brazen attack left him with three bullet wounds and his two bodyguards and a bystander dead.Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the head of government of Mexico City, called the bust"historic."
"Today the Secretary of Civil Security made a historic confiscation of 1,600 kg of cocaine," she wrote."It's an example that in Mexico City there is no impunity or complicity." Mexico City officials have long acknowledged that drug cartels use the capital as a shipping point, but they claim the gangs do not operate in the city as brazenly as they do in other parts of Mexico.armed with a .50 caliber sniper rifle, grenades and a machine gun. Garcia Harfuch said that 14 suspects had been detained and that officers freed two kidnap victims who were apparently being held against their will.
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