SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The Baja California Attorney General is asking her counterparts in Mexico City to get involved in the investigation that is looking into how drones were used to set off explosives at a state police installation last week.
Drones were flown over the property and three devices were detonated, spraying nails and small pieces of metal throughout a parking lot damaging three vehicles.
Baja Attorney General María Elena Andrade Ramírez has called the Oct. 16 incident a “terrorist attack.”
Earlier this week, Andrade Ramírez said the intended target was the anti-kidnapping unit with the state’s law enforcement agency.
She is now asking federal investigators to get involved because “airspace” was used to deliver the explosives.
“We have discussed the theme of airspace, we need civil aeronautics’ help,” she said. “We’ve spoken with the federal attorney general in the state to let them know they are the corresponding agency that needs to look into this.”
The attack was the second one in less than a month. Weeks earlier, another state police facility in Ensenada, about 60 miles south of Tijuana, was vandalized when various police vehicles were set on fire.
The arson attack resulted in the arrest of seven suspects, but according to Andrade Ramírez, they were not involved in last week’s drone incident.
“Today we are hoping this incompetence ends and the federal attorney general gets involved using the advances we’ve made with this investigation,” she said.
She told reporters during a Thursday morning news conference that all Baja California state police offices and installations are now under heavy watch.
“We know technology travels at very fast speeds these days, and, unfortunately, it has been used negatively. That’s why we have to be on high alert taking preventive measures,” she said.
As of Friday morning, Mexico’s attorney general in Baja California had not indicated whether his office will get involved in this case.