Mexicali BC: 37 Detained w Arsenal and Drugs

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from :Unimexicali

July 22, 2018

Mexicali: Special operations by the State Preventive Police (PEP) in the Valley of Mexicali against crime in the first semester of the year, resulted in the arrest of 37 people, some of them with an arrest warrants, confiscation of firearms, thousands of doses of drugs, as well as the recovery of vehicles with theft report. 

In a series of operations PEP has detained a total of 378 persons for various crimes.

From January 1 to July 20 of this year, the operational strategy of the PEP was deployed in these Ejidos in the Municipality of Mexicali:

Choropo, Compuertas Carejey, Hermosillo, Chiapas, Colima, Lázaro Cárdenas, Merida, Pachuca, Guadalupe Victoria, Janitzio, Vicente Guerrero, Oviedo Mota Reacomodo, Ciudad Morelos, Uribe del Real, Benito Juarez, Quintana Roo, Paredones, Bonfil, Hipolito Renteria, Michoacan de Ocampo, Jalapa, Tabasco, Mexico.

The results were the following: A total of 37 arrested persons, of which 23 were for federal crimes, 10 for crimes of common law, 3 with arrest warrants or national recapture and 1 with foreign arrest warrant, the main crimes were against health, homicide, carrying a firearm, possession of contraband, injuries equated with robbery and fraud.

     Many Indigenous Peoples still live off the beaten track in these ejidos surrounded by farmlands

In the aforementioned period, after the preventive operation, it resulted  in the detection of drug outlets and persons identified as drug dealers, and drugs. The drug confiscation included;  62 kilos, 725 grams of drugs and thousands of different doses of: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and psychotropic pills. 

(which therefore were not delivered to the communities)

In addition, a total of 7 short firearms and 5 long firearms were seized, a total of 449 rounds of different calibers, 15 loaders, 2 knives and 3 vehicles were recovered with a report of theft.

These actions are the result of the "Crusade of Security: Everyone's Task" in which it is the instruction of the Governor Francisco Arturo Vega de Lamadrid that the State Preventive Police does not lower its guard against crime.