Official reports increasingly point to this part of the state, home to its flagship tourist destination: Mazatlán. Among the injured were three state police officers attacked by drones on the Mazatlán-Culiacán bypass near the town of El Chilillo. Violence shifts to the south“Since they detained ‘El Texas’ it’s been calmer,” says Teresa Navia, a reporter who covers crime, referring to the drop in violence in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa. Members of the Mexican Army and the state Public Security Secretariat surrounded the Paralela apartment towers in the Humaya neighborhood. “El René was the one who switched; he was the one behind all the violence here and reached an agreement.