‘Se Busca Información’ campaign launches to target border crime
Andrea Turisk
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY)- A new binational security campaign is hitting the streets designed to get public help to identify and capture dangerous people.
The Se Busca Información initiative is a joint effort focused on getting wanted individuals off the streets on both sides of the border. Authorities say public tips play a big part of making this work.
U.S. Border Patrol and Mexican officials are sharing one message: Someone is wanted and the public can help find them.
The goal is to disrupt dangerous individuals by working together and inviting the public to participate.
Chief Justin De La Torre with the Yuma Sector Border Patrol says, “Every member of our shared community here in Southern Arizona, Sonora, Baja, and California are critical partners in our mission to eliminate cartels.””
Chief De La Torre says the initiative features suspects tied to criminal activities including drug trafficking and human smuggling.
“They’re all involved in cartel operations. They’re either members or associates of cross border crime. Organized crime to bring humans illegally in the us, to bring drugs in the us, to carry out homicides, murders, things like that on behalf of criminal organizations which really wreaks havoc on all of our communities,” he said.
Which is why Sonora, Mexico Attorney General Gustavo Rómulo Salas Chavez says its critical to receive public help to get these individuals off the streets.
“These people cannot and should not walk freely in the streets when they face serious criminal charges and arrest warrants,” said Chavez.
Chief De La Torre says this initiative is just another way they’re trying to keep the community safe as a whole: “We’re doing everything we can to identify people and bring them to justice, but we also need the public’s help. We need the communities support.”
If you’d like to submit an anonymous tip, you can call or text (928) 699-5919.