"Char" for Borderland Beat
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Date | February 12, 2025
Time | 6:46 pm
A federal judge has brought charges against Ricardo González “N”, “El Ricky”, the alleged second in command of the Cartel del Noreste, after his capture on February 3 by federal security elements in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
The accused will be tried for his probable responsibility in crimes against health in the form of possession for commercial purposes and carrying a firearm for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the aggravating circumstance of carrying two or more weapons, according to the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO).
During his arrest, Ricky was carrying a loaded long firearm and a short one; bags with 1,509 fentanyl pills and bags with 434.5 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, according to the final expert report.
According to the Attorney General's Office (FGR), Ricky was arrested by elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Defense), the Navy Secretariat (Navy), the National Guard (GN) and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, after he tried to escape, and who also identified himself as the head of a criminal organization.
Later in a hearing, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) presented sufficient evidence to obtain the link to the process, official preventive detention, in the Federal Social Readaptation Center Number 1 "Altiplano", in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, and one month for the complementary investigation.
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