Minnesotans on spring holidays bear witness to a deadly drug raid in Cancun Resort

Cancún, Quintana Roo – A person died in a drug raid reported in broad daylight in a seaside resort in Mexico, in the pool in front of Minnesotans during spring holidays.

This occurred at the Riu Palace Costa Mujeres hotel, about 25 miles north of Cancun airport. The Attorney General of Quintana Roo said that the police were in civilian clothes in response to information that members of armed gangs sold drugs in the complex and threatened staff and guests.

Kare 11 was maintained with a mother who was part of a large group of Wayzata families during a senior spring vacation trip to the hotel who said that drug traffickers have approached her son and many other high school students aggressively, trying to sell them cocaine and bring them to share their information on social networks.

The Riviera Maya News reports that when the Mexican authorities confronted two of the suspects in a bathroom near the swimming pool and were dismissed. The police turned fire and killed one of the alleged gang members, and placed the other in police custody.

In a statement, the prosecutor’s office confirmed that the police “had dismantled a drug trafficking gang whose members have arrived several times to the establishment to demand services, threaten the staff and sell drugs”.

Police launched a more important investigation in order to locate additional gang members involved in the situation of spring holidays.