Mexico: arsenal seized from Texas, three arrests in Nuevo León

Mexican federal authorities arrested three people in Sabinas Hidalgo, in the state of Nuevo León, while they were transporting an arsenal from Texas intended for criminal organizations.

The Minister of Security, Omar García Harfuch, announced that 195 rifles and 15 pistols, as well as numerous magazines, were intercepted on the Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey highway.

The operation is the result of an intelligence investigation conducted by the Attorney General's Office, the Army and the National Guard to dismantle cross-border smuggling routes. The government official took the opportunity to highlight the overall results obtained so far by the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“There are over 30,000 weapons that will no longer fall into the hands of cartels or be used to generate violence in Mexico,” Harfuch said. The minister also added that "the shared responsibility requires us to stop drug trafficking towards the United States, but also to stop, with the same firmness, the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico".