AZMEX EXTRA 10-3-19

AZMEX EXTRA 10 MAR 2019

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After chase and confrontation, AMIC agents seize armored vehicle, weapons and cartridges

By: Drafting / GH | 03/10/2019 12:15

https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2019/03/10/1414826-Tras-persecucion-y-enfrentamiento-agentes-de-la-AMIC-aseguran-vehiculo-blindado-armas-y-cartuchos-utiles. html

CABORCA, Sonora (GH)

Elements of the Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigation (AMIC), with the support of corporations of the three levels, secured an armored vehicle, weapons and magazines.

Staff of the Operative Base loca, of the Attorney General's Office of the State (FGJE), staged a chase and confrontation with the occupants of the car.

The car was secured, inside which they located three tactical vests, one with ballistic protection, five AK-47 rifle magazines supplied with 7.62 x 39 millimeter cartridges.

In addition, an AK-47 rifle with wooden stock and forearm made in Poland, various items such as ropes, toiletries, among other things.

They provided support to the Municipal Public Safety Operative Group of Caborca, the State Public Security Police (PESP), the Federal Police and personnel of the 22nd Army Motorized Cavalry Regiment.

Around 11:40 hours on Saturday, March 9, two official units with AMIC agents encountered a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, model 2000, which was going at high speed.

It was on the Caborca-Pitiquito International Highway, at a hotel, when the stop was marked with audible signals and turrets, but they fled.

Upon reaching Calle 33 and Santa Ramona, in the Colonia Santa Cecilia neighborhood, the investigators were attacked by the occupants with firearms.

They repelled the attack with the official armament, noticing the agents of the FGJE that the vehicle counted on armor who again fled by the avenida Aviación..

Agents of the AMIC activated the Red Code of the C5i (Control Center, Command, Communication, Computing, Coordination and Intelligence, of the Public Security Secretariat of the State of Sonora.

Municipal, state, and federal police and members of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) joined in the persecution, until the Jeep Grand Cherokee was located.

Near the ejido Solomon Quihuis, better known as Las Cocheras, 50 kilometers south of the road, the vehicle was abandoned, with the doors open and the engine running.

Among the participating elements, the search was set up between the mountains, but its traffickers could not be located, so the operation is maintained.

The automotive unit presented several impacts on its body with armor, the left front rim shredded and without a tire, in its interior, the rifle, magazines, cartridges, and other objects.

The corresponding procedures were made, ensuring the matter to be made available to the corresponding authority.

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