DEA Agent Reveals CJNG Conducted Surveillance at US Court Hearings of Menchito & Murdered Witnesses, Even After Sentencing

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The message that Mexican drug cartels want to send to the United States is clear: “We are here. We are among you.” This is how Special Agent Matthew W. Allen of the DEA, the U.S. anti-narcotics agency, explained it when he was asked about the risk posed by Mexican criminal organizations in the United States.

Allen, head of the agency’s Los Angeles division, said at a hearing before the U.S. Senate that members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were monitoring DEA agents and witnesses during the trial of Rubén Oseguera González, "El Menchito," the son of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho."

At the hearing, Allen recounted how the criminal group retaliated against family members of informants, an example of the violence this group routinely employs and the threat it poses to American citizens.

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Sinaloa Cartel Used Hacked FBI Phone Data & Mexico City Cameras to Find and Kill Informants

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From a Reuter’s Article

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.

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Harfuch highlights the arrest of 10 members of "Los Mayos" during a search in Culiacán. 10 Members Of Los Rugrats / MF Captured In Laguna Colorado South Of Culiacan, Sinaloa.

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JUNE 28, 2025 

LUZ NOTICIAS 

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

REPORTER SAMUEL GARCIA MARISCAL: Warring factions in Sinaloa: 

REPORTER JOSE RODRIGUEZ: 23 alleged hitmen in total captured in the last few hours. This is what the Secretariat of Public Security and Citizen Protection is reporting. 

However, there is an event where 10 people, 10 alleged criminals, were arrested here in Culiacán. There are 23 hitmen or alleged hitmen arrested in the state capital in less than 24 hours from different factions of organized crime. However, there is one that OMAR García Harfuch highlighted on his Twitter account. The details are Sebastián Martínez. How are you? 

REPORTER SEBASTIAN MARTINEZ: Good afternoon, how are you? José. Good afternoon to you, and also good afternoon to Samuel and to the entire audience of Luz Noticias. As you were saying this morning, the Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, issued a post on his social media in which He highlighted the arrest of 23 alleged criminals, but he emphasized the arrest of 10 members of the Mayos, linked to the Sinaloa cartel. Omar García Harfuch commented that this arrest took place in Laguna Colorada, a town south of Culiacán, where security forces searched four properties and arrested eight people. During these same actions, they arrested two other people who were traveling in a van with criminal material. We're talking about a total of 10 people, members of the Los Mayos, as Omar García Harfuch comments. These people were seized with 10 firearms, 42 magazines, and cartridges, in addition to approximately 79 liters and 60 kg of various chemical substances. José, 

JOSE RODRIGUEZ: Yes, and they were not the only ones arrested. There was also a significant arrest. In El Pozo and La Cuesta, north of Culiacán, in the rural area where they arrested six individuals, there are 16, including the 10 you mentioned, Sebastián.

These six individuals were seized with seven long weapons, one short weapon, 10 vehicles, 47 explosive devices, and among the six people arrested, there are three minors. Three minors. 

REPORTER SEBASTIAN MARTINEZ: It was striking about this arrest that the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection itself shared images of what was seized, and there were vests with the acronym CJNG among all this material seized from the six people, there in the areas of El Pozo and La Cuesta, where there were also three minors. It should be noted that Omar García Harfuch highlighted the arrest in Caminahuato of a person who also identified him as a member of the Los Mayos, who was carrying 10 firearms, including a Barrett rifle and a machine gun. Two grenades, 12 explosive devices, 69 magazines, 2,838 rounds of ammunition, tactical equipment, and two trucks, one of them with homemade armor. Jose, the count is 17 detained now. Yes, that's right, there are 17.

JOSE RODRIGUEZ: And they arrested six more hitmen, eh, with an arsenal of eight vehicles and tactical equipment, also here in Culiacán. This total totals 23 alleged hitmen, organized crime criminals. In less than 24 hours, an impressive arsenal, and they continue to seize weapons and vehicles everywhere. Arrests, and this isn't over, but eh, well, we've seen that these types of operations are intensifying in recent days. 

