Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Samuel Flores Borrego. U.S. wanted $5 million for his arrest. Samuel Flores Borrego (a.k.a. Metro 3; 6 August 1972 – 2 September 2011) was a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking lieutenant of the Gulf Cartel. [1] He was a former state judicial policeman who protected the ex-leader of the Gulf cartel, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
Death (s) +200 deaths [1][2][3] The infighting in the Gulf Cartel refers to a series of confrontations between the Metros and the Rojos, two factions within Gulf Cartel that engaged in a power struggle directly after the death of the drug lord Samuel Flores Borrego in September 2011. The infighting has lasted through 2013, although the Metros ...
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Experts say he ran the Gulf Cartel from 1997 until 2003, when he was captured by Mexican security forces and ultimately extradited to the U.S. He began assembling the Zetas in 1997 as a Gulf ...
Héctor David Delgado Santiago. Héctor David Delgado Santiago (23 December 1975 – 15 January 2013), commonly referred to by his alias El Metro 4, was a suspected Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas. Born and raised in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, El Metro 4 initiated his criminal ...
Los Ciclones is a faction of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. This faction was created in 2015, with the Cártel del Noreste and Los Metros as its main enemies. Los Ciclones had as their area of influence the border crossing between Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas. [4][1]
Peña was killed in Comales, a rural community near Camargo, Tamaulipas, [7] on 19 March 2013. [1] According to security forces, Peña was killed as part of an internal strife incident within the Gulf Cartel that dated back to September 2011, when suspected Gulf Cartel leader Samuel Flores Borrego (alias "Metro 3") was killed by members of his own criminal group.
He then rose through the leadership ranks and became one of the Gulf Cartel's main administrators under the kingpin Mario Ramírez Treviño ("El Pelón"). [5] [6] After cartel leader Samuel Flores Borrego ("Metro 3") was killed in September 2011, Ramírez Treviño reportedly took his place and appointed Salazar Flores as the regional boss of ...