State Police Conduct Three Drug Raids in Tulum and Chetumal, Arrest Three Suspects

Tulum, Quintana Roo — State investigators executed three search warrants in Tulum and Chetumal on Thursday, seizing suspected drugs and arresting three men caught nearby with narcotics.

The State Prosecutor’s Office said its investigative police, with judicial warrants, raided two properties in Tulum and one in Othón P. Blanco, the municipality containing Chetumal. During one operation, officers arrested three men in the vicinity who were allegedly in possession of drugs.

The first raid, conducted with support from the Mexican Army and municipal police, targeted a building at the intersection of Melecio and Saturno Poniente streets in Tulum’s irregular 2 de Octubre neighborhood. Authorities seized bags containing green and dry plant material consistent with marijuana.

A second warrant was served at another residence on the same streets in the same Tulum neighborhood, where officers found additional doses of the green, dry plant material.

A third search took place at a property on Cristóbal Colón street, between Francisco I. Madero Avenue and José María Morelos street, in the Centro neighborhood of Othón P. Blanco. There, police secured green and dry vegetation and a white powder resembling cocaine, along with two modems and three surveillance cameras.

Authorities arrested Jesús Ernesto “N”, Ángel Joaquín “N”, and Óscar Tomás “N” a short distance from the last location. A routine inspection found them in possession of doses of white powder and green, dry plant material, as well as cell phones.

After completing the searches, agents placed seizure seals on the intervened properties, which remain under the custody of the prosecutor’s office. The secured evidence and the three detainees were turned over to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Drug Retail Sales, which will determine their legal status within the constitutional timeframe.