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Lorenzo Adrián, who is being held in Cereso 3, is accused of having ordered the attack on official Nicolás Monárrez, where he died and his son and bodyguard were injured.
According to the message, this subject is being held in Cereso #3 in Ciudad Juarez, accused of being the principal instigator of violence among other accusations that are mentioned on these canvases.
In the message, he is attributed as the person who gave the orders to murder the workers of Aquiles Serdán's Cereso 1. Like the attack on Nicolás Monárrez Gaxiola, who died, leaving his partner José Francisco and Nicolas's son injured, on April 15 in the city of Chihuahua.
The narco message was immediately removed by police authorities, who were notified about the appearance of these blankets, which were secured by the State Attorney General's Office for the integration of the corresponding investigation.
The Attorney General, César Jáuregui Moreno, as well as the Secretary of Public Security of the State, Gilberto Loya Chávez, from the moment the events occurred, had announced that the criminal group called La Empresa had been responsible for committing these events.
At the moment it is unknown whether or not the subject mentioned in the blankets is related to this armed aggression, or to other relevant events that have been committed in both Juárez and Chihuahua.
So far seven people have been arrested for these events, and yesterday six of them were already presented before a judge, who ordered them to be remanded in custody for these events, while the last of them is still awaiting the resolution of her legal situation because she was in labor.
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The Attorney General's Office (FGR) handed over to the US government Luis Felipe López Zamora, “Gordo”, who is believed to be the operator of Los Chapitos, an ID belonging to the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), to comply with the Extradition Treaty. , the man has an arrest warrant from the Federal Court for the Eastern District of California since 2023 for the crimes of criminal association, against health and money laundering.
According to official information, from 2019 to 2021, El Gordo belonged to Los Chapitos, a criminal gang for which he trafficked different illicit substances, including fentanyl, from Mexico to Sacramento, California for distribution. In addition, Luis Felipe López was in charge of collecting the profits from the sale of drugs for subsequent shipment to Mexico.
López Zamora aka El Gordo, was arrested on January 2, 2024 in the Salvatierra neighborhood of Tijuana by elements of the State Citizen Security Force (FESC). This arrest occurred following the request made by the United States government since June 19, 2023 to the FGR to search and capture El Gordo for the aforementioned crimes and once this was done extradite him.
The delivery of Luis Felipe López took place on the morning of this Thursday, April 18, at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), to the US agents designated for his transfer to that country.
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So, there I was looking like a human ornament latched to the front of my rivals Improvised Armored Fighting Vehicle (IAFV) on my ways towards death.
Without giving too much thought into what I was signing up for. I unwittingly became the tip of the spear for my masters, engaged in a conflict that I wasn’t really prepared for.
Obviously, I look dumb as fuck in this less than glorious moment that I currently find myself in. But for all intents and purposes this is how the world will more than likely remember me.
As an earthly decorative piece leading the charge in the direction of my own demise.
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'David DeWayne Young' is the leader of the dangerous GhostFace Gangsters and was hiding out in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora.
WRITTEN BY: ANDRÉS MARTINEZ
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We are the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. This is a statement to inform and warn all thieves who arrive in Tijuana that here in Tijuana they cannot be working freely without permission from the cartel. This dope load was confiscated for not checking in with us. This isn’t a place for you to want to move dope without our consent. Tijuana has an owner and it belongs to the 4 letters cartel.
Keep listening to Achilles and La Rana. They don’t have anything here. With this action of ours we’re showing you who the true owners of Tijuana actually are. Here you will have to pay what is owed. We are not extorting or charging fees from innocent citizens like seafood sellers, grocers, and taqueros. We’re not cheap like that. You lice infested fools couldn’t even bother to answer the calls from the truck driver who lost the drug load.
We left him on the side of the road so that you guys can pick him up. And stop crying about the house that got ransacked in Otay. There weren't $250,000 there. There was only two hundred pounds of dope. Stop being such liars and lice infested fools. Keep sending dope loads with Achilles and La Rana and this will continue to happen. Don't believe everything you hear in the narco ballads or see online.
These individuals are nothing more than daydreamers who seem to think that with their whores in Culiacán they’re going to fix things. Stop calling on the government to solve your problems, you fucking cowards. Nobody wanted to come near us when we had your operatives detained. At the very least you should’ve sent your gunmen to fight.
You gang of cowards this is warfare between tough men. You wimps should’ve confronted us. But instead you decided to watch us from a distance while we took your shit away. You know damn well who we are and where you can find us. This isn’t a game you fucking faggots. It’s you being extorted and us showing you who’s boss here.
Sincerely,
Hitmen in unison scream: Jalisco New Generation Cartel!
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The SSC of Mexico City reported that it opened an investigation to arrest him.
