"Ahead Of An Impending Incursion From Neighboring Criminal Groups, Morelos Is Shielded" Says State Police Commissioner

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José Antonio Ortiz Guarneros, the State Police commissioner

Update 11/28/2021: Photos of José Antonio Ortiz Guarneros, the State Police commissioner added to story. 

He acknowledged that it cannot be denied that there is a climate of insecurity in the state, but he stated that there is also a frontal fight against those criminal groups that want to destabilize security in Morelos.

The State Commissioner of Public Security, José Antonio Ortiz Guarneros, confirmed that they are already working in a coordinated manner with the police of the State of Mexico, Puebla and Guerrero to continue with security operations that prevent drug cartels from settling in the state like the La Familia Michoacána. This, after the events that occurred in the municipality of Coatlán del Río yesterday.

He acknowledged that it cannot be denied that there is a climate of insecurity in the state, but he stated that there is also a frontal fight against those criminal groups that want to destabilize security in Morelos.

José Antonio Ortiz Guarneros, the State Police commissioner, speaking to reporters on November 25, 2021. 

Proof of this is that they are already working intensively with the Attorney General's Office and with neighboring States, after he mentioned that the police of the State of Mexico, the Attorney General's Office, the CES, SEDENA and the Navy participated in yesterday's operation.

"The combat is frontal and we are not going to allow these criminal groups to position themselves in the state, so unfortunately there must be consequences which is gunfire, but for now there haven’t been any deaths. Nor have innocents been affected."

The commissioner clarified that in the state of Morelos there is no presence of the criminal group the La Familia Michoacána. And those criminal groups who do arrive specifically do so for one reason and just as quickly leave, in such a way that this bastion is being taken away because there were important assurances. In yesterday's operation there were detainees, vehicles and houses seized.

He also ruled out that this wave of violence has to do with the presence of the wife of the criminal leader "El Mencho" in CEFERESO, insisting that they are from the Jalisco cartel and what took place yesterday had to do with the La Familia Michoacána. 

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