Lucio R. Borderland Beat from SIEDO
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In Culiacan, federal police captured Adelmo Niebla González or Guillermo Nieblas Nava, aka “El Señor”.
He is identified as one of the main operators of Joaquin" El Chapo "Guzman Loera, leader of the Cartel of the Pacific.
The federal SSP said captured with Niebla Gonzalez, were Javier Alonso Fuentes Tostado and Jose Ramon Ojeda Ruiz.
Seized were two vehicles, three rifles AR-15, 490 grams of cocaine, communications equipment and various documents.
Seized were two vehicles, three rifles AR-15, 490 grams of cocaine, communications equipment and various documents.
The Public Security Secretariat (SSP) reported that federal detainee was responsible for the transfer of marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin in the municipalities of Puerto Peñasco, General Plutarco Elías Calles, San Luis Río Colorado Maricopa and Casa Grande, in Phoenix, Arizona.
In a statement, the agency said that according to investigations, Niebla Gonzalez, a native of Tamazula, Durango, was also responsible for smuggling weapons into Mexico.
His area of operation also included the cities of Mexicali and Tijuana, Baja California, besides having presence in Culiacan, Sinaloa, and in Tamazula, Durango.
For over 20 years he was established in Sonoyta, Sonora, where he began his criminal career by illegally crossing migrants into the United States; acts for which he was repeatedly arrested, and deported to Mexico.
In 2002 he was detained in the Social Rehabilitation Center in Nogales, Sonora, for drug crimes and organized crime; in 2006 he met Mario Aguirre Avilés, “El 9-9, one of the main operators of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and worked under him to traffic drugs into the United States.
Niebla Gonzalez formed its own criminal group called "Los Memos" and he settled in Sonoyta, from where he trafficked drugs, becoming one of the main operators and people most trusted by “El Chapo".
In 2008 he was consigned to the State Center for Social Rehabilitation of the state of Durango on charges of possession of a firearm, however, skipped while on bail and continued the business of trafficking.
The criminal group "Los Memos" maintains strong presence in Sonora; territory shared with organizations allied with the Cartel of the Pacific, includingPuerto Peñasco, where he maintains a close relationship with the criminal group of Gonzalo Inzunza, "El Macho Prieto."