Antonio DaShawn Daniels of Atlanta, 46, also known as Freckleface Shawn and Pecas, was indicted on Aug. 11 on federal charges related to possession with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Mexico's Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which it accused of manufacturing so-called rainbow fentanyl pills purportedly aimed at children The State of Mexico Prosecutor's Office spoke of an exchange of shots with hitmen, who, according to the agency, attacked first. It is led by Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga, alias El Pez and Jos Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, alias El Fresa. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Yes it remains active but on a much smaller scale in the state of Michoacan. I'll watch and update when I can. On June 10, 2020, the military intercepted a black Ford Lobo pickup truck, in which three men were traveling. Thanks for reading! 2023-03-02T03:16:36.081Z, Pedro Fernndez stars in "Mariachis" on HBO Max, this was his experience (Source) They are a familial based group which centers around the Sierra Santana brothers, although a few publications claim some of the Sierra Santana sisters are involved as well. In the last two years, La Familia Michoacana has occupied part of the concerns of the Government's security cabinet. In this pivotal year, Zetas occupied territory in 405 Mexican municipalities, which Insight Crime found was more than double that of their biggest rivals. The degree to which the Sinaloa Cartel is still actively involved in the CU in 2021 is unclear although there are persistent social media rumors of CDS funding certain elements of the CU. The Kingpin Act blocks all property and interests in property, subject to U.S. jurisdiction, owned or controlled by significant foreign narcotics traffickers, as identified by the President. Hearst, Thank you and I look forward to the rest. DESCRIPTION:For many cartel figures, publications will vary wildly as to whether they belong to LFM or LNFM. Few rivals could hope of matching Escobar as his cartel controlled80% of the cocaine trade, which involved daily 15-ton shipments to the United States, as detailed in Escobar'sInsight Crimebiography. Based on this, there may have been a misidentification and the man featured in the La Tuta video is not Jos Carlos. Marijuana is the second most prevalent drug on the Atlanta market and is increasingly used by a wider variety of peoplemostly males, whites, adolescents, or young adults. They have a reward of up to half a million pesos for information leading to their . Perhaps the most heinous La Linea crime occurred in Bavispe, where the group attacked a Mormon family inNovember 2019, killing nine people including several children, according to ABC. Locals also reported of the many corpses found in the Cauca River, which runs through Cali. The signs declared that one of Mexico's most feared drug cartels, La Familia Michoacana, was disbanding after body blows from a federal offensive that is believed to have killed the group's. Another CU group not mentioned in Lantias report that is known to be active in Michoacn is Los Revueltas, a group led by El Chirrius (, ). Founded by the Orejuela brothers, the Cali cartel earned billions a year, inheriting the Medellin cartel's 80% market share and multi-ton shipments to the United States (via Seattle Times/Insider). In a video that circulates on social networks, armed men who claim to . Overshadowed by the criminal activity and the media skills of the Jalisco Nueva Generacin Cartel (CJNG) and its satellite groups, La Familia Michoacana returns these days to the front pages due to the aggressiveness they have shown in their recent attacks. To Caldern's credit, last year saw a robust number of Mexican drug lords captured or killed; but drug-related killing still hit record levels, including a troubling increase in the number of civilian victims. The fledgling cartel were trained by members of Los Zetas, yet they would turn on their mentors because of local resentment to Zetas' methamphetamine business. It says LNFM not LNF which is the name of the new alliance. (Source, Source), Los Pulidos group that Lantia Intelligence refers to is based out of Huahua in Aquila municipality. Among the first deaths in the conflict was Edgar Guzman, El Chapo's son. A few weeks ago, a group of armed men chanting their initials announced their arrival in Milpa Alta, the rural south of Mexico City. I'm definitely not here tryna convince anyone thats for damn sure. Are there any cartels in the United States? Noventa Grados writes he is a financial operator. La Familia Michoacana; Founded 1980s; Founding location: La Piedad, Michoacn, Mexico: Years active: 1980-present: . In this context La Familia has been able to surpass the Michoacn government in strength and power not only by profiting from their illegal activities, but also by winning over local people through social services that the state may not adequately provide. We do not publish all comments, and we do not publish comments immediately. He was arrested alongside El Harry in 2018 after they shot at a group of ministerial agents who were participating in investigative tasks in the town of Santa Ana, Buenavista according to the State Attorney Generals Office. @10:58. Cuando menos desde 2020, el Ejrcito mexicano sigue de cerca las acciones de la Familia Michoacana, el otrora crtel ms poderoso del estado de Michoacn. Other groups such as the LFM group associated with Jos Pineda Gonzlez Don Jos and Medardo Hernndez Vera El Mantecas, as well as the LFM group associated with El Pez appear to be in an alliance with the CU but whether they belong within the CU is unclear. (, He famously gave an interview to the Daily Beast in 2017 where he boasted that he commands about a thousand Viagras foot soldiers and that his men maintain a sophisticated surveillance system that includes monitoring police and military radio frequencies. Just thinking. Today's Familia Michoacana is a shadow of its former self, but hasn't yet been entirely removed from southern Mexico's regional criminal landscape, continuing to imbed itself in local communities key for the group's criminal interests. (, El Negro was reportedly working under Reyes's protection in Guerrero after having to flee Michoacan due to a dispute with Luis Torres alias "El Americano". He allegedly agreed to create an alliance between his group La Nueva Familia Michoacana, the group La Familia Michoacana de Arcelia, and the La Familia Michoacana group led by Don Jos. However, the Gulf remains entrenched in theirTamaulipas stronghold, which provides steady revenue from narcotics and migrant smuggling (via Insight Crime). (, described El Chaco as a regional operator in Zamora for Los Viagras in a 2018 article. During their enforcer period, theUS Drug Enforcement Agency(DEA) described Los Zetas as perhaps "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups.". However most current reporting alleges Rodolfo El Tronado is the leader of Los Viagras whereas El Gordo takes more of a spokesperson role under him. The week before Dr.Sol was on fire, churning article after article coming from Mexico, then it was MX, he seem to Mellow down. I want to check out what you are saying but I have got to weigh them against Milenio newspaper's intelligence report they say is from the national security cabinet. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas. El Tronado is one of the Sierra Santana brothers. A spider monkey clad in a bulletproof vest who was killed in the confrontation.RR. Some states however lack news publications like these. 2022-12-19, Police officials: the Commissioner tried to please Ben Gvir through the use of force - voila! (, ) The Don Jos La Familia Michoacana (LFM) group appears to still have a presence in Michoacn; however, El Pez group appears to largely hold power in areas outside of the state of Michoacn, in places like the State of Mexico. Outlets that are willing to do this, such as Noventa Grados, Infobae and Contro Muro have stories that are sometimes based on social media user reports and subsequently, their track record on credibility is not consistent. @ 11:55 El Azul is not dead , he is the ultimate go between. LFM was responsible for trafficking methamphetamine into the United States through border checkpoints near Laredo, Texas, and Tijuana, Mexico. Since then, BLO members have either been killed, jailed or defected to new splinter groups, such as the Guerreros Unidos and Los Rojos, which dabble in extortion, kidnapping and lethal violence. The list of clashes is extensive and responds to a war that the criminal group -or one of its associated cells, present in the south of the State of Mexico- declared to the State Prosecutor's Office in mid-2020, apparently for the capture of one of its leaders, a war announced on posters hung in municipalities in the area. on Borderland Beat, there were claims that the man seen in the 2013 La Tuta video was Jos Carlos Sierra Santana. He was later reportedly arrested in March 2018, causing a wave of road cartel blockades across the state according to, ) Then he was reportedly arrested again in July 2019, leading to another series of roadblocks. Initially, the group was led by Osiel Crdenas Guilln, who recruited around 30 alumni from Mexico's special forces. . (. In the truck, the military also found three long weapons, a pistol, and cartridges. Some states however lack news publications like these. (Source), While under the guise of the self defense movement, they worked under the leadership of Estanislao Beltrn alias "Pap Pitufo" or "Papa Smurf". Theyll connect the dots. That group had partially been assigned the mission of protecting areas they already had under influence in, from viagras and others. El Ms Loco (the Craziest One), seems to have been a crippling psychological blow to the cartel. (Source, Source). On July 13, 2009, a group of 12 Mexican officers were kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Adrin Mendoza Oseguera is the brother of El Mencho, leader of the CJNG, making Mencho his uncle. Vote 2 comments Best Add a Comment UnleashedSavage_93 2 min. (Source), POSITION: Lieutenant, Leader of Sangre Nueva Guerrerense. Who knows. Britannicawriter Richard J. Samuels defines cartels as, "An illicit consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition and control the production and distribution of illegal drugs," adding that cartels are, "extremely well-organized, well-financed, efficient, and ruthless." By the early 1990s, Medellin was the most violent city not just in Colombia but the entire world, and much of that was because of the Medellin cartel's war with the government (via Rapid Transition). Take for example the cartel leadership figure Don Jos. Alliances were formed on both sides, with the BLO allying with Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel working with the Gulf and Familia Michoacana cartels (via Insight Crime). (Source) La Tuta later famously warned on video that "The Viagras are worse offenders than me, they don't even support their mother and have no loyalty or honor." (Source, Source, Source). Since when they have a allience with CJNG, I asked for a source for that, and the only answer I got was a corridocant remember the name right now. But Michoacn, the group's home base, is also Caldern's home state, and it's where he started his crusade against Mexico's proliferating drug cartels in 2006 shortly after La Familia had announced itself by rolling the severed heads of five rivals onto the dance floor of a crowded Michoacn disco. La Nueva Familia Michoacana is a criminal organization formed in 2011 after the original La Familia Michoacana lost power in 2010 with the formation of the Knights Templar Cartel and Nazario Moreno 's suspected death (he was not proven dead until 2014 with a DNA test). By 2015, Milenio newspaper wrote that an intelligence report from the national security cabinet stated that Los Viagras were currently dedicated to drug trafficking working under or in an alliance with Cartel H3 (there was an iniative where areas in Michoacn were divided between groups called H1, H2, H3). DESCRIPTION: According to Lantia Intelligence and Mexico Daily News, Los Viagras is a group that is currently believed to be a subgroup or armed wing under La Nueva Familia Michoacana, which is part of the Carteles Unidos (CU) alliance. [*2] Previously on Borderland Beat, there were claims that the man seen in the 2013 La Tuta video was Jos Carlos Sierra Santana. Plus I havent stated anything that's been a lie or made any false accusations? It can also happen that other gangs take over without permission, trying to take advantage of the terror that just the name inspires. Rueda-Medina was arrested in Michoacn, Mexico, on July 11, 2009, and was extradited to the United States on Jan. 27, 2017. @3:42 he takes down the videos to check them for YT "compliance" but yeah that was a Sargent of communications that was a bodyguard of La Sirena. At the beginning of the month, hitmen had murdered about twenty people in San Miguel Totolapan, now in Guerrero, including the mayor and his father. Remember the 30 judiciales federales killed while the criminals yelled not to shoot at the greens because they were in on it? 2023-03-02T03:52:42.021Z, The high-speed rail will fully return to normal next Saturday, long-distance services will reopen in April, the fastest in the country will be announced on Friday Loco ( the Craziest one ), Los Pulidos group that Lantia Intelligence refers to is based out of in., alias El Pez and Jos Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, alias El Fresa, Los Pulidos group Lantia... 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