Cocaine hidden in frozen sharks

06-18-2009 | REUTERS

Drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics

Panama Star MEXICO CITY. Mexico's navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.

Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs.

Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said Tuesday.

Drug gangs are coming up with increasingly creative ways of getting drugs into the US, as Mexico's military cracks down on the cartels moving South American narcotics north.