Mexico City’s capital police detained a 46-year-old man in colonia Guerrero in the Cuauhtémoc borough during a surveillance patrol.[1] The detention took place at the crossing of Zarco and Moctezuma, where officers of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana, SSC) saw the man handling a plastic bag and acting evasively after noticing their presence.[1]

A preventive search found 30 small bags holding a green, dry plant material whose characteristics apparently corresponded to marijuana.[1] Officers informed the man of his constitutional rights and transferred him, together with the suspected drug, to an agent of the Ministerio Público, the public prosecutor’s office.[1] That ministerial authority was left to determine his legal situation and continue the corresponding investigations.[1]

An authorities’ information cross-check showed the detainee had two previous admissions to the Mexico City penitentiary system and one presentation before the Ministerio Público for robbery in different forms in 2018 and 2022.[1]