Criminal drug ring nabbed, gangbanger killed near popular Cancún resort frequented by American tourists

A transgression cause ringing successful Mexico that often terrorized a edifice adjacent Cancún fashionable with American tourists was dismantled pursuing an undercover sting cognition by instrumentality enforcement. 

The authorities lawyer general's bureau successful Quintana Roo reported that the undercover operation, carried retired successful a edifice located successful Costa Mujeres, successful the Continental Zone - aka the Hotel Zone - nabbed a transgression drug-dealing gang, whose members, they say, "constantly came to this constitution to request services and endanger unit and merchantability drugs."

The bureau said that upon arriving astatine the lodging halfway successful the pool's bath area, constabulary agents were attacked by 2 alleged members of the gang, who were carrying firearms.

One of the alleged criminals mislaid his beingness aft attempting to onslaught the agents, portion different was arrested.

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Members of the lawyer general's bureau successful Mexico connected a formation successful Cancún.  (iStock/Fiscalía General QR)

Investigators besides seized 2 firearms, 1 of them described arsenic exclusive to the military.

Following the altercation, constabulary searched to find the different pack members.

Reports amusement the incidental allegedly happened astatine the Riu Palace edifice successful Costa Mujeres, though the edifice would not corroborate if this was related to its establishment.

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Aerial panoramic presumption of Cancún metropolis edifice portion successful Mexico. (iStock)

"Due to this lawsuit being nether probe and owed to the prosecutor's bureau being the 1 who sent the authoritative statement, we conscionable tin stock its ain statement," the edifice shared successful a connection with Fox News Digital. 

"This was an isolated situation, it was solved. The lone idiosyncratic who mislaid his beingness was a suspected criminal." 

This latest incidental comes aft a University of Pittsburgh pupil vanished disconnected a formation astatine the Riu Republica edifice successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, during a outpouring interruption travel successful March.

Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh pupil from Loudoun County, Virginia, was past seen walking connected a formation extracurricular the five-star edifice successful the aboriginal greeting hours of March 6.

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Members of the National Guard patrol a formation successful the Hotel Zone of Cancún, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, successful 2021. (Cesar Rodriguez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

It was aboriginal revealed that the assemblage pupil went swimming during a red-flag informing with a antheral edifice guest, who was considered a witnesser successful Konanki's disappearance, but has since been cleared of immoderate wrongdoing.  

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The parents of Konanki sent a missive to La Policia Nacional, the Dominican nationalist constabulary force, astir 2 weeks pursuing their daughter's disappearance, stating that "Dominican authorities person concluded that Sudiksha is believed to person drowned."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the U.S. State Department for comment.

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]