A total of 12 persons were detained in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, a place where drug blockades were registered since last Sunday, April 30, along with the people arrested, the authorities assured weapons, drugsartifacts known as tire punch and communication equipment. According to press reports, they would be possible members of the Gulf Cartel.
The seizures were made in the Carboneras and Laguna Madre ejido and were informed on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 3 by the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office (FGJ), which explained that one of the captured individuals is a younger.
A total of 11 Photographs were published on the social networks of the FGJin which it was possible to see that the arrested men were identified as José Vicente “G”, Jorge “O”, Esteban “Z”, Domingo “R”, Sergio “G” and Édgar Yahir “H”.
It was detailed that the authorities assured two long guns and a vehicle and that members of the Ministry of the Navy participated in the actions (semar). While the rest of the detainees were Ángel “M”, Valentín “C”, Marco Antonio “L”, Julios César “C” and David “G”. All those arrested were placed at the disposal of the Public Ministry so that their legal situation can be defined.
“Investigative Police, in coordination with elements of the @SEMAR_mx, arrested 12 people, including a minor, seizing weapons, radio equipment, drugs and ponchallantas, in Ejido Carboneras and Laguna Madre #SanFernando, #Tamaulipas” , was the message on social networks from the Tamaulipas Prosecutor’s Office.
Intelligence reports indicated that the insured would be part of the Gulf cartelspecifically the Scorpion Group which, according to statements by the authorities, would be one of those responsible for the violence in Tamaulipas along with Los Panteras.
Likewise, the seizures occurred after the head of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), Luis Cresencio Sandoval, announced the deployment of effective in Tamaulipas to reinforce security. More of 700 uniformed They will carry out security tasks, he also detailed the use of two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter gunships.
In a conference offered on Wednesday, May 3, in which the governor from Tamaulipas, Americo Villarreal and Héctor Joel Villegas, Secretary General of the Government and Mario Alberto López Hernández, municipal president of Matamoros, it was detailed that the violent acts respond to settling accounts that have been operating in the region for a long time.
When asked about the possible presence of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) because a vehicle with the initials of the criminal group was registered, the Secretary of Security of Tamaulipas, Sergio Hernando Chávez, assured that it is not the way in which the so-called four letter poster.
“Possibly the point of that was pretend to be the reinforcement of these people from Jaliscobut it has not been verified that there is any element operating”, commented Sergio Chávez, who emphasized that the units were not labeled, but rather marked with shoe paint.
Some of those vehicles had painted “in a very bad way” with the aim of pretending that they have their support, “without this being real”, were the statements of the official.
In other actions related to CJNGduring the afternoon of Tuesday, May 3, a confrontation between alleged members of the criminal group from Jalisco and elements of the Army in Morelia, Michoacán that left eight civilians dead. security elements repelled he attack by armed civilians, which led to the assurance of eight long gunsas well as two vans.