During the first day of activities of the Mazatlán International Carnival 2025, Navy personnel detained an armed group traveling aboard a vehicle in the golden zone of the port, in addition, a shooting attack was recorded against a local businessman, near the Justice Center of that municipality.
The arrest occurred when security elements were making tours of the hotel zone, where they observed a red vehicle with armed civilians and, after a chase, these people were arrested, from whom a short weapon, three long weapons, as well as 11 supplied magazines and two ballistic vests were seized. In addition, the vehicle had been reported stolen.
Also, this past Thursday 27, businessman Alonso Puerto was the victim of an armed attack when he was traveling on the international highway, managing to take refuge in the Criminal Justice Center, south of Mazatlán.
This businessman faces charges for the sale of streetlights to the City of Mazatlán, since May of last year, accused of damage to the treasury of more than 400 million pesos, along with the then mayor Luis Guillermo Benítez Torres.
All these events took place within the framework of the celebration of the most important festival in Mazatlán, whose hotels report, according to the General Secretariat of Government, a hotel occupancy of 80 percent.
On the other hand, the State Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) announced that, from February 18 to date, 118 clandestine laboratories have been seized during operations in the rural area and cities, especially in Culiacán and Cosalá.
The most recent seizure occurred on February 26 with 9 laboratories, 6 of them located in Culiacán, in the towns of Monte Verde de Villa, El Vizcaíno, Las Juntas, ejido Los Mayos de Abajo, Santa Loreto and Los Llanos del Refugio, and 2 in Cosalá, in the towns of Las Amargosas and El Sauce, while in Mocorito one was located in Rancho Viejo.
They also reported the seizure of 25 new clandestine video surveillance cameras, these in the municipality of Costa Rica, south of Culiacán, one of the places with the greatest presence of armed groups and clashes between them since the beginning of the internal war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, on September 9, to date.
With this seizure, the authority now presumes 499 seized cameras, whose ownership is attributed to organized crime. Of this total, 459 were in Culiacán and its rural areas, in operations that have already been extended to Mazatlán and Navolato.
Source: proceso
