Leader of CDN in Tamaulipas arrested

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article with additional information from Epoca Violenta

Subject Matter: Ismael Gilberto Lopez Guerrero, El Mayito
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Benito Jimenez
Elements of the Army detained a subject with the nickname El Mayito in Tamaulipas, identified as leader in the structure of the Cartel del Noreste and identified in a preliminary manner as Ismael Gilberto Lopez Guerrero.

The capo was captured in the Los Garza colonia, of this frontier city, together with another subject in possession of two rifles, an AR-15 and and AK-47 also known as Cuerno de Chivo or goats horn, as well as a 30-30 caliber rifle, a 12 gauge shotgun, two pistols, one 5.7mm and one .40, 4 weapon magazines for different weapons, 600 rounds of ammunition of different calibers, 50,000 dollars American and two vans.


According to the given information, El Mayito, as well as being a financial operator of  the Cartel del Noreste, in this zone is in charge of transit of drugs to Laredo, Texas in the United States.




In 2013, a subject with the same name was detained and accused of collecting money for the operations of Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo.

From 24th July 2013

Two financial operators from the Los Zetas cartel, identified by the Dept of the Treasury of the United States as key subjects in the network of command for the organization, were detained in Mexico, and were identified as high profile operators. The case that follows were detailed by the authorities as big hits against this criminal group.

However, the investigations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) concluded that the Mexicans José Odilón Ramírez Perales and Ismael López Guerrero -who also uses the alias of Gilberto Godina Guerrero- were money laundering operators of the cartel, to whom they are looking to freeze accounts in that country for 20 million dollars.

Ramírez Perales, 41, born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, is identified by the US as being responsible for "laundering tens of millions of dollars" of illicit proceeds obtained by Los Zetas in that country, money that was then trafficked to Mexico.

This man nicknamed El Kuno has since July of last year an arrest warrant in a Texas District Court for money laundering, for 20 million dollars.

That day in other actions, the Marines apprehended Ramírez Perales in Monclova, "due to the attitude of nervousness in the presence of naval elements," according to a statement from the unit; that is, his capture was not an objective.

Although he was arrested on October 14, 2012, as part of three separate operations that were carried out that day by the Secretary of the Navy in Coahuila, in one of which the alleged regional chief of Los Zetas, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Díaz, was apprehended. Metro, was the capture that stood out at that time Semar, for the blow that represented to the organization.

The suspect was detained because, inspecting his travel bag, he had eight packets of cocaine, a short weapon and 460 useful cartridges of various calibers; then he confessed to belonging to Los Zetas, and being in charge of packaging the drug.

About López Guerrero, 35, a native of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, there is not even a reference to his detention in July 2012 in Mexico, although he is being held in the federal maximum security prison in Tamaulipas. Where he faces charges for crimes against health