Elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar), in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), detained Saúl “N”, alias “El Pelón”, identified as second in command of “La Línea”, the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel.
After being located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, “El Pelón” was deported to the United States, as he was a fugitive from justice for the crime of smuggling goods under the laws and regulations of that country, as well as for trafficking in weapons and ammunition. , reported sources from the security cabinet.
Saúl “N” lived with a false identity in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and the Mexican authorities handed him over at the Stanton border crossing.
He had already been arrested in 2017 by federal authorities, using the pseudonym Adolfo Carlos Durán along with Miguel Ángel Amaya Loya “Chito”, leader of “La Línea” in 2017, and in possession of weapons, drugs and more than 50 thousand dollars in cash.
Naval and United States intelligence agencies place “El Pelón” as the second in command of the criminal group known as “La Línea”, which since 2016 has been associated with executions, extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking and arms sales in Ciudad Juárez, border with Texas.
According to intelligence reports, since its emergence, a little more than 20 years ago as the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel“La Línea” has been characterized as a criminal organization of extreme violence, which maintains a fierce dispute for control of the square against other criminal gangs settled in the area, such as “La Empresa” and “Gente Nueva” linked to the Sinaloa Cartel.
The most recent case of extreme violence that links “La Línea” is the multiple homicide of the LeBarón family in the municipality of Bavispe in November 2019, which became an international problem.
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2024-05-12 03:25:23