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Yucatan Police corruption; officers arrested for extorting money from businesses

- March 13, 2022

The subjects arrived at the site and demanded money from the managers to let them work.

MÉRIDA, Yucatán.- Two subjects were arrested by the Police in a restaurant bar located south of the Periférico de Mérida, since they had the funny idea of ​​posing as members of organized crime, and tried to extort money for “protection” from those in charge of the site.

It turns out that these two guys, after getting drunk somewhere in the south of Merida, decided to go to the “La Piraña” bar, which is on 86th Street in the direction of the Santa Cruz Palomeque hacienda, they entered with balaclavas, they went to the managers and demanded money in exchange for protection. 

However, other employees called the Police, and vans from the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) arrived at the scene and the arrest of the two subjects was achieved, in addition to the fact that elements of the State Investigative Police were made aware, since it transpired that one of the detainees wore a helmet with the initials PEI.

However, other employees called the Police, and vans from the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) arrived at the scene and the arrest of the two subjects was achieved, in addition to the fact that elements of the State Investigative Police were made aware since it transpired that one of the detainees wore a helmet with the initials PEI.

The Yucatan Post