Those are the ‘monster’ cars utilized by drug traffickers at the Mexico-US border

The dispute over territory at the border between the state of Sonora and Arizona, between Mexico and the USA, is escalating. Drug traffickers use armored monster cars to confront the military and different teams as a way to site visitors medication, guns and cash.

Francisco Sergio Méndez, consultant of the Lawyer Basic’s Place of work (FGR) in Sonora, a state in northwestern Mexico, defined to EFE on Saturday that those cars have metal plates and improvised armor, which gives coverage to the hitmen in armed confrontations.

“They’re given monumental safety as a result of, as you noticed at the moment within the destruction (that the FGR is sporting out of the confiscated cars), they’re armored with heavy-caliber sheets, so they’re tough to wreck with a not unusual weapon,” defined the legit from the Prosecutor’s Place of work.

The government used heavy equipment to wreck the cars, which were hit by means of large-caliber projectiles and have been graffitied with the nickname of the legal team to which they belonged, and a few even with the identify and symbols of the Mexican Military.

On this ultimate case, those vehicles, referred to as “monsters,” have been confiscated in Sonoyta, a municipality at the border between Sonora and Arizona, from ‘Los Pelones,’ a gang of hitmen affiliated with ‘L. a. Chapiza,’ a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel led by means of the sons of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

“The destruction of monster vehicles isn’t meant to let electorate understand how they’re made, however moderately to cause them to conscious about the use that arranged crime makes of them to hold out their legal acts,” Méndez stated.

The FGR delegate in Sonora indicated that the Military, the Nationwide Guard and the Police academies have saved a few of these cars for the educational in their cadets.

“Those are a vital pattern. There are actually 8 or 9 extra ‘monsters’ which are within the Nationwide Guard, the Nationwide Protection Secretariat and the Military Secretariat in order that they are able to use them in coaching, (and be informed) what the cars have within, how they use them, and so on.,” he added.

In northwestern Mexico, investigative and safety businesses have discovered large workshops the place criminals adjust stolen pickup vehicles with metal plates to make stronger vital spaces of the car towards heavy artillery.

Some of the altered options are the engine space, the motive force’s cabin and a space the place artillery is put in to reply to hearth in armed battle.

Lots of the “monster” cars are four-wheel-drive or all-terrain cars, used to move rugged wasteland spaces alongside the border between Sonora and Arizona, transporting guns, cash, medication and undocumented migrants for transnational arranged crime teams.