Perpetrators of ambush against military convoy in Sinaloa identified

The Federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has identified the motive and the perpetrators of the ambush to a military convoy that took place in Culiacán, Sinaloa last September 30.

Gustavo Salas, head of the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO), revealed during a press conference, that several people, linked to the criminal organization which participated in the ambush to rescue Julio Óscar Ortiz Vega, known as “El Kevin”, have been arrested as a result of preliminary expert investigations, 174 interviews, forty-one police reports and 113 expert opinions.

Also, the execution of search warrants in a hospital, three houses and four ranches allowed the office to seize one lion, twelve horses, a bull, Rólex watches, twenty-six all-terrain vehicles, eight quads, tactical equipment, US$12,200 and weaponry including a .50 caliber machine gun, three .50 caliber Barrett rifles -like the ones used against the military convoy- ninety-three assault rifles AK-47 and AR-15, a grenade launcher .40 caliber and cartridges of fire arms exceeding 20,000.

The Comprehensive Police Operation Sinaloa-Durango will continue, as instructed by president Peña Nieto, and it is currently on its third stage from October to December with two clear objectives: “to search and destroy the poppy and marijuana growing areas in the Golden Triangle* and to provide all the social assistance necessary to the marginalized communities in the region”.

*Region in the western Sierra Mountains of Mexico formed by the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango