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Groups of cartel paid delinquents created chaos and panic by hijacking more than 50 vehicles and setting up roadblocks in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and its metropolitan area.
For most of yesterday, youths with stones, baseball bats, rebars and weapons seized the vehicles of an estimated 60 drivers to block highways and avenues in the municipalities of Monterrey, Apodaca, Guadalupe, San Nicolas, Cadereyta and Juarez.
Despite the chaos and a flood of calls from concerned citizens, in most of roadblocks, both municipal and state police failed to appear.
The state Public Safety Secretary, Luis Carlos Trevino Berchelmann, said that the roadblocks organized crime's response to the government's decisive actions to locate and deal with them.
These are "without doubt a desperate reaction of criminal gangs to the progress made by federal authorities, in coordination with government security forces and local authorities, in terms of security in the state. "- Luis Carlos Trevino Berchelmann
Additionally, Trevino Berchelmann said only two people, Juan Martin and Jonathan Alejandro González Vázquez Martínez, were arrested.
