José Ángel del Villar, Producer and CEO of the record label Del Entertainment, was sentenced in the United States to 4 years in prison for doing business with a Mexican concert promoter with ties to the CJNG.
Ángel del Villar, who was also singer Gerardo Ortiz's former manager, violated the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, for which he was also fined $2 million.
After the trial ended last March, which included Gerardo Ortiz's testimony about having been deceived by Del Villar, he was found guilty of doing business with Jesús Pérez Alvear's Gallística Diamante company. This was after the company and Alvear was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for facilitating money laundering for the CJNG and its financial arm, Los Cuinis.
Dimitrov Mirchev, a prolific arms trafficker from Bulgaria, who once supplied weapons to Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, is said to be the head of a weapons trafficking network that supplied the CJNG military-grade using falsified documents in Africa.
The group also met with cartel members in Europe and Africa to conspire to provide the CJNG with machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, night vision equipment, sniper rifles, anti-personnel mines, and anti-aircraft weapons.
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled the indictment against four foreigners, led by one from Bulgaria and three from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, accused of drug trafficking and providing military weapons to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
Treasury Targets Terrorism and Timeshare Fraud in Mexico
Scams Targeting U.S. Victims Produce Significant Revenue for CJNG
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican individuals and 13 Mexican companies linked to timeshare fraud led by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). These individuals and companies are based in or near Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination that also serves as a strategic stronghold for CJNG. A brutally violent cartel, CJNG is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that is increasingly supplementing its drug trafficking proceeds with alternative revenue streams such as timeshare fraud and fuel theft.
“We are coming for terrorist drug cartels like Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion that are flooding our country with fentanyl,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “These cartels continue to create new ways to generate revenue to fuel their terrorist operations. At President Trump’s direction, we will continue our effort to completely eradicate the cartels’ ability to generate revenue, including their efforts to prey on elderly Americans through timeshare fraud.”
Treasury has taken a series of actions targeting the diverse revenue streams benefitting the cartels, including fuel theft, human smuggling, extortion, and fraud. As Treasury and its partners seek to disrupt the cartels’ revenue streams, it is important to remind current owners of timeshares in Mexico: If an unsolicited purchase or rental offer seems too good to be true, it probably is. Those considering the purchase of a timeshare in Mexico should conduct appropriate due diligence.
Today’s action was taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14059, which targets the proliferation of illicit drugs and their means of production, and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, which targets terrorists and their supporters. Today’s action was also taken in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Government of Mexico’s financial intelligence unit, the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF).
CJNG: VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF PROFIT
CJNG is considered one of the most powerful cartels in the world. It has conducted intimidating acts of violence, including attacks on the Mexican military and police with military-grade weaponry, the use of drones to drop explosives on Mexican law enforcement, and assassinations and attempted assassinations of Mexican officials. CJNG has also executed its own recruits who defy orders. All of this is perpetrated in furtherance of CJNG’s relentless pursuit of illicit proceeds. In addition to drug trafficking, the group’s core source of revenue, CJNG is also generating alternative revenue streams through fuel theft, extortion, and timeshare fraud, among other activities.
On April 8, 2015, OFAC designated CJNG pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. On December 15, 2021, OFAC also designated CJNG pursuant to E.O. 14059. On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of State designated CJNG as an FTO and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
PARADISE LOST: TIMESHARE FRAUD IN MEXICO
Mexico-based cartels have been targeting U.S. owners of timeshares through call centers in Mexico staffed by telemarketers fluent in English. Beginning in about 2012, CJNG took control of timeshare fraud schemes in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, and the surrounding area. These complex scams often target older Americans who can lose their life savings. The lifecycle of these scams can last years, resulting in financial and emotional devastation of the victims while enriching cartels like CJNG.
