Overview
- In Badiraguato, Culiacán and Cosalá, authorities inactivated 15 areas for synthetic‑drug production, seizing 17,195 liters of chemicals, four reactors and four condensers with an estimated 349 million pesos in criminal losses.
- Two people were detained in Culiacán after agents found roughly 200 fentanyl pills and $50,000 in cash, and investigators are reviewing whether the case connects to the production sites.
- An interagency team secured a Portalegre residence that held 25 handguns, three rifles, five .40 mm practice grenades, 148 magazines and four vehicles, including two with improvised armor and spike‑strip launchers.
- Additional actions in Culiacán led to the arrest of three armed men in a stolen car and a separate operation at a reported safe house with at least five detainees, as well as a prison inspection that seized marijuana, phones and makeshift weapons.
- In related enforcement, a trailer in Uruapan was intercepted with 5,000 kilograms and 19,600 liters of chemical precursors resulting in one arrest, and U.S. Border Patrol reported seizing 72 kilograms of meth east of Nogales.