MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army says it has found an auto shop that makes vehicles bullet-resistant for drug gangs.
Ten people were arrested and soldiers confiscated 10 cars or sport utility vehicles that were being armored, as well as six other vehicles in a warehouse in the northern state of Sinaloa, the army said in a late-Monday statement.
Authorities did not say which cartel managed the shop, but it was in the home state of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is known as “El Chapo.”
In border states, soldiers have raided similar shops and found freight trucks completely covered in steel.
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