Mexico finds 11,520 tequila bottles with liquid meth at Manzanillo port
AP
25 Apr, 2023 04:33 PM
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A canine sniffer alerted inspectors to a load of over 11,500 bottles of tequila bound for export. Those bottles contained approximately 8640kg of liquid meth. Image / Twitter / @Borderland_Beat
Mexican Navy inspectors have intercepted 11,520 tequila bottles bound for export that actually contained nearly 10 tons of concentrated liquid meth, the Navy said on Monday.
The discovery was made on Sunday at the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo, the Navy said. It said the bottles contained approximately 8640kg of meth.
Photos of the seizure show a sniffer dog alerting inspectors to cardboard boxes of glass bottles full of a brownish liquid, consistent with the colour of “añejo” or aged tequila. The labels on the bottles were not visible.
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Mexico is the world’s only producer of authentic tequila. While there have not been any reported instances of such bottles reaching consumers, ingesting the mixture would be immensely dangerous.
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