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| Sinaloa Cartel Takes Another Big Hit. Cesar Gastelum Captured Posted: 12 Apr 2015 04:32 PM PDT Borderland Beat posted by DD, Republished from El Universal and Yahoo News César Gastélum is arrested in Cancun.
Mexican marines and police have arrested a man authorities describe as a leading cocaine trafficker for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, authorities said Sunday.. Monte Alejandro Rubido, Mexico's national security commissioner, said Cesar Gastelum Serrano was arrested Saturday in the resort city of Cancun. Along with three of his brothers, he is accused of large-scale cocaine trafficking through the Colombia-Honduras-Guatemala route to Mexico, with final destination to the United States. Rubido said he worked with Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada — one of the  Authorities said Gastélum operated a family company specializing in scaffolding, which allowed him to move "multiple tons" of cocaine per week and added that he was carrying a pistol and 700 grams (24.7 ounces) of cocaine at the time of his arrest. Rubido said that when Gastelum Serrano was in Cancun, "he moved around the area with a low profile, without bodyguards. He did not carry any identification, not even false ones, to avoid detection." Rubido said Gastelum Serrano had operated in Honduras, and had been linked to the killing of law enforcement officials there. He said he operated for a time in San Pedro Sula, Honduras' most violent city, and moved Colombian cocaine through Central America to the U.S. market, as well as distributing drugs in Central America. In December 2013 the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Gastélum as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Kingpin Act along with three of his brothers: Alfredo, Jaime, and Guadalupe Candelario Gastélum Serrano. "With support from his brothers, César Gastélum Serrano has been able to establish himself as one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel," OFAC Director Adam J. Szubin said at the time. The Treasury added that Gastélum used a vast criminal network to lead a cocaine trafficking organization capable of moving tons of cocaine per week through Honduras and Guatemala to Mexico. Consequently, all assets of those designated that are based in the United States or in the control of U.S. persons were frozen, and U.S. persons were generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.  | ||
| Dr. Mireles Will Be Freed Thursday or Friday Posted: 12 Apr 2015 10:45 AM PDT  Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat The former spokesman of the autodefensasof Tepalcatepec, Dr. José Manuel Mireles Valverde, will be freed sometime between Thursday the 16 and Friday the 17 of April, according to the wife of Dr. Mireles, Ana Valencia, based on what the defense attorney said. Interviewed via telephone by Quadratín, the wife of Mireles said that the litigant, Javier Livas, has transferred to the prison of Hermosillo, Sonora in order to wait for a response and to wait for the release of Dr. Mireles. He revealed that even support groups are organizing a welcoming outside the federal prison for the former spokesman, who was detained on June 27 2014, and two days later, admitted to the maximum security prison. Valencia said that Dr. Mireles will immediately board a plane that will move him to Guadalajara, Jalisco, and later to Michoacán, specifically to Tepalcatepec. It should be noted that in recent days, the First Unitary Court granted an amparo to the former leader of the Michoacán autodefensas, José Manuel Mireles Valverde, and to three of his bodyguards accused of violating the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives. Source: Quadratin  |
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