Ana Patiño López, 46 years old and the first wife of the leader of Los Caballeros Templarios, Servando Gómez Martínez, alias "La Tuta", was arrested around 5:20 PM on Wednesday, October 23 while driving on the Occidente highway in a Volkswagen Passat without license plates. The arrest was part of an operation by the Attorney General of Justice of Michoacán in the municipality of Álvaro Obregón (located in the north of the state, northeast of Morelia) and occurred near the international airport of Francisco J. Mújica.
Upon her arrest, she attempted to bribe the agents, offering 200,000 pesos to be let go.It is unclear if she is currently married to "La Tuta", though she is the mother of his children, including Huber Gómez Patiño, who was arrested in June of this year.