Agents from the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office raided a suspected drug house in Cabo San Lucas on April 23, arresting five people and seizing nearly a kilogram of narcotics. The operation targeted a property on Calle Mixtecos in the Colonia Ampliación Mariano Matamoros neighborhood, a residential area on the city’s north side.
The BCS Attorney General’s specialized narcotics unit (Unidad Especializada en Narcomenudeo) executed a court-authorized search warrant after receiving anonymous tips about drug sales at the location. Inside the home, agents confiscated approximately 38 grams of methamphetamine divided into roughly 950 individual doses, 350 grams of marijuana split into about 700 doses, and a glass pipe with crystal residue.
Who Was Arrested
The five people detained range in age from 26 to 53. They were identified by their first names and aliases: Juan Arcadio, known as “El Boby”; Edgar, known as “El Gary”; Guillermo, known as “El Memito”; Francisco Rubén, known as “La Zorra”; and Fabiola Berenice, known as “La Prieta.” Authorities said the suspects hail from Toluca (in the State of Mexico), Los Cabos, and Sinaloa.
All five remain in custody while prosecutors determine formal charges. The packaging of drugs into single-dose quantities is consistent with street-level retail sales, a pattern authorities have targeted across the Los Cabos municipality in recent months.
Enforcement Pressure in Los Cabos
The raid comes during a period of heightened security operations across Baja California Sur. In late April 2025, the U.S. State Department and the Canadian government issued security alerts for Los Cabos and La Paz following a series of violent incidents, including shootouts and bus burnings. Federal security forces arrested four men and seized seven firearms in a separate operation in the Arcos del Sol neighborhood around the same time.
Colonia Ampliación Mariano Matamoros sits well outside Cabo San Lucas’s hotel zone and tourist corridor. The neighborhood is a working-class residential area that has grown rapidly with the influx of workers from mainland Mexico drawn to the Los Cabos tourism economy. Street-level drug sales in these colonias have been a persistent concern for local authorities.
The BCS state prosecutor’s office confirmed the arrests and seizures. The case was first reported by Colectivo Pericu.