Head of Security for Celaya's Mayor Killed, Possible CJNG Video Claims Attack

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Álvaro Fernando Coria Jiménez, the head of security for Celaya's mayor, was gunned down while leaving his home for work in the morning yesterday. A video released online, purportedly by the CJNG, claims responsibility for the killing.

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‘El Jando’, pilot of ‘Los Chapitos’, files for protection and temporarily halts his extradition to the US

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

WRITTEN BY: TERY PEREZ

Mexico City.- The pilot of ‘Los Chapitos’, Mauro Alberto ‘N’, alias ‘El Jando’, will not be extradited at the moment, due to the protection granted by the head of the Third District Court in criminal matters.

Judge Augusto Octavio Mejía Ojeda granted ‘El Jando’ a suspension of the protection trial processed for extradition out of procedure, deportation, banishment, psychological torture, mistreatment, harassment, as well as lack of food and medicine.

The judge requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other federal authorities, to submit their justified reports to confirm if there is an extradition request by the United States government.

Mejía offered a 3-day deadline to ratify the demand, otherwise the precautionary measure (protection against extradition) will cease to have effect.

The legal situation of the pilot, considered a key operator of ‘Los Chapitos’, will be determined next weekend, since his defense requested the duplication of the constitutional term to gather evidence in his favor.

Once the deadline has ended, the judge must decide whether ‘El Jando’ is linked to the process or not.

The capture of Mauro ‘N’, alias ‘El Jando’

Mauro ‘N’, known as ‘El Jando’, is 31 years old and is a civil pilot.

The SSPC considers him a key operator of the ‘Los Chapitos’ faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and attributes to him attacks with explosives carried out in Vascogil and Tamazula, Durango.

In addition, he would be linked to the armed group sent to Jesús María on January 5, 2023, to rescue Ovidio Guzmán López, where he was captured.

‘El Jando’ was arrested in Jesús María, last Saturday, February 8, in an operation that began at 3:30 in the morning, according to witnesses.

It should be remembered that, in the event, a member of the Mexican Army, assigned to the Secretariat of National Defense, lost his life.

 SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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Ceferino Espinoza Angulo, "El Koyote," "El 14," "El Koy" High Ranking Los Chapitos Lieutenant Indicted In Chicago. High-Ranking Member of Sinaloa Cartel Charged in Chicago With Drug Conspiracy

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by the U.S. Department of Justice 

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

CHICAGO — A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico on a drug conspiracy charge for allegedly manufacturing and distributing fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs and importing them into the United States.

According to an indictment returned Monday in the Northern District of Illinois, CEFERINO ESPINOZA ANGULO, 43, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, employed dozens of gunmen in Mexico to protect and support the leadership of the Guzman faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, including Ivan Guzman-Salazar, Jesus Alfredo Guzman-Salazar, Ovidio Guzman-Lopez, and Joaquin Guzman-Lopez, collectively known as “the Chapitos.”  The indictment alleges that Espinoza Angulo worked with others to obtain fentanyl precursor chemicals and to manufacture fentanyl for importation into the United States.  Espinoza Angulo allegedly worked with others to transport the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and ecstasy toward the U.S. border for importation into the country.  The indictment accuses Espinoza Angulo of illegally using a machine gun in furtherance of his drug trafficking crime.

The Chapitos are the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as "El Chapo," who led the Sinaloa Cartel before being convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., and sentenced to life in prison.  The Chapitos allegedly assumed their father’s role as leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.  The Chapitos have been charged with drug trafficking in other U.S. indictments.

The indictment against Espinoza Angulo charges him with drug conspiracy and a firearm offense, which are punishable by a maximum sentence of life in federal prison and a minimum of 30 years.  Espinoza Angulo is believed to be residing in Mexico.  A U.S. warrant has been issued for his arrest.

The indictment was announced by Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Antoinette T. Bacon, Supervisory Official of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Tara K. McGrath, United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, and Chad Yarbrough, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division.  Valuable assistance was provided by Homeland Security Investigations Field Offices in Arizona and Spokane, Wash.; DEA Special Operations Division, Bilateral Investigations Unit; FBI Field Offices in Washington, San Diego, and Los Angeles; and the Portland, Ore. Police Bureau, Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit, HIDTA Interdiction Taskforce.  The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michelle J. Parthum and Andrew C. Erskine of the Northern District of Illinois, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the Southern District of California, and Trial Attorney Kirk Handrich of the Criminal Division’s Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section at the Justice Department.

The case is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operation.  OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles drug trafficking organizations and other criminal networks that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local enforcement agencies.

“Our nation’s fentanyl crisis has devastated individuals and families in northern Illinois and throughout the country,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Pasqual.  “Our office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to disrupt the production and trafficking of fentanyl and other dangerous narcotics before they can reach more victims.”

“As alleged, the defendant conspired to traffic dangerous drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States — and employed dozens of gunmen to protect his drug trafficking operation and the leadership of the Guzman faction of the Sinaloa Cartel,” said Supervisory Official Bacon.  “Stopping Mexican cartels from poisoning our communities with fentanyl and other narcotics is a top priority of this Administration.  Today’s indictment demonstrates that the Criminal Division is relentless in its pursuit of the drug traffickers who profit at the expense of the American people.”

“From San Diego to Chicago to D.C., we are united to bring down the traffickers pushing these poisons into American communities,” said U.S. Attorney McGrath. “We are attacking at every level — from street dealers to cartel leaders.”

“This indictment reinforces the FBI’s unwavering commitment to hold accountable those who endanger our communities and traffic violence and drugs across our borders,” said Assistant Director Yarbrough.  “Let this serve as a clear message: if you engage in cartel activity, we will pursue you and bring you to justice.  Together with our law enforcement partners at every level, we remain fully committed to protecting the American people and stopping the flow of these dangerous drugs into our nation.”

The public is reminded that an indictment is not evidence of guilt.  The defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

espinoza_angulo_indictment.pdf

Updated February 11, 2025

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Cartels Listed as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by US State Dept

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups in Latin America as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), said five US officials with knowledge of the imminent action.

The Executive Order signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025, referred in general to cartels in Mexico. It also specifically named two gangs, Tren de Aragua, a group with roots in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and the United States and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.

The gang more commonly known as MS-13 was founded in Los Angeles, California by Salvadoran immigrants in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s and expanded throughout El Salvador and other countries following criminal deportations. While heavily involved in extortion, human trafficking and violence, they play a lesser role in the international drug trade.

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Four Bodies, Including CFE Workers, Found in Oaxaca After Being Kidnapped in Veracruz

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Four men, three of them state electrical company (CFE) workers, were kidnapped by an armed group early this week in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. Their bodies were found next to an abandoned CFE truck on a stretch of highway in rural Oaxaca last night.

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El Paso CBP Officer Arrested for Allowing Smugglers & Trafficking into Texas

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Customs and Border Protection officer Manuel Perez, Jr. was arrested in El Paso, Texas on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented noncitizens for financial gain and alleged drug trafficking activity.

Perez Jr. is charged with one count of conspiracy to bring aliens to the United States for financial gain, three counts of bringing aliens to the United States for financial gain, and one count of conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

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Chapo Isidro, the boss who grew up under the watchful eye of the Army; Secretary Of Defense Of Mexico places him at the level of “El Mayo” and Caro Quintero

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by EL UNIVERSAL

Over the past two decades, the drug lord has expanded his sphere of influence into Sinaloa, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Durango and Nayarit. The Army places him on the same level as El Chapo Guzmán and El Mayo Zambada.

