Nigeria arrests alleged Mexican drug kingpin at international airport

Image source, NDLEAImage caption, Arturo Carrera Loaiza has denied allegations that he was involved in methamphetamine production, Nigeria's drugs control authority saysBySimi JolaosoAfrica correspondent, Reporting fromLagosAn alleged Mexican drug kingpin was arrested in Nigeria last month as he tried to leave the country, the drug enforcement authority has just revealed.That arrest resulted in the discovery of a suspected industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory - the third such find allegedly linked to Mexicans in four months.When Arturo Carrera Loaiza, 40, was detained at Lagos international airport, officials allegedly found digital images of him wearing what they believed to be a laboratory coat alongside equipment consistent with meth production.The pictures' location data led officers to a property in Ebonyi state, where they said chemicals and drug-making equipment were found.Loaiza has denied involvement in methamphetamine production and said he had been invited to Nigeria by a local contact for a restaurant business venture, according to a statement from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).The agency's investigators found a CCTV memory card at the suspecte...