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The day arrived. On 31 August, a hunt for six months culminated with the arrest of Alberto, younger brother of the founder of the Juarez Cartel, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the late "Lord of the Skies" and of who today is identified as the maximum kingpin of this criminal organization, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. Unofficial versions argue that Vincente began to delegate control of the band, now calling themselves the Nuevo Cartel de Juárez, to Alberto
Carrillo, according to traces of the intelligence teams, chose a house in an exclusive subdivision in Bahia de Banderas, in which lived in the company of his partner, a 32-year-old woman, and adopted the name of Armando Caballero Flores.
In Bahia de Bandera teams of Federal Police established a permanent operation of monitoring, surveillance and following the daily activities of the capo.
FP reports delivered to the safety National Commission reported that, after several members of his band were captured, Carrillo Fuentes had chosen to maintain a low profile and was trying to pass himself off as an ordinary inhabitant of the subdivision.
Habits and routines
Intelligence cells revealed that he left his home to buy the newspaper daily and occasionally to buy groceries and go to the movies.
The agents who followed him also reported that besides going alone, he was also unarmed.
With detailed information about his habits, and knowing his routines, the Federal police began
That day, it was last Saturday, intelligence units detected that Carrillo Fuentes was traveling in a car and was presumably carrying some amount of drugs, and decided that it was time for the detention.
The operation to arrest him was planned out. Federal agents were stationed on the boulevard Jalisco-Puerto Vallarta and they detained the gold Grand Marquis in which Carrillo Fuentes traveled, and he did not resist.
Alberto Carrillo Fuentes identified himself to agents as Armando Caballero Flores and the Feds showed him a warrant for location and presentation delivered on January 29, 2013 precisely against Armando Caballero Flores, whom was associated with three preliminary investigations.
In addition, according to the official part of the federal Government, in the interior of the Grand Marquis had two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol, magazines, cartridges, and two kilograms of cocaine.
Carrillo, according to traces of the intelligence teams, chose a house in an exclusive subdivision in Bahia de Banderas, in which lived in the company of his partner, a 32-year-old woman, and adopted the name of Armando Caballero Flores.
In Bahia de Bandera teams of Federal Police established a permanent operation of monitoring, surveillance and following the daily activities of the capo.
FP reports delivered to the safety National Commission reported that, after several members of his band were captured, Carrillo Fuentes had chosen to maintain a low profile and was trying to pass himself off as an ordinary inhabitant of the subdivision.
Habits and routines
Intelligence cells revealed that he left his home to buy the newspaper daily and occasionally to buy groceries and go to the movies.
The agents who followed him also reported that besides going alone, he was also unarmed.
With detailed information about his habits, and knowing his routines, the Federal police began
That day, it was last Saturday, intelligence units detected that Carrillo Fuentes was traveling in a car and was presumably carrying some amount of drugs, and decided that it was time for the detention.
The operation to arrest him was planned out. Federal agents were stationed on the boulevard Jalisco-Puerto Vallarta and they detained the gold Grand Marquis in which Carrillo Fuentes traveled, and he did not resist.
Alberto Carrillo Fuentes identified himself to agents as Armando Caballero Flores and the Feds showed him a warrant for location and presentation delivered on January 29, 2013 precisely against Armando Caballero Flores, whom was associated with three preliminary investigations.
In addition, according to the official part of the federal Government, in the interior of the Grand Marquis had two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol, magazines, cartridges, and two kilograms of cocaine.
designing an operation to arrest him. Two objectives were: avoid a violent arrest that could endanger the civilian population, and wait for the moment in which to incur a flagrant crime that would supply sufficient evidence to the public prosecutor's Office to file a solid accusation, in addition to the research and testing that they already had against him.
Mexico, D.F-every day, for three months, intelligence agents followed the footsteps of Alberto Carrillo Fuentes. Covert elements of the Federal Police (PF) recorded his daily activities, followed him to the store, cinema and everywhere that he went; they took photographs and videos, while his conversations were monitored, as they waited for the precise day to arrest him.
After several arrests of members of the criminal organization, the PF discovered that Carrillo Fuentes, 46 years old, changed his place of residence and identity. Intelligence cells detected that he moved to Jalisco and that after living there moved a couple of months ago to Nayarit
Six months ago, the Federal police began a hunt against leaders and members of the cartel and opened an intelligence operation in the States of Chihuahua, Jalisco and Nayarit, to locate and arrest, among others, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, who intelligence units located and followed day and night during the last three months.
According to the reports of police Alberto Carrillo, under the name of Armando Caballero, moved alone, without bodyguards, dressed in a casual way and almost always on board of an ATV.
Source El Universal