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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Los Chapitos Financial Operator "El Tío" Captured in Mazatlan, Sinaloa

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat


Mexican federal forces captured Ricardo Ozuna Tirado, alias “El Tío,” a key financial operator and leader of a Los Chapitos cell, during an operation in the upscale El Cid subdivision of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, on Saturday, July 25, 2026.

The operation was carried out by the Mexican Navy (SEMAR), working with the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). Two luxury properties were raided, netting six arrests, including the 49-year-old El Tío. Mexican media reports El Tío was wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.



In addition to the arrests, authorities seized two firearms, magazines, ammunition, $100,000 in cash, cell phones, computers, and two high-end vehicles.

According to Mexican authorities, El Tío is a principal leader and financial operator of a criminal cell aligned with Los Chapitos, the faction led by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, that operates in the municipality of La Cruz de Elota in southern Sinaloa. 

Sources: Debate, Luz Noticias

76 comments:

  1. They look like narcos. Dummies driving "high end vehicles." Their neighbors gave them up. They won't be going to El Castillo/El Cereso Mazatlan though. It's Altiplano for them and then extradition. Bye

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    1. Nosy old ladies neighbors

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    2. They wer captured in an upscale neighborhood so beacsue they drive luxury vehicles doesn't mean they are part of a cartel..smdh

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  2. Major blow to the chapizzzaa

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    1. Not really, no period nino.

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    2. These are most likely nobodies, they took one for the team so the real jefes escape

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  3. El apa and el serio leading the charge in zacatecas in this epic battle for the state . I predict they will have taken all of Zacatecas state by October. Everyday the arrows mayonnaise is getting inhalated . Wow i aarows woukd have been wiped cjng of the zacatecas map

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    1. That's Koo foo

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    2. @101: Hah..! A malfunctioning Narco-Bot..!

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    3. Ricardo Monreal's Zetas left a big hole in Zacatecas when they killed el lazca (z3) and z50 El Taliban got kicked out of the state, somebody had to fill it, CJNG, all the way to Veracruz, Nuevo Lion and with MC, "Movimiento Ciudadano" back to jalisko with enrique alfaro, no wonder they are getting an ass kicking for the ages.

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  4. How many people are they going to arrest. It's a joke. Nothing changed

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    1. It's only getting worse and these 10,000 additional troops in Mazatlán, closing the Cerritos military checkpoint bc the government doesn't want to pay for it as they should, no mayor who was a useless glorified OnlyFans girl posting photos of herself, and no governor, the joke of Sinaloa and their security is just compounding by the minute.

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  5. I fucking love you Sol, the best in BB.

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    1. 2:22 te van a dar un apretón de narices con las nalgas, pinchi besa culos.

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  6. Ivan has to hold on to Mazatlan or it's not going to be good

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    1. You really have to admit your lost cause talking about good. I don't quite see how Mazatlan is strategic unless it's about paste coming ashore and powder factories. Otherwise, it just seems like a conference center for organized criminals, which could be anywhere. They could just as easily be on Cozumel.

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    2. 632am Mazatlan is a strategic point because of the tourist economics and retail drug sales not to mention the port alot of money to be made .. it it also about exporting from the mazatlan port to china ..used metals ,, seafood,, logging .. stolen cars

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    3. It's the port....they lost culiacan....they have to hold Mazatlan

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    4. Mazatlán is already useless. The foreign tourists who bring in actual money are gone, businesses closing faster than anyone can keep up with, the whole appeal of the town as a tropical beach paradise replaced with huge cement buildings destroying the ecosystem completely has made it Acapopo 2.0. I don't see Mazatlán ever coming back from what greed has done to the city. All these new high rises will remain 90% vacant and breaking down with no one willing to do the repairs when they are only used for maybe four weeks out of the year. Mazatlán is finished and will never bounce back to the pre-2000 glory days.

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  7. El Tio is a bigger fish than people realize.

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  8. Conor babe I miss you so much. Why don't you come by and drop me a line? Drop it like it's hot 🔥.