Chapo Isidro, the drug lord who grew up under the watchful eye of the Army. Illustration: by Ani Cortés

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 

WRITTEN BY: MIRIAM RAMIREZ 

FEBRUARY 9, 2025 

Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, alias Chapo Isidro, or as some refer to him, the “other Chapo,” has just been listed by the FBI as one of the 10 most wanted criminals in the world, and is offering 5 million dollars, about 100 million pesos, for information leading to his arrest. He is considered the head of a “large-scale” organization. The United States government accuses him of introducing fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana into that country. With the designation that occurred just last Tuesday, Meza Flores entered the “big leagues” of international crime, however, in Mexico there is a history of almost two decades that precedes him and is recorded by military intelligence; it includes his arrest and release on at least four occasions and satellite images of the addresses where until a few years ago he took refuge in the mountains of Sinaloa.

In 2008, at just 25 years old, he assumed the war leadership of the Beltrán Leyva brothers' organization when they separated from the Sinaloa Cartel. At that time, the Beltráns began a battle against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias El Chapo, and Ismael Zambada García, alias El Mayo, similar to the one currently being fought by the Guzmáns and the Zambadas. These have been the two largest splits of the Cartel.

Just a few years later, on May 4, 2011, Chapo Isidro was arrested in Culiacán, accused of committing crimes against health, illegal deprivation of liberty, and violating the Federal Law Against Organized Crime, according to an identification card prepared in May 2020 by the General Adjutant of the Secretary of National Defense. However, he was released without detailing the reasons or the institutions that participated.

According to internal Sedena documents that can be consulted through the mega-leak of Guacamaya Leaks, in 2012 the Guzmán Loera and Zambada García factions managed to displace the Beltrán Leyva from Sinaloa, and established their hegemony in most of the municipalities of the state. And although they were seriously weakened, the Beltráns never really disappeared.

In that year, in parallel, the United States issued the first accusation against Meza Flores. It was filed in the Court for the District of Columbia.

Free and in operation, El Chapo Isidro established himself in the north of Sinaloa and took total control of the municipalities of Guasave and Sinaloa de Leyva. And although they tried hard, neither El Chapo nor El Mayo were able to take those territories from him.

While Chapo Isidro was increasing his military, logistical and political capabilities in the northern zone, he was arrested three more times in a period of two years, according to the same document from the Aide: on July 9, 2014, in Guasave; on August 8, 2014, in Ahome and on April 16, 2015, in Guasave again.

Beginning in 2016, Meza Flores' structure expanded its areas of operation to 13 of the now 20 municipalities of Sinaloa. He made sure to flank the state with a presence in the north, south, coast and mountains.

Due to his imminent growth, in 2018 the Army classified him as the leader of several criminal cells that operated not only in Sinaloa, but also in Sonora, Baja California Sur, Durango and Nayarit.

Although this drug lord had kept a low profile and that had helped him not to be heavily pursued by the authorities, as happened with El Chapo or El Mayo, on November 26, 2019, a federal indictment and a federal arrest warrant were issued against him in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Then came the production of fentanyl, the new great enemy of the United States and, according to the Mexican and American governments, Chapo Isidro also entered the manufacturing of the now famous blue tablets. In December 2024, the Mexican government seized a ton of fentanyl in Sinaloa, and it was immediately awarded to him. That, inevitably, put him on the priorities of the Mexican and American authorities.

For this work, dozens of emails, diagnoses and analyses of the security situation were reviewed. The reports were prepared by the Ministry of National Defense, the National Guard and the CERFI of the West and Northwest, intelligence centers that provide information to Sedena, the Ministry of the Navy, the Attorney General's Office, the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection and the National Intelligence Center.

The reports track the movements of El Chapo Isidro. Year after year, they mapped his presence in the country, traced the sea and land routes he used for drug trafficking, and placed him on the same level of hierarchy as Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Ismael Zambada García, Rafael Caro Quintero and, in recent years, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, alias El Chapito.

