Veytics Intelligence
2026-09-15 · CO

Nigeria arrests alleged Mexican drug kingpin at international airport

An alleged Mexican drug kingpin was arrested in Nigeria last month as he tried to leave the country, the drug enforcement authority has just revealed. That arrest resulted in the discovery of a suspected industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory - the third such find allegedly linked to Mexicans in four months. When Arturo Carrera Loaiza, 40, was detained at Lagos international airport, officials allegedly found digital images of him wearing what they believed to be a laboratory coat alongside equipment consistent with meth production. The pictures' location data led officers to a property in Ebonyi state, where they said chemicals and drug-making equipment were found.

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