Cártel del Golfo Escorpiones Leader Arrested in Queretaro

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Mexican authorities have apprehended Felipe Jesús Ceballos Tovar alias "El Franco 6," identified as the presumed successor to José Francisco "N," known as "Alfa 1," a key figure in the Escorpiones faction of the Gulf Cartel in the states of Queretaro and Guanajuato.

Felipe Jesús Ceballos Tovar alias "El Franco 6"

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33 tons of Gold and Silver stolen in the municipality of Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco.

 CHAR 

JULY 7, 2025 

THIS INFORMATION WAS POSTED BY EL OCCIDENTAL

The robbery occurred on July 4th, on a highway near Guadalajara.

Román Ortega

An organized crime group stole a shipment of 33 tons of gold and silver in the municipality of Acatlán de Juárez.

In a statement, the mining company Grupo Bacis reported that the robbery occurred on July 4th, on a highway near Guadalajara, as the trailer was heading to the Port of Manzanillo.

According to the company, the tractor-trailer with registration number 104 was intercepted by two white vehicles with tinted windows. Their occupants neutralized the security guards and subdued the driver, who was detained for at least an hour and a half.

"A group of organized criminals aboard two vehicles robbed a truck belonging to Fletes Durango S.A. de C.V., which was loaded with at least 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate belonging to Grupo Minero Bacis, bound for the port of Manzanillo."

After being released, the victims notified the National Guard. The workers were unharmed, and the empty trailer was located shortly afterward. To date, there are no leads on the whereabouts of the merchandise. The State Attorney General's Office reported that it has not received any complaints regarding the theft.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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206 bags containing human remains have been found in the graves of Las Agujas, Zapopan, Jalisco. UPDATE

 CHAR 

JULY 7, 2025 

INFORMATION POSTED BY EL OCCIDENTAL 

They will continue working in the coming days

Román Ortega

The Guerreros Buscadores collective of Jalisco reported that this Monday they found four bags containing human remains in the second grave in the Las Agujas neighborhood of Zapopan, where they began work last Sunday, June 29.

Thus, 37 bags containing human remains have been located at this second clandestine burial site, located next to the fenced property where the State Attorney General's Office and forensic experts found 169 bags containing human remains.

Indira Navarro, founder of the collective, noted that this brings the total to 206 bags on the same property, which is only divided by the wall, but which are part of the same investigation folder.

"Look, today's work continues with the prospecting process at the Las Agujas pit. Four more bags were extracted today, bringing the total to 37 on the property, which is the same folder as the 169 bags, which unfortunately now totals 206."

She added that due to the large area, personnel from the National Search Commission will integrate the search for human remains on the property, which is located near the University Center for Biological and Agricultural Sciences.

She also indicated that advanced technology is needed to conduct more precise searches.

"The National Bureau of Investigation (CNB) will also be coming tomorrow to provide support, given the circumstances and the magnitude of the grave. The work being done recently has been done with heavy machinery and excavation work using rods, but we do need slightly more advanced technology to make this more accurate."

Finally, he indicated that the land measures 220 hectares, so the search efforts will last several days.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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There were three armored vehicles! Secretariat Of Navy seized vehicles, long-range weapons, explosives, and tactical equipment in Cosalá. The Following Seizures Is A Result Of A Raid Against Efrain Trejo Retamoza In Cosala, Sinaloa.

 CHAR

JULY 7, 2025 

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS POSTED BY LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

WRITTEN BY: ERICK VALENZUELA 

Cosalá, Sinaloa.- A significant seizure of vehicles, some with armored vehicles, long weapons, explosives, ammunition, and tactical equipment was the result of a ground and air operation carried out by federal authorities in the municipality of Cosalá.

As part of efforts to reduce criminal activity in the state, federal security personnel carried out ground and air operations, resulting in the seizure of vehicles, weapons, ammunition, improvised explosive devices, tactical equipment, tire-puncture devices, among other items.