The FBI has included Meza Flores on its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives in the world. It is offering a reward of five million dollars, approximately 100 million Mexican pesos.

The takeoff

In February 2016, a document prepared by the Criminal Investigation Agency included Meza Flores among the 122 priority targets of the federal government. El Chapo Isidro was then eleventh on the list and was identified as the leader of the Beltrán Leyva organization in Sinaloa. That same year, the Sedena recorded that he was engaged in an intense dispute with the Sinaloa Cartel in other territories with the intention of extending his production areas beyond Guasave and Sinaloa de Leyva. In December 2017, the Third Military Region reported that Meza Flores had managed to enter the neighboring municipalities of El Fuerte, Ahome and Angostura, the latter two allowing him to have access to the Sinaloa coastline and, from there, create a new maritime route. It also began to establish itself in the mountainous area of ​​southern Sinaloa, in the municipalities of San Ignacio, Mazatlán, El Rosario and Escuinapa, places that share borders with Durango and Nayarit.

At that time, according to military intelligence documents, Meza Flores used a maritime route for drug trafficking that started in the port of Topolobampo, in the northern municipality of Ahome, then stopped in Bahía de Kino, in the municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, and ended in Puerto Peñasco, very close to the border with Arizona.

At the end of 2018, the Sedena identified a new maritime route. With control of Ahome and Angostura, Meza Flores planned the trip to Loreto, Baja California Sur, through the Gulf of California.

As for the land route, Chapo Isidro has used Federal Highway Mexico 15, the most used to travel from Sinaloa to Sonora.

The combination of the surnames Meza Flores began to stand out in documents on drug trafficking and armed power in Durango, Nayarit and Baja California Sur. In a criminal diagnosis of the Western Region of Mexico, dated December 2018, the Sedena stated that Isidro was the leader of criminal cells that operated in the northern, central, northern coastal and mountain regions of Nayarit. Meanwhile, in Durango, the Third Military Region estimated that Meza Flores maintained a 15% presence in the state, especially in the mountain municipalities of San Dimas, Pueblo Nuevo and Mezquital, areas close to the south of Sinaloa and north of Nayarit.

In August 2022, an intelligence operation carried out by the Sedena and the United States government managed to obtain aerial images of the capo's location.

El Chapo Isidro had stopped being a local leader to become one of the major players in Mexican crime. By July 2019, the Sedena stated that the capo had formed the “Triple Alliance” in Baja California Sur, a union between the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, the local organization “Los Renés” and himself. The objective of this meeting was to fight the Sinaloa Cartel for control of the municipalities of La Paz, Los Cabos, Comondú and Loreto.

The power accumulated by El Chapo Isidro already allowed him to fight different battles simultaneously. In that same year, but in Sonora, he sought control of drug trafficking and sales in Guaymas, another strategic municipality due to its location on the Pacific Ocean coast.

Between 2020 and 2021, Sedena reaffirmed Meza Flores' total control in Guasave and Sinaloa de Leyva, and added its partial presence in Choix, El Fuerte, Ahome, Angostura, Salvador Alvarado, Navolato, Concordia, San Ignacio, Mazatlán, Escuinapa and El Rosario.

The image was obtained after an overflight carried out by the United States government in coordination with the Sedena, according to internal Army documents.

Dozens of emails exchanged between the director of Air Operations and Customs and Border Protection Services of the United States and a high-ranking Sedena official, whose position was not identified, show an intelligence operation carried out by both countries between 2019 and 2022, in the first part of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

They called it Operation Mongoose, and it carried out overflights in Mexican territory with aircraft and pilots from the United States government through Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit. It also intercepted radio signals and recorded conversations.

On August 8, 2022, Operation Mongoose obtained two key images of El Chapo Isidro. Aerial photographs show a complex of 10 cabins located in the mountain community of El Batamote, Guasave, Sinaloa. Another image shows a country-style hacienda in the community of Estación Bamoa, Sinaloa de Leyva. The documents that contain the exact coordinates of the locations are titled “The house where Chapo Isidro slept” and “Chapo Isidro’s cabins.”

