Overview
- Security cabinet personnel on patrol were ambushed around 12:45 p.m. in La Brecha, Guasave by gunmen hiding under a bridge, and the forces returned fire.
- Officials reported 13 alleged attackers dead, four suspects detained, and no federal casualties at the scene.
- Seven vehicles, long guns and tactical equipment were seized and turned over to the Federal Attorney General’s Office for forensic processing and investigation.
- Investigative sources dispute local rumors that Fausto Isidro “El Chapo Isidro” was captured during the operation, saying the claim is unverified or false.
- The clash follows recent actions including the shutdown of a Culiacán synthetic drug lab and border seizures in Sonora, as official data mark 2025 as Sinaloa’s most violent year in a decade.