Guadalajara police officers have arrested a man in possession of more than 900 turtle eggs that he was apparently intending to sell on the black market.

One of Canada’s ten most wanted fugitives was detained in Guadalajara last Wednesday and deported three days later to Vancouver, British Colombia, authorities here have revealed.

Despite strict new laws governing cruelty to animals, a judge has released a man neighbors say killed a dog by throwing it from the second floor window of a house in Guadalajara’s Colonia Paseos del Sol.

The Jalisco branch of the federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) has slapped the offices of eight airlines in Guadalajara with temporary closure orders for  misleading their customers.

Speed cameras will be set up at seven more points in the Guadalajara metropolitan area before the end of this month, the Jalisco Traffic Department (Semov) has announced. 

Cameras will be used on Avenidas Adolf Horn, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mercedes Félix, Juan Pablo Segundo,  Juan Palomar y Arias and González Gallo, as well as on the Periférico near the intersection with Avenida Guadalupe, Semov says.

Guadalajara city councilors from the National Action Party (PAN) are insisting that the money raised from the sale of municipal land earmarked as the new venue for the Fiestas de Octubre is designated exclusively for the benefit of residents of slender economic means and environmental causes, and not to pay off any of the municipality’s massive debt.