Regional Leader of Carteles Unidos Allegedly Captured in Los Reyes, Michoacan

 "Enojon" for Borderland Beat 

(Photograph of Wiliam Alvarez ‘El Maniaco') 

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FOLLOW-UP: None of the seven bodies from the plane that crashed in Quitupan have been identified, nor have they been handed over to their families: Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by EL OCCIDENTAL 

The State Prosecutor's Office indicated that no one has come forward to claim the bodies.

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Elizabeth Ibal

More than 24 hours after the crash of an aircraft in the municipality of Quitupan, none of the bodies have been delivered to their relatives, according to sources from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences.

The bodies were taken to the regional forensic headquarters around noon on Monday, and later processing began to obtain genetic samples for identification.

Until Monday night, the bodies were not yet delivered to their relatives, however, through social networks, some possible names of the crew members of the Cessna 207 light aircraft, registration number XB-MLO, began to circulate.

One of the deceased was pre-identified as Juan de Dios Frías Villalobos, son of the former municipal president of Tepalcatepec, Uriel Frías, and nephew of Juan José “El Abuelo” Farías.

Some other names of the possible identities of the rest of the victims have been circulated through social networks, however they have not been confirmed by any authority.

On Sunday afternoon, the aircraft crashed in the town of Palo Verde, in the municipality of Quitupan.

According to the State Civil Protection Unit of Jalisco, the plane left the town of La Parota, in Huetamo, Michoacan, but later suffered an accident and fell in a property in the municipality of Jalisco.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL 

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Reward Increased Up to $15 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Cartel Leader. CJNG Cartel Leader And Founder Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes Reward Increased From $10 Million To $15 Million***

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

DECEMBER 4, 2024 

Today, the U.S. Department of State is announcing a reward offer increase under the Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP) of up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Mexican national Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho.”  Oseguera Cervantes is the co-founder and current leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a violent drug cartel in Mexico responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the United States.

Since 2017, Oseguera Cervantes has been indicted several times in the United States for drug trafficking.  Most recently, in April 2022, Oseguera was charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl for importation into the United States; and use of a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking crimes.  Oseguera is a fugitive.

Today’s reward increase is offered under the NRP, which supports law enforcement efforts to identify and bring to justice major violators of U.S. narcotics laws.  If you have information, please contact the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) via text or WhatsApp at +1-213-237-9990 or by email at MENCHOTIPS@dea.gov.  The DEA also seeks tips for other CJNG leaders, Audias Flores-Silva and Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, both of whom have Department of State reward offers of up to $5 million for their arrest and/or conviction.

ALL IDENTITIES ARE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.  Government officials and employees are not eligible for rewards.

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Navy Secures Approximately 1.7 Tons Of Suspected Cocaine Hydrochloride Off Michoacan Coast

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by the Secretariat Mexican Of the Navy 

PRESS RELEASE NO.: 122/2024.

Secretaría de Marina | September 19, 2024 | National

Navy secures approximately 1.7 tons of suspected cocaine hydrochloride off the coast of Michoacan

 

Mexico City, September 19, 2024. The Ministry of the Navy, through the Mexican Navy, reports that personnel attached to the Fourteenth Naval Zone, based in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, carried out the seizure of approximately 1.7 tons of suspected cocaine hydrochloride, in the adjacent coasts of the state of Michoacán.

This action was carried out during maritime surveillance patrols, when Mexican Navy personnel aboard an ocean patrol with the support of a Defender type vessel, found 74 packages floating in the sea, containing 1,480 brick-shaped packages inside, weighing approximately 1,745. 20 (one thousand seven hundred and forty-five point twenty) kilograms of the presumed illicit cargo, which was handed over to the competent authorities for the integration of the corresponding investigation folder. 

These actions are part of the maritime, air and land surveillance operations carried out by the Ministry of the Navy through the Mexican Navy in Mexican marine areas, in order to guarantee and maintain the rule of law at sea.

Mexican Navy

In the Sea, in the Air, on the Land

-ooOoo-

SOURCE: GOBIERNO DE MEXICO 

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Güicho De Los Reyes "R5" War Against El Delta Maximo Leader Of CJNG Armed Wing Grupo Deltas Continues: Michoacán

 "Char" and "Enojon" for Borderland Beat

July 30, 2024

The following video was uploaded by a social media account affiliated with Güicho De Los Reyes or R5 criminal group. The video was published on July 29, 2024, and a voice can be heard directing the hitmen to stay focused in the audio-recorded. This voice is none other than Luis Enrique Barragan Chavez "El Güicho De Los Reyes" or "R5". The heavy clash is between Güicho de Los Reyes against CJNG Cartel armed wing Grupo Deltas led by Maximo Delta or Delta Maximo former longtime bodyguard of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes "Mencho". 

