AZMEX UPDATE 24-10-18

AZMEX UPDATE 24 OCT 2018



Organized crime killed 16,893 people in nine months
BY PATRICIA DÁVILA,
OCTOBER 23, 2018 NATIONAL

https://www.proceso.com.mx/556508/el-crimen-organizado-asesino-a-16-mil-893-personas-en-nueve-meses

MEXICO CITY (APP) .- 79 percent of the murders committed in Mexico between January and September were perpetrated by organized crime, reported Semáforo Delictivo.

The nongovernmental organization announced that, from January to September,
there have been 21 thousand 383 intentional homicides in our country, of which 79 percent -16 thousand 893- were related to organized crime.

Semaphore Crime said that, according to the criminal incidence recorded monthly, it is expected that this year closes with about 28 thousand violent deaths.

The number of homicides is 18% higher than that registered in the same period of 2017.

The founder of the organization, Santiago Roel, said that the regulation of drugs should be one of the main activities to be carried out by the next administration,
so that the number of homicides for drug trafficking would be considerably reduced.

"We are very late with drug regulation and I do not see the new Congress debating the best regulation model of marijuana, poppy and other drugs," he said.

"80% of these homicides are executions for territorial control of the drug market. The only way to solve this strategy is to regulate the market to take away the business from the mafias, "he said.

"We continue to bet on death and poverty instead of betting on life and wealth, as Canada has just done," he stressed at a press conference.

According to this NGO, Guanajuato is again the entity with the highest number of murders, with two thousand and fifty;
followed by Baja California, with one thousand 509,
Guerrero, with one thousand 309;
Veracruz, with 970,
Michoacán, with 946, and
Jalisco with 819.

The results in the third quarter of this year also show an increase in retail drug dealing (32%), executions (26%), homicide (18%), femicide (8%),
family violence (8%), rape (6%) , extortion (2%) and vehicle theft (1%).

There was a decrease in kidnapping crimes (17%), home theft (8%), business theft (5%) and malicious injuries (4%).

While in the crime of drug dealing, the states of Baja California and Coahuila displaced Chihuahua.
And states where in previous years was registered in a minimal way, rose considerably,
placing Guanajuato in fourth place, followed by Colima.

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The PGR incinerates more than a ton and a half of narcotics in Sonora
Details Published on Tuesday, October 23, 2018,
El diario de Sonora

http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119931

Hermosillo, Son

Staff of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), attached to the State Delegation in Sonora, in coordination with elements of the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and the State Public Security Police, destroyed more than a ton and a half of narcotics , in Hermosillo, Sonora.

The incineration event took place at a station in the city of Hermosillo,
928 kilos 280 grams 200 milligrams of marijuana;
679 kilos 413 grams 200 milligrams of methamphetamine;
15 kilos 606 grams 900 milligrams of heroin;
eight kilos 819 grams 200 milligrams of cocaine;
six kilos 979 grams of fentanyl.

A thousand 860 units of 3,4 methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDEA) were also destroyed;
marijuana plants weighing 18 grams 100 milligrams;
38 grams 800 milligrams of marijuana seed.

The incinerated narcotics were related to 33 investigation files and two preliminary investigations for the probable commission of crimes against health, in its different modalities.

The drug was secured in several operations carried out in the state of Sonora by the PGR, SEDENA, State Public Security Police, Federal Police, Secretariat of the Navy Navy of Mexico (SEMAR), State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.

The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), through its State Delegation in Sonora, ordered the destruction of the drugs, under the supervision of the personnel of the Internal Control Body, which verified the quantity, the weight of the drug and accredited the legality of the incineration.

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