Mexican marines find 50 tons of meth in mountain lab

[left-of-center2012]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -
Mexican marines on Friday said they had discovered an underground drug lab in the mountains outside the capital of Sinaloa state where they destroyed 50 tons of methamphetamine. Marines found the lab after intelligence reports indicated that tons of drugs were being produced in the area of Alcoyonqui municipality, about 12 miles (19 km) outside the state capital of Culiacan, the ministry of the navy said in a statement.

The statement said the drugs were hidden underground in two areas along with barrels of the chemicals used to produce meth. The drugs were incinerated on site due to the difficult access to the remote location, the ministry said.

Mexico is a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States and is the top source of heroin, which is fueling a surge in opioid addiction. The country is also the principal highway for cocaine trafficked north (to the U.S.).

Sinaloa is the seat of the powerful cartel formerly run by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is facing trial in the United States later this year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-drugs/mexico-navy-says-finds-50-tons-of-meth-in-mountain-lab-idUSKBN1L301H

[lapfog_1]

1. Walter White???

Gustavo Fring?

50 tons = 100,000 pounds, 1600000 ounces, 25,600,000 "teenths" (1/16th of an ounce).

Breaking Bad priced a teenth at around $200 retail... so $5 Billion dollars (street value). Maybe more or less now... not up in my meth prices.

[malaise]

2. Holy Shite

That's a lot of meth

[3Hotdogs]

3. Somebody's gonna get yelled at.

[Flaleftist]

4. Somebody is going to get skinned. nt

[jmowreader]

5. Let's run some numbers on this

First: in Mexico, a "tonne" is 2200 pounds - 1000 kilograms.

According to https://www.crystalmethaddiction.org/Crystal_Meth_Prices.htm, the average US street price of a gram of meth is $80.

The Mexican Marines confiscated roughly 50 million grams of meth. At $80 per gram, you're looking at a haul with a rough street value of $4 billion.

I suspect that sometime in the next week, the Federal Police are going to start finding the bodies of the people who were running this lab, with their heads and genitals lopped off with machetes, lying in ditches all over Sinaloa.

[mysteryowl]

6. Now what? What do they do with it?

Is there anyway to neutralize it? Will they burn it?

[left-of-center2012]

7. The answer is in the opening post

"The drugs were incinerated on site ..."