Today he is free, and is one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.

SOURCE: EL UNIVERSAL 

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Five Corpses Left Near CSRL Narco Banner on Overpass near Salamanca, Guanajuato

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

The Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) left a narco banner threatening a rival criminal group next to five mutilated bodies at an overpass near Salamanca, Guanajuato. 

Warning: sensitive photos at the end of the article.

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Mauro Alberto Ojeda Nuñez "El Jando" "El Piloto" Operator Of La Chapiza Cartel Mastermind Of The Durango Explosives Attacks Where A Small Aircraft Was Used

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Mauro Alberto Ojeda Nuñez, "El Jando" "El Piloto" captured in Jesus Maria, Sinaloa, this Saturday, February 8,  2025, by Mexican military special forces is the mastermind of the Durango explosives attacks according to a La Mayiza source. 

The firepower used in the gunfight that led to the capture of El Jando thundered in the town of Jesus Maria, Sinaloa, where locals relived a similar situation when Ovidio Guzman Lopez was captured on January 5, 2023. 

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Numerous readers questioned why a firefight was needed for a La Chapiza Cartel pilot operator. El Jando or El Piloto has been involved in several high-impact actions, one of which stands out as the Durango explosives attacks, in which a small aircraft was used in November 2024. The towns attacked in Durango were alleged strongholds of Los Cabrera Cartel who are key allies of the Mayo Zambada criminal organization. 

DURANGO EXPLOSIVE ATTACKS NOVEMBER 2024 

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Follow-Up: ALL the details of the release of the 36 recruits Of 'CJNG' Cartel in Teuchitlán: Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information INFORMADOR.MX

A judge released 36 of the 38 people arrested on January 29 in an organized crime training camp located in the municipality of Teuchitlán

WRITTEN BY: INFORMADOX.MX 

FEBRUARY 9, 2025 

In Teuchitlán, authorities found and dismantled an apparent organized crime recruitment camp at the end of January. At the site, 38 people were arrested by elements of the Mexican Army, National Guard and Attorney General's Office; today 36 are free. Here are the details and an update on the case:

A judge released 36 of the 38 people arrested on January 29 at an organized crime training camp located in the municipality of Teuchitlán, Jalisco; the defense managed to prove that the released people were recruited against their will.

After a hearing that lasted five days in the federal courts of the Puente Grande penitentiary complex, the judge decided to bring to trial only two people who were allegedly in charge of the training camp and charged them with the crimes of organized crime, deprivation of liberty and forced disappearance.

The camp was located by elements of the Defense, the National Guard and the Attorney General's Office near the town of La Vega and in addition to the arrest of the 38 people who were there, chemical precursors, tactical equipment, radio communicators, chargers and live cartridges were seized.

During the hearing, it was revealed that the 36 people released were recruited through deception and then forced to stay in the camp, where they were allegedly subjected to torture and training as hitmen.

As of Friday, authorities have not reported whether any of the 36 people who were released on Thursday afternoon have been reported missing.

SOURCE: INFORMADO.MX 

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Two minors from Nayarit arrived at the Bus Station deceived by a false job offer In Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. WARNING "CJNG" Cartel Continues Deceitful Recruitment Job Offers

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by EL OCCIDENTAL 

FEBRUARY 9, 2025 

Not finding the people, they decided to return to their homes, but the police protected them.

Elizabeth Ibal

Cases of false promises of work allegedly offered by members of organized crime to force recruitment continue to increase. During the night of this Saturday, two minors arrived in Jalisco because they received a false job offer.

Police officers from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection of San Pedro Tlaquepaque were alerted by private security personnel from the New Bus Station about two minors who were trying to board a passenger bus bound for Nayarit.

The teenagers told the police that they came from the neighboring state of Nayarit, since they were offered work in the state, so they went to that terminal.

