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After multiple threats, Tijuana's mayor took to living inside a military barracks.
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe tiˈxwana]), formerly also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF), is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Security forces suspect that La Garra is one of the leading coordinators of the CJNG in the United States. [20] Based on his influence in the United States, investigators suspect that La Garra may not live in Mexico and may be residing in the United States, specifically California, where the CJNG has a major corridor through Tijuana. [1]
Uruapan has been the center of a territorial dispute between the Jalisco-based Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Los Viagras cartel based in Michoacán, where Uruapan is located. [1] Reprisal attacks and public killings have been commonplace in the city, and in August 2019, nineteen bodies were disposed of on the road near Uruapan. [1]
On November 19, 2024, El Mencho's son-in-law Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, a high ranking CJNG leader and romantic partner of El Mencho's daughter Laisha [213] who notably faked his death and took up residency in California under an assumed identity, was arrested in Riverside, California.
April 30 - Baja California's State Preventive Police (PEP) arrested 5 individual's that are link to the Sinaloa Cartel, after raiding a tire garage in Mexicali. Close to a ton of marijuana, 1 grenade launcher, 1 M2 Browning machine gun, various machine guns and rifle magazines were also seized during the operation.
The drug lord was arrested in 1993 in Tijuana, Baja California, and imprisoned at Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, a maximum security prison. In 2006, he was extradited to the United States pending charges on drug trafficking in a California federal district court. He was released from prison two years later and deported back to Mexico.
The clashes began early in the morning, when CJNG launched an attack on El Abuelo after declaring war on the El Abuelo Cartel and stating their intentions to expand into Michoacán and clear the state of El Abuelo. [1] [2] The fight lasted for several hours until government forces from the Mexican National Guard arrived and broke up the fighting.