Police seize cocaine and Mexican cartel members in Costa del Este
PANAMA POLICE seized 421 kilos of cocaine with a street value of some $12 million and arrested three Mexicans, in Costa del Este on Monday March 21.
The three, two men and one woman, are believed to be members of the Sinaloa criminal cartel.
Three vehicles were also seized. The capture followed another raid in Juan Diaz last week when drugs were seized and one person was arrested.
A kilo of cocaine has a street value of $25,000 to $30,000 in Miami. In New York up to $35,000