"El Guero Chihuahua" of CAF Detained for Trafficking

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Zeta

Adan Rodriguez Guevara aka "El Guero Chihuahua"

Sept 4, 2017 Tijuana BC

For the purpose of extradition and in coordination with US authorities, the State Preventive Police (PEP) captured Adán Rodríguez Guevara "El Güero Chihuahua" at 6 pm on Thursday, August 31. That was the information provided by the authority in its first reports. They then stopped the flow of information on the grounds that it could cause conflict in coordination and in process.

Of the detainee, "El Guero Chihuahua", the Baja California Coordination Group has this information: "he has a lot of money, owns a restaurant and a bar, trafficks cocaine to the United States and within the local criminal organization is identified as the chief of assassins and right-hand man of José Manuel Núñez López, "Don Balas", a  criminal lieutenant of the Cartel Arellano Felix (CAF).

According to public records, this is the third time that the Baja California Coordination Group has arrested the man named Adan Rodriguez Guevara: the first time he was arrested by the PEP in 2004 and identified as the leader of the group of thugs called "Los Omegas" in the service of Núñez Lopez.

Four years later, on September 26, 2008, he was apprehended along with Manuel Núñez Lopez ,"Don Balas", by members of the Tijuana municipal police, headed by then secretary Lieutenant Colonel Julián Leyzaola, on suspicion of having shot into the car of the director of the PEP.

Nine years ago, the two traffickers and three accomplices were transferred by the Office of Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) to Mexico City, identified as responsible "for the transfer of drugs to the United States and executions of traffickers of rival gangs".

On January 11, 2009, through communiqué 018/09 issued by the Attorney General's Office it was announced:  "Do to the legal determination of files related to organized crime, the Third District Court in the state of Nayarit, has issued a formal order  for Luis Gutiermo Chávez García, Oscar Adán Rodríguez Guevara, alias "El Güero Chihuahua", and Andrés Ulises Álvarez Baldovino, for their presumed responsibility of Delinquency and Organized Crime with the purpose of committing crimes against Health and Transportation of Firearms meant for the Exclusive Use of Mexican Armed Forces.

"Secured were  a 5.7 x 28 caliber weapon, a .45 caliber Colt gun, a 38-caliber supergun and a 9mm caliber weapon, respectively; these people are linked with an assault with firearm projectiles on a police unit where several police elements were injured; besides being related to CAF, the Arellano Felix Cartel. "

In 2011 the local authorities learned of the release of "Don Balas" but they do not know when he returned to the street with "El Güero Chihuahua".

PEP Captured Guevara in Fraccionamiento Chapultepc, Tijuana BC

He is presumed innocent until he is  declared guilty by the judicial authority according to Art.3 CNPP.

From February 2016 when the drug traffickers restarted, the name of Adan Rodriguez Guevara returned to the public light in narco mantas and posters that criminal of the CNJG and the Cartel of Sinaloa hung on different bridges of Tijuana listing the members of this faction of CAF  as "The Pilots".

In addition to "El Güero Chihuahua" they mentioned: Manuel López Núñez, Crescencio Murillo Beltrán, Mario Rodríguez, Fausto Esteban Nides, Arturo Cosme Espinoza, Enrique Jorquera Guerrero, Próspero Medina, Pedro Quintero Velázquez, Luis Medina García, Edgar Ruiz, Roberto Parnás, José Medallo, Juan Lorenzo Vargas.

In the ZETA edition of February 26, 2016, Tijuana's then-secretary of security, Alejandro Lares, referred to: "... the criminal ascent of Adán Rodríguez Guevara, "El Güero Chihuahua", to whom they link to the series of conflicting messages that the authorities had received in recent months.

"His people and their subordinates have orders to give false information to the authorities, say that they belong to the opposing criminal groups and that their leader is one of Sinaloa's lieutenants. It's one of them that brings us all this trouble, " said a police officer in reference to a number  of executions.

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In 2016 it was reported that the United States government classified "El Guero Chihuahua" as responsible for the transfer of cocaine and crystal meth to US territory.

An unofficial version indicates that "El Guero Chihuahua" is also nicknamed "P14", who was already imprisoned in the United States, where he obtained parole benefits, but fled, returned to Tijuana and changed his name. He was laundering money as an entrepreneur. However, the apprehending group of authorities did not confirm this information.

Official information:

Baja Ca State's AIC refers to Adan Rodriguez Guevara as:  "Chief of a  Criminal Structure Operating in Baja California". 

In Tijuana, Baja California, elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) completed a provisional arrest warrant for international extradition for  Oscar Adan "N" for the crimes of criminal association, crimes against health and money laundering.

He is considered as head of structure of a criminal organization with presence in that border city; is presumed to be responsible for directing, managing and monitoring the illicit activities of the criminal group. It is also pointed out as one of the main generators of violence in the entity.

Oscar Adan "N" is required to appear by the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California in the USA.

He will be interned at CEFERESO,  the Decentralized Body for Prevention and Social Rehabilitation of the National Security Commission. His arrest was made in strict adherence to due process and at all times his rights were respected.