With support from the National Guard (GN) and the Mexican Army, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) seized 87 slot machines while executing a search warrant at nine commercial premises in the market of the municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, following an anonymous report about the illegal operation of these devices. The action was carried out after agents of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), from the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), conducted investigative acts to corroborate the reported facts, the agency headed by Ernestina Godoy reported. With the information gathered, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), attached to the Specialized Regional Control Prosecutor's Office (FECOR) in Chiapas, obtained authorization from a control judge at the Federal Criminal Justice Center to execute the search warrant in which the 87 slot machines were seized. Agents of the National Guard (GN), the Mexican Army and the Attorney General's Office (FGR) seized 87 slot machines in the market of the municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Photo: X @FGRMexicoThe devices were located in nine properties operating as commercial premises inside the "Merposur" municipal market, the Attorney General's Office specified in a statement. The machines were placed at the disposal of the ministerial authority. It indicated that the execution of the search warrant corroborated the commission of an offense under the Federal Law of Games and Sweepstakes, which punishes the conduct of owners, organizers, managers or administrators of a house or premises, open or closed, where prohibited games or games with betting are conducted without authorization from the Ministry of the Interior (Segob). The operation was carried out by personnel of the Federal Ministerial Police, together with experts in field forensics, photography, engineering and telecommunications from the AIC, with support from the National Guard, the Mexican Army and the Secretariat of the People's Security, it highlighted. Agents of the National Guard (GN), the Mexican Army and the Attorney General's Office (FGR) seized 87 slot machines in the market of the municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Photo: X @FGRMexicoThis latest action, it added, adds to the seizure of computers, pinball machines, waterfall machines, claw machines, slot machines and cash carried out yesterday in the Cuauhtémoc and Iztapalapa boroughs, in Mexico City. You may be interested in: "Tofis", former mayor of Jamay, Jalisco, arrested; transferred to FGR headquarters in Guadalajara SSC, Navy and National Guard carry out operation in La Merced; targeting slot machines IMSS staff announces national march on October 14; Metro, Pemex, ISSSTE and CNTE workers join in Join our channel! EL UNIVERSAL is now on WhatsApp! From your mobile device, find out the day's most relevant news, opinion pieces, entertainment, trends and more dft/bmc