As Chapala’s Protección Civil y Bomberos (firefighters) unit continues the hunt for at least one crocodile spotted recently along Lake Chapala’s shoreline, an aquatic team from state Civil Protection was dispatched last week to join the search.

Chapala’s Malecon is receiving throngs of weekend visitors, with many flouting Covid-19 mask wearing regulations.

With the coronavirus pandemic still rampant in Jalisco, lakeside residents are concerned about the prospect of a seasonal influenza outbreak looming on the horizon.

Local law enforcement authorities have reportedly broken up a presumed gang of robbers that preyed on distributors of commercial merchandise working in the lakeshore region and elsewhere in the interior of Jalisco.

Alerted by a citizen report on Monday, October 19, agents of Chapala’s traffic department found an abandoned Toyota van parked on an isolated dirt road located off the Libramiento bypass near the local Instituto Tecnológico Mario Molina.

Chapala police officers apprehended a local man accused of destroying 18 young trees planted in the barriers bordering the Carretera cycling path, reported in the early hours of Thursday, October 15.