Overview
- In the Dec. 3 operations under Plan Michoacán, authorities detained four people, seized 13 vehicles and recovered an improvised explosive device across municipalities including Morelia, Uruapan, Zitácuaro, Apatzingán, Zinapécuaro, Tangancícuaro and Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro.
- Officials said patrols continue at packing houses, lemon markets and citrus plants to safeguard commerce and daily movement in priority zones.
- Cumulative results for Plan Michoacán from Nov. 10 to Dec. 3 include 155 detainees, 60 firearms, 6,971 cartridges, 366 magazines, 140 vehicles, 90 explosive devices, 53 kg of explosive material, 426 kg of methamphetamine, 23 kg of marijuana, 28,800 liters and 7,300 kg of precursor chemicals, 10 camps dismantled and 29 fuel taps inactivated.
- Under Operación Frontera Norte on Dec. 3, forces in Sinaloa seized five kilos of fentanyl, a pill press and thousands of liters and kilos of meth precursors while in Sonora they detained five people and secured 200 fentanyl pills, with additional lab-area inactivations reported in Badiraguato, Culiacán and Cosalá.
- Nationwide tallies for Operación Frontera Norte since Feb. 5 now stand at 9,716 arrests, 7,249 firearms, 1,237,795 rounds, 33,276 magazines, 114,150 kg of drugs including 549 kg of fentanyl, 5,794 vehicles and 1,148 properties, with Dec. 2–3 actions also including the incineration of roughly 90,000 marijuana plants in Nayarit.