HOUSTON — Members of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels were hit with a massive financial loss this week after hundreds of millions of dollars worth of chemicals used to make meth were seized in Houston.
According to Homeland Security, more than 300,000 kilos of chemicals were being shipped from China to the Sinaloa Cartel through Port Houston. The feds say that’s enough to make $569 million worth of methamphetamine.
It took 24 18-wheelers to transport the precursor chemicals from the port to a secure Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) storage facility…