GUANAJUATO - Mexican security forces have captured drug gang leader Adán Ochoa, known as “El Azul,” who headed a cartel central Mexico blamed for fanning a surge of violence this year.
Guanajuato’s governor Diego Sinhue announced Ochoa’s capture on Twitter on Wednesday night.
Ochoa rose to the head of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, a Guanajuato-based outfit, after Mexican security forces captured the gang’s former boss, Jose Antonio Yepez, known as “El Marro,” in August. [nL1N2F4046]
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel has been engaged in a bloody struggle for supremacy in the state with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent gangs, leading to soaring violence in the region.
#InformaciónAlMomento Adán “N” alias “El Azul” ha sido capturado. En operativo #GuanajuatoSeguro de fuerzas estatales y federales se ha concretado su detención en el municipio de #Celaya pic.twitter.com/7Kb1Sl6F4j
— Agencia de Investigación Criminal de Guanajuato (@AIC_Guanajuato) October 15, 2020
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