Gunmen carjacked vehicles and left them parked across roadways around the city. The military deployed about 700 troops and two helicopters to quell the violence.
Local media reported that a woman identified in 2021 as his wife had been arrested in Texas after police found over $800,000 hidden in shoeboxes and backpacks in her home.
A top lieutenant in the Gulf drug cartel has been arrested by police near the US-Mexico border. The man who was arrested goes by "La Cabra" meaning The Goat.
Hugo "The Goat" Salinas Cortinas, one of the leaders of the Gulf cartel's Metros faction, has been arrested in Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the border from Texas, in connection with attacks on police and the military.