Army arrests key cartel operative who exposed location of ‘El Mencho’

A antheral who allegedly delivered Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera’s person to him soon earlier the cartel brag was killed successful a subject cognition connected Feb. 22 was detained connected Sunday, authorities said.

The Ministry of National Defense (Defensa) announced that Mexican Army peculiar forces and National Guard unit arrested José “N” portion they were carrying retired “land patrols” successful Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, a municipality successful Jalisco that is portion of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Defensa said successful a connection that “José ‘N’ (alias) Pepe is considered 1 of the main logistics operators” of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which Oseguera founded and led for galore years until his decease past month.

The ministry besides said that the fishy “was the idiosyncratic successful complaint of transferring the romanticist spouse of the deceased Rubén Oseguera Cervantes (alias) Mencho to Tapalpa, Jalisco,” wherever the Feb. 22 subject cognition occurred.

Defensa said that subject unit seized drugs, weapons and a conveyance from José “N,” who was placed successful the custody of the organized transgression part of the Federal Attorney General’s Office.

The time aft the subject cognition targeting Oseguera, Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said that authorities determined the determination of the CJNG person aft a antheral delivered 1 of his “romantic partners” to him.

Trevilla said that connected Feb. 20, subject quality enactment enabled the determination of a “trusted antheral of 1 of the romanticist partners of ‘El Mencho.'”

That man, helium said, transported Oseguera’s person to a spot successful Tapalpa, a municipality astir 130 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara.

Trevilla said that the pistillate met with “El Mencho” astatine the property.

Inside El Mencho’s past hideout successful Tapalpa, Jalisco

The adjacent time — the time earlier Oseguera was killed — the pistillate near the spot “and accusation was obtained that ‘El Mencho’ remained astatine that place,” the defence curate said.

Oseguera’s person has been identified successful media reports arsenic Guadalupe Moreno Carrillo. The Mexican subject “had photographs of her and maintained adjacent surveillance of properties wherever she lived successful Zapopan and Puerto Vallarta,” according to the quality outlet La Silla Rota.

Moreno and Oseguera reportedly began their narration aft the CJNG person separated from his wife, Rosalinda González Valencia, successful 2022.

Asked past Thursday whether El Mencho’s person had been detained, President Claudia Sheinbaum said she didn’t know, telling reporters that her authorities would study connected the substance astatine a aboriginal date.

The paper El Financiero reported connected Sunday that Moreno appears successful subject quality reports that were leaked successful 2022 by a radical of hackers called Guacamaya.

In subject reports, she is referred to arsenic a “recurrent companion of ‘El Mencho,’ with determination coordination roles within” the CJNG, El Financiero wrote.

With reports from El Financiero and La Jornada