Sebastian: Yes, without a doubt. Remember, a few weeks ago, Omar García Harf himself came here to Culiacán and ordered the arrival of 100 more military personnel, including members of the National Guard, known as the "bats" of the special forces, and well, the more they deploy. Military, because there are also more arrests and seizures, as this is the result of the work that has been done here in the state, José.

Thank you for the report, Sebastián.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

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169 bags containing human remains have been removed from the clandestine grave in the Las Agujas neighborhood In Zapopan, Jalisco.

 CHAR 

JUNE 28, 2025 

INFORMATION POSTED BY EL OCCIDENTAL 

Elizabeth Ibal

The State Prosecutor's Office located a clandestine grave in the Las Agujas neighborhood of Zapopan. The investigation has been ongoing since February. Its existence was only recently discovered when it appeared on the website of the Special Deputy Prosecutor for Missing Persons, on the list of clandestine graves located in the state.

The fenced site is in a semi-deserted area near the La Venta-Nextipac highway, behind a company that assembles electrical parts, west of Zapopan, within the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.

When questioned about the clandestine burial site located on the Camino a Las Agujas, prosecutor Salvador González de los Santos stated that more than 160 bags containing human remains have been recorded.

"The search process is not yet complete, although no one has been found. On average, there were 169 bags, and based on the analysis of the remains found, according to the report issued by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences, they correspond to 34 people," stated González de los Santos.

Contrary to what the prosecutor stated, the website of the Special Deputy Prosecutor's Office indicates that 35 bodies have been found, of which 15 have been identified; 14 were men and one was a woman. The website indicates that the status is under investigation.

Work is being done at the site with machinery, as well as various tools and implements.

"We have dogs used to detect remains or corpses, rods are used, and ground-penetrating radars are also used to determine if human remains are still present. We're almost there to close this case," said the head of the state's law enforcement agency.

The grave was discovered at the end of February after a private company attempted to carry out construction work. While excavating, they discovered human remains, so they notified the authorities. Because of this situation, the case had not been reported.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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Unknown whereabouts of the 'Pozolero'. El Pozolero Former Member Of CAF Or Cartel Arellano-Felix

 CHAR 

JUNE 28, 2025 

INFORMATION POSTED BY ZETA TIJUANA 

WRITTEN BY: LUIS CARLOS SAINZ

Santiago Meza López, "El Pozolero," Photo: Archive

After an Appeals Court increased the sentence against Santiago Meza López, "El Pozolero," by five years and declared his sentence served, the Arellano Félix Cartel (CAF) member who dissolved more than 300 human bodies on the orders of Teodoro García Simental, "El Teo," has not been located in any of the country's prisons, according to sources consulted by ZETA Weekly, which followed the court ruling and the physical search for the butcher for three weeks.

The Twenty-Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Tepic, Nayarit, recently increased the aforementioned individual's prison sentence from 10 to 15 years for organized crime. However, the sentence has already been fully served by the inmate, who was detained in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) number 18, in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, where prison authorities transferred him on August 4, 2020, from Cefereso 1, Altiplano, in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico.

In the same second-instance ruling, the acquittal of the man who turned the corpses into "pozole (stew)" through the liquefaction process (water and caustic soda) was confirmed for crimes against public health involving promoting drug trafficking, carrying a firearm for the exclusive use of the armed forces (in two variants), and possessing cartridges also for exclusive use. These offenses were not found by the federal judge or the magistrates for which the original court found sufficient evidence to convict.

The so-called Pozolero, who also has the aliases "El Chacho" or "El Changuito", was sentenced for the first time on May 13, 2024 in the First District Court in Criminal Matters in the State of Nayarit, residing in Tepic, where the administrator of justice found him criminally responsible in criminal case 2/2023 (formerly 35/2009) for organized crime, in the hypothesis of participating in crimes against health, imposing a sentence of 10 years in prison, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 250 days of the minimum wage in force at the time of the commission of the crime, equivalent to the amount of 13 thousand 700 pesos.

However, the Pozolero's sentence is settled. "While it is true that the corporal punishment is increased here, the compurgation takes place on January 21, 2024, so we reach the same conclusion as the judge, in that the prison sentence imposed should be considered compurged, without it being necessary to order his re-arrest or release, as the original court has already done so. That court ordered his release for this reason, solely and exclusively in relation to the crime of organized crime," the judges warn.

Consequently, the judicial authorities sent the corresponding notice to the director general of Cefereso 18 "CPS Coahuila," based in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, requesting the immediate release of Santiago Meza López, "solely and exclusively with respect to the crimes indicated, for which he is being prosecuted in this criminal case 2/2023 of the index of this District Court (replacing case 35/2009), without prejudice to his continued incarceration in that penitentiary center for various criminal cases that may be brought before a different court, or for serving a sentence."

The inmate had pending charges in another criminal case in a Baja California District Court for kidnapping, the procedural status of which is unknown following the disappearance of that court.

THE CAPTURE

The arrest of Santiago Meza López along with another individual took place on January 22, 2009, by members of the Mexican Army at the Baja Seasons tourist complex in the municipality of Ensenada. The soldiers were warned that a party was being held there, attended by members of the Arellano Félix Cartel. From the cabin where they were staying, drug traffickers and gunmen could see a military unit passing over the highway and turning around at the return from La Salina beach. This put them on alert and they fled the scene in pickup trucks along the beach and then along the highway toward Tijuana.

Photos: Archive

Upon arrival, the soldiers, who were carrying out the 2007-2012 Comprehensive Combat Against Drug Trafficking program in coordination with the Federal Preventive Police, found two of the escaping vehicles stuck in the sand, and another vehicle was in the parking lot of some rented cabins, so they proceeded to search it. Meza López was sitting in the driver's seat in one of the pickup trucks, while the co-pilot abandoned the vehicle when he saw the soldiers arriving, but was captured after a chase. According to the arresting officers' report, the Pozolero was wearing a bulletproof vest and a green belt around his waist, with two fragmentation grenades inside.

In the vehicle linked to Santiago, the soldiers seized an HK91 rifle with a magazine loaded with 20 7.62 x 51 mm caliber rounds on the right side of the seat. and three more magazines, two of them with 20 rounds each and the other with 16 rounds of the same caliber. The other detainee was wearing a black bulletproof vest with two Kevlar plates attached. A 50mm Barrett rifle was found in the back seat, with one magazine loaded with ten live rounds and another magazine with eight rounds, all of the same caliber, on the floorboards. Meza was therefore charged with two counts of carrying a firearm for the exclusive use of the Army and possession of ammunition.

In another vehicle with border-border license plates, an individual wearing a bulletproof vest was in the driver's seat, holding a DSA ZM4 carbine loaded with a disc-type magazine with 91 5.56-millimeter rounds. In the passenger seat was a 16-year-old female minor. She stated that she was a sex worker and had been hired to provide services at the party. In the back seat, behind the passenger seat, an MP5 submachine gun with two magazines was found. One of them was attached to the weapon and loaded with 30 nine-millimeter cartridges, and the other with 26 twenty-six cartridges. These individuals were also arrested.

When questioned by the arrestees about his activities, Santiago Meza López stated that "he was an executioner or 'pozolero,'" and when asked what he meant, he stated that he placed the bodies of the executed people in a drum with water and caustic soda, leaving them there for approximately 24 hours or more, until they completely disintegrated. He also stated that he worked for Teodoro García Simental, known as "Teo," that he was paid $600 a week for these jobs, that he had been working with the organization for approximately nine years, and that he had executed approximately 300 people.

THE CONFESSION

Although he could not be charged with any of the murders perpetrated by the Arellano Félix brothers' criminal organization, Santiago Meza López's simple membership in the criminal group, under the tutelage of Teodoro García Simental as its hierarchical leader, mastermind, and perpetrator of the crimes, as well as his assigned role of disposing of the bodies delivered to him, could have been classified as organized crime. El Pozolero abandoned some victims on the streets and disintegrated others through a liquefaction process using a corrosive liquid based on caustic soda.