After images of José Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, El Fresa, one of the leaders of the Familia Michoacana in the municipality of Tejupilco, State of Mexico, were released, the Mexican Security Secretariat (SSEM) stated that they will continue with the investigations.
Versions spread on social networks portray the criminal leader in the front row at a musical event hosted by regional Mexican artists Edén Muñoz and Remmy Valenzuela in the municipality of Tejupilco, south of the Mexican entity.
Although there is a reward in exchange for information that helps capture him, the truth is that this alleged criminal leader continues with operations together with his brother, mainly in the State of Mexico, Guerrero and Michoacán.
In this regard, the Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico (SSEM) reported in a press release that they will continue with the corresponding investigations and denied that the investigations regarding these criminal leaders have been frozen.
“It is reported that the actions of the investigation area of the Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico (SSEM) have never stopped operating and in principle the investigations of organized crime crimes are in charge of the federal government.”
Although they stressed that since these are operations led by the Federation, the agency indicated that they maintain close collaboration and that they will have to keep the investigations confidential.
“However, it is important to highlight that the SSEM has close coordination with the federal government to jointly address the objectives and investigations that are the responsibility of federal crimes, the above in a permanent and systematic manner. For reasons of strategic operations, no further information will be issued in this regard.”
What does the corrido of 'El Fresa' say?
"I am one of the most wanted in a very familiar cartel, I have many friends who have to give their lives for me and also enemies who want to take it from me," is heard in the first stanzas of the El Fresa corrido that the group Gerardo y su Gerarquía premiered in June 2022.
Over four minutes and 24 seconds, the controversial song describes the ostentatious lifestyle of a criminal boss who, although his real name is not mentioned, his alias and description fit the identity of one of the most wanted bosses by federal authorities: José Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga.
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The creation of the Delta Group is attributed to a subject nicknamed “El 03”
In the video a considerable group of subjects with weapons appears.
A group of armed individuals, who identified themselves as members of the Delta Group of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), announced their arrival in Los Reyes, Michoacán. These are several subjects who appeared in the middle of a sierra. In addition, the subjects took the opportunity to threaten several individuals.
In front of them they placed a table and a white tablecloth; some of those involved were positioned on the ground, while the majority remained standing. The recording was shared on social networks on Tuesday, April 16.
“Good afternoon, town of Los Reyes and its surroundings, we are Grupo Delta of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel of Mr. Mencho and Mr. 3, we are already within the area,” were the first statements from one of the men. Later they mentioned several aliases.
As can be seen in the audiovisual material, there are more than 50 armed individuals who appear with tactical clothing and weapons, while a few cows appear in the background.
“Harlequín, La Sombra, who are in charge of Guicho, Poncho and Poncho Junior's son, who are the ones who have the people with fear and lies,” said the group's spokesperson, who said that the cell is allegedly not involved with actions such as a fees.
During their message they mentioned Mencho, alias of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes and who is the current leader of the four letters cartel. But they also named Mr. 3, this nickname could refer to a subject identified in some reports as the successor of Oseguera Cervantes. In addition, El 03, as it is also known, was accused by the Mexican government of creating two elite groups within the CJNG, one of them the Delta Group.
"Sincerely. Grupo Delta Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación”, concluded the subject who spoke in front of the camera.
What is the CJNG Delta Group?
It should be remembered that the Delta Group had already been identified in military reports as an armed wing of the CJNG which would be used by El Mencho for high-impact operations, they have been implicated in the murder of the former governor of Jalisco, Aristotle Sandoval.
The authorities identified the activities of said criminal group at least since September 2018. On that occasion Marisela Gómez Cobos, then in charge of the Jalisco Attorney General's Office, reported on the capture of four members of the criminal cell. For this purpose, an operation had to be implemented with around 80 security personnel.
While in 2020 a message attributed to Carteles Unidos and dedicated to the leader of the CJNG was found in which they warned him that they would not let him enter the municipality of Los Reyes. “Mencho, you wont be coming into Los Reyes. Tell your mob to recover their drug tanks, they left them full,” it was read on that occasion.
Jaziel “G”, Alfonso “R”, Tomás “L”, Cristian “M”, Francisco “C”, Brandon “B”, Diego “T”, Leobardo “P”, Jonathan “L”, Rosaura “P”, José “F” and Anthony “O” were surprised by the uniformed officers when they were traveling in a vehicle and trying to enter a property. After their capture, six long weapons, one short weapon, seven magazines, three homemade weapons, 143 rounds of various calibers, in addition to the unit in which they were traveling, were seized.
Due to the above, the 12 people mentioned, among whom was a minor, were accused of carrying weapons for the exclusive use of the authorities.
