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The founder of La Resistencia operated in Jalisco, Michoacán,  and Mexico City.

Román Ortega | El Occidental

Elements of the Federal Ministerial Police served an arrest warrant for the imprisonment of Ramiro P, “El Molca”, leader of the extinct La Resistencia cartel, who since December 2021 was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the crimes of organized crime, crimes against health in the modality of drug dealing in its hypothesis of possession of narcotics called cocaine hydrochloride and marijuana for commercial purposes, in its variant of sale; and stockpiling of firearms for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

The Attorney General’s Office informed that the warrant issued by the Fourth District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings of the former Inquisitorial System was served against “El Molca” for the crimes of kidnapping, extortion and organized crime.

Ramiro “P” is being held in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation No. 1 “Altiplano”, formerly Rancho La Palma, in Almoloya de Juarez, in the State of Mexico.

El Molca was arrested in September 2012, in an operation carried out by federal police in Metepec, State of Mexico, when he was 42 years old. At the time of his arrest, an AK-47 assault rifle known as ‘Cuerno de Chivo’ (goat’s horn) with gold inserts was seized.

The founder of La Resistencia operated at the time in Jalisco, Michoacán, Mexico State and the Federal District.

In the 1990s, “El Molca” was part of the Knights Templar and later joined the Valencia cartel.

He later formed La Resistencia after the breakup of the Cártel del Milenio, following the death of Ignacio Coronel, and waged a war with the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation until he was arrested.

El OCCIDENTAL