The way the cell led by Teo and of which Meza López himself was a member resembled a production line, in which the division of criminal labor was prominent. Some of the members deprived various people of their liberty, others provided security with the weapons they carried; Others monitored the scene and escape routes; still others guarded safe houses containing kidnapped people or drugs; others took the lives of those who didn't pay the ransom or belonged to rival groups, and there were others who disposed of the bodies by liquefying them.

At the time, the Pozolero stated that the people who carried the bodies of the dead "always had patrol-type escorts, which had panel-type trucks, where they placed the human bodies; that the declarant was with two people, and two more people were waiting at the place where they had a pot with the ingredients to make 'pozole' in the place known as 'La Gallera'. He also said that he didn't know the origin of the victims and that "the human bodies were always carried dead; They couldn't see their faces, since they all wore masks made of gray plastic adhesive tape, and when they put them in the pot or in the drums with caustic soda in water, they only cut the tape at the nape of their necks, without removing it completely."

In the grim account of the man who was paid $600 a week for the dismembered bodies, of which he invested $400 in supplies for that purpose, there is a passage in In this article, he claims that when he went on errands, in addition to work materials, he would buy four or five heads of garlic and a liter of cooking oil. Before beginning to dissolve the bodies in the chemical mixture, Meza would fry the garlic: "When the oil was hot, it began to smoke, and the smell of garlic was stronger than that of the caustic soda that emerged when the human bodies were being 'cooked' or 'pozoleando'."

Santiago joined the CAF in January 2000, as he recalls, primarily to guard a warehouse where marijuana was stored, although his later role for the criminal conglomerate was to dismantle the bodies. His immediate boss, at first, was Marco Antonio García Simental, known as "El Cris," who used the false name of Mario Alberto López Rivera, the older brother of Teodoro, José Manuel, and Eleazar García Simental. According to protected witnesses offered in the trial, the convicted man liked to say goodbye by saying he had "a pozole" pending to prepare.

Photos: Archive

A KIDNAPPING

Another criminal case facing the Pozolero as a co-defendant of Teodoro García Simental was case 140/2014 of the First District Court of Federal Criminal Proceedings in the state of Baja California for his probable responsibility in the commission of organized crime offenses for the purpose of committing kidnapping and illegal deprivation of liberty in the form of aggravated kidnapping. The formal arrest warrant was issued for both on July 31, 2014.

According to the case file, the events attributed to the criminals occurred on April 26, 2005, when they kidnapped a merchant who was arriving at his diaper store located on Manuel J. Clouthier Boulevard in the La Ciénega neighborhood of Tijuana shortly before 8:00 a.m. Upon getting out of an Avalanche SUV, the victim was deprived of his liberty by an armed group who took him to a property on Gato Bronco Boulevard in the Ampliación Guaycura neighborhood. After 65 days of negotiations, the kidnappers finally obtained a ransom of $267,000 and released the captive on June 29 of that year.

The kidnapping report was filed by a brother of the victim after receiving a call from an unknown individual using a Nextel radio belonging to his brother. In the message, he was informed of his relative's situation and the caller demanded that he pay two million dollars to release him. The voice, later recognized during the investigation, was Teo's. Although García and Meza's arrests occurred in different years, it wasn't until July 2014 that an arrest warrant was served on both of them for their alleged involvement in the events described.

After being formally detained, the public defenders appealed the ruling, which was later modified by a Unitary Court, but did not benefit Santiago Meza López and Teodoro García Simental. Teo's defense argued that there was insufficient evidence to prove his client's involvement in the crimes he was accused of, and that his material authorship of the events had not been proven; however, the victim herself recognized him as the person who took her radio to speak to her brother and demand the ransom. El Pozolero, for his part, allegedly acted as the intermediary in renting a house where the kidnapper was held captive; his whereabouts are now unknown.

