Police discovered 1,994 detonator cartridges inside a pickup truck in this northern border metropolis, Mexico's federal Public Safety Office said Tuesday.
Officers noticed the abandoned vehicle because its headlights were on and it was missing license plates, according to an official statement.
The truck was left in the Kilometro 20 neighborhood of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico's murder capital and the scene of car bombings blamed on drug cartels. When they inspected the vehicle, police found several boxes full of detonator cartridges, which are used to ignite the charge in explosive devices.
This city just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is the main battleground in a brutal turf war between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels.
More than 8,500 homicides have been reported in Juárez over the last four years.
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