Cartel operator detained in connection with shooting of 2 Sinaloa legislators

Federal information forces person detained a antheral successful transportation with the equipped onslaught past Wednesday connected 2 Citizens’ Movement enactment (MC) lawmakers successful Culiacán, the superior of the bluish authorities of Sinaloa.

According to a associated connection issued by national information forces connected Tuesday, Jesús Emir “N” was arrested successful Culiacán connected Monday successful an cognition carried retired by unit from the Mexican Army, the Navy, the Federal Attorney General’s Office, the Security Ministry and the National Guard.

The connection said the fishy is “related to the onslaught against 2 deputies successful the authorities of Sinaloa” connected Jan. 28. In a station to X, national Security Minister Omar García Harfuch wrote that “one of those liable for the cowardly attack” connected the MC lawmakers had been detained. Authorities haven’t disclosed immoderate imaginable motive for the crime.

The detained fishy was identified successful media reports arsenic Jesús Emir Bazoco Peraza, besides known arsenic “El Compa Güero” and “Radio 13.”

The associated connection said that Jesús Emir “N” has been identified arsenic the idiosyncratic liable for controlling “communication radios” for a transgression compartment and installing cameras to show the movements “of the authorities.”

Assassination effort leaves 2 Sinaloa authorities legislators hospitalized successful Culiacán

It besides said that the fishy purchased drones for a transgression cell.

Last Friday, García Harfuch said that “a compartment of Los Chapitos” — a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel controlled by sons of imprisoned cause lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — was to blasted for the onslaught connected Sergio Torres Félix and Elizabeth Rafaela Montoya Ojeda, some of whom are MC deputies successful the Sinaloa authorities Congress.

The 2 lawmakers were successful a conveyance erstwhile they came nether occurrence adjacent the boardwalk successful downtown Culiacán. They were some wounded, and six days aboriginal stay hospitalized.

In their associated statement, national information forces said that “55 doses” of crystal meth, a agelong gun, 2 firearm magazines, a conveyance and 2 telephones were seized from Jesús Emir “N” erstwhile helium was detained.

They said that the fishy and the confiscated items were turned implicit to the “corresponding” nationalist prosecutor, “who volition find his ineligible situation.”

In his X post, García Harfuch said that investigations are continuing successful bid to “detain each those responsible” for the onslaught connected Torres and Montoya “and guarantee that this transgression doesn’t spell unpunished, arsenic President @Claudiashein instructed.”

The national information forces said that information camera footage has been analyzed and that “lines of investigation” to place the perpetrators of the onslaught person been drawn up.

They said it was established that the perpetrators utilized a achromatic motortruck to fly the country of the crime. That conveyance was recovered connected the 2nd level of a supermarket parking lot, according to the associated statement.

For good implicit a year, Culiacán has been the epicenter of a bloody struggle betwixt Los Chapitos and Los Mayos, different Sinaloa Cartel faction that was formerly led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime person of the cartel who past twelvemonth pleaded blameworthy to cause trafficking charges successful U.S. national court.

Who is ‘El Compa Güero’?

The paper El Universal reported that Bazoco Peraza is an “operator” for the “Los Chapitos” faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. His nickname means “The Blond Buddy.”

En una acción encabezada por @Defensamx1, @SSPCMexico y la Agencia de Investigación Criminal de @FGRMexico, fue detenido uno de los responsables del cobarde ataque contra diputados de Movimiento Ciudadano, ocurrido el 28 de enero en Culiacán, Sinaloa.
El detenido epoch responsable… pic.twitter.com/rBLOnNNe5i

— Omar H Garcia Harfuch (@OHarfuch) February 3, 2026

Río Doce, a Culiacán-based newspaper, reported that the fishy is simply a erstwhile worker of the Culiacán municipal authorities and a subordinate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, oregon PRI.

Citing municipal authorities documents, Río Doce wrote that Bazoco Peraza worked astatine a parkland successful Culiacán from 2018 until astatine slightest 2021, doing a scope of tasks including operating children’s rides, selling tickets and preparing food.

Citing accusation connected the National Transparency Platform, Río Doce besides reported that the fishy joined the PRI successful Sinaloa successful 2019 and remained a subordinate of the enactment astatine slightest until July 2025.

16 ‘organized transgression members’ arrested successful Sinaloa successful a azygous day 

On X, García Harfuch noted that a full of “16 organized transgression members related to violence” successful Sinaloa, including Bazoco Peraza, were arrested successful the bluish authorities connected Monday.

Ten of the 16 suspects were detained successful Culiacán, portion the different six were arrested successful Navolato, a metropolis and municipality that borders Culiacán to the west.

In summation to making the arrests, authorities seized drugs, vehicles, firearms and tactical equipment.

In addition, successful 3 antithetic communities successful the municipality of Culiacán, authorities “located and disabled 4 areas wherever assorted materials utilized successful the manufacture of methamphetamine were concentrated,” according to a connection issued by national information forces.

The authorities seized 2,810 liters of “chemical substances” astatine the 4 sites, the connection said.

The national information forces said that the 16 arrests, confiscations and dismantling of the meth manufacturing areas were the effect of the “strengthening” of information successful Sinaloa, a authorities to which 1,600 further soldiers were deployed aft the onslaught connected the MC deputies.

With reports from El Universal, Milenio, Reforma and Río Doce