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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]
On 28 January, army personnel from the Army's 5th special forces battalion and 2nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment succeeded in the arrest of Alfredo Araujo Avila a.k.a. El Popeye in Tijuana. 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 ...
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.
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30] is an ongoing asymmetric [31][32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the ...
LeBarón and Langford families massacre. Burnt vehicle that was carrying 5 members of the family. On November 4, 2019, about 70 miles (110 km) south of the Mexico–United States border, gunmen opened fire on a three-car convoy en route to a wedding carrying residents of the isolated La Mora community, which is predominantly composed of ...
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 ...