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Alfredo Avila is known to be one of the most active assassins from the 1980s to the early 1990s of the Tijuana Cartel in the states of Sinaloa and Baja California. [ 15 ] On April 26, 15 gunmen from the Tijuana Cartel were killed in a gunbattle against rivals.
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.
On 20 May 2023, a shootout occurred in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. It occurred at 2:18pm at an off-road vehicle rally in the San Vicente area of the city. Ten people were killed and another ten wounded. The perpetrators appear to have been members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. [1] [2]
A native of San Luis Potosí, [6] Blancornelas began his career as a journalist for El Sol de San Luis in April 1955, working as a sportswriter. [5] [7] In 1960, he moved to Tijuana, Baja California, where he became active in reporting on corruption and the drug trade. [5]
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January 2 – Operation Baja California is launched. January 20 – Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA. [5] [6] March 17 – Zhenli Ye Gon is relieved of US$213 million in Mexico City. [7] May 14 – Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered. [8]
At around 16:00 local time on June 23, 2014, [12] Sánchez Arellano was arrested by soldiers of the Mexican Army and federal agents of the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) [13] [14] at a Carl's Jr. fast food restaurant in the Mesa de Otay borough in Tijuana, Baja California, [15] while watching the FIFA World Cup game between Mexico and Croatia.
David Barron Corona, (1963 – November 27, 1997) was a Mexican-American gangster who was a high-ranking member of the Logan Heights Gang and the Mexican Mafia, and a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel under the command of drug lord Ramon Arellano Felix.