$6 million found in truck

MEXICO CITY —  Soldiers looking for drug traffickers found $6 million in cash in a truck near the border with the U.S. and arrested five men at the scene, the army said Friday.

Army drug squads in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a smuggling hot spot over the border from Texas, found the U.S. currency stuffed into eight suitcases as they inspected a tractor-trailer rig and a smaller truck parked along a highway.

They also found four pistols, the army said in a statement.

Army and federal police units deployed in President Felipe Calderon’s 15-month-old crackdown on drug cartels are grappling with an increase in violence that has left more than 800 people dead this year.