Mexico's army seizes local police weapons in cartel heartland amid gunfights, violence

The Mexican army has seized the weapons of local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan in the country’s northwest Sinaloa state as violence and gunfights have ravaged the city in recent weeks, reports said this week.

Following the seizures, the roughly 1,000-strong police force was pulled off the streets by the state's governor, Ruben Rocha, noting they will not be reinstated until their weapons are returned. 

But the move came just one day after some 1,500 residents of Culiacan...