Nine people were detained in Agua Verde, Rosario, Sinaloa, during an operation by state and federal authorities.[1][2] The detainees included four Colombian men, one Cuban man and two women, one of them a minor.[1] Authorities did not give the identity, age or nationality of the other two detained people.[1] The FGR later obtained the binding over for trial of the nine detainees, including the minor and five foreign nationals.[3] A judge found the adolescent’s detention lawful and ordered preventive internment in the adolescent centre in Culiacan.[3]

Inside the property officers seized nine rifle-type firearms, 2,560 cartridges, 52 magazines and nine tactical vests, plus 4.282 kilograms of marijuana in 448 packets.[3] The marijuana was found in 448 packets.[3] The first reports put the suspected marijuana at about five kilograms.[1][2] Those first reports listed nine AK-47 rifles, 54 magazines and 2,620 usable cartridges.[1][2] Seven adults were bound over for possession of military-use weapons, cartridges and magazines.[3] Three of them were also accused of dealing-related possession of marijuana for sale.[3]

Officers acted after spotting armed civilians during patrols, then deploying to a property in the community.[1] The surveillance was carried out by the Sinaloa Special Operations Group and the Mexican Army.[1] The detainees and everything seized were placed at the disposal of the FGR’s public prosecutor, which investigates and decides their legal situation.[1][2] Authorities had not said whether the property was a safe house or whether the detainees belonged to a criminal organisation.[1]

The army statement said four of the nine detainees were Colombian and one was Cuban.[2] The army statement dates the patrols to 31 August 2026.[2] CiberCuba reported that the detainees were held in the community of Agua Verde, where agents saw armed civilians inside a property.[4] CiberCuba counted four Colombians, one Cuban and two women, one of them a minor, among the nine detainees.[4]