SOURCE: ZETA TIJUANA 

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The Los Mayos / MF Burned A Small Plane On La Luna Airstrip in Villa Juarez, Navolato, Sinaloa. The Incident Occured On June 26, 2025

 CHAR 

JUNE 28, 2025

On June 26, 2025, Luz Noticias reported that a small plane was burned on La Luna Airstrip in Villa Juárez, Navolato, and important to note that this airstrip had already been shot at two months ago.

LA MAYIZA / MF BURNED A SMALL PLANE ON LA LUNA AIRSTRIP 

On June 27, 2025, a video was released where a criminal cell of La Mayiza / MF can be seen pouring gasoline and lighting the fire on the small plane on La Luna Airstrip, Villa Juarez, Navolato, Sinaloa. In recent months, La Mayiza / MF has made incursions into Villa Juarez and Navolato, plazas controlled by Los Chimales and El 11 of Navolato, both criminal groups under the Los Chapitos banner. 

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La Mayiza vs La Chapiza Armed Clashes Continue In Potrerillo Del Norote And Elota, Sinaloa.

 CHAR 

JUNE 26, 2025 

Heavy armed confrontations continue to occur in Potrerillo Del Norote, Elota, and La Cruz surrounding areas between La Mayiza vs La Chapiza criminal groups. The clashes in these specific areas are at a stalemate, as both groups have continued to clash since September 2024. The following clash occured Thursday night or Friday at dawn. 

ELOTA, SIN / LA CHAPIZA VS MF 

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Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño Or FEA Eliminate A La Chapiza Member At Point-Blank in Culiacan, Sinaloa. El Tatuado/MF Sends Message To His Former Employees Los Chapitos

 CHAR 

JUNE 26, 2025 

On June 18, 2025, Sinaloa news outlets reported that a human body with signs of trauma was found a few meters away from a high school with a white cardboard sign with a message next to the body. As hours passed, pictures published on Telegram confirmed El Tatuado/MF claimed responsibility for executing a La Chapiza member. 

ILEGIBLE... WORKERS I WILL KICK YOUR ASS
AND ALL THE DRUG PUSHERS 
SINCERELY: EL TATUADO MF
CULIACAN HAS AN OWNER 

EL TATUADO/MF 

Jeffrey Avendaño is identified as "El Tatuado," "El 21," "El Jeffrey," and El Tatuado is a high-ranking member of the Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño or FEA former associate of the Los Chapitos Cartel. Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño, in recent weeks, decided to join the La Mayiza-Guasave Cartel alliance. 

VIDEO OF LA CHAPIZA MEMBER BEING KILLED BY FUERZAS ESPECIALES AVENDAÑO 

IMPORTANT TO NOTE The video WAS PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2025 

HOWEVER, THE MALE SUBJECT WAS MURDERED ON JUNE 18, 2025

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La Mayiza Interrogates A Worker Of Jesus Guillermo Flores Bautista "El Caballo" Ranking Member Of La Chapiza In Culiacan, Sinaloa.

 CHAR

JUNE 26, 2025 

EL CABALLO 

A young worker, either a hawk or a hitman, linked to El Caballo, a ranking member of La Chapiza in Culiacán, Sinaloa, was captured and interrogated by his rivals, La Mayiza/MF. The young man will suffer the same fate as many other young souls who choose the wrong path in life. 

EL CABALLO 

Jesus Guillermo Flores Bautista "El Caballo" continues to be targeted by the La Mayiza / MF criminal organization. El Caballo, as I described before, is a dangerous criminal who escaped from the Aguaruto Penitentiary in the first Culiacanazo of October 17, 2019. El Caballo, according to sources, has worked under Guano Guzman. Los Chapitos, and Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza "El Macho Prieto", at one point or another. At this time, El Caballo is a ranking member of the Los Chapitos criminal group in Culiacán, Sinaloa. 

VIDEO TRANSLATION

BY: SOL PRENDIDO 

Captive: For all the operatives of El Caballo. Take a look at where I’m currently at now. Whoever’s in the area needs to get the fuck out of the way. The Mayo gunmen are positioned from the town of Elota all the way to Navolato. It’s just a matter of time before the Chapos mob are wiped the fuck out. The same goes for your black ass Caballo!