The cartels generally obtain information about U.S. owners of timeshares in Mexico from complicit insiders at timeshare resorts. After obtaining information on timeshare owners, the cartels, through their call centers, contact victims by phone or email and claim to be U.S.-based third-party timeshare brokers, attorneys, or sales representatives in the timeshare, travel, real estate, or financial services industries. The fraud may include timeshare exit scams (a.k.a. timeshare resale scams), timeshare re-rent scams, and timeshare investment scams. The common theme is that victims are asked to pay advance “fees” and “taxes” before receiving money supposedly owed to them. This money never comes, and the victims are continuously told to pay additional “fees” and “taxes” to finalize the transactions. Victims are typically told to send these “fees” and “taxes” via international wire transfers to accounts held at Mexican banks and brokerage houses. After these initial scams, re-victimization scams can occur. The scammers may impersonate law firms, claiming that they can initiate proceedings on behalf of the victims to recover lost funds for an upfront fee. In other instances, scammers impersonate government officials, including OFAC, claiming that victims have engaged in suspicious transactions and demanding “fines” to release their funds or face the risk of imprisonment.
On July 16, 2024, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), OFAC, and the FBI issued a joint Notice on timeshare fraud associated with Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), including in Spanish, to provide financial institutions with an overview of these schemes, associated financial typologies, and red flag indicators. In the six-month period following this Notice, FinCEN received over 250 Suspicious Activity Reports, and filers reported approximately 1,300 transactions totaling $23.1 million, sent primarily from U.S.-based individuals to counterparties in Mexico. Based on FinCEN’s analysis, U.S. fraud victims sent an average of $28,912 and a median amount of $10,000 per transaction to the suspected scammers potentially working for Mexico-based TCOs.
According to the FBI, approximately 6,000 U.S. victims reported losing nearly $300 million between 2019 and 2023 to timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico. In 2024 alone, FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly 900 complaints concerning timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico with reported losses of over $50 million. However, these figures likely underestimate total losses, as the FBI believes the vast majority of victims do not report the scam due to embarrassment, among other reasons. On its website, the FBI has included a timeshare fraud resource page, and FBI’s New York Field Office has posted a public service announcement video featuring a victim of timeshare fraud. Victims of timeshare fraud are encouraged to file a complaint with the FBI’s IC3 by visiting https://www.ic3.gov. For elder victims, financial institutions may also refer their customers to the Department of Justice’s National Elder Fraud Hotline at 833-FRAUD-11 (or 833-372-8311).
TARGETING TIMESHARE FRAUD
Montero
Today’s action marks the fifth time OFAC has sanctioned those linked, directly or indirectly, to CJNG’s timeshare fraud activities, resulting in the designation of over 70 individuals and entities to date. The previous actions occurred on March 2, 2023, April 27, 2023, November 30, 2023, and July 16, 2024.
Rivera
The three senior CJNG members most involved in timeshare fraud are Julio Cesar Montero Pinzon (Montero), Carlos Andres Rivera Varela (Rivera), and Francisco Javier Gudino Haro (Gudino). These three individuals have also been part of a CJNG enforcement group based in Puerto Vallarta that orchestrates assassinations of rivals and politicians using high-powered weaponry.
Gudino
On June 2, 2022, OFAC designated Montero pursuant to E.O. 14059. Today, Montero is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
On April 6, 2021, OFAC designated Rivera and Gudino pursuant to the Kingpin Act. Today, Rivera and Gudino are being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
Ibarra
The other individual sanctioned today is Puerto Vallarta native Michael Ibarra Diaz Jr. (Ibarra). An ostensibly legitimate businessman involved in the tourism industry, Ibarra is engaged in timeshare fraud on behalf of CJNG. For over 20 years, Ibarra has been involved in the sale and management of timeshares in the Puerto Vallarta area, including just north in the state of Nayarit. Ibarra was trained as an accountant, which is consistent with CJNG’s use of professionals to conduct this complicated and highly lucrative scheme. Ibarra is being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
Also sanctioned today is Ibarra’s corporate network, which is composed of 13 companies. Five of the companies—Akali Realtors, Centro Mediador De La Costa, S.A. de C.V., Corporativo Integral De La Costa, S.A. de C.V., Corporativo Costa Norte, S.A. de C.V., and Sunmex Travel, S. de R.L. De C.V.—explicitly acknowledge their involvement in the timeshare industry. Another company involved in timeshare-related transactions—TTR Go, S.A. de C.V.—claims only to be a travel agency. Three additional companies are purportedly engaged in real estate activities: Inmobiliaria Integral Del Puerto, S.A. de C.V., KVY Bucerias, S.A. de C.V., and Servicios Inmobiliarios Ibadi, S.A. de C.V. This diverse corporate network also includes tour operators (Fishing Are Us, S. De R.L. de C.V.; Santamaria Cruise, S. de R.L. de C.V.), an automotive service company (Laminado Profesional Automotriz Elte, S.A. de C.V.), and an accounting firm (Consultorias Profesionales Almida, S.A. de C.V.). These 13 companies are being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Ibarra.
SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked persons described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of blocked persons.
Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons. OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations on a strict liability basis. OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions. In addition, financial institutions and other persons may risk exposure to sanctions for engaging in certain transactions or activities involving designated or otherwise blocked persons. The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any designated or blocked person, or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Furthermore, engaging in certain transactions involving the persons designated today may risk the imposition of secondary sanctions on participating foreign financial institutions. OFAC can prohibit or impose strict conditions on opening or maintaining, in the United States, a correspondent account or a payable-through account of a foreign financial institution that knowingly conducts or facilitates any significant transaction on behalf of a person who is designated pursuant to the relevant authority.
The power and integrity of OFAC sanctions derive not only from OFAC’s ability to designate and add persons to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), but also from its willingness to remove persons from the SDN List consistent with the law. The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior. For information concerning the process for seeking removal from an OFAC list, including the SDN List, or to submit a request, please refer to OFAC’s guidance on Filing a Petition for Removal from an OFAC List.
If the history of crime has taught us anything, it's that when one head is cut off, others rise to replace it.
However, what no one expected, in the case of Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel, is that after being killed in the midst of Felipe Calderón's war on drugs, a much more ambitious and violent group would emerge: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
With such an elusive figure as Ignacio Coronel, there is no certainty even about his birthplace.
Some say he was born on February 1, 1954, in Canelas, Durango, while an FBI report—dated April 17, 2003—indicated he was originally from Veracruz.
The drug lord began as the "godmother" of the commander of the Federal Judicial Police, José Luis Fuentes Jiménez, in Baja California, but soon joined Amado Carrillo Fuentes' group.
Coronel arrived in Guadalajara in the early 1990s on orders from the "Lord of the Skies." He was in the city with his brother Magdaleno Coronel Villarreal, "El Leno," who was the plaza boss.
However, along with his nephew Raymundo Carrasco Coronel, Magdaleno died in Zapopan on June 3, 1993, in a shootout with soldiers. It was then that the natural successor to protect Guadalajara's territory from other groups was Nacho Coronel.
The death of Amado Carrillo during plastic surgery in 1997, as well as the fall of General Gutiérrez Rebollo, led the drug lord to join forces with the Sinaloa Cartel, placing him under the command of Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo.
A skilled drug trafficker, Nacho Coronel expanded his range of activities: in addition to cocaine, he trafficked methamphetamines and had dozens of clandestine laboratories throughout the country, allowing him to control more than 50 percent of synthetic drug production, according to the DEA.
He also negotiated with the Valencia brothers of the Milenio Cartel to conduct joint drug trafficking operations to the United States, effectively distancing Guadalajara from the drug-related violence that already plagued the rest of the country.
Despite everything, on the afternoon of July 29, 2010, the drug lord was killed by the Army in an operation carried out at his mansion in Colinas de San Javier.
CJNG PREVAILS
After the fall of Nacho Coronel, the Milenio Cartel suffered a split between La Resistencia and the CJNG. After three years of homicides, massacres, and bodies hanging from bridges, the latter group, led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," prevailed.
The CJNG would employ the same terror tactics to achieve impressive expansion in a short period of time.
For example, in 2015, the DEA identified Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and parts of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and Chiapas as the cartel's areas of influence.
By 2025, the landscape had changed completely. Today, the CJNG has a strong presence in virtually all states of Mexico, according to DEA information.
Likewise, unlike the business model of Nacho Coronel, "El Mencho" seeks to appropriate as much as he can.
The former focused on drug trafficking, primarily synthetic drugs.
