Overview

• Mexico City police commander José Jacinto Ponce Alfaro was shot dead during an attempted robbery in Chalco, and his wife, also an officer, was hospitalized with a head wound.
• In Tijuana, municipal officer Jorge Robledo Hernández was ambushed and killed outside his home, and authorities reported the detention of a suspect during follow-up operations.
• A Polícia de Investigación agent, Miguel Ángel Mares, was shot three times by assailants on a motorcycle in Tlalpan and was taken to a hospital.
• Police in Tijuana’s Sánchez Taboada detained five males and seized a 9 mm pistol and a .223 rifle; one detainee had an outstanding warrant for aggravated homicide and the case was turned over to the FGR.
• In Peru, two suspects were detained after the fatal stabbing of Manuel Aguanario in Santa Anita, while Luis Alberto Pachérrez Távara died after a motorcycle hit in Sullana; in Argentina’s Las Talitas, forensic teams worked a fatal stabbing under a homicide unit’s supervision.