This occurred during prevention and surveillance patrols in the towns of Ipucha and Cosalá, in the municipality of the same name, located in the south of the state.

The result was the discovery of 14 long-range weapons, a grenade launcher, 6,527 cartridges of various calibers, 31 magazines for different calibers, 35 improvised explosive devices, which were disabled on-site, nine vehicles, three of which were armored, 89 tire-punctured ammunition, and various tactical equipment.

It should be noted that everything seized was made available to the corresponding Public Prosecutor's Office agent for inclusion in the case's investigation file.

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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200 Navy Soldiers take action in Navolato operations. Amid rising violence, 200 Navy personnel deployed in Navolato, Sinaloa.

 CHAR 

JULY 7, 2025 

THIS INFORMATION WAS POSTED BY RIODOCE 

Author | Alejandro Monjardin

Date | July 7, 2025

Time | 10:39 am

Starting today, a group of 200 members of the Navy will join the operation in Navolato, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya announced.

The president mentioned that the members will only be on patrol in that municipality, but will be based in Culiacán.

"Today, the Navy Commander just informed me that members of the Navy assigned exclusively to Navolato are arriving," he stated.

Rocha Moya stated that another group of members arrived in Elota two or three days ago.

We have 200 Marines assigned to this patrol, particularly in Navolato. 200 are already deployed in Elota, which has also seen an increase in numbers, he stated.

He assured that the Marines are not acting alone but are working with agents from other agencies in the inter-institutional operation.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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Business Partner of Boxer Canelo Alvarez Suspected of Money Laundering for CJNG Fuel Thieves

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Following last week's ICE arrest and accusations of Sinaloa Cartel ties of boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., Mexican news outlet Reforma also cited numerous sources regarding the ties of a Mexican businessman who is a partner in a gas station convenience store company with famed Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez. 

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Colombia Seizes First Narco Drone Sub on Test Run in South America

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

The Colombian navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco sub equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast.

The semi submersible vessel was not carrying drugs, but the Colombian navy and Western security sources based in the region believed it was a trial run by a cocaine trafficking cartel.

"It was being tested and was empty," a naval spokeswoman confirmed.

Manned semisubmersibles built in clandestine jungle shipyards have been used for decades to ferry cocaine north from Colombia, the world's biggest cocaine producer, to Central America or Mexico.

But in recent years, they have been sailing much farther, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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Efrain Trejo Retamoza "R1" Former Los Chapos Member And Now Los Mayos/ MF Member Escapes From Military Special Forces Raid In Cosala, Sinaloa.

 BY: CHAR 

JULY 6, 2025 

EFRAIN TREJO RETAMOZA

R1

The afternoon of this Sunday, July 6, 2025, reports started to swirl about a raid by Mexican military special forces that included a helicopter with a minigun machine gun and an aircraft TEXAN flying around in Cosala. There was also reported movement of Secretariat Navy personnel to capture a criminal figure on the ground.

EFRAIN TREJO RETAMOZA 

Hours later, after the raid was concluded, it was confirmed that a powerful criminal figure named Efrain Trejo Retamoza "R1" had evaded capture. R1 and his family have long-controlled drug laboratories in the Cosala mountain areas, which have the presence of both Los Chapos and Los Mayos criminal groups. The sister of Mr. Efrain had a child with the famous drug lord Joaquin Guzmán Loera, and many times, JGL used Cosala as a hideout before his final capture in Los Mochis in 2016. Last year, with the start of the conflict between Los Chapos vs Los Mayos, Mr. Efrain R1 decided to join the Los Mayos/ MF criminal group. 

COSALA RAID 

The following videos were uploaded to my Telegram channel of the raid that took place this afternoon in Cosala, Sinaloa, against Efrain Trejo Retamoza, lieutenant of the Los Mayos/ MF criminal group. Please follow my news channel is called "Ivan's Daily News", where I cover drug cartel topics. 

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FGR Alleges Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. Punished Cartel Members for "El Nini"

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

According to Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR), recently arrested boxing figure Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. allegedly served as a "henchman" for Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as "El Nini," who once was the head of security for Los Chapitos.

