Two policemen were killed and six alleged hitmen arrested, the balance left by a series of gunfights this Tuesday. It is in the border region of the municipalities of Morelia and Tarímbaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán.
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) reported that the heavy wave occurred around this Tuesday (22:00 pm GMT) around the (residential) subdivision Misión Del Valle. Contract killers attacked a group of Ministry Police agents with assault rifleshas been investigating a series of murders that have occurred in the area in recent days. Police officers Yonathan Jorge Pineda Guzmán and Edgar Eduardo Delgado Bedolla lost their lives in the attack, so their colleagues FGE repelled the attack while awaiting reinforcements from the National Guard, Civil Guard (State Police), and Mexican Army.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the State Government deployed two helicopters to ensure the safety of police and soldiers on the ground, recording three searched homes, as well as a series of atrocities and shootings that lasted more than three hours.
Tonight, the prosecution stated: 6 people alleged to be gunmen arrestedapparently members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) with AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles, as well as pistols and fragmentation grenades.
Misión del Valle is a residential unit established in the late 90s, northwest of Morelia, the capital of Michoacán, and adjacent to the municipality of Tarímbaro. The communication routes of this faction, uniting Morelia and Tarímbaro, supported the existence of drug cartel hit groups.
On Wednesday, March 22, hitmen raided houses in the Galaxia, Real Hacienda and Puerta del Sol subdivisions in Tarímbaro, 5 kilometers from Misión Del Valle, killing four men and a woman. On the same day, two men were abducted in Tarímbaro and their bullet-filled bodies were found on the Morelia-Salamanca federal highway.
in Michoacán, drug trafficking organizations They called themselves Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cárteles Unidos, Cártel de Tepalcatepec, Cártel de Zicuirán, Cártel de Los Correa, and Los Caballeros Templarios, among others who vehemently discussed and fired control of illegal activities such as production and drugs. smuggling, extortion and kidnapping.