Translated for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article by Otis B Fly-Wheel
Kiki Plancartes house |
20 houses which were the property of the heads of Los Caballeros Templarios cartel, were taken back by the PGJ for state of Michoacán , and the municipalities of Apatzingan , Mugica, and Paracuaro.
The real estate belonged to the fallen leaders of the Templarios , Nazario Moreno Gonzales , Enrique Plancarte Solis , and Francisco Galeana Nunez , El Pantera , alo Mario Alberto Romero Rodriguez and Victor Hugo Almazan Mendoza.
Romero Rodriguez , El Tucan , was detained in October of last year, he was a collaborator close to Servando Gomez , El Tuta , the last leader alive of the Templarios.
Jose Martin Godoy Castro, Michoacán Attorney General , reported that in Apatzingan they seized ten piece of real estate, of which , five were the personal property of Nazario Moreno, who lost his life on 9th March of 2014 in confrontation with the Mexican Navy in the municipality of Tumbiscatio, Michoacán.
Also in Mugica , the PGJ seized four pieces of real estate which were the property of Enrique Plancarte Solis , another leader of the Templarios who died on 2nd of April 2014 , and one more piece of real estate which was the property of Victor Hugo Almazan Mendoza.
In the Atunez locality, municipality of Paracuaro , they seized five properties of Mario Alberto Romero Rodriguez , El Tucan , said Godoy Castro.
During the operation , they secured three vehicles, 250 doses of synthetic drugs ( presumed to be meth ) , and seven horses.
In one of the houses located in the colonia Francisco Villa , they seized a drug scale and metered substances , a black Surburban van was located in an estate in the colonia of Lazaro Cardenas model 2005, while in a colonia in Las Palmas there were two vehicles seized on of them armored , explained the Michoacán Attorney General
Original article in Spanish at www.proceso.com.mx