Now, CJNG leaders have expanded their businesses to include extortion, fraud, illegal logging, arms trafficking, and heavy cargo theft, among many other crimes.
This, however, has come at an enormous cost in bloodshed.
Speaking only of the Jalisco case, the battles the CJNG has waged against other criminal groups have left a trail of violence and destruction.
There are also countless cases of innocent victims who have lost their lives due to the boundless ambition of "El Mencho" and his accomplices, as well as due to the inaction (and in some cases, complicity) of authorities at all three levels of government.
As a consequence and reflection of this, there have been cases such as the murder of young people working in call centers, the CAAV film students mistaken for criminals, the execution of the González Moreno brothers, and the recruitment center at Rancho Izaguirre. All of this is compounded by the problem of disappearances that keeps Jalisco in first place nationwide.
Over the years, the CJNG has only spread its tentacles, not only in Jalisco but also around the world. And, so far, it remains unclear who or how they can stop it.
AGGRESSIVE EXPANSION
Ten years ago, the CJNG barely controlled Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and parts of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Veracruz. It now operates nationwide.
Some of the businesses the cartel has entered into:
Drug trafficking
Human trafficking
Criminal call centers
Huachicoleo
Timeshare fraud
Extortion
Money laundering involving currency exchange centers, real estate, and restaurants
Arms trafficking
Slot machines
Mineral theft
Heavy cargo theft
Illegal logging
These are the preliminary investigations and homicide files:
2009: 570 Arrest of Óscar Orlando Nava, "El Lobo," Valencia.
2010: 888 Deaths of Nacho Coronel.
2011: 1,222 deaths, War between La Resistencia and CJNG.
2012: 1,184
2013: 1,099 deaths. The CJNG prevails and begins expansion.
2014: 907
2015: 957
2016: 1,105. Violence intensifies in the Los Altos region.
2017: 1,342 Carlos Enrique Sánchez Martínez, "El Cholo," forms the Nueva Plaza Cartel.
2018: 1,960
2019: 2,017
2020: 1,754
2021: 1,816 War between CJNG and CNP ends after death of "El Cholo."
An important Chinese money launderer linked to both the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, escaped from his house arrest in Mexico City on the same day that a US Federal Court ordered a new arrest warrant against him for money laundering.
Zhi Dong Zhang, a Chinese national known by multiple aliases (including Brother Wang, BW, Pancho, and Chino), was under house arrest in a building in the Lomas de Padierna neighborhood of Tlalpan, CDMX.
It was there that he escaped through a tunnel on July 11.
The Jalisco Cartel New Generation's armed wings, including Grupo Delta, Fuerzas Especiales Mencho, Los Guerrero, and Los Viagras Cartel (which has formed an alliance with the CJNG Cartel), have continued their attacks on El Abuelo Farias or Cartel de Tepalcatec territories.
Moreover, for almost two weeks straight now, violent incidents have occured in Michoacan, the attacks led by the CJNG Cartel-Los Viagras Cartel in territory controlled by El Abuelo Farias and allies. This Friday night, August 1, 2025, CJNG Cartel made an incursion into Querendaro, Michoacan, in which they targeted the house of the mayoress of Querendaro. The house was vandalized, set on fire by the armed group, and two vehicles with a 'CJNG' sticker were left behind by the assailants.
CJNG ATTACKS QUERENDARO MAYORESS' HOME
The two videos uploaded were published by the 'ZULU' telegram channel on August 1, 2025.
"Last night, CJNG hitmen raided the home of the mayor of Queréndaro.
During their escape, they left two vehicles abandoned on the outskirts of Queréndaro, one of which was set on fire."
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel in La Chona, Jalisco, captured two home robbers who were interrogated, hit with a wooden paddle, and forced to fight each other. The armed wing of the CJNG Cartel involved in the interrogation video is Los Guerreros, led by the brothers Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias, "El 08," and Javier Guerrero Covarrubias, "Javito."
COLOMBIAN VOICE
No need to translate the following video, the two home robbers are humiliated by the CJNG Cartel, and in one of the videos, there is a clear Colombian accent. The Los Guerreros criminal cell is known to recruit Colombians to their ranks.
