Agents of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), the state investigation agency attached to the Zona Centro district prosecutor’s office in Chihuahua, executed 164 arrest warrants during October 2026, 15 of them in investigations of intentional homicide.[1]

In the same month the agency seized 6 tonnes and 3.3 kilograms of cannabis, a figure the prosecutor values at just over 6,003 kilograms.[1] The agents carried out 212 operations, served 38 search warrants granted by control judges and detained 71 people in flagrancia, caught in the act, for various offences.[2] The same balance reports 772.52 grams of crystal, 60.74 grams of cocaine and 9.5 grams of heroin, which are not cannabis and are excluded from this account’s figures.[1]

The agency also reported locating 84 people with absence or disappearance reports across the 19 municipalities of its jurisdiction.[1] They secured 50 vehicles, two of them motorcycles, and recovered 27 vehicles, three of them motorcycles.[2] Among the highlighted actions was the flagrancia detention in Aldama of a man accused of illegal possession of firearms reserved for the Army and of a vehicle with false plates, in an operation that also seized five guns, more than 2,000 cartridges, 51 magazines, two Jeep Cherokee vehicles and four vests.[1]

The prosecutor’s office stated that the report gives no number of the investigations that ended in convictions, nor of the effect of the operations on crime rates.[1]