One person wounded and four arrested was the cost of a confrontation between members of organized crime and municipal police officers of Ixtlán, which is located to the west of Michoacán.
According to witnesses, the unknown persons opened fire against officials and one aggressor fell, wounded. Another four alleged delinquents were unarmed and arrested.
In the border zone of Michoacán and Jalisco an operation was launched to look for the other people who had been part of the armed group, identified by authorities as a cell of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, which has been active in Ixtlán in an attempt to expand its territory.
The Attorney General of Michoacán said, some hours later, through a memo about the operation in the Integral Strategy of Security, that fire arms were confiscated from the alleged criminals that came from the army and the air force, not to mention drugs.
The state official said that during the operation federal, state and municipal police were present.
Of the five men detained, one was wounded and had to be brought to a local hospital. The Attorney General mentioned that they confiscated a 9mm Uzzi, a .380 caliber pistol, 29 bags of marijuana and a bog of the unprocessed, non-compacted drug.
The Attorney General also said that his office was investigating whether the arrested men were related to other crimes, and that while this proceeds, they were at the disposal of the Public Ministry.
ESTEBAN BATORY SANDORF
