Mexican authorities have announced the capture of the main leader of the criminal organization Cárteles Unidos, Jesús Mendoza Castillo, known as 'Rooster', 'Licentiate' or 'Handsaw', along with seven other members of the same criminal structure.
The operation was coordinated by agents of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) deployed in the states of Michoacán and Puebla, where nine searches were carried out in different properties located in Tancítaro, Uruapan, and Apatzingán, in Michoacán, as well as in the locality of Santa María La Alta, in Puebla.
Among the arrested persons, in addition to Mendoza Castillo, the authorities have pointed to Uziel Morales Baltazar, José Alfonso Castillo Sánchez, Jaime Sánchez Soriano, Bulmaro Mendoza Castillo, Agustín Felipe López Morales, Flavio Eduardo Sánchez Zamora and Joaquín Sánchez Sánchez, all of them linked to this criminal network.
According to the investigation, the organization was focused on drug and arms trafficking, in addition to money laundering activities. During the searches, the agents secured long and short firearms, magazines, ammunition, probable drugs and cash, along with other effects, in addition to the properties used by the group.
A spokesperson for the Prosecutor's Office, Ulises Lara López, detailed through social media that the arrested were part of a structure that sent drugs from Mexico to the American city of Kansas City, in the state of Missouri.
"In parallel, duly authorized communications monitoring, tracking on different digital networks, and georeferences were implemented, so the information obtained allowed identifying routes, schedules, meeting points, and addresses used for the safekeeping of narcotics and weapons, which strengthened the investigations," he/she/it pointed out.
"These results represent an important blow to organized crime and prevent criminal groups from continuing their operation that causes so much harm to society," Lara added.