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The Leaks
The Fuel Theft Case
An investigation by the cerfi into one of the criminal rackets of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). The hydrocálido case starts with monitoring a third-level operator of the organization. It led to one of the biggest fiascos of the Army in 2022, the failed attempt to arrest the leader of the Elite Group of the CJNG, Ricardo Ramsés Ruiz, El Doble R.
In January of 2022, the western cerfi began investigating an operator of the criminal group in Aguascalientes, alias Chiquis. The fusion center found him when he arrested his boss, then captured at home owned by Chiquis. They tapped Chiquis’s phone, and shortly after, they realized that he had started working with another CJNG operator, alias Locochón, third in command of the Elite Group. Chiquis, according to the cerfi, was part of Locochón’s circle of trust.
The leaked documents collect several messages exchanged between Chiquis and characters from the underworld, most of them from May and June of 2022. There are references to the CJNG leader, Nemesio Oceguera, alias Mencho, and Double R. There are several conversations with Locochón with Chiquis, some intercepted days before the failed attempt to stop Double R. The documents identify homes and ranches belonging to Chiquis, Locochón and other characters in their circle.
In a message intercepted on August 9, “Chiquis asks Locochón if he knows what time the boys are going to meet.” Also that day, Chiquis tells another person from the Locochón circle that “the man,” supposedly El Doble R, has asked him to take two regional criminal leaders to talk to them. It is unclear which place they are referring to, but that Tuesday, August 9, the Army stormed a ranch in Ixtlahuacán. The Government explained the following day that the military surprised the drug traffickers in a meeting on the borders of Ixtlahuacán and Cuquío. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says the military arrived because of a meeting between two criminal gangs.
Also, on that day, August 10, messages intercepted from other characters in the circles of Chiquis and Locochón indicate “that Mr. Double R” was already “far from the danger zone.” One of the monitored characters says that “perhaps they took refuge in El Pitayo, at Toño’s house,” another member of Locochón’s circle of trust.
Juan Antonio “N” “El Chiquis”
DOB/Age: 32 years (2022)
05/05/2022
Chiquis told an unidentified interlocutor that he was already communicating with El Doble R, “leader of all of Michoacán.” He comments that he already has the Pearl (possibly Jalisco) and that he is getting involved “for Mexico” (CDMX). He already expressed that he was in “total control of Guanajuato since he knocked down the most bastard there” and that he had communication with the “mere lord.”
05/07/2022
06/03/2022
Chiquis complained to Antonio that “they stuck some pipes in Guanajuato and took some boys,” possibly detained by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO). Chiquis complains that this happened even though they already had everything fixed.
06/19/2022
He told a man identified as Antonio that Locochón offered him a ranch in Ixtlahuacán but that he will review how much money he could pay up front and “give him the rest in a month.” Antonio asks him to check the papers since it is an ejido.
06/22/2022
In other conversations captured during June, Chiquis spoke with Don Tony about a drug shipment, photos that he will later show him since he has them in the Signal instant messaging application.
POB: State of Mexico
José “N,” Don Tony
Operator for CJNG
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