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A study by the company specialized in private security Círculo Logístico has identified that six cartels and 74 armed groups in the country have taken over the crime of highway merchandise theft. Here the results
The times when robbers randomly “hit” trailers loaded with merchandise are long gone. For at least three years, organized crime has been implementing technology and strategies that are used in war conflicts along the country's roads, with the aim of precisely looting the best-selling products on the black market.
A study by the company specialized in private security Círculo Logístico has identified that six cartels and 74 armed groups in the country have taken over the crime of theft of merchandise on highways – which leaves profits for organized crime of at least 4.1 billion dollars a year – with an increase in the use of violence and tactics similar to those used by armies at war.
To do so, they have made their way through employees of industrial parks and distribution centers with bullets and death threats to force them to hand over the schedules, routes and license plates of those who will be their targets of attack. In addition, they specifically track the trucks using drones with GPS jammers to deactivate the companies' satellite monitoring.
“We have calculated that 20% of the people in the (transportation and distribution) industry who work with them do so for money; but 80% of these people are directly threatened with death, or their families,” says Héctor Romero, also vice president of the Security and Justice Commission of the Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex).
“Until a few years ago, highway robbers brought small, short weapons and did not use them in robberies. They used surprise and shock tactics more. Today they are using high-powered rifles, weapons modified to pierce the armor of cargo trucks. We are already facing a new phase of crime,” he describes.
Criminals from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Northeast Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, La Unión Tepito Cartel and what remains of the Tláhuac Cartel carry, for example, high voltage batteries to “blow up” the electromagnetic security plates, as well as radio frequency equipment that interferes with surveillance cameras to prevent videos from being recorded inside and outside the trailers at the time of the theft.
On the other hand, their armed forces dedicated to huachicoleo, trafficking of undocumented migrants or weapons are using caltrops made with high-resistance materials, such as those thrown at the passage of military convoys, or high-precision rifles of Russian origin – 12.7 x108 mm, for example – to pierce tires from a distance, even if they have rubber covering them.
“They are going to do everything possible to obtain very specific merchandise that we already have perfectly located and that is the one that is causing the most violence on the country's roads,” says Héctor Romero.
From chilies to Boss, Zegna and CK
In 2023, the most stolen things on roads and highways were food and drinks, followed by appliances, construction materials, auto parts, clothing and footwear. And in categories this broad, organized crime has very specific tastes.
In food and beverages, the company Círculo Logístico identified that the priority objectives are usually cookies, cans of chili peppers and tuna. These robberies usually occur around 5:00 a.m. so that by 7:00 a.m. at the latest they are already in the inventories of the flea market stalls and markets supplied by organized crime, according to Héctor Romero.
By noon, the trace of that merchandise will have been lost, while the National Guard is just interrogating the assaulted driver.
Among household appliances, flat screens, irons, washing machines, radios and headphones are magnets for organized crime.
“And this is worse during the Christmas season or around Mother's Day. The cartels steal more and with greater violence, but with a different logic than that of food and drinks: they do not resell, but rather they give it away. And they do it to gain the protection of vulnerable neighbors under the pretext of taking from the rich to give to the poor,” explains Romero.
After these goods, they are followed by the highly coveted construction material, mainly cement, sand and rods; Carrying that requires as much secrecy as if it were gold, oil or water in times of drought. Then, auto parts that are usually damaged in crashes, such as windows, bumpers and fenders, are coveted by crime.
“And the clothes, of course. It is already very dangerous to transport branded clothing in this country. But not just any type or brand. There is a fixation on sportswear and very particular brands such as Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna, Calvin Klein... The most stolen items are pants, shirts, belts and, for women, underwear," says the specialist.
Extreme violence against drivers
In recent years, he accuses, “on-demand robberies” have also grown, that is, cartels ask armed forces to go after specific merchandise at all costs.
These tend to be the most violent robberies, as criminal organizations pay smaller groups an advance to guarantee the robbery; If they are not achieved, the armed forces must return that money and even pay a kind of “fine” for non-compliance.
These are the cases that typically circulate virally on social networks: criminals who shoot at the driver as soon as they have set foot outside the car, who do not hesitate to burst the metal plates with bullets because they know perfectly well what is inside, who have accomplices spread over several sections so as not to fail with theft from the company.
“In some cases, as the drivers themselves have told me, they don't just hit or block them. We have had cases of drivers being raped,” says Héctor Romero.
These are not sexual assaults in which pleasure is sought, but rather humiliating the other so that they know who are the ones who have the power on the roads.
Many drivers have had to create their own strategies to get to safety. Some travel with the bed of the truck or trailer open – even if that warrants a violation – so that criminals can see that they do not have cargo; Others put low-end cell phones in their shoes, but with GPS, to help their relatives locate them if they are missing in the hope that the battery lasts long enough to be found.
