Mayor of Ahome proposed application of anti-doping in all areas of municipal government

After three municipal police officers from Ahome, Sinaloa, tested positive for the use of various drugs, Mayor Gerardo Vargas Landeros proposed the application of anti-doping tests in all areas of municipal government.

He also reported that the elements — whose identity and degree are reserved — were suspended from their posts and were left at the disposal of the Honor and Justice Commission to determine their employment status.

According to the mayor of Ahome, the elements came out positive for marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines, after undergoing a routine procedure to assess their state of health, as well as their physical and mental conditions in order to verify that they were fit to do their jobs.

Upon completion of the control and confidence examination process, staff of the State Centre for Confidence Assessment and Control detected that two police officers had used drugs within 48 hours. Later, it was revealed that a third policeman tested positive.

Therefore, L anderos pointed out that anti-doping tests could be applied to other areas and to any public servant, starting with the municipal president himself (himself), since he acknowledged that there are systems that allow us to recognize whether any toxic substance has been used in recent years.

He also recalled the case of a worker of the Drinking Water and Sewerage Board of the Municipality of Ahome (Japama), who was found a firearm after being arrested on Thursday, March 24 in the Carrizo Valley. The worker was in charge of the Las Isabeles water treatment plant.

According to local reports, the subject was inside a car when the municipal preventive agents conducted a routine check on him and found a.380 caliber pistol with two cartridges, which was secured by the appropriate authorities.

“It doesn't matter that it belongs to the union. So the leader of the union, if I catch him high, I run him too. Not only is Japama contradictory but reprehensible because it was in charge of operating the plants in Las Isabeles,” he told local media.

It should be recalled that in April 2020, 14 elements of the Ahome Preventive Police were discharged for being positive in an anti-doping test. At that time the police officers were of all ranks and had been in service from 1 to 20 years.

According to Alexis Anduaga López, Operational Director of the Municipal Police, the 14 officers had already tested positive in other anti-doping tests, but had not been removed from their duties in the previous administrations.

These cases are in addition to that of the National Guard agent who lost his life allegedly due to ingesting narcotic drugs and where another was intoxicated by overdose on March 22 in Culiacán. According to preliminary reports, the elements of the NG that would have used the alleged drugs — the substance was not specified — were in a rented house, located in the Infonavit Cañadas neighborhood.

Finally, it should be noted that for decades the entity has been led by the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Ismael Zambada (el Mayo) and the sons of Joaquín Guzmán Loera (Los Chapitos), so there is a strong presence of the Army and the National Guard. On February 24, three subjects carrying more than three tons of cocaine on board a boat were arrested on the coast of Sinaloa.

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