Overview
- Navy personnel detained Pedro Inzunza Noriega in Culiacán on December 31 under a court warrant and arrested three additional suspects.
- Authorities describe Inzunza Noriega as the second-in-command to Fausto Isidro Meza Flores in a Beltrán Leyva–aligned structure tied to U.S.-bound synthetic drugs.
- Coordinated actions seized firearms, narcotics and 12 metal drums containing about 600 kilograms of sodium cyanide at a property in the Lázaro Cárdenas area.
- The detainees are being flown to Mexico City to be placed before federal organized-crime prosecutors at FEMDO.
- The arrest connects to a May 2025 U.S. indictment that alleges drug trafficking, money laundering and narcoterrorism by the Inzunza network.