translated from Spanish: Weapons and drugs seized in two searches in Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo .- The Attorney General’s Office of Quintana Roo secured weapons, cartridges, tactical equipment and drugs after two searches of two farms and a safe house allegedly linked to the criminal group responsible for the attack against the candidate for mayor of Puerto Morelos in the last electoral process. Through a communique, the Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office detailed that it carried out the searches in two farms in the town of Leona Vicario and a safe house in the municipality of Benito Juarez, where they found weapons and drugs.As a result, the Prosecutor’s Office secured 5 AK-47 type long guns, 8 kilos of marijuana, 30 bags of suspected glass, almost a thousand bullets, 40 doses of methamphetamines, 5 cartridge magazines, 6 helmets and tactical vests. Read more: Fire consumes premises in commercial plaza of Xalapa, VeracruzThe authorities stressed that the seizure was the result of the investigation carried out after the arrest of 10 alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel carried out days ago. The 7 men and 3 women arrested belong to a criminal group related to the attack on the candidate for mayor of Puerto Morelos and her bodyguards on May 28, within the framework of the 2021 electoral process.In addition, they have been linked to the disappearance of people in the bonfil area and extortion of taxi drivers in Benito Juárez , added the Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office.Read more: Armed store subjects assaulted in the center of Mazatlan, SinaloaWith the evidence gathered, the authorities began criminal proceedings against the 10 detainees before a control judge to link them to the process. Meanwhile, the two farms and the safe house were secured and placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the weapons will be made available to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) for the corresponding investigation. University of Guadalajara would restrict entry to unauthorized youth 

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