Overview
- The coordinated raid, which Mexico City’s police chief announced Thursday, led to six arrests during a search-warrant sweep of a suspected drug hub in Magdalena Mixiuhca in Venustiano Carranza.
- Officers reported seizing 169 doses of apparent cocaine at a property under investigation at Nicolás Romero and Río Frío that was used to store and sell drugs.
- Four wild animals were found on site — a 70-centimeter crocodile, a one-meter iguana, an albino axolotl and a melanoide axolotl — and moved to the SSC’s Animal Surveillance Brigade facility in Xochimilco for veterinary care.
- Post-arrest database checks showed several detainees had prior entries in Mexico City’s penitentiary system for robbery or drug offenses.
- The detainees and evidence are now with the Ministerio Público, the property remains sealed, and authorities said the warrant operation was carried out with the FGJ, SEMAR, SSPC and the National Guard.