CDG:"El Orejón" leader of "los Ciclónes" captured

Lucio R. Borderland Beat using information from Reforma

The Coordination Group Tamaulipas said Friday members of the Ministry of Defense National arrested in Matamoros Angel Eduardo Prado Rodríguez, head of the Golfo Cartel in this border town and premier leader of CDG’s “Los Ciclones”.

Prado Rodríguez, "Ciclón 7 also known as El  Orejón, it was rated as one of 15 priority objectives of the strategy of Tamaulipas security.

The suspect was the sole objective on that list had not been detained since May 13, 2014.

His arrest was made in a raid shortly after six in the morning today.

He was transferred to the premises of the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City, and is expected to be presented later to the media.

BB Forum poster ComputerJa does an outstanding job following the complicated dynamics of CDG in Tamaulipas.   He weighed in with this:

Judging by the large number of federal agents and by the nature of the operation, I believe that Mexican authorities were planning this out for days and were very close to "Ciclón 7" probably all this week. Shootings began early in the morning on Friday in the Buena Vista and San Francisco (the former is where his legal residence was), and then it spread through other sectors of the city. He was captured around 6 a.m. when the Mexican military finally surrounded him.

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Members of Los Ciclones of CDG captured in Matamoros

Translated for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article by Otis B Fly-Wheel

Elements of the Tamaulipas Forces captured ten presumed operators of a criminal organization, they are believed to be sicarios (hitmen) from Los Ciclones of the Cartel Del Golfo.

Fernando Vazquez Mendoza and his accomplices, presumed sicarios of Los Ciclones of Matamoros.

The Group for Coordination in Tamaulipas also confirmed the capture of five guns, nine vehicles, 50 magazines, 663 cartridges, two communication devices and 10 tire puncturing spikes.

The detained are: Fernando Vazquez Mendoza, who declared himself to be a commander of sicarios that has control of over a 100 delinquents. Julio Cesar Martinez Peirania, who has five safe houses where kidnapping victims are hidden, one of the detained is alleged to be a family member of "El Gafe", one of the heads of Los Metros.

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