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This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL
Román Ortega | El Occidental
Elements of the Secretary of the Navy detained a subject identified as “El Mini Toy”, during an operation carried out on Wednesday evening in the exclusive Cima Park condominium, in the municipality of Zapopán.
The detainee was transferred in the midst of a heavy security operation to Mexico City, where he was handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Attorney General’s Office for investigation.
Sources close to the Attorney General’s Office indicated that the suspect was involved in the sale and purchase of cars for the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation.
The sources consulted indicated that two apartments, cash, and several works of art, including paintings dedicated to members of the criminal group, were seized during the operation.
The sources confirmed that the operation was aimed at capturing a man named Audias Flores Silva, alias ‘El Jardinero’, the head of the Nayarit state plaza, who was posing as a businessman and art collector, and who managed to escape the operation.
Unofficially, it is known that the Marines also freed a person who had been deprived of his liberty.
The sources consulted indicated that “El Jardinero” is indicated as one of the intellectual authors of the attack against military personnel last Sunday in Teocaltiche, where three soldiers died and three more were wounded.
The US State Department states that “El Jardinero” is considered to be the successor of Nemesio Oceguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”.
He is also in charge of the criminal group’s illicit activities in Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas.
In 2016 he was arrested for the murder of 15 elements of the Fuerza Única de Jalisco, in San Sebastián del Oeste.
He is also in charge of operating methamphetamine laboratories in Jalisco and southern Zacatecas.
Source: EL OCCIDENTAL
W Radio GDL on X, “Navy officers headed an operation in Coto Privado Cima Park in the vicinity of the exclusive Real zone in Zapopan, Jalisco. Avoid driving around the area. Information in process. Via
@antonionerij.”