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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

50 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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  13. They rely on extortion and not trafficking to survive hence why they can expand so easily .. they just show up and demand protection money in hopes that while they’re there they can establish routes . History repeats itself in Zacatecas constantly, CJNG shows up looking for strong black niggers they run the extortion racket for a few months then they get squashed by Los flechas and back to Jalisco they get pushed . Same story for the last 6 or 7 years .. not cheerleading for anyone here homie, just stating the nigger facts. Don’t believe me? Just do your research on black niggers going in El Zacate for years now, my family is from Jerez and Fresnillo and we don’t get a dime from either bitch ass nigger cartel. We just want to be able to party and live in peace. Fuck them both.

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    1. We dont care coming from a "Black azz nigger." LOL you sound like a red neck cracker or lowlife spic. *Giggles*

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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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  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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  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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