El Diablo, a leader of the Mexican Mafia captured

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

[ Subject Matter: Efrain Diaz Ibarra, El Diablo
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required]

A leader of the Mexican Mafia was captured in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, by Military and State Agents.

Efrain Diaz Ibarra, El Diablo, 53 years old, and originally from Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, who was in the Maximum Security Prison at Pelican Bay in California and was deported to Mexico by the Department of Migration.




In the operation they also detained a bodyguard of El Diablo identified as Sergio Humberto Ortiz Ledesma, El Osito, 42 years old.

The Mexican Mafia is an organization of people of Mexican origin, settled in the United States that are dedicated to the trafficking of arms and drugs, as well as kidnapping, with presence in the Southern Prisons of the United States.

The captures were carried out in the Calle La Fuente in the Fraccionamiento Villa del Mar, and in La Avenida Esperanza, in the Fraccionamiento Villa de los Angeles, detailed the Secretary for Public Security in Baja California.

With the detained were confiscated a rifle, a pistol in .380 caliber, another in 9mm caliber, a magazine with 30 rounds of ammo, and 2 bags with 200 grammes of crystal.

Original article in Spanish at Proceso