Mayo Flaco "MF" Gunmen Offensive Into Culiacan, Sinaloa. 65 Video Surveillance Cameras Destroyed By Gunfire In Culiacan In The Early Hours Of Monday Morning

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was shared by NOROESTE

WRITTEN BY: BELEM ANGULO 

NOVEMBER 25, 2025 

In the early hours of Monday, November 25, 65 video surveillance cameras were destroyed in Culiacan, when they were shot at by unidentified civilians.

This figure was confirmed by the Secretary of Public Security in Sinaloa, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez.

The cameras were destroyed in different points of the city in a simultaneous attack at around 2:30 am.

“Today (Monday, November 25) in the early morning, approximately 2:15, 2:16 to 2:42, a series of gunshots in several neighborhoods of this capital city we counted from the pure gunshot calls 31, 31 reports, these shots, this situation went directly to the surveillance cameras that are in the city and that c4 controls,” confirmed the Secretary of Security.

The cameras were destroyed at different points in the city in a simultaneous attack at around 2:30 am.

The state Security chief informed that the cameras will be replaced within a month and

“Unfortunately we were able to verify, handling figures at that time and now in the morning, a total of 65 vandalized cameras and I ratify for the situation that could be handled or could have been handled another amount, the amount that we have as c4 is that responsibility were 65.”

The state Security Secretary informed that the cameras will be replaced within a month and a half, due to the purchase process of these purchases.

“It is a fact that like all those that are relevant are not expected to happen as soon as it happens says one we have all this and we want to have control. I can also tell you that under this context, by direct indication of our Governor, Dr. Rubén Rocha Moya has already opened the budgetary need, and the work is already being done with the companies that can provide this material, that is to say, a bidding process must be called at the end, but to guarantee this work of replacement of cameras and to advance even more”, he stated.

This is due to the process of purchasing them.

“Yes, we are aware of what could happen later on, but as of today we are starting this procedure that in the end will help us to acquire the cameras that we need, the ones that have just been vandalized, and to be able to have some stock in that sense. The 65 will have to be replaced, but I also want to inform you, I want to tell you, that it is not an easy job, it is not a job of today for tomorrow for the day after, from one week to the next, this will take us an average of a month to 45 days, a month to a month and a half”.

The city of Culiacan currently has 412 security cameras, as it operated with 477 video surveillance cameras before the attack.

According to the report of the Sinaloa Public Security Secretariat, the destroyed cameras were located at the following locations:

Benjamín Hill Avenue and Pablo Macías Valenzuela

Avenida Benjamín Hill and Cruz Gálvez

Boulevard Las Torres and Benjamin Hill

Avenida Benjamín Hill and Francisco Tres Guerras

Las Torres Boulevard and Fernando Cuén

Pablo Macias and Sabanas

Boulevard Las Torres and Empaques

Boulevard Las Torres and Roma

Boulevard Las Torres entrance to the Feria Ganadera

Boulevard Las Torres and Jesús Kumate

José Limón and Enrique Félix Castro

Cuauhtémoc Roundabout (Canasta)

Paseo del Roble and Paseo del Álamo

Calzada Aeropuerto and AARC

Maquio Clouthier & Puerto Ensenada

Ensenada Port and Ohuira Bay

Puerto Ensenada and Puerto Escondido

Zapata and Maquio

USE Crossing

Kumate and Hacienda de la Mora

Alfonso G. Calderon and entrance to Los Angeles Hospital

Trébol and Costerita

Benjamín Hill and Aztlán

Forum

José Limón over bridge

Mexico Highway 15 and Hermes

Lola Beltran and street to Juntas de Humaya

Jeovanny Zamudio and Nakayama

Aztlán in front of Pemex

In front of Cetis 107 high school

SOURCE: NOROESTE