Mexico: Woman, baby and 12 boys caught with drugs, guns

MEXICO CITY Mexican marines say they have detained an unlikely band of drug traffickers that includes 12 boys and a woman with a baby who possessed rifles, grenade launchers and drugs.

A Navy statement issued Wednesday says the 18 people were caught on New Year's Eve in the town of La Estacion in the northern state of Zacatecas. It alleges they were carrying nine rifles, two pistols, two grenade launchers and packets of marijuana and cocaine.

The navy says the only woman in the group was carrying a baby girl. It doesn't say what authorities did with the baby.

Twelve of the 17 male suspects are said to be minors. Drug cartels often hire youths to work for them and many have been arrested since the government launched its offensive against traffickers.

• Mexico drug gangs using more children as "mules"
• Drug smugglers pose greater challenge in move from land to sea

[GablesDude]

It's written on the wall. The people are going to take power in Mexico, sooner than later. All those "white" Mexicans (8%) you see on those silly novelas and in the Gov't are in trouble. Oh, so is NAFTA as it's written. All those huge US companies who sold out the american worker are going going to start crying.