Military ambushed by Organized Crime

In Carácuaro, Mexico a patrol of soldiers were heading out to responded to a call of a "complaint." About eighty miles south of the capital city the convoy was ambushed by criminals suspected of being involved in organized crime. A colonel and four enlisted men were killed along with many others wounded in the ambush. One criminal had been killed but most of the others managed to escape.
This after Carácuaro Mayor Ismael Garduño Ortega, earlier in the evening, had called for help due to threats of a kidnapping by organized crime. He reportedly asked for the speedy intervention of some 6,000 soldiers involved in the permanent campaign against narcotics trafficking in Michoacán.
Later however Garduño claimed he had not called for help. “That was never the situation, conversely I think they have used me to justify their violent entry,” he told Mexican reporters.