US EditionHeavily Armed Foreigner Impersonating a CIA Agent Is Arrested in México State
EDOMEX, STATE OF MEXICO, MEXICO, JUL 5 – Authorities seized six firearms, tactical gear, and over 100 rounds of ammunition from the U.S. citizen arrested for posing an imminent risk to neighbors in Edomex.
- Mexican authorities arrested an unidentified American man brandishing weapons and wearing tactical gear in Atlacomulco on July 5, 2025.
- The arrest followed a reported 9-1-1 call about an armed man acting aggressively on a balcony, prompting police and a Special Reaction Force response.
- Police found six firearms, over 100 rounds of ammunition, tactical vests, helmets, a knife, and a credential inscribed ‘CIA,’ which Mexico’s security chief confirmed was fake.
- Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch stated the man was not a U.S. official or public servant, and the U.S. State Department noted it provides consular aid to detained citizens abroad.
- The suspect faces charges for disturbing the peace and possessing weapons for exclusive army use, and authorities are investigating possible organized crime links.
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The Washington Hispanic
udgtvThe Mexican government denied on Tuesday that an American in possession of firearms was an intelligence agent and detailed that the CIA credential that carried “was false.” The man was captured in the central state of Mexico, after being seen walking on the balcony of an apartment with a long gun, announced last Saturday the government of that district. The CIA intelligence agency’s credential that carried at the time of the arrest “was false” a…
Heavily armed foreigner impersonating a CIA agent is arrested in México state
Responding to a 9-1-1 call, authorities in México state disarmed and arrested a foreigner brandishing a gun and a knife in the city of Atlacomulco last week. According to the official police report dated July 5, the suspect was standing on the balcony of an apartment complex wearing a helmet, a bullet-proof vest and tactical gear and was reportedly acting “aggressively” when police arrived. Durante la intervención aseguraron 6 armas, cargadore…
El Universo
TVNAn American who had six weapons in his possession and carried an alleged CIA credential, the northern neighbor's intelligence agency, was arrested in central Mexico, local authorities reported on Saturday.
A man of U.S. nationality, who carried a credential from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was arrested in the municipality of Atlacomulco, State of Mexico, in possession of weapons for exclusive use by the Army. After a 911 report, referring to the presence of an armed subject and in an aggressive attitude in the Colonia Las Fuentes, elements of the Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico (SSEM), attached to the grouping of the Supp…
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