It is also common that robbery begins after traffic accidents or robberies
The above contributes to inflation for buyers, an increase that responds not only to the losses caused by product theft, but also to the violence associated with it.
“Consumers notice this in the final price of the goods,” confirms Romero. “Everything has increased, on average, 20% in the value of the product, because transportation companies have to spend more and more on security. And due to the violence and technology of crime, this protection is very expensive, because you have to be, at least, on par with the cartels.”
State-of-the-art ceramic armor, low-weight ballistic vests that allow the operator to run to protect his life, high-precision GPS that resists organized crime inhibitors, electromagnetic and automatic closing plates, closed video surveillance circuits in cabins and vehicles escorts that function as a wall against criminals are the measures that companies hire and implement the most.
The prices of insurance against theft have also gone through the roof, explains the specialist. For many companies they are already priceless, especially for those who work on the routes of the State of Mexico, Puebla, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala and Veracruz, which is where the most thefts occur and where the most drivers disappear.
“The most expensive product is the one that doesn't make it to the shelf. It is very expensive for a company if its merchandise is not in the stores and the competition's is, so millions of pesos are paid in security, but many times even then it cannot be guaranteed that the chicken, avocado, canned or sugar arrive to the municipalities. That is a misfortune".
Given this reality, the private company Círculo Logístico estimates that in Mexico there is a deficit of about 70,000 freight transport drivers for fear of being the next victims of organized crime.
The older ones retire earlier; The youngest ones don't even attend to the calls. Many others emigrate looking for work in the United States, where higher salaries are offered. Those who stay know that they are going to an office of death.
The company Círculo Logístico estimates that in Mexico there is a deficit of 70 thousand drivers who have been victims of highway robbery.
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US Customs & Border Patrol stated they will start naming the Mexican cartel bosses who control certain regions south of the border in order to “to increase public and law enforcement pressure on them.”
They began with the Nogales region, naming Sinaloa Cartel’s Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, alias “El Gigio” - an old friend of Mayo Zambada.
They also made clear why they were focusing on El Gigio first, above other cartel figures, stating that the plaza Gigio controls is responsible for the most fentanyl heading into the US, and "44% of the fentanyl being trafficked to the U.S.”
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The old school boss Rafael Caro Quintero assures that he is not Rafael Caro Quintero. This is one of the arguments that he presented before a federal court to avoid his extradition to the United States, arguing that he is not the drug lord that the US Department of Justice is looking for. According to judicial documents to which Reforma had access, Caro Quintero requested that 10 expert opinions be carried out.
Among them those of the physical identity system and forensic photography to try to demonstrate that his capture was a mistake and that in any case the real drug trafficker is still out there. As in the formal extradition request, the Americans offered a video in which the drug trafficker appears. He also requested that computer experts be applied in analysis of audio, video, photographs, and stenographic transcriptions.
As well as acoustics, phonetics, forensics, and voice analysis. The informative note clarifies that although Caro Quintero hasn’t denied his name in the process. He has a legal strategy position with which he wants to convince that scientifically his features don’t coincide with those of the 7 photographs or a video submitted in the extradition file. In this type of procedures, the photos and images in general presented by the requesting country are the only ones that can be taken into account to establish the identity of the extraditable person.
This argument is the same one raised by Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Chapo Guzmán, as well as other drug traffickers. Like Eduardo Arellano Félix aka El Doctor and Marco Antonio Paredes Machado, Chapo's operator in Sonora among others. Extradition trials can only be litigated with two arguments or exceptions: proving that the detainee is not the person sought by the requesting country and proving that the formal process doesn’t comply with the extradition treaty between the two countries.
Caro Quintero has implemented a legal strategy with the purpose of significantly prolonging his extradition to the United States. An action that they consider that he has at his disposal. This perception is based on the absence so far of a legal ruling by Judge Marcela Castro Núñez in charge of the extradition process. Furthermore, it is expected that even after this determination the Secretary of Foreign Affairs should make a ruling, probably followed by the presentation of an amparo by the boss.
Which will require resolution in two additional instances. This complete procedural course is estimated to take more than one year to complete. On the one hand, Caro Quintero argues that the extradition request violates the legal principle of Non bis in ídem, which establishes that no one can be tried twice for the same crime. The reasoning is that since he was already tried in Mexico and sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of Camarena in 1985, he cannot be tried again for the same crime in the United States.
It is important to note that when the United States presented the formal extradition request, it didn’t only request his surrender for the Camarena case. It was also for three other accusations that the United States had not previously processed for his provisional detention. The Americans also formally requested his extradition to stand trial on four criminal charges. So, if the extradition in the Camarena case fails, the Americans have other actions pending in different courts.