Sicario: This goes to show you fucks. 

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Ecuador's Most Wanted Man 'Fito' is Captured, Leader of Los Choneros

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Ecuador’s most wanted man and leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose "Fito" Adolfo Macias, was captured on Wednesday, according to the Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa.

Macias, known as “Fito,” escaped from a prison in Guayaquil in January 2024 while serving a 34-year sentence for homicide and narcotics trafficking.

His escape unleashed a wave of violence in Ecuador, prompting Noboa to declare an internal armed conflict and designate Los Choneros and 21 other criminal groups operating in the country as terror organizations.

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Over 200 million pesos in the "blow" to drug trafficking due to Crystal Meth seizure in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The Drug Seizure Occurred In Higueras De Abuya South of Culiacan Territory Controlled By Los Mayos / La Mayiza/ MF Criminal Group.

 CHAR 

JUNE 23, 2025

INFORMATION POSTED BY LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

Culiacán, Sinaloa.—The "blow" to drug trafficking amounted to more than 200 million pesos with the seizure of three vehicles loaded with more than half a ton of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, this weekend in Culiacán.

The federal government, through the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), reported that as a result of intelligence work, members of the Mexican Army located three vehicles loaded with drugs.

The cars were found outside a ranch and were loaded with plastic boxes and black bags filled with transparent bags, or "kileras," containing the drugs.

The incident occurred in the Higueras de Abuya municipality of Culiacán, when officers observed a group of civilians shoveling black bags into several vehicles near Rancho Salazar. However, upon noticing the presence of authorities, the civilians fled. Upon conducting an inspection, federal personnel located the following vehicles:

1 white Range Rover

1 gray Grand Cherokee

1 yellow Ford Bronco

The seized drugs contained 1,650 plastic bags containing 746 kilos of methamphetamine. The value of the seized drugs was 207 million pesos.

The vehicles and the seized drugs were seized and handed over to the corresponding Public Ministry authorities for investigation.

MY THOUGHTS 

BY: CHAR 

EL MEÑO

4X1

MZ / MF 

The municipality of Higueras de Abuya is found south of Culicacan, Sinaloa. It is controlled by the powerful Manuel Noriega "El Meño" "El 4x1", a high-ranking lieutenant of the 'Mayo Zambada' criminal organization. As I stated on March 8, 2025, about El Meño or 4x1, 

"Manuel Noriega "El Meño" or "El 4x1", El Meño is a powerful lieutenant of the Mayo Zambada organization led by Ismael Zambada Sicairos, "Mayito Flaco". 

El Meño, or El 4x1, was believed to be the head of security for Ismael Zambada Garcia, "Mayo Zambada." His base of operations is Higueras de Abuya, located south of Culiacan, Sinaloa. El Meño also holds influence in Panaltita, Pueblos Unidos, Jacola, Chiqueritos, and Quila. El 4x1 is believed to be heading the conflict against the La Chapiza in Elota, La Cruz, San Ignacio, Alta Rosa, and Potrerillos del Norote. The plazas mentioned have seen heavy fighting between El 4x1 forces against the La Chapiza. 

El Meño, according to sources, was behind the death (approved by Mayo Zambada and Chapo Guzman) of Manuel Alejandro Aponte Gomez, "El Bravo" former head of security for Joaquin Guzman Loera and plaza boss of Mazatlan. El Bravo was suspected of turning in Joaquin Guzman Loera to Navy authorities in 2014." 

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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This is what was seized from the house with a 'narcotunnel' in Residencial Santa Margarita, Culiacán, Sinaloa. Sources: Home Belongs To Oscar Noe Medina Gonzalez "El Panu"

 CHAR

JUNE 24, 2025 

INFORMATION POSTED BY LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

WRITTEN BY: DIANA CRUZ 

Culiacán, Sinaloa – Following a search of a house in the Santa Margarita Residential Complex in Culiacán, where a "narco-tunnel" was discovered, four armored vehicles with a system, tire-puncture weapons, weapons, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, magazines, and cartridges were seized.

