One person suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the attack, but authorities could not immediately determine whether that person was a hotel employee or a guest. Montes de Oca said one of the men targeted in the attack fled into one of the hotels before dying. “We are facing an issue of supply and demand for drugs,” he said.Ĭartels fighting for the area’s lucrative retail drug trade include the Jalisco cartel and the a gang allied with the Gulf cartel. Montes de Oca said the presence of over 20 million tourists every year in the coastal state provided a strong draw for retail drug sales. The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun. Montes de Oca said Friday that they fled in a boat they commandeered after the attack. Carlos Joaquin had said the evening before.

Montes de Oca said the commando of about 15 masked drug gang gunmen arrived in vehicles and stormed the beach in Puerto Morelos by entering through a hotel parking lot - not coming by boat, as Gov.

“In Tulum we have about 10 groups of drug dealers and here in Puerto Morelos there are two groups fighting each other,” prosecutor Oscar Montes de Oca, told the Imagen Radio station. A California woman and a German tourist were killed in the crossfire of a gang shootout two weeks ago, and three other tourists were wounded. Thursday’s shooting occurred on a beach just yards from luxury hotels.īut about 10 gangs are fighting over street-level drug sales in Tulum, a beach town further south. The chief prosecutor of the coastal state of Quintana Roo said that two main gangs are fighting for control of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun. PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico (AP) - The shooting of two suspected drug dealers at a resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is part of a fight among about a dozen gangs to carve up the lucrative market of selling drugs to tourists and locals, an official said Friday.

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