A shooting between armed elements in two vehicles in Caborca, Sonora ended with one armed suspect wounded and three detained Monday evening, say Mexican news accounts.
Reports say the occupants of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a Chevrolet Trailerblazer fired on one another in the Pagusa colony on Las Calabazas road.
Reports say the shootout lasted about 20 minutes. Stray rounds hit a nearby chicken barbeque restaurant which only opened the same day. None of the operators, employees or customers were reported hurt in the shooting.
Unofficial reports say several armed suspect fled the scene on foot following the shootout.
At the scene was found a Ruger .45 caliber pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle.
The Caborca-Tubutama area has been the center of a Mexican Federal counternarcotics effort which recently included a major operation in late October with a reported 400 Federal agents and soldiers involved.
Although no reports were released since the October 20th operation about the conclusion of that operation, or any subsequent operations, reports indicate a Mexican Federal presence still exists in the area.
On Monday, Caborca mayor Dario Murillo Bolaños complained to local press that the unit known to be in the area, Fuerzas Especiales de Apoyo de la Policia Federal, has been involved in a number of "irregularities" mostly regarding creating traffic problems such as driving at night without lights, on the wrong side of the roads in the area, and improper parking.
Murillo asked the Federal forces to provide a good example.
It is unknown if the public complaint was made prior to or subsequent to the latest shooting.