Overview
- Federal agents carried out a court-ordered search on Friday, Nov. 5, in Tlaola that officials say located and inhabilitated a cryptocurrency mining installation.
- Authorities from the Fiscalía General de la República, the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana, the Army and the National Guard seized 50 mining boxes, 1,031 crypto assets, a three-phase industrial transformer, a high-speed modem, two SIM cards and a video screen.
- One person was detained at the site and found with a bag of marijuana and a mobile phone; the detainee and seized items were placed at the disposal of federal authorities for investigation.
- The Nov. 5 action is the second discovery in Tlaola during 2026 after a Sept. 6 operation that recovered hundreds of specialized computing units and extensive electrical hardware, and it forms part of simultaneous raids in Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Veracruz.
- Officials stress that mining is not illegal in Mexico but say they investigate when sites appear to use electricity without CFE contracts or when digital assets may be used to launder money, and investigators will now probe energy links and possible ties to organized crime with local infrastructure and community power supply under scrutiny.