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4 2009. 5 2010. 6 2011. 7 2012. 8 2023. 9 See also. 10 References. ... On August 27, police officers found three headless bodies in a rubbish dump in Tijuana, killed ...
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana), formerly also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF), is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Founded by the Arellano-Félix family, the cartel once was described as "one of the biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico". [9]
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [192] It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [193] and continues to export drugs even after weakening by an internal war in 2009. Due to infighting, arrests and the deaths of some of its top ...
As of 18 January 2011, Mexico had captured or killed 20 of the 37 in the most-wanted list. [9] The 21 June 2011 arrest of José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, [10] a.k.a. "El Chango", brought the total to twenty-one captured or killed.
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.
This is a list of politicians murdered in the Mexican drug war. Since the start of the military-led offensive by the Mexican government in 2006, the drug trafficking organizations have slaughtered their rivals, killed policemen and now increasingly targeted politicians – especially local leaders. [1] Most of the places where these politicians ...
Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, [41][42][43][44] is a Mexican criminal syndicate, based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"). [45] The cartel has been characterized by extreme violence and public relations campaigns. [4]
Conviction (s) PC 187- Murder. 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. Barron recruited and led a band of Mexican-American Logan Heights ...