Gustavo Castillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, July 29, 2022, p. 16
In operations carried out in the states of Sinaloa, Chiapas and Michoacán, elements of the National Guard, in coordination with personnel from the Mexican Army, arrested four suspected criminals and seized weapons, vehicles, drugs, tactical equipment and two narco laboratories clandestine
Federal authorities reported that 57 long weapons, 8,381 useful cartridges, 251 magazines and more than 256 kilos of methamphetamine were seized in four operations.
One of the narco laboratories was detected in the town of Arroyo de la Higuerita, municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa, while the second was dismantled in the ranchería Arroyo Grande in the same municipality, and there 375 kilograms of caustic soda, five organic synthesis reactors and the same number of dryers were found. metallic of various capacities, all of them used for the processing of synthetic drugs.
In the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, the driver of a cargo unit was arrested in which 3,881 cartridges, 93 magazines and 31 long weapons were found.
Meanwhile, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, three people carrying firearms were arrested and 4,500 cartridges, 158 magazines, 71 bags of marijuana, 48 tactical vests, 26 weapons, five grenades, three vehicles and one attachment were seized. grenade launcher.
In another order, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime took over the investigation of the drug camp of the Jalisco cartel New generation which was located in the community of El Caracol, in the municipality of Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, where Army troops arrested 37 members of organized crime and seized dozens of high-caliber firearms.