On Saturday, July 19, 2025, CJNG Cartel resumed its attacks against El Abuelo Farias/ Poncho La Quiringua/ El Guicho de Los Reyes/ and Los Caballeros Templarios. Simultaneously, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation armed wings, Fuerzas Especiales Mencho/ Grupo Delta, and Los Viagras Cartel (allies of CJNG) initiated an offensive attack on various flanks. The attacks of the CJNG Cartel occured in Tepalcatepec, banners were found in Los Reyes, and clashes occurred in Apatzingan.
On Tuesday, July 23, 2025, a video surfaced of alleged townspeople in Michoacán supporting the recent attacks by the CJNG Cartel against its rivals.
VIDEO TRANSLATION
BY: SOL PRENDIDO
Good evening to all the Michoacán citizens, federal government, and the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense. The day of a social uprising is very near. As citizens, we will protect our families and stop the murders of innocent, hardworking people committed by Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías.
We say to the government, that if you are going to continue supporting the insults and abuses committed by these extortionists, the people will no longer allow it. Let them wage their war with other cartels. It's not fair that we, the people, have to pay for this.
Their extortion and fee collection business is lucrative. But now, they’re trying to recruit our wives and daughters to form so-called self-defense groups. Open your eyes: these self-defense groups are hitmen under the command of Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías. It's unjust to see them mess with the lives of people and hard working citizens.
We're fed up with their persecutions, the government's abuses, and their lies. The only thing they’ve ever given us was lots of empty promises. If Michoacán and Mexico need another revolution, it will be born here in Michoacán. The state of Michoacán will no longer live under the injustices of the government and the murders of the so-called self-defense groups.
As for you, Abuelo Farías, we all know that the government supports you with the weekly percentages you give them. Wicho and Poncho, we Michoacanos know that you are supported by the mayors of Los Reyes, Tingüindín, Tocimbo, and Cotija.
They’re the ones that allow them to have those scumbag public security directors who lend themselves to the disappearances of citizens and many other things. Let it be clear, government, this is our last warning. Expect us very soon.
Federal authorities arrested Ulises "N," alias "El 88" or "El Pinto," in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, the alleged leader of a violent criminal group in the state of Tabasco.
Members of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, the Secretariat of the Navy, in coordination with the Secretariat of National Defense and the Attorney General's Office, conducted investigative and intelligence work that led to the location of Ulises "N" in Tlajomulco.
Through collaborative work, his mobility and shelter areas were identified at different points in the state.
To capture him, fixed, mobile, and discreet surveillance was implemented, supported by technological tools, which allowed the vehicles and properties used by the alleged member of La Barredora to be identified.
Patrols were conducted in the Los Gavilanes neighborhood of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, where Ulises "N" was located. He was accompanied by another individual acting as an escort, and they were stopped.
Upon reviewing his information, his identity was confirmed, and federal agents served an arrest warrant for him for the crime of aggravated criminal association.
Both were subsequently transferred to Guadalajara International Airport for onward transfer to Mexico City to be brought before the Attorney General's Office.
Ulises is considered by federal authorities to be second-in-command of the "La Barredora" group, supported by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
He is also accused of being a former member of the Security Force, where he allegedly met the former Secretary of Security of Tabasco, Hernán Bermúdez, whose security guard he also allegedly served as.
OMAR GARCIA HARFUCH CONFIRMS THE CAPTURE OF ULISES "EL PINTO" OR "88."
" Through collaborative work, his mobility and shelter areas were identified at different points in the state.
To capture him, fixed, mobile, and discreet surveillance was implemented, supported by technological tools, which allowed the vehicles and properties used by the alleged member of La Barredora to be identified.
Patrols were conducted in the Los Gavilanes neighborhood of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, where Ulises "N" was located. He was accompanied by another individual acting as an escort, and they were stopped.
Upon reviewing his information, his identity was confirmed, and federal agents served an arrest warrant for him for the crime of aggravated criminal association.
Both were subsequently transferred to Guadalajara International Airport for onward transfer to Mexico City to be brought before the Attorney General's Office.
