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Smugglers tried to hide cocaine within a shipment of 33 tons of charcoal through one of Mexico’s coastal states, according to recent disclosures from the Naval Secretariat.
The seizure took place in the port city of Altamira where Mexico’s Naval Secretariat seized almost 2,400 bags of charcoal in recent weeks and subsequently held an event where authorities crushed the coal and then set it on fire.
Authorities claimed that the charcoal itself was “contaminated.” The tactic points to another attempt by criminal organizations to conceal drugs to avoid detection.
