They arrest 142 people and seize 733 weapons in Sinaloa

CULIACAN, SIN.- The head of the State Public Security Secretariat, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, reported that since the beginning of the violent confrontation between criminal groups in Sinaloa important progress has been made.

To date, 142 people have been arrested and eight property searches have been carried out, resulting in the seizure of 733 firearms and 97 engraved weapons, he reported.

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In the week of the 11th to the 17th of this month, in various actions in coordination between federal and state forces, the arrest of 25 people was achieved, from whom 86 firearms, 482 magazines and more than 34 thousand useful cartridges were seized.

The state official detailed in the weekly conference of the Governor Rubén Rocha Moya that during the last week 17 vehicles that had a theft report were recovered.

Before his report, he detailed that a fire was reported on the emergency lines in the Ampliación Bicentenario neighborhood, which turned out to be false; However, the owner of the property reported that armed civilians broke down the gate of his home, leaving one person injured.

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In relation to El Buen Fin, the official mentioned that 15 business robberies were reported in the capital of Sinaloa, despite this the number of robberies has not increased since last Friday.

“The number of crimes did not increase in terms of assaults and was in the vicinity outside the center of the city of Culiacán,” external.