Ulises is considered by federal authorities to be second-in-command of the "La Barredora" group, supported by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
He is also accused of being a former member of the Security Force, where he allegedly met the former Secretary of Security of Tabasco, Hernán Bermúdez, whose security guard he also allegedly served as."
The morning of this Saturday, July 19, 2025, Michoacan woke up to Jalisco Cartel New Generation attacks against longtime rivals, El Abuelo Farias, Poncho La Quiringua, El Guicho De Los Reyes, and Maniaco.
LOS REYES, MICHOACAN BANNERS SIGNED BY CJNG
Several banners were hung in Los Reyes, Michoacan, in which CJNG claimed responsibility. The banners were found early Saturday, July 19, 2025, on the roads leading to Los Reyes, Tinguindin, and Tocumbo, according to Monitor Expresso.
BANNERS READ
TOWN OF LOS REYES
WE ARE HERE. THE CLEANSING OF DIRTBAGS HAS BEGUN, INCLUDING GOVERNMENT THAT SUPPORTS, GUICHO, PONCHO, MANIACO, VENADA, SOMBRA, MASCARITA, ARLEQUIN, YOUR BUSINESS OF EXTORTION HAS FINISHED AGAINST AVOCADO GROWERS, MOREROS, LIMON GROWERS, AND THE FACTORIES. PRESIDENT HUMBERTO JIMENEZ SOLIS, YOU ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOUR TOWN, NOT TO SUPPORT THOSE DIRTBAGS, COMMISIONARY JUAN SEBASTIAN MANZO.....
TEPALCATEPEC AND APATZINGAN SHOOTOUTS
CJNG Cartel attacked the limits of Tepalcatepec yet again, this past Friday afternoon, and shootouts were also reported this Saturday in Apatzingan, Michoacan.
The Zulu Telegram channel reported that clashes between CJNG and its rivals took place in the small town of Cholula, located in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, on Friday, July 18, 2025.
Zulu Telegram channel reported that CJNG Cartel clashes against rivals reignited this Saturday morning in Cholula and Olivos, located in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan.
Members of the Mexican Army and the National Guard carried out a major operational deployment by land and air in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, in the Altos Norte region.
The members arrived around 12:00 p.m. this Tuesday at a home on Flores Magón Street, in the San Miguel neighborhood, near the Paso de las Ovejas neighborhood. They closed off vehicle and pedestrian access.
According to residents, the officers arrived at a home where drugs were allegedly being sold.
From inside, they brought out seven men with their shirts covering their faces, who were allegedly detained.
While the ground operation was underway, a black helicopter belonging to the federation flew overhead, astonishing residents.
The results of this operation, which astonished residents of this El Alto town, have not yet been released.
They will also have to pay 1.3 million pesos to repair the damage.
Román Ortega
The 10 people arrested on September 18, 2024, at the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán were each sentenced to 141 years and three months in prison after being found criminally responsible for the crimes of disappearance committed by private individuals, aggravated disappearance committed by private individuals, and aggravated homicide, against three victims.
The State Attorney General's Office reported that they are Lennin "N"—or Kevin "N"—David "N", Gustavo "N", Christopher "N", Juan "N", Óscar "N", Erick "N", Luis "N", Ricardo "N", and Armando "N", who, in addition to their prison sentences, must pay almost 1.3 million pesos in reparation for damages.
On September 18 of last year, National Guard officers responded to the Izaguirre ranch to respond to several reports of gunshots. Upon arrival, they were greeted with gunfire, so they repelled the attack.
After several minutes of gunfire, federal agents brought the situation under control and arrested 10 individuals at the scene. They also rescued two people alive and found a body wrapped in plastic bags.
The 10 individuals face at least six other criminal charges for the crime of disappearance committed by private individuals against different victims.
In March of this year, members of the Jalisco Searchers Warriors collective found thousands of items of clothing at the Izaguirre ranch, which, according to investigations by the Attorney General's Office, was used as a training camp for the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Also sanctioned today is Ibarra’s corporate network, which is composed of 13 companies. Five of the companies—
Three additional companies are purportedly engaged in real estate activities: 
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