Lucio R. for Borderland Beat
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Attorney General of Quintana Roo , confirmed the arrest of 14 people in three different operations, six of them related to the shooting that Wednesday night was recorded in the Fraccionamiento Paseos del Caribe in the region 514 of Cancun . The state attorney, Carlos Arturo Alvarez Escalera , said in a press interview, that most of those arrested belong to the Cartel Jalisco New Generation and have only been in the area for about a month, seeking to take over the plaza. The Attorney General says that the others were members of CDG (Cartel del Golfo).
He said the action began around 9PM, at a residence, at the colonia mentioned above. There was a shootout when the occupants resisted arrest. No reports of deaths in the operation that netted 6.
Those taken into custody at the residence were; Alan Geovanni Vázquez Bernal, alias “Gordo” 18, originally from Reynosa Tamaulipas; Miguel Hidalgo López, alias “Flaco”, 36, from Tuzantla, Michoacán; Eliazar Soberanis Fernández, alias “Eli”, 24, of San Pedro Atecpan, Guerrero; Luis Padilla Muñoz, 21, from Santa María , Tamaulipas; Luciano Chávez García Lucio, 30, of Petatlán, Gerrero and José alfredo Chavarría Hernandez, alias “Mickey Mouse”, 20, from Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Those taken into custody at the residence were; Alan Geovanni Vázquez Bernal, alias “Gordo” 18, originally from Reynosa Tamaulipas; Miguel Hidalgo López, alias “Flaco”, 36, from Tuzantla, Michoacán; Eliazar Soberanis Fernández, alias “Eli”, 24, of San Pedro Atecpan, Guerrero; Luis Padilla Muñoz, 21, from Santa María , Tamaulipas; Luciano Chávez García Lucio, 30, of Petatlán, Gerrero and José alfredo Chavarría Hernandez, alias “Mickey Mouse”, 20, from Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
The second operation there 5 arrests outside a strip club, in the red light district of Cancun. The five included, Marco Antonio R.G. alias “Apa” or “Pollo”, from Reynosa Tamaulipas, who is the leader of CJNG in Cancun. There were 3 women in the group, two of the women were from Caracas, Venezuela, a third with the alias “La Gorda” is from Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Police seized weapons, and 480 grams of cocaine.
Information that led authorities to the arrests, resulted from three men who were stopped while riding in a stolen Audi. The men were identified as; Afid Mendoza Sanchez, 28, of Reynosa; Christian Adam Puerto Sanchez, 26, and Pedro Pablo Castillo 29, the last two, from Merida, Yucatan.
The Audi was stolen during a murder.. The arrested men admitted to killing the man, the reason they gave; because he had sold him a vehicle that turned out to be in bad condition.