Through information allegedly obtained through legal wiretaps between 2021 and 2022; Chavez would beat cartel members who had made mistakes that put the organization at risk. Wiretaps of alleged drug traffickers and immigration records shared by US agencies were presented as evidence as well.

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Three people arrested for transporting drugs on an aircraft in Colima

 CHAR 

JULY 5, 2025 

INFORMATION BY INFO7MX 

Mexican authorities reported the arrest in Colima of three people transporting 427 kilos of drugs on a clandestine aircraft from San Salvador.

Three arrested transporting drugs on a plane in Colima

Mexican authorities reported this Friday the arrest in the western state of Colima of three people transporting 427 kilos of cocaine on a clandestine aircraft detected 200 kilometers south of San Salvador, El Salvador.

In a joint statement, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) stated that in an intelligence and investigation operation, members of this institution, the Secretariat of National Defense (Defense), the National Guard (GN), the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar), the Attorney General's Office (FGR), and the National Center for Surveillance and Protection of Airspace (CENAVI) located the aircraft carrying drugs and arrested the three people.

According to the information, the arrest resulted from surveillance efforts by CENAVI, which detected the aircraft's "tracking" 200 kilometers south of San Salvador, the capital of the Salvadoran territory, heading toward Mexico.

The SSPC detailed that the tracking "did not comply with current aeronautical regulations when entering our space, so an alert was issued."

“Six airplanes and a helicopter were immediately ordered to take off from two aerial platforms to intercept the clandestine aircraft. Security personnel were also deployed in Colima, in areas likely to land,” the statement said.

The SSPC also reported that “officers located the aircraft, which landed on a clandestine airstrip in the town of Tecomán, Colima,” the site of the three arrests, and “seized 11 packages containing 427 kilos of cocaine.”

They added that the seizure “has a financial impact on organized crime of more than $95 million pesos (approximately $5 million USD).”

SOURCE: INFO7MX

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Nearly 30 bags have been recovered from the second Las Agujas pit In Zapopan, Jalisco.

 CHAR 

JULY 5, 2025 

INFORMATION BY EL OCCIDENTAL 

They will continue working in the coming days

Román Ortega

Nearly 30 bags containing human remains have now been found in the second grave discovered since last Sunday by the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco collective in Las Agujas, Zapopan, next to the fenced property where the State Attorney General's Office and forensic experts found 169 bags containing human remains.

Marichuy, a member of the collective, stated that personnel from the Attorney General's Office and forensic sciences are working with heavy machinery to remove the skeletal remains.

“Look, the land survey is already very extensive, but we're prospecting by meters, because we're inspecting the land by perimeter. What we want to rule out is that there aren't more, but unfortunately, they're coming out.”

He noted that the searches are being carried out with heavy machinery in quadrants 5 meters long by two meters deep.

“The bags are coming out at a depth of one meter 20 to two meters deep.” He added that in the coming days they will continue searching the entire area until they rule out the presence of more human remains.

He recalled that on Thursday another group from the same collective located a clandestine crematorium inside an abandoned unfinished construction site in the town of Santa Cruz del Valle in Tlajomulco. Teeth and other charred human remains were found at the site.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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La Mayiza / MF Criminal Group Captured Another Hitman Of 'El Caballo' Who Is A Ranking Member Of The Los Chapitos Cartel In Culiacan, Sinaloa. Youtuber Camilo Ochoa Is Threatened For A Third Time By Los Mayos/ Mayiza/ MF

 CHAR 

JULY 4, 2025 

An interrogation video of a hitman working for Jesus Guillermo Flores Bautista, "El Caballo," this July 4, 2025, in which La Mayiza/ MF claims responsibility for the video. Yet again, El Caballo, a ranking member of Los Chapitos in Culiacan, Sinaloa, is mentioned, who has become an objective to be eliminated by the La Mayza/ MF criminal group. 

