Two Mexican Army Soldiers Caught Smuggling Cocaine for Michoacan Cartel

Authorities in Mexico arrested two active Mexican military soldiers who were moonlighting as members of a security company and trying to smuggle a cocaine load on behalf of a cartel from Michoacan.

The case took place this week at a military checkpoint in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, when the two men were driving a white pickup truck with security company logos, claiming they were transporting valuables in a safe lockbox. During a check of the vehicle, authorities found 165 bricks of cocaine.

Military forces seized the cocaine and turned the two soldiers over to federal authorities for investigation and prosecution. The initial information from the case points to the two men trying to move the drugs to Tijuana, Baja California, where other cartel members