Morelia, Michoacán.- They capture one of the leaders of the «Michoacan Family and Los Viagras», is considered a highly dangerous man, has been identified as one of the main operators of the cartels on the coast of Guerrero, dedicated mainly to the sale of drugs, collection of extortion, kidnapping, homicide, among other crimes.
The link with the Michoacán cartels has been one of the main reasons for coordinated work between various prosecutors and security and intelligence corporations, the arrest was achieved in the state of Querétaro.
The Familia Michoacana is one of the cartels that was born at the beginning of the century in Michoacán, in the Tierra Caliente area, Over the years it has been gaining ground in other states, it is the antagonistic cartel of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). It is known that it has a presence in at least four states, Michoacán, Guerrero, the State of Mexico, as its new base of operations, and Mexico City.
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The alliance known asUnited Cartels» is a criminal pact that has been made between various cartels that operate in the states of Michoacán and Guerrero, generating «brotherhood» between «Los Viagras, La Familia Michoacana, Los Tepeque» among other criminal cells, so it is common that the detained leaders are linked to different cartels.
Following up on the national security strategy and in coordinated intelligence work between the State Attorney General’s Office, the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination, the National Defense Secretariat, the Navy Secretariat, the State Public Security Secretariat, and the Querétaro Prosecutor’s Office, they managed to the capture of José Santos “N”, linked to the criminal groups “La Familia Michoacana” and “Los Viagras”, considered a priority objective and main generator of violence in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero.
This was done in compliance with an arrest warrant for the crime of aggravated kidnapping on February 14, 2018, when the victim was in his tortilla sales business in the Darío Galeana neighborhood in the municipality of Zihuatanejo, being abducted by several people and demanding an amount of money in exchange for his freedom.
The Guerrero Prosecutor’s Office, through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office Against Kidnapping and the aforementioned authorities, through intelligence work, complied with the arrest warrant in the State of Queretaro.
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The detainee is joined by six people previously, five male and one more female, who are in informal preventive detention for the crime of aggravated kidnapping of a male person, also in Zihuatanejo.
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