On 13 November 2026, state police officers stopped two men and a woman in Cancún’s Zona Hotelera after spotting them allegedly swapping small drug bags around kilometre 14.5 of bulevar Kukulcán.[1] The three detainees were identified as Marvin Arbey “N”, Emmanuel Enrique “N” and Kenia Yurami “N”.[2]

Officers of the state police’s Grupo Orión Zona Norte unit made the stop during patrols in the tourist corridor after receiving a support request for the sector.[2] The intervention yielded 168 small bags with green herb, apparently marijuana, and 54 bags with crystalline fragments resembling crystal, 222 wrappers of possible illicit substances in total.[2] Police also seized three backpacks (brown, green-turquoise checkered and dark blue) and an unquantified amount of cash.[2]

The suspects, the drugs and the other objects were turned over to the prosecutor’s office specialised in street-level drug trafficking (narcomenudeo), which will determine their legal status.[2] Authorities did not publish the total weight of the seized substances nor whether the detainees are linked to a drug-distribution organisation in the hotel zone; lab tests will establish the nature of the substances.[2]