“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
They participated in violent acts, maintaining links with people in Quintana Roo, recruiting in the CDMX
Investigative work was carried out by the Secretariat of Public Safety, the Attorney General’s Office and the Investigation Police.
As a result of an investigation carried out by the Secretariat of Public Safety, the Attorney General’s Office and the Investigation Police, nine arrest warrants were issued for the crime of criminal association.
The organization was dedicated to the sale and distribution of drugs; extortion and extortion of merchants and shopkeepers, demanding money from 10,000 to 100,000 pesos; their areas of operation were Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza and Benito Juárez.
The leader of the criminal cell is Raul “N” alias “El Jefe”, he collaborated with Roberto “N”, alias “El Betito”, leader of Tepito; the members of the criminal group participated in violent acts, maintaining links with people in Quintana Roo, recruiting in the CDMX; they covered everything to move them to the state and paid 5 thousand pesos plus an additional amount for criminal actions.
Nine arrest warrants were issued for criminal association against the members of the criminal group that carried out the actions in Quintana Roo; in May Raul “N” was arrested, and nine more were arrested in recent days who were in charge of recruitment.
In recent days “El Gori”, who was in charge of recruiting for Quintana Roo, was arrested; he had communication with some criminal cells in Playa del Carmen and Cancun but had no relationship with the CDMX other than a collaboration with “El Gori” for recruitment.
“El Jefe”
Raul “R”, alias El Jefe, successor leader of the criminal group La Union Tepito after the capture of El Betito and two of his main lieutenants was captured by agents of the uniformed police of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City. El Jefe is considered a generator of violence in the municipalities of Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza, Gustavo A. Madero, Iztapalapa, Miguel Hidalgo and Benito Juárez.
PDI agents arrested in May 2022, Raúl “N”, alias “El Jefe”, considered as one of the main current leaders of “La Unión Tepito”, after the arrest of Roberto “M”, alias “El Betito” (2018) and Óscar “A”, alias “El Lunares” (2020).
In 2010 he was admitted to the Reclusorio Preventivo Varonil Oriente for the crimes of robbery and carrying a firearm. After his release from the penitentiary, “El Jefe” rose through the ranks to become the head of assassins and right-hand man of Roberto “M”, alias “El Betito” (2020).