This operation was carried out by members of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), following the execution of a search warrant.

The following items were seized at the Santa Margarita Residential Complex in Culiacán:

FIREARMS:

114 long weapons.

65 handguns.

8 grenade launchers.

2 rocket launchers.

Grenades, magazines, and loose and boxed cartridges.

VEHICLES:

1 BMW X5, armored and equipped with a tire-puncture system.

1 Chevrolet Cheyenne, armored.

1 Volkswagen Tiguan.

1 Toyota Camry, equipped with a tire-puncture system.

OTHER OBJECTS:

1 cell phone.

It should be noted that the long guns and other ballistic missiles found at the scene are being processed.

The vehicles and all other found objects were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General's Office for the appropriate investigation.

On Tuesday, June 24, federal authorities announced the discovery of houses connected by a tunnel and the location of more than 200 weapons in the Santa Margarita residential area.

In light of these actions, authorities urged people to promptly call 911 for any emergency and 089 for anonymous reports.

The work was carried out by personnel from the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO) of the FGR, in coordination with the Mexican Army, the National Guard, the Navy, the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, the Attorney General's Office, the State Attorney General's Office, and the State Public Security Secretariat.

MY THOUGHTS

BY: CHAR 

Sources who asked to remain anonymous stated that the weaponry, which included rocket launchers seized by Mexican military special forces, belonged to a criminal cell directly involved with high ranking Los Chapitos member Oscar Noe Medina Gonzalez, "El Panu" a close associate of Ivan Archivaldo and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar leaders of the Los Chapitos Cartel. El Panu or El Lobo is widely known as a Los Chapitos regional boss and even compadre of Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar. 

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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US Treasury FinCEN Designates Two Mexican Banks & Brokerage Firm for Laundering Cartel Funds

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued orders identifying three Mexico-based financial institutions—CIBanco S.A., Institution de Banca Multiple (CIBanco), Intercam Banco S.A., Institución de Banca Multiple (Intercam), and Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V. (Vector)—as being of primary money laundering concern in connection with illicit opioid trafficking, and prohibit, respectively, certain transmittals of funds involving CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector. 

These orders are the first actions by FinCEN pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, which provide Treasury with additional authorities to target money laundering associated with the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, including by cartels.

CIBanco and Intercam, commercial banks with over $7 and $4 billion in total assets, respectively, and Vector, a brokerage firm managing nearly $11 billion in assets, have collectively played a longstanding and vital role in laundering millions of dollars on behalf of Mexico-based cartels and facilitating payments for the procurement of precursor chemicals needed to produce fentanyl.

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La Chapiza Cartel Captured And Interrogated Two Members Of Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño or FEA. Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño Officially Joined A few Weeks Ago The La Mayiza-Guasave Cartel Alliance.

 CHAR 

JUNE 24, 2025

The Los Chapitos / La Chapiza Cartel released an interrogation video about four minutes long. In the interrogation of two male captives captured in Sinaloa, they claim to be members of Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño, and their direct boss is Jeffrey Avendaño, alias "El Tatuado," "El 21," "El Jefrrey." El Tatuado was a high-ranking member of the Los Chapitos criminal organization. Still, in recent weeks, the armed wing FEA affiliated with the Los Chapitos opted to join the La Mayiza-Guasave Cartel alliance. Some of the armed wings that opted to leave the Los Chapitos organization are Fuerzas Especiales Avendaño, Los Koyotes, Los Yukos, Cholo Vagos, Fuerzas Especiales Chuta, and Badiraguato criminal groups. 

FUERZAS ESPECIALES AVENDAÑO OR SPECIAL FORCES AVENDAÑO

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

BY: SOL PRENDIDO 

Captive #1: My name is Ernesto Alonzo Garcia Felix. Everyone calls me Neto. I worked for the Avendaño Special Forces and I belonged to the Chapiza mob. I was sent to work in Chiapas. And then I was required to get this ID in order to come work in Culiacán, Sinaloa. We thought we were a part of the Chapos mob but that turned out to be false. It was surprising to hear that we had suddenly flipped to the Mayos mob. It bothered me to find this out because this organization has never killed family members or colleagues. I even brought this up and was immediately told that I’d be shot to death. With that being said I had no other choice but to put up with what was happening because I don’t want anything to happen to my family. Just as well I was also threatened. My immediate boss Jeffrey aka El 21. We were sent to Culiacán and the new leadership are the Avendaños. They are in league with the Mayos, Chapo Isidro, Chutas, MF, it’s all mixed up. 

