Five arrested as three Mexico City raids find over 25 kg of marijuana
Mexico City police and prosecutors reported three simultaneous raids on properties in Magdalena Contreras, Venustiano Carranza and Coyoacán on 29 October 2026, arresting three men and two women. Officers seized more than 25 kg of marijuana, 1,344 methamphetamine pills and cocaine, and handed the five to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
🇲🇽 Magdalena Contreras, Venustiano Carranza and Coyoacán, Mexico City · Mexico
Three men aged 33, 37 and 43 and two women aged 26 and 46 were arrested in three
simultaneous search warrants in Mexico City, the city’s Public Security Ministry
(SSC) said.[1]The SSC announced the operation on 29 October 2026.[1]The
warrants covered properties in the alcaldías (Mexico City’s boroughs) of
Magdalena Contreras, Venustiano Carranza and Coyoacán that the SSC described as
used to store, sell and distribute drugs.[2]A control judge granted the
warrants after a prosecutor presented evidence gathered in intelligence and
field work.[3]
At the first property, on Calle Huayatla in Colonia Huayatla, Magdalena
Contreras, they detained a 26-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man.[3]There
they seized15 kg of marijuana, 75 doses of marijuana, 300 g of cocaine and two
phones, along with methamphetamine pills.[3]At the second, on Calle José
Rivera in Colonia Moctezuma Primera Sección, Venustiano Carranza, they detained
a 43-year-old man and seized 100 doses of cocaine, 100 doses of marijuana, 500 g
of marijuana and a phone.[3]At the third, on Calle Malvas in Colonia Jardines
de Coyoacán, Coyoacán, they detained a 46-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man
and seized 10 kg of marijuana and a phone.[3]
The SSC put the haul at 1,344 suspected methamphetamine pills and more than 25
kg of marijuana.[2]All five were handed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office,
which will decide their legal situation.[2]
Photos and video
SSC photograph of the detained people and drug doses from the three simultaneous raids; the caption gives three women and two men, while the article text gives three men and two women. Photo: SSCPhoto details
Infobae video on the three simultaneous raids, titled 'Cateos simultáneos en Coyoacán, Venustiano Carranza y Magdalena Contreras dejan cinco detenidos'. Source: InfobaeThe five people detained in the three raids. Photo: SSC, via El UniversalPhoto details
Infobaeinfobae.comESMegaoperativo contra el narco en CDMX: arrestan a dos mujeres y tres hombres con meta, coca y marihuana en tres alcaldías
El Universaleluniversal.com.mxESDetienen a cinco personas tras cateos por narcomenudeo en CDMX; aseguran drogas en tres alcaldías
Open questions the AI reported
The sources give no separate date for the raids; 29 October 2026 is the publication date of the SSC statement and the three reports.
Infobae and Quadratín's headline give 1,344 methamphetamine pills in total, while Quadratín's raid-by-raid account and El Universal give 1,334 pills at the Huayatla property, the only raid where pills were reported; this report uses 1,344.
The Infobae photo caption says three women and two men were detained, while the article text, its headline and the other reports say three men and two women.
No charges, court appearance or outcome were reported; the five were handed to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The same Infobae page reports a separate raid on an alleged licence-plate forgery operation in Gustavo A. Madero, with six arrests, a different event left out of this report.
Quadratín's photograph carried no caption beyond its SSC credit, so it was not listed as media.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in El Universal: Officers from the SSC and the city prosecutor's office (FGJ) carried out the raids with the navy (Semar) and the National Guard.
State prosecutors and federal and state officers searched a property in San Jerónimo Tianguismanalco, in the municipality of San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, and detained four people on suspicion of drug dealing. Officers seized 47 small bags of a granular substance similar to crystal and a gram scale.
State prosecutors, soldiers, National Guard troops and Puebla state police searched a property in San Luis Coyotzingo, in the municipality of Huejotzingo, on a warrant and seized 19 doses with characteristics of marijuana, 63 bags of crystal and a gram scale. The building was sealed and left with the authorities, and no arrests were reported.
Michoacán's state attorney general's office raided three properties in Los Reyes simultaneously, in the Monte Verde housing development and the Villa Oriente neighbourhood, and said it seized about 1.7 kilograms of marijuana along with weapons and tactical gear. The properties were identified as operating sites of a group attributed to Fausto Alejandro "N", known as "El Bolillo".
Federal officers raiding a suspected crypto-mining site called La Gallera in Tlaola, Puebla, on 5 November detained one man who had a bag of presumed marijuana. The raid seized mining and electrical equipment and is being investigated as possible electricity theft, with no weight or charge reported for the marijuana.
