A control judge linked three people linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) for his probable responsibility in the crime of violation of the Federal Firearms and Explosives Law, in the form of carrying weapons for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR), through its Federal Prosecutor’s Office in the State of Michoacán, reported in recent days that elements of the Secretary of National Defense (Defense) arrested in recent days Roberto “A”, Víctor “R” and Roberto “N”in the community of El Molinito, in Apatzingán.
These subjects were aboard a vehicle in possession of four grenades, a Barrett rifle-type firearm with two magazines and 17 useful cartridges, three rifle-type firearms with 23 magazines and 520 useful cartridges, a piece of jewelry, five grenade holders and two tactical vests.
“Derived from the evidence data obtained and provided by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF), the judge in the case decreed connection to proceedings, informal preventive detention against him and 60 days of complementary investigation,” the FGR indicated in a statement.
On November 26, the Government of Michoacán confirmed a criminal alliance between the Jalisco New Generation Cartelled by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, and Los Viagras to extort lemon producers in the Tierra Caliente region.
General Eugenio Leonardo López Arellanes, coordinator of the National Guard in Michoacán, recognized the criminal alliance that affects more than 70 lemon packing plants installed in the municipalities of Apatzingán, Buenavista, Tepalcatepec, Aguililla, Mújica and Parácuaro, which have paid up to 2 pesos for each kilo of packaged lemon.
For his part, the Secretary of the Government of Michoacán, Carlos Torres Piña, recognized that the criminal groups led by Mencho and Nicolás Sierra Santana They are the main generators of violence in the Tierra Caliente area.
This confirmation comes after a narcomanta appeared last September announcing this criminal union.
“The entire population is made to know that with the union of our friends of the Virgin (Viagras) and Los Blancos de Troya to the CJNG, very good things are coming for the region, peace is coming,” the narco-message read.
