| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Mexican Soldiers Find Stolen Planes on Ranch
 Associated Press
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| | Mexican soldiers patrol a street after a shootout in the municipality of China, northeast of Monterrey, September 28, 2008. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters) | | |
Mexico City – Mexican soldiers have found five small planes that were stolen after they were seized in an anti-drug operation.
Security officials say the planes were found on a ranch in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, a hotbed of drug trafficking.
The federal Attorney General's Office said earlier this week that 20 heavily armed men tied up a local policeman guarding the aircraft and flew the five Cessnas out of an airfield in the town of Navolato.
The planes allegedly were used to fly seeds and fertilizer to a marijuana-growing region.
The Attorney General's Office joined the Defense Department in Friday's announcement of the planes' discovery. |
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