The Mexican Navy freed five people who were kidnapped in Monterrey, and they seized more than 260 pounds of marijuana in Reynosa.
On Sunday, soldiers freed five people at the Sierra Ventana neighborhood of Monterrey.
Navy soldiers followed a van, acting on a tip that there were kidnapped people inside.
Inside, they found the five people tied, with bruises and malnourished.
Those individuals told soldiers that they had been kidnapped for a week and that their captors, four armed men, had fled just minutes before when they heard the soldiers’ approach over scanners.
The following day, on Monday, Mexican Marines found 36 bricks of dried marijuana inside a home on the Benito Juarez neighborhood of Reynosa.
The 36 bricks weighed in at 267 pounds.
Later that day, a shootout between two gunmen and Navy soldiers broke out in the town of Magiscatzin in south Tamaulipas state.
One of the gunmen died in the shootout, after leading soldiers on a chase and crashing into a pole. The other gunman was able to get away on foot.
Soldiers also seized two firearms, 24 ammo clips and three bullet proof vests.
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