EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican authorities are reporting the seizure of an armored truck with gunports and a machinegun capable of bringing down aircraft.

Chihuahua state police officers found the stolen Ford F-450 with welded steel plates during a three-day sweep of mountains in the western portion of the state, where violent cartel clashes have been reported in recent weeks.

Using a Bell 429 helicopter, the state police located several marijuana plantations near the towns of Guerrero, Madera and Las Tinajas. They seized a total of 410,400 marijuana plants and found six presumed cartel camps. They located the armored truck in one of them.

“Inside (the truck), there was a Browning .50-caliber machinegun and two ammunition boxes with the bullets already on a belt. It can bring

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