When they arrived, they did not locate the people who offered them work, which generated distrust in them and they decided to return to their homes and that was when the uniformed officers located them in that place.

In coordination with the State Police, State Prosecutor's Office, Army and National Guard, command and guidance was requested with the Public Ministry.

In addition, the ministerial agent will be in charge of the investigations to try to locate those people.

The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection of San Pedro Tlaquepaque recommends that the population review job offers with attractive salaries, always verifying that the supposed company that wants to hire them does exist. In any situation of vulnerability, you can contact the Tlaquepaque police at the number 3330503050, especially for any questions about this type of employment.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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Mauro Alberto Ojeda Nuñez, "El Jando" Involved In The Durango Explosive Attacks And Participated In The "Mayo Zambada" Kidnapping; In transfer to CDMX! The pilot of ‘Los Chapitos’ already appears in the National Registry of Arrests

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by LOS NOTICIEIRISTAS 

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Culiacán, Sin.- Mauro Alberto “N”, alias ‘El Jando” or “El Piloto”, arrested in Jesús María in Culiacán by federal forces in a military operation by land and air in the early hours of this Saturday, February 8, 2025, already appears in the National Registry of Arrests (RND).

After consulting this federal government platform by Los Noticieristas, it is confirmed that ‘El Jando’, pilot and operator of “Los Chapitos”, is officially registered as arrested.

He was arrested in Jesus Maria, where Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was arrested in January 2023.

At 12:52 hours, Central Mexico time, his status was: IN TRANSFER.

He is being transferred by air from the Culiacán International Airport to Mexico City where he will be held in a penitentiary.

“El Piloto” is the alias under which he is registered with the federal government and according to his arrest record. In which they describe him as 1.70 meters tall, with a light complexion and at the time of his arrest he was wearing black pants, a black shirt and black tennis shoes. In the photographs he can be seen wearing the blue shirt, but in others he is wearing a black sweater or sweatshirt with a large brown bear printed on the chest.

The arrest was led by elements of Defense and GN, together with the Navy, FGR and SSPC

Harfuch confirms

The Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, officially confirmed the arrest this morning, of who he said was the pilot of “Los Chapitos”

As a result of the reinforcement of security in Sinaloa, this morning, after a confrontation that occurred in Culiacán, with personnel from the Army and the National Guard, Mauro “N”, alias “Jando”, was arrested, considered an important operator of the criminal cell “Los Chapitos” of the Pacific Cartel and a trusted man of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, “El Chapito”, reported the federal government.

Who is ‘El Jando’, in the structure of ‘Los Chapitos’?

Mauro “N”, alias “El Jando”, is a civil pilot and key operator in the structure of “Los Chapitos”. He is credited with the authorship of the attacks with explosive devices that occurred in Vascogil and Tamazula, Durango, on October 28 and November 6, 2024, respectively, reports SSPC.

It is presumed that on January 5, 2023, during the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, alias "El Ratón", he sent an armed group to Jesús María to try to rescue him.

During the capture operation, an element of the National Defense Secretariat (Defense) died.

The capture

At 3:30 in the morning this Saturday, the sound of helicopters crossing the sky woke up the inhabitants of the Jesús María municipality and surrounding towns. Then came the gunshots from high-caliber weapons.

“The helicopters are flying low,” residents reported from 3:30 in the morning.

15 minutes later, a ‘firefight’ with machine guns could be heard.

“They already shot, they are already shooting.”

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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Breaking News & Live Thread: Trusted Pilot And Operator Of Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar Named "Mauro" Captured After Mexican Special Forces Raid In Jesus Maria, Sinaloa. Early Morning Raid Caused Heavy Armed Confrontations.

