In a joint effort by members of the Mexican Navy, National Guard and Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense among other institutions, authorities were able to conduct four different operations in the Sinaloa municipalities of Culiacán, Choix and Salvador Alvarado that resulted in the confiscation of illicit drugs, firearms, armored vehicles and even a clandestine lab on Jan. 6.
In the small town of Los Cedros, close to the Sinaloa-Chihuahua border, authorities seized and neutralized a clandestine "narco" laboratory —one of the largest ever seized by authorities in the region— used to produce synthetic drugs. According to officials, the lab was approximately 43,000 square feet in surface.
