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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.
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.
CJNG is considered by the Mexican government to be one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Mexico [30] and the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico. [61] CJNG is heavily militarized and more violent than other criminal organizations. It has a special operations group for specific types of warfare. [62]
The government's urgency to confront the CJNG had intensified the month before, when the CJNG ambushed and killed 15 policemen in Jalisco. [15] The same day the attacks occurred, [ 16 ] the government inaugurated Operation Jalisco , a military-led campaign to combat organized crime groups in Jalisco and capture their leaders. [ 17 ]
Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez was born on 11 October 1976, in Apatzingán, Michoacán, Mexico. [1] He is nicknamed "Ojo de Vidrio" (). [2]He is married to Jessica Johanna Oseguera González, the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (alias "El Mencho"), the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords.
Crime is increasing at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in the cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, and the states of Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León. [5] Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime.
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.