Army seizes huge weapons cache
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The army announced that it had made the largest seizure of drug-cartel weapons in Mexico’s history.
The cache of 540 rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and 14 sticks of TNT were seized at a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, Mexican Assistant Atty. Gen. Marisela Morales said.
“The seizure . . . is the largest in the history of Mexico involving organized crime,” Morales told reporters at Defense Department headquarters, where the army displayed hundreds of rifles, pistols, shotguns and rows of grenades and crates of ammunition.
Morales said the largest previous bust involved a cache of 280 weapons found in 1984.
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