Security forces highlight operations against criminal networks

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La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, p. 17

The Federal Security Cabinet highlighted yesterday the actions with which they hit the crime between Friday and Sunday, including in Baja California, where the Mexican Army, the National Guard (GN) and the Attorney General’s Office chat Property in which they secured 4 thousand 182 kilos of methamphetamine, two vehicles and a forklift. The cost of the insured drug is 1,252 million pesoshe said in a statement.

In Sonora, army personnel secured 1,150 kilos of methamphetamine (equivalent to one million 150 thousand doses), when conducting an inspection in a tractocamión.

Economic affectation to organized crime is 344 million pesosit was explained.

Also in Sonora, two men who transported 20 kilos of fentanyl and heroin were arrested. Meanwhile, in Michoacán, elements of defense and GN secured 14 kilos of methamphetamine, whose cost is calculated at 4.1 million pesos.

In Celaya, Guanajuato, staff of the same institutions arrested two people, who were assured of armament, a kilo of marijuana, a kilo of methamphetamine and 1.4 million pesos. And in Culiacán, Sinaloa, the GN secured 8,200 liters of substances for the elaboration of methamphetamine, 1,650 kilos of caustic soda, one thousand kilograms of cyanide and an organic synthesis reactor.

Among other actions, in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexican Army and Air Force elements destroyed a total of 873 plantations in 82.7 hectares.

In Hidalgo and Jalisco Military and Physical Safety Person of Pemex located five hermetic clandestine shots, they secured four tanks, 2 thousand 80 meters of hose, two calcined vehicles and recovered 14,500 liters of hydrocarbon.

The security cabinet also highlighted arrests, cateos, weapons assurance and different types of drugs in: Baja California, Chiapas, Mexico City, Colima, Chihuahua, Durango, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Zacatecas.