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This article was translated and reposted from INFOBAE
Also nicknamed “El M58″, this subject was a priority target in Tamaulipas.
This subject was captured after a mega-operation in Reynosa (FGR/Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office).
Almost a month after his arrest, Roque Cruz Fuentes, alias “Comandante Roque” or “El M58″ was indicted for multiple crimes he allegedly committed as a leader of the Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel.
Sources from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) confirmed that the mega-operation deployed by the Army and police agents on September 7 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas was aimed at capturing this criminal leader.
Along with “El Comandante Roque,” eight of his subordinates were apprehended when they were caught kidnapping a person.
The nine people, reported the Attorney General’s Office, were indicted for five crimes: aggravated kidnapping, stockpiling of firearms, possession of cartridges and possession of magazines for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force; crimes against health in the form of possession of cocaine hydrochloride and fentanyl for commercial purposes in its variant of sale, and operations with resources of illicit origin.
“El M58” was captured during a sky and land operation (Facebook/Centro de Noticias Tamaulipas|Twitter/@alebarbz).
In a brief reconstruction of the facts, the authorities detailed that the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) and ministerial agents carried out a raid on a home where the alleged members of Los Metros were holding a victim captive, who was released during the operation.
The rest of the detainees, who are now facing trial, were identified by the Attorney General’s Office as Juan “M”, Yann “G”, Aurelio “B”, Martín “V”, José “M”, William “E”, Noé “A” and Erin “Z”, the latter of Honduran nationality.
Through an informative card, the Attorney General’s Office stated that “El Comandante Roque” and his eight associates are in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) Number 1 in Almoloya de Juarez, State of Mexico, better known as the Altiplano Prison.
In this facility, which is the headquarters of the Federal Criminal Justice Center, a judge ordered that they be sentenced to trial and set a period of four months for the complementary investigation to be carried out.
According to reports consulted by this newspaper, “El Comandante Roque” was one of the main operators of Los Metros in the southern zone of Reynosa and had been a priority target for the Tamaulipas Prosecutor’s Office since 2022, when he was booked along with César Morfín Morfín, alias “El Primito.
REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS