Garcia Harfuch mentioned that 14 suspects had been detained and that officers freed two kidnap victims who had been apparently being held towards their will. He added that “a substantial quantity of medicine” had been additionally discovered close to an deserted restaurant the gang had apparently been utilizing as a protected home.
The shootout occurred in Topilejo, a city on town’s rural, southern edge. The pine-covered mountains on town’s southern rim have lengthy been utilized by kidnap gangs and different criminals for hideouts.
The gunmen opened fireplace on police as they drove previous the protected home on a freeway resulting in the close by metropolis of Cuernavaca, the police chief mentioned.
He mentioned that the gunmen apparently labored for the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s most economically highly effective gang, and that the kidnappigs weren’t carried out for ransom.
Garcia Harfuch is not any stranger to the truth that main drug gangs function in Mexico Metropolis.
In 2020, some two dozen gunmen ambushed García Harfuch’s armored car earlier than daybreak on one of many capital’s most important boulevards. The brazen assault left him with three bullet wounds and his two bodyguards and a bystander lifeless.
The police chief blamed the Jalisco New Technology Cartel for the assault.
