FGR Reports Raids Targeting Fuel Theft and Drug Trafficking

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Infobae México reports that Mexico's Attorney General's Office carried out searches, arrests and seizures in eight states on August 9 and 10 in cases involving fuel theft, weapons offenses and transnational drug trafficking. The outlet says the Criminal Investigation Agency coordinated the actions with the Mexican Army, National Guard, Navy and Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection.

According to the report, authorities arrested a foreign national identified as Gladys “N,” alias “La Patrona,” in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico. Officials described her as a suspected logistics operator for a network allegedly moving cocaine to the United States, Europe and Australia. She was transferred to authorities in Colima, where the case against her is pending.

Infobae says agents also searched a property in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, in a fuel-theft investigation and seized 14,010 liters of fuel, four vehicles, 15 containers, a firearm magazine and 13 cartridges restricted to the armed forces. In Nahuatzen, Michoacán, investigators seized a truck during a separate fuel-theft operation.

The outlet reports that federal agents also executed arrest or rearrest warrants in firearms cases in Tamaulipas, Puebla, the State of Mexico and Baja California. The named defendants were placed before the relevant judicial authorities, while the procedural status of their cases was not disclosed in the source report.