Captive #2: The Yukos…

Captive #1: That’s right, Los Yukos are also there. And we can’t complain about anything because we’re being dragged into this. We were in Pericos, San José de los Portillo, and we were about to go into Navolato but our mission failed. The Chapiza mob grabbed us. Guys, pay attention to what’s happening here because this isn’t a game. 

Captive #2: Don’t fall into this snare guys, don’t fall into this snare. Many times we end up being deceived and we don’t even know which cell we belong to. They had us inside a safe house since 4 in the morning without food or water. We were dropped off and told to just wait there without saying much else. That’s where the Chapiza mob picked us up. But the truth is that we have always been Chapos and religiously supported this. However, once the leadership switched sides we were thrown under the bus because of their betrayal. We were in the state of Chiapas fighting against the Chapos and Guatemalas. But once we were sent this way we had to get these new IDs so that we could fight against the Chapos. We had no idea of this and were received by the Yukos mob on the other side of Pericos. The Chutas, Ratones, and everyone else who switched sides were there. We were placed under the orders of the Menores. Some of those bosses are Erwin and Chendo. And when we were moved over to Constituyentes de Sinaloa we started to make our presence in the towns of Chapotillos, Los Chinitos, and Zapotillos. The intention was to make into Navolato and Buenavista. But we were apprehended at the intersection where we had been positioned. They abandoned us. Don’t bother falling into this lifestyle filled with games, lies, and deceit. Otherwise you could end up like us with no food or water to sustain yourselves. 

Captive #1: We were initially Chapiza operatives. But once we arrived here we came to find out that we were suddenly Mayo gunmen. Our allegiance changed because of the betrayal that the leadership had committed. But it is what it is. They’ve killed family members of mine and friends from the neighborhood also. How could I work with people like this who have backstabbed us? These are people who don’t know how to properly lead anyone. Some of those individuals are Commander Perro, Drone, Willy, Chapiro, Orden, and Navolato. El Quimico was there with me also and hadn’t eaten anything either. There were six of us when we were apprehended. Our lives had been forsaken but that’s just the way it is. 

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Clash with CJNG in Colima leaves arrests, deaths, and blockades. Secretariat Of Mexican Navy Operation Against 'CJNG Cartel' Leads To 15 Hitmen Captured And 3 Dead In Tecoman, Colima

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JUNE 22, 2025 

MILENIO 

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

MALE ANCHOR: In Colima, 15 alleged criminals were captured in the municipality of Tecomán. The person with the detailed report is

Arnoldo Delgadillo. 

ARNOLDO DELGADILLO: Good afternoon. Hey, Fernando, how are you? Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to greet you and our entire audience this Sunday afternoon. Indeed, you already said it. The State Government's Public Security Secretariat confirmed that in a joint operation, the State Police and the Navy managed to arrest these individuals you already mentioned. 

In the community of Cerro de Ortega in the municipality of Tecomán, on the border with Michoacán. Members of both agencies were attacked by this group of armed civilians. In response, three of the attackers were killed. We also said it was the arrest of 15 individuals allegedly linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, who were also detained. Weapons and tactical equipment. Something interesting is that, as of this moment, there is a blockade near Cerro de Ortega on Federal Highway Mexico 200, which runs from Colima to Michoacán. This is why there is still no access between these two states. I would like to inform you that the protest is being attributed to citizens demanding the departure of security authorities, but there is no further information on this matter. For now, the blow against crime is important. After this confrontation on the border between Colima and Michoacán, the information is important. Fernando, waiting for updates. Excellent afternoon, anyway.

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