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

GÜICHO DE LOS REYES: Maniaco give them all, with all you have!

Hitmen: inaudible 

GÜICHO DE LOS REYES: Hit the monsters .. Chino, Chino how are you?

Chino: I am good, I am good. Hell yeah!! I will hit those dogs!! 

Hitmen: inaudible 

Hitmen: Cmon, Cmon people we gotta keep hitting them! 

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8 Soldiers Injured After a Makeshift Mine Explodes in Apatzingán, Michoacan

"Enojon" For Borderland Beat

 

     

     Photograph Credit: Eco1_LVM on Twitter (Vehicle damaged in the incident)

 On June 19th, 2023, eight Mexican Military personnel were injured by a makeshift mine in Apatzingán, Michoacan. The soldiers were conducting patrols in La Bateas community when their vehicle entered a clandestine minefield and a buried mine detonated; they were later transported to the medical facilities of the 43rd Military Zone where four were labeled as “out of danger,” but, due to the severe extent of their injuries, three soldiers were transported by helicopter to a military hospital in Irapuato, Guanajuato.  

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National Guard Siezes 90 Homemade Explosives in Buenavista Tomatlán, Michoacán

"El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

The National Guard seized three stolen vehicles and 90 homemade explosives while patrolling near the municipality of Buenavista Tomatlán in the state of Michoacán, according to a press release from October 24, 2022.

Photos from Guardia Nacional press release.

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Guardia Nacional Seizes Illegally Chopped Wood In Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Michoacán

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

The Guardia Nacional located and seized about 100 illegally chopped logs in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, State of Michoacán, according to a press release on August 4. Illegal logging is becoming a major criminal market in Mexico, accounting for 1/3 of wood sales in the nation according to authorities.

They discovered the site when patrolling in the town of Zitácuaro, Michoacán. 

The seizure was made by the National Guard in joint effort with the Michoacán State Police, the Environmental Protection Battalion of the National Guard, and the Federal Environmental Prosecutor (PROFEPA by its initials in Spanish). 

Upon locating the site, security forces established a perimeter and looked for the loggers, but were unable to find them.

PROFEPA is holding the logs and will undertake the investigation.

Illegal logging is an increasing problem in Mexico, often exploited by criminal groups who illegally fell trees for sale. The nation has lost about 8% of its forest cover in the last two decades, according to NGO GlobalForestWatch.

In an interview with El Financiero, the director of the National Commission of Forests (CONAFUR), León Jorge Castaños Martínez said “It is a very, very serious problem, which has been growing because there is a deficit of wood from national production".

InSight Crime has reported that CJNG, Los Correa, La Familia Michoacána, and Carteles Unidos are all involved in illegal logging in the state. 

Sources: Guardia Nacional Press Release, InSight Crime, El Financiero, Global Forest Watch

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La Tuta captured in a house in Morelia Michoacan

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

Servando Gomez Martinez alias " La Tuta" presumed leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, and one of the criminals who's capture was deemed a primary objective of the Federal Government, was captured by elements of the Federal Police, confirmed authorities of the corporation.

According to preliminary information, "La Tuta", was detained in a house in Morelia, Michoacan without any shots being fired. ( otis: so much for the I won't be taken alive).

The PGR offered a reward of 30 million pesos for information leading to his detention.

This Wednesday past they reported a series of operations  in the Limitrofe zone of the Municipality of
Arteaga, from where he originated, and Tumbiscatio, Michoacan, where colleagues of La Tuta were captured as a result of the capos arrest.

In the next few hours, there will be a press conference on the details of his detention.

The columnist of Milenio, Joaquin Lopez Doriga, informed on his twitter account, the detention of Gomez Martinez

UPDATES WILL BE POSTED ASAP: OTIS

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#LiberenAMireles: Widespread Protest in Support of Dr Mireles

 I am pleased to report the support in protest is growing and spreading fast, and not just in Michoacan but many other states and key cities.  They government were clueless to the respect and admiration people have for Dr. Mireles.  I hope he will soon be told.  I have not seen a groundswell like this for anyone in Mexico.  Amazing.  It is difficult to determine what will occur, but based on his subjection to multiple human rights violations, on that alone he should be granted a direct amparo, aside from his innocence.  Below is a photo of a pavilion in Hermosillo Sonora, where a rally was later held.  

The Sonora group marched in protest with saved heads and carrying a chicken leg, a nod to Dr Mireles' comment "I was armed with a chicken leg".  He was arrested inside the Happy Chicken resturant.  

Thank YOU readers for the outpouring of support and well wishes from you.   As I did the get well wishes after the plane crash, I will save the comments and present them to Doc Mireles when I am able to. 