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    1. 440 ey bitch u better go find yourself your own man. Connor and his huge man meat pole is all mine mio mio mio mio! Stop calling him babe

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    2. 941AM Shut UP NUffy

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    3. I am Connors lil carnal and i have a nice man pckaGe as well i PLeasure a lot of Caucasian women with my firme Power STRoke eseeeee im a lober not a pelionero

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    4. 12:36 and then your mom wakes you up puñetiando.

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    5. 4:45 who hasn't been caught by his mommy half way through?

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  9. The more spanish speakers on here the worse it is going,we can all see it..BB goes down these rats will go to the next site where you can comment anonymously

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    1. The founder of BB permitted since the beginning comments written in español. It's about México. Start your own shit and quit whining.

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    2. 444pm callese alv joto barato pocho

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    3. 4:44
      I regret to inform you, BB has been a welcomed bilingual site. Use Google translate, instead of whining like my old Gramps.

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    4. 4:44 even gets up on a chair to better see us...
      "Hasta se sube en una silla para vernos mejor"
      like Little Red Riding Ho's Granny

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    5. Who is da founder...Otis Flywheel or Buggsly Malone?

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    6. 4:44 Glad your lack of spanish language skills helps keep our secrets to ourselves right in front of your ass.

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    7. 4:44 there are more chances that you "come down" than BB

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    8. I agree, Spanish is terrible. No more Spanish here, in fact no Mexico at all.

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  10. 03 cjng he is a cutie wow mexican men are so hot !!!! Divorced asian woman here 👋

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  11. Wendy Dalaithy Amaral Arevalo, 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday to deliberately violating sanctions for the Drug Enforcement Agency Designation Act (Kingpin Law).
    The Mexican citizen is identified as a former wife and current partner of Gerardo González Valencia, a leader of the drug trafficking organization Los Cuinis, which maintains close ties with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
    According to court documents, Amaral Arévalo conducted financial transactions with IMG Academy, a high school and sports training center located in Bradenton, Florida, to fund his son’s education. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had sanctioned her on August 19, 2015 for collaborating with Los Cuinis drug trafficking activities.
    Although this designation prohibited her from carrying out operations within the U.S. financial system, the defendant signed contracts and managed the payment of school tuition for a total of 504 thousand 497 dollars. According to the Justice Department, these funds came from drug trafficking-related activities.
    For its part, the educational institution IMG Academy reached an agreement of 1.72 million dollars with OFAC in February 2026 after having processed the payments and concluded tuition contracts with people sanctioned for their links with Mexican cartels.

    Gerardo González Valencia, couple of Amaral Arévalo, had already been sentenced to life in prison in July 2023 for conspiracy to distribute cocaine for import purposes to the United States.

    Following his guilty plea, Wendy Dalaithy Amaral Arévalo faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 10 million dollars. The ruling of his sentence is scheduled for December 2. The case was investigated by the DEA Bilateral Investigations Unit in Los Angeles as part of the National Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative.

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    1. Thanks incarcerated Rambler.

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    2. 7:21 wrong, that is the Intern trying to be a reporter...
      The Incarcerated Rambler brings a lot of heavier data, but older, with lots of references.
      Thanks to both.

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    3. $504 000.00 dollars for 1 or 4 years high school sounds like too expensive, in fucking florida too, must be all about money laundering, worth the almost 2 billion dollar fine.

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    4. 9:40 jarsmf?
      Can dinero bailan los perros y sin dinero te bailan! 100 melones por maseta.

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    5. 9:40 Intern, pick a name, make it worth your while and put an end to the speculation, your fans are suffering too much.

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  12. Mexico is straight up trash, bro. What a complete mess

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    1. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of white Americans visit Mexico every year on vacation.
      You talk shit that you are fed.

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    2. No period, did you want a free course in English class?

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    3. Millions of tourists

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    4. Bro? Sounds more like are the trash. More them 98 million tourists went to Mexico in 2025 vs 79 million went to the USA.

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    5. 10:26 if you wanna see a real mess, look into your panties.

