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Mexican Army Seizes 15 Tons of Methamphetamine

Submitted by David Borden on

Mexican army troops seized an astounding 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican military announced Wednesday night. That's an amount equal to half of all the meth seized worldwide in 2009 and would have supplied some 13 million individual doses worth over $4 billion on the street in the US. Chronicle story here.

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