Ciudad Juarez.- The actions of the Attorney General’s Office led in June to the creation of 77 investigation files for crimes against the Firearms and Explosives Law, which in the first half of 2024 amounted to the highest figure in the last three years.
In previous years, there was a decrease of up to 311 investigation files in the first six months of 2022, while in 2023 it rose to 385, a record that was surpassed this year.
In 2024, it began with 59 investigations derived from carrying firearms and explosives, then fluctuating in the following months in 71 cases, 52, 73, 67 and 77 in June.
The figure for the last updated month also represents the highest since March 2023, after months in which there is no clear upward or downward trend in this federal crime stipulated in the federal law on the matter and which must be carried out by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office and before judges at this level of government.
The most recent arrest for the commission of this crime was announced yesterday by the Municipal Public Security Secretariat. This agency announced that Gerardo Alfredo MD was arrested for alleged possession of a 9-millimeter firearm with two live cartridges and three spent shells under one of the seats of the vehicle in which he was arrested.
However, the last seizure by corporations working in Ciudad Juárez was on June 13, by the District Attorney’s Office of the Northern Zone, in the Exhipódromo neighborhood.
After inspecting a Renault Kangoo Carga vehicle driven by Daniel RG, two long firearms, four short firearms, 10 magazines for the short ones and a magazine holder with six of them also for handguns were seized, in addition to 192 .38 super caliber bullets, 10 .50 caliber bullets, and a transparent plastic bag with 220 bullets.
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