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Juan Rodolfo Yépez Ortiz, the brother of CSRL’s founder El Marro, was arrested in Tecate, Baja California.
The Arrest of El Rudy
On November 8, 2022, during the presidential morning, authorities announced that the brother of El Marro had been arrested. (Seen at approximately 46:44 during the official video released of the press conference)
Luis Cresencio Sandoval, the head of the Army (SEDENA), told reporters that Marro’s brother had been captured by military personnel earlier that morning in Tecate, in the state of Baja California. This brother is named Juan Rodolfo Yépez Ortiz, 39 years old, and he goes by the aliases “El Rudy”, “El Rodo” or “El Rudo”.
This appears to have not been a targeted attempt to capture him but instead was due to happenstance, according to the official version of events.
Sandoval described his capture by saying “at the Army's El Centinela Strategic Security Military Post, four people were detained. A search of the vehicle and the four people was carried out, and 60,000 USD and 40,500 pesos were found. They could not legally justify how they acquired this cash . Among the detainees is the brother of 'El Marro’.”
So, why was El Rudy at a military post to begin with? So far authorities have not released those details however it's worth noting what we know about El Centinela.
The military security checkpoint was built in 2018 near the city of Tecate, Baja California. The governor said it was constructed for the purpose of “surveillance protocols, and it will speed up the tasks of vehicle review and increase traffic flow to the benefit of all motorists of this highway,” citing the 3.7 million vehicles which use the Centinela-Rumorosa highway every year.
He also noted that “it is also a route used by those who seek to transport prohibited substances, therefore, this infrastructure will contribute greatly in the protection of this highway against the smuggling of drugs, firearms, stolen vehicles and prohibited items.” The facility includes a waiting room for people getting off buses and public restrooms.
Photos of the cash seized, booking photos of El Rudy or the others arrested alongside him have not yet been released. The charges the prosecutor plans to pursue against Rudy has also not been released.
What do we know about Marro’s brother?
Born from parents Rodolfo Juan Yépez Godoy and María Eva Ortiz, Juan Rodolfo Yépez Ortiz was born in Santa Rosa de Lima in the state of Guanajuato. He is just one of at least four siblings that we know of. His sisters are Karen (sometimes spelled Karem) Lizbeth and Juana Yépez Ortia, and his brother is José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro”.
El Marro employed his parents, brothers, sisters, wives, in-laws and mistresses with key roles within the CSRL's structures.
El Marro’s father and brother El Rudy both acted as lieutenants, conducting criminal operations for the group.
Rudy’s father was arrested on March 6, 2017, for driving a stolen vehicle however he was released in June because of a lack of evidence against him.
In August 2020, El Marro was arrested by federal authorities. Soon after his arrest, many newspapers ran articles with headlines asking if Marro’s brother or father might now take over his role as leader of the cartel.
Of note, later that month it was widely reported by sources such as El Universal and The Yucatan Times that Karen had acted as a financial operator for the Cartel de Santa Rosa Lima (CSRL) when El Marro headed the group.
Karen is alleged to have taken over a high level role in the CSRL since Marro’s capture. In September 2022, identical banners were hung in nine different municipalities of Guanajuato which alleged that the recent assassination of the Celaya mayor’s son was ordered out of “the same prison where that filthy dude Marro is being held, and the attack itself was organized by his sister Karen.”
Onother one bites the dust
ReplyDeleteHow can that small local gang of fuel thieves actually even think they can stand a chance against an international cartel?
They have balls I give them that, but they have no brains..
Most likely because they have big players backing them. CSRL are the locals you must remember.
DeleteThat big international cartel you speak about is on the verge of collapsing. Though, the sicarios aren't brightest, they are realizing all they get is a tshirt with elite written on it while Mencho and his family get all the $$$! And when they go to prison for 20 years the boss gets their woman while momma has to sell tacos on the corner to support them in prison! Just saying!
DeleteYes True, cjng members have jumped ship in Baja Cali, leaving in droves in Jalisco and Michoacan.
Deletelmao 100%
DeleteThe santa rosa cartel isnt even a cartel. How many keys of coke or meth or heroin or fentanyl have they exported out of mexico anywhere?
Delete10:17 Tijuana has the most chapulines than in other city or state
DeleteYou are right 2.32 to me the only real cartel from Mexico right know is the Sinaloa cartel they move tons every year
Delete10:37 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Baja california is know as the chapulines capital of the world, those that left CJNG started with AFO and did the hole 360 jumping around and its 100% guaranteed they will do it again and again and again and so on, for then jumping around is as natural as it is for sinaloas to snitch, is that simple
DeleteThe Mexican army was stealing more huachicol than el Marro, and la Chencha Sandoval still has to arrest the culprits while still bending on all fours for retired giniral Coenpedos, EPN put a giniral member of his "Estado Mayor" in charge of PEMEX security.
ReplyDeleteI assumed he was caught in the city of Tecate, he was caught in checkpoint once you leave Mexicali and enter Tecate municipality. It's still a good 30-40 miles from city limits. So it could be he was headed to Tijuana or other parts of Baja for business. Check point is just before you headed up the Rumorosa.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I made a map to show the relative distance between the checkpoint and two cities.
DeleteThey started burning cars in Guanajuato because of his arrest need update https://youtu.be/nyKBGF-mz8Q
DeleteSocalJ started working on a post covering the retaliation just about as soon as it started. He's now working on the 9 killed in Apaseo el Alto.
DeleteThanks for the tips guys.
A bagman interdicted?
ReplyDeleteDID HIS BROTHER CRY TOO? LMFAO 😃😃🥳
ReplyDeleteNo way is El Marro that tall...
ReplyDeleteNop, thats an edited picture, in mexico they dont use feet and inches, they use meters and cm, he is not taller than 5'4" which is about 1.62 meters
DeleteI added in that background to the image. I just picked a random height to show.
Delete10:07 they are a big cartel, my point is they got more foot soldiers and money, not to mention connections.
ReplyDeleteThe narco cultura in mexico is real
Every kid want to work for a cartel and be the next chapo or mencho.
The sad part is they get no big money, no fine babes or live in luxury like the fake corridos.
American culture teaches young kids that doing drugs is cool but the latino culture shows kids that selling drugs is a good way to get rich. That's why Americans are drug addicts and Mexicans are drug dealers and sicarios. The cycle will continue and I don't see it getting better
5:44 Consumption fuels cartels.
DeleteFuny how CSRL was dismantled quick style compared to the longevity of CJNG,what could it possibly mean?
ReplyDeleteSheeit,who hoed the plaza
Because the el marro cartel was never a cartel
DeleteHEARST the paragraph under the first picture showing all El Marros family members that starts off "His mother Doria Villalobos Cabal acted as the organization's paymaster" is it incomplete, misplaced or ?
ReplyDeleteOh. I meant to write mother-in-law. I'm going to remove it because I can see how it comes across as tangentially related.
DeleteMencho snitched
ReplyDeleteProbably they did not know Baja and it's checkpoints and did not have an advanced patrol to check,trying to save money.Small cartel.
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