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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. [16]
Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was elected on July 5, 2009, to the Lower House of Congress, is discovered to be a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, and is accused of protecting that cartel. [94] He is now a fugitive. August 6 – A shootout between police and gunmen leaves over a dozen dead and 22 injured in Pachuca ...
Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato. [183] [184] 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting 29 December 2023 Ciudad Obregón, Sonora 8 Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel ...
The U.S. authorities speculated in 2009 that Tijuana's former police boss, Julián Leyzaola, had made agreements with Sánchez Arellano to bring relative peace in Tijuana. [15] With the arrest of El Teo in January 2010, much of his faction was eliminated from the city of Tijuana; some of its remains went off and joined with the Sinaloa Cartel ...
On June 22, 2004, Ortiz was shot three times at the wheel of his car by masked gunmen in a drive-by shooting, in full view of his son and daughter (aged 9 and 11). [11] [19] Federal prosecutors later linked the murder to the Tijuana Cartel of the Arellano Félix family, with Ortiz's coverage of the organization as the probable motive. [11]
The evening of Jan. 24, 2023, officers from Tijuana's police department and Mexico's national guard arrested Madrigal and nine other men near the beaches of Rosarito, Mexican media reported.
This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009. According to a BBC Mundo Mexico report, the 37 drug lords "have jeopardized Mexico national security."
Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva (September 27, 1961 – December 16, 2009) was a Mexican drug lord who, alongside his brothers, founded and led the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. [3] Prior to founding his own organization, Beltran-Leyva was a longtime high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. His organization was responsible for cocaine, marijuana ...