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    6. 10:26 for a Real Mess, just look at the US Debt, 40 trillion dollars and NOTHING to show for it, 30 trillion of it due to trump's fuckonomics, but we were warned, everything trompff touches turns to shit.

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    7. Cheap ass americans visiting a shithole. Only a clueless idiot wld visit mexico

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    8. 4:27 serás pendejo pinchi bato, the truth is there is no food like mexican food, even one tortilla con sal beats US hamberders, and the air and the water are much cleaner than US Recycled sewer waters, that why soo many white güeros chose to live in Mexico, buy houses, invest, marry mexican, spend a lot pf PEISOS while other TACOS want to rob and steal anything they can carry in their purses.

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  13. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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    1. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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    2. Could've swore your family descended from American South and Africa after all "dem n-bombs"

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    3. 251am callese alv joto barato

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    4. Some mexican "universities" have been hiring tall black Blacksketball players for their teams since the 70s, reckon more than a few got inducted into the cocaine and grifa drug using and trafficking, there was also a fluorishing of new bars and cantinas all over Mexico.

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    5. Stole someone’s comment from a different article, peppered it with N-bombs, then went back to their swing shift job stacking pallets.

      Bravo

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    6. Right to Truth movements getting off the ground all over the world, bot farm cowpies going to get exhibited more and more for the desinformación they promote from their lying, thieving millionaire godfathers.
      Of course, they are choking with angst for the injustice cutting short their crap, scientifically proven to be nothing but crap.

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    7. Loret de Moolah, head of bot disinformation and the likes of him fellow seal clappers are protesting the injustices of exhibiting their bullshit in the mañaneras and all over the place, they believe freedom of expression consists of inclusion of fake news and propaganda even if paid by foreign stupid cocksuckers and enemies of the state like juan orlando, bukele, bolsonaros, milei, de la spirella, all new wave drug traffickers bent on recovering all the business for themselves and trompff.

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    8. 2:19 this year, trompff gets hog tied, and involved in all kinds of shit defending his pinchis mamadas, and at his age it gets deadlier and deadlier, democrats are winning too many elections all over the US and they growing greedier and greedier all the time, motherfucker must be bleeding in his pampers.

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  14. No one gives a fuck about the cds war. Lets move on.

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    1. 6:53 100 comments posted on every report say we are doing something good somewhere.

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    2. 6:53 we could turn this joint into a Fashion Nalgazine, after all they post fotos too.
      Send your hairy ass fotos.

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    3. Fuck sinaloa and cds who gives a fuck if the whole state of snitches burns. No one. And if you dont like my comment motherfuck you too. Bitch.

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    4. Crazy how Sinaloa lives in your head rent free 4:25am real people don’t care what state someone comes from we are all raza

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  15. No one cares honestly we’ve all known the chapos are done they have been for a while now the CDS civil war is just a lost cause taking up time, and innocent lives we know MF and Isidro are the main guys now and that’s cool hopefully they keep it peaceful. Can the government just arrest Ivan already or something it’s so pointless to keep fighting for them or with them. CJNG will be around for some time from the looks of it. A cartel family has fallen it’s not the firs or last a family like the chapos falls apart it’s time to just move on already idk who in the government supports them still but there’s just no reason too

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    1. 10:09 we need the coordenadas for el chapo isidro to fuck him up for good, he could be hiding in one of Manlio Fabio Beltrones properties, Don Beltrone has been around too long too and likes to own casinos and shit, like jorge hank rohn in tijuas,

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  16. Related to Mando 18?

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    1. 3:49 is a COCKSOCKET.
      wahyya gonna do, 100 million mexican US citizens living in the US, and 50 million illegal immigrants most probably with US Citizen papers registered to vote democrat by mail in two or three states...
      Be nice motherfucker, before you get one big hot pepper up the ass

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    2. 9:29
      Threaten me with a good time?
      Struck a nerve eh?
      You sound like a little bitch and I’ll certainly treat you like one.

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    3. 11:16 thanks for acknowledging that you are a COCKSOCKET, and good for nothing else.
      Only you would have a good time with a big hot pepper up the ass.

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    4. why cant you fruitcakes just get along with each other?😺

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