Nigeria arrests alleged Mexican drug kingpin at international airport
An alleged Mexican drug kingpin was arrested in Nigeria last month as he tried to leave the country, the drug enforcement authority has just revealed. That arrest resulted in the discovery of a suspected industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory – the third such find allegedly linked to Mexicans in four months. When Arturo Carrera Loaiza, 40, was [...] The post Nigeria arrests alleged Mexican…
Nigeria has apprehended an alleged Mexican drug kingpin, Arturo Carrera Loaiza, at Lagos international airport, according to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Loaiza, 40, was found with digital images of him in a laboratory coat and equipment consistent with methamphetamine production, leading to the discovery of a suspected industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory in Ebonyi state.
The agency's investigators also recovered chemicals, drug-making equipment, and a CCTV memory card with footage of someone resembling Loaiza wearing a blue laboratory coat. Additionally, Loaiza allegedly recruited a fellow Mexican to work at another suspected laboratory in Oyo state, where four Nigerians were arrested. The NDLEA's chairman, Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa, stated that international criminal groups are attempting to establish drug-production facilities in Nigeria's forests and rural communities, emphasizing that Nigeria will not become a haven for transnational drug cartels.
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