There is a  campaign to demonstrate support of Dr Mireles by shaving ones head.  Many people including his female attorney have done so.  Here is a congressman from Veracruz, followed by Talia (atty), a man in Spain and one other foto. 

anonymous video.  I am posting it because of the information provided in the video with links to more.

Dear brothers, as I have noticed it has become a custom for the Mexican government to repress the people in different ways.

Therefore we demand in this statement for the immediate release of political prisoner: Dr. José Manuel Mireles, and so we also repudiate what circulating in some media.

He is behind bars for having crossed the laws in defense of a people that the government of Mexico has not been able to defend. The State has left the helpless citizens subjected to the violence in Mexico by organized crime and corruption by the government itself.

His name is Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde, community leader of autodefensas in state of Michoacán. Best known as "Doctor Mireles" was arrested last Friday June 27, 2014 in the town of Acalpican holding of La Mira, municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas.

His arrest is considered a political distraction used by the government to proceed with the reforms that affect the people.

And who is directly responsible for this injustice?

The answer is: Alfredo Castillo Cervantes, and now we explain who this person is.

During the presidency of Vicente Fox, he was advisor to the Deputy Criminal Procedure Do you remember the explosion at the PEMEX TOWER?  You know who investigated?

That's right: Alfredo Castillo Cervantes ...

In 2010 Enrique Peña Nieto appointed him procurator of the entity, replacing Alberto Bazbaz, who resigned from that position, after the case of the disappearance and death of  4 year old girl named Paulette, who  girl was found nine days later, strangled and wrapped in blankets jammed into the footboard of her bed. (the wealthy mother was not charged, more below)

When Enrique Peña Nieto took the presidency,  Castillo was commissioned to arrest any individual who will challenge the federal government.

Currently- is the Commissioner for Security and Integral Development of Michoacán. 

Returning to the Mireles case:

At the time of his arrest, police stated that he was armed. This is where irregularities begin, because several witnesses claim that the only thing Dr. Mireles was in possession of, was a chicken leg, as he  was in a restaurant.

Although Commissioner Castillo said Dr. Mireles has not hooded when arrested, there are multiple images and videos that reflect Mireles  being hooded when arrested.

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Alleged Caballeros Templarios Shoot at Police In Morelia

By: Camila Luna

During the early hours of Friday, a group of armed civilians attacked the facilities of the Citizen Protection of the Attorney General of the State (Centro de Protección Ciudadana de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado) in the west of the Michoacán capital.

According to police reports, it was around 4:00 am when two trucks filled with heavily armed men arrived at the Center for Citizen Protection belonging to the Attorney General of Justice of Michoacán, located between avenues Francisco I. Madero and Pedregal.

After getting out of the vehicles, the criminals shot up the building leaving one policeman injured (who was reported as stable) and severe damage to the building structures and the facility located beside it, as well as damaging six police vehicles.

Within the Center for Citizen Protection, there were a dozen ministerial policemen who tried to repel the attack, however, the criminals fled.

After initial investigations were carried out, about 100 shell casings from AK-47’s, 7.62x39mm, and AR-15’s, .223, were found at the scene.

Almost simultaneously, a second attack on a base of the Municipal Public Security located in the north of Morelia near Estadio Morelos was also recorded. 

Sources: Michoacán 3.0, Revolución 3.0

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Hipólito Mora Escorted By Federal Police

 Update

The armed group accuses Hipólito of having ordered the murder of one of the operators of the armed movement, identified as Rafael Sánchez Moreno, "El Pollo".

The spokesperson for the self-defense groups of Buenavista Tomatlán, Hipólito Mora, left the ranch Los Palmares via helicopter after at least 400 members of another self-defense group demanded him to be removed from his position this afternoon.

Led by “El Americano”, the group is located 300 meters away from the ranch where those close to the spokesperson of Buenavista Tomatlán barricaded themselves in.

The ultimatum is for them to leave the ranch or else be disarmed; although Hipólito Mora left the ranch in a helicopter bound for the Federal District.

Federal Police arrived at the scene trying to calm the crowd, which was gradually approaching the ranch.

“How are we going to disarm, assholes.  How are we going to disarm when they’re sending pure templarios, they’re going to kill us, go fuck you moms”, said a member of the self-defense groups of Hipólito Mora.

At the entrance of the ranch, there were women armed with sticks and machetes.

After about 20:00 hours, Mora was escorted from the municipality via a Federal Police helicopter.

Hipólito Mora said that he didn’t want to face Luis Antonio Torres González “El Americano” because there are still good people with him who have been manipulated.

He also noted that on March 8, 2014 Rafael Sánchez Moreno “El Pollo” was killed.  He had also infiltrated the self-defense groups, when everyone knew that he was the right hand man of Nazario Moreno, El Chayo.  “Those who besieged La Ruana are people of El Chayo, La Tuta, and El Chango Méndez.”

Source: Milenio

divide and conquer...

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