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Four Die in Chihuahua Highway Crash After Meth Lab Raids, Including Two U.S. Embassy Instructors

The crash underscores the risks of joint U.S.-Mexico drug enforcement work.

Mexican authorities raided two methamphetamine labs in Chihuahua on Saturday. The next day, officials said that four personnel from Mexico and the US who participated in the operation died in a car accident.
U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 2, 2025.
The U.S. flag flies at half staff at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City February 16, 2011. Gunmen shot dead a U.S. customs and immigration agent and wounded another on Tuesday in Mexico, where violence between powerful drug cartels and security forces has surged. The two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were driving north on Mexico's main highway on official business when they were attacked in broad daylight. It was not immediately clear why they were targeted. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
The U.S. embassy in Mexico City on Nov. 5, 2024.

Overview

  • The group died Sunday in a crash on the Chihuahua–Ciudad Juárez highway after an operation near Morelos to dismantle meth labs.
  • Chihuahua’s attorney general named the Mexican victims as State Investigation Agency director Pedro Ramón Oseguera Cervantes and officer Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes.
  • The two U.S. victims were instructors assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City as part of a training exchange with Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency.
  • State officials said drones helped locate at least two large clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in remote mountains near Morelos during raids late last week.
  • Authorities have not determined the cause of the crash, with few details released, though a state account described a convoy vehicle that lost control and went off a cliff.