'El Fantasma' Recaptured During Operation In Costa Rica, Sinaloa

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE 

Autor | Ríodoce

Date | November 5, 2024

Time | 1:09 pm

Marcelino Ticante Castro, El Fantasma or Ghost, alleged former security chief of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán Loera, was arrested last Sunday, November 3, in the vicinity of the Cuba field, in the Costa Rica syndicate, south of the city of Culiacán.

The National Registry of Arrests indicates that El Fantasma was apprehended by military personnel at 6:50 a.m. on the Culiacán-Mazatlán highway, near El Trébol.

Ticante Castro had been released on July 2 from the Altiplano prison, where he was being held for crimes against health and for carrying a firearm for the exclusive use of the Army, after serving a sentence of 11 years and eight months in prison.

The release was granted to the drug lord by Judge Diana Montserrat Partido Arámbulo, who pointed out that the Phantom requested early release on March 12, which is a benefit that all persons serving a sentence have, and as the law states, he had already served 97.47 percent of the sentence imposed on him.

Ticante Castro was arrested on February 9, 2013 in the Costa Rica syndicate.

SOURCE: RIODOCE