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Mexican army finds $6 m at US border

7 avril 2008, 00:00

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Mexican soldiers looking for drug traffickers found $6 million in cash inside a truck near the U.S. border and arrested five men at the scene. Army drug squads in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a smuggling hot spot over the border from Texas, found the US currency stuffed into eight suitcases as they inspected a tractor trailer and smaller truck parked along a highway. They also found four pistols, the army said in a statement. Army and federal police units deployed in President Felipe Calderon?s 15-month-old crackdown on drug cartels are grappling with a spike in violence that has left more than 800 people dead in gangland-style killings so far this year.

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