MESSAGE TO CAMILO OCHOA 

CAMILO OCHOA 

Not only is El Caballo mentioned, the famous YouTuber Camilo Ochoa, who appears to have taken the Los Chapitos Cartel side in this war, is threatened yet again for a third time.  In the following interrogation video, a young man has obvious signs of torture all over his body, including his face. Sadly, this young man has become another statistic in this Sinaloa Civil War. 

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

SOL PRENDIDO:

Captive: All enemies will eventually face the same fate that I’m having to go through at the moment. Every person that makes up a part of Caballo’s mob needs to stay alert to what’s happening here because the MF mob controls the city of Culiacán. Long live Mayo Zambada. 

Sicario: We’re exterminating every adversary who carried a rifle against us. Afterwards we’re coming after everyone who was associated with them. Camilo Ochoa, you’re at the top of that list, you big-tit mythomaniac pig. The fucking MF mob rules here. That’s what you cowardly Chapo Zetas need to remember. 

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Bloody Clash In Cosala: Los Renes 00 Armed Wing Of Los Chapitos vs La Mayiza / MF on July 2, 2025

 CHAR 

JULY 4, 2025 

On July 3, 2025, videos of clashes that occured the night prior were published of a heavy armed confrontation of armed cells belonging to the Los Renes 00, an armed wing of Los Chapitos, against La Mayiza/ MF. 

Allegedly, most of the videos published were recorded by Los Renes 00 members, so that is an indication that highly likely this criminal group came out victorious in this specific confrontation that occurred on Cosala roads about 10-15 kilometers from Espinal, Sinaloa. 

LOS RENES 00 ARMED WING OF LOS CHAPITOS VS LA MAYIZA/ MF 

The following videos were published by the ZULU telegram channel of the clashes between rival criminal groups. 

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War Between La Chapiza vs MF Heats Up In Navolato, Sinaloa. Bloody Days Ahead According To Sources "All Eyes In Navolato"

 CHAR 

JULY 4, 2025 

The bloody war between La Chapiza vs La Mayiza / MF war continues, especially in the Navolato, Sinaloa, municipality. One criminal group focuses on protecting their plaza, while the other criminal group makes it a priority to make incursions into Navolato. 

LA CHAPIZA SENDS A MESSAGE TO INFORMANTS 

POSTSCRIPT

"KEEP SENDING INFORMATION ON WHAT YOU SEE IN THE STREETS, THIS IS HOW YOU WILL END UP. PICTURES AND VIDEOS FOR FACEBOOK SUPPORTING THE LOS MF (GAYS) SINCERELY, IAG (IVAN ARCHIVALDO GUZMAN) 

This morning of July 4, 2025, A body with obvious signs of torture was found on a dirt road in Navolato, Sinaloa, and the message was signed by the Los Chapitos Cartel. 

LA MAYIZA / MF ANSWERS BACK AND LEAVES A DISMEMBERED BODY NEXT TO A METAL DRUM 

In the afternoon of July 4, 2025, a dismembered body was found next a metal drum with a message by La Mayiza / MF directed to anyone connected to Los Chapitos Cartel. 

MESSAGE READS

"Two drug cooks from a drug lab that work for "300" operating on the grounds of the "El 11", this is going to happen to them. All the filthy people who are wearing bulletproof vest, cooks, or "Chapos" bosses, so they know that we've entered Navolato and have everyone located, you have 24 hours to spread the word about these "scumbags" and #" 

BLACK DAYS FOR NAVOLATO 

Bloody days are ahead for the Navolato municipality as both criminal groups fight for their interest. 

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Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Arrested by ICE Alleging Sinaloa Cartel Ties, Faces Arrest Warrant in Mexico

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

The DHS announced that ICE has detained 'prominent Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., and is processing him for expedited removal from the United States.'

His arrest in Los Angeles was made as he had overstayed his B2 tourist visa that expired early last year.

Chavez is a Mexican citizen who has an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives. According to DHS, Chavez is believed to be an affiliate of the Sinaloa Cartel, a recently designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

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