 Borderland Beat Contributors 

February 8, 2025 

In the early morning of this Saturday, February 8, 2025, a military operation was reported with gunship helicopters being used. Numerous videos were recorded by civilians living in Jesus Maria or JM of the heavily armed confrontations between La Chapiza hitmen and the military. Jesus Maria, Sinaloa, is the location where Ovidio Guzman Lopez was officially captured on January 5, 2023. 

MILITARY OPERATION IN JM 02/08/2025

OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON "MAURO" PILOT AND TRUSTED OPERATOR OF IVAN ARCHIVALDO GUZMAN LEADER OF THE LA CHAPIZA CARTEL 

Omar Garcia Harfuch stated, 

"This morning, after a confrontation in Sinaloa,

@SEDENAmx

and

@GN_MEXICO_

officers arrested Mauro “N”, an aviator pilot and important operator in the structure of a criminal cell that generates violence in the state. He was identified as a trusted man of the leader of the criminal group. This person is linked to attacks and confrontations with authorities and drug trafficking to the United States. On behalf of the Security Cabinet, we recognize the bravery and commitment of the Mexican Army; our deepest condolences to the family of the brave soldier who lost his life in this action."

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Riverside Sheriff Deputy Caught Smuggling 100 Lbs of Fentanyl Sentenced to Time Served & Probation

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat

A former Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy has pleaded guilty to transporting over 100 pounds of fentanyl and been sentenced to probation in California. In September 2023, while off-duty, he was caught carrying more than 100 pounds of fentanyl on the 10-freeway near Calimesa, California. He resigned from the Sheriff's Department following his arrest.

"After a K9 alerted to the presence of narcotics within the vehicle, a search was conducted," sheriff's Capt. Rob Roggeveen said. "Located in the vehicle was (104) pounds of packaged fentanyl pills, or M30s. Also located in the vehicle was a loaded handgun."

Jorge Alberto Oceguera Rocha, now 26, was accused of smuggling fentanyl as a middleman for the Sinaloa Cartel. He would have been ensnared during a DEA and local Riverside police investigation into cartel trafficking in the eastern area of the county. 

Authorities said there was no indication he brought drugs into any of Riverside County's jails but transporting the narcotics for a larger organization.

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SpaceX Internet Starlink Confiscated In Aguaruto Penitentiary In Culiacan, Sinaloa. Prison Fight Led To Important Seizures

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

WRITTEN BY: DIANA CRUZ 

02/07/2025

Following a report of a fight at the Aguaruto Prison, weapons, satellite internet and cell phones were seized in a search

Culiacán, Sinaloa.– Following a report of a fight, a new search was carried out at the Aguaruto Penitentiary Center in Culiacán, where cell phones, radios, knives, screwdrivers, gram scales, satellite internet systems and modems, among other prohibited objects, were seized.

During the early hours of this Friday, February 7, 2025, the National Guard and the State Preventive Police carried out security actions outside provided by the Secretariat of National Defense.

It should be remembered that the persons deprived of liberty reported an alleged fight and armed subjects in module 5 of the Aguaruto prison. So far this information has not been confirmed by the authorities.

This was found in the Aguaruto Prison:

-A machete

-A short axe

-56 knives and razors

-9 spikes

-7 cutters

-10 scissors

-6 screwdrivers

-2 hammers

-2 gram scales

-2 doses of marijuana

-2 Starlink systems

-39 cell phones

-4 radios

-10 cell phone cards

-3 mobile broadband internet

-5 modems.

All of these prohibited objects were made available to the ministerial authority so that the relevant investigations can be carried out and responsibilities can be determined.

It should be noted that, according to the authorities, the actions in terms of prevention and security were carried out without incidents within the Aguaruto prison.

These works were carried out by personnel from the National Guard and the State Public Security Secretariat, through the State Preventive Police, with the support of the National Defense Secretariat, as well as the Navy Secretariat, the Attorney General's Office and the State Attorney General's Office.

Public Security urged citizens to responsibly use 911 to request help in any emergency and 089 to make anonymous complaints.

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

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