La Tuta's lieutenant arrested in BC served as police chief in Michoacan

Tijuana: On Monday following the capture of regional leader of the Caballeros Templarios , Juan Carlos Almazan Mendoza, 35,  the Attorney General of Baja California (PJEBC) reported that the member of the criminal organization was masquerading as entrepreneur of the construction industry in the western area of this border town. 

Almazan Mendoza, is known to be  a lieutenant for  Servando Gómez Martínez( La Tuta), but moved to the city in 2013, living in a luxury residential subdivision, of la zona, Playas de Tijuana, where he bought a house from which he was operating Templar activities out of.

Almazan, nicknamed “El Pillo” was police chief in Nueva Italia, a civil servant in Tingambato and in 2009 he served as head of the Secretariat of public security of the municipality of La Huacana .

El Pillo has accumulated arrest warrants on charges of kidnapping and murder, committed in municipalities in the region of Tierra Caliente , including Apatzingán and Nueva Italia. In one warrant out for his arrest, he is suspected of being connected to at least six illegal deprivation of liberty crimes and killings in the town of Apatzingán.

He had had a direct line to cartel leaders, such as the now deceased Enrique Plancarte Solis, alias' Kike Plancarte'; Miguel Ángel González Godoy, alias' El Migueladas' and La Tuta the leader of Templarios organization. He was in the city to help organize a Templarios cell, and was funded by Templarios.

 Sources: RioDoce Frontera-AFN