They arrest Jando, pilot and operator of the Chapitos

Gustavo Castillo and AFP

La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, February 9, 2025, p. 7

In a joint operation carried out in the community of Jesús María, in the municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa, and after a confrontation, Mauro Alberto Núñez Ojeda was arrested, Jandoidentified as the author of the attacks with explosive artifacts that occurred in Vascogil and Tamazula, Durango, on October 28 and November 6, 2024, as well as having sent a group of hitmen on January 5, 2023 to try to rescue Ovid Guzmán, The mouse.

Meanwhile, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said yesterday that the Sinaloa cartel, He is the boss of the armed group of that country National Liberation Army (ELN).

The security cabinet considers Jando as “an important criminal cell operator The Chapitosof the Sinaloa Cartel, and a trusted man of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapito”

Núñez Ojeda is a civil aviator pilot and “key operator in the structure of The Chapitos”Federal authorities reported.

This arrest was the result of the reinforcement of public security in Sinaloa, and the operation was headed by elements of the Ministry of National Defense and National Guard, together with personnel from the Secretariat of the Marine-Armada of Mexico and the Attorney General’s Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.

Security agents performed surveillance patrols in Jesús María when they were attacked with gunshots, so the personnel, seeing their physical integrity in danger, repelled the aggression and controlled the situation; During the confrontation a military lost his life.

The detainee was made available to the Public Ministry agent to determine his legal situation and integrate the investigation folder of the case.

Meanwhile, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said yesterday that the Sinaloa Cartel, heir to the Empire of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, He is the current chief of the ELNthe guerrillas that recently triggered the worst burst of violence in a decade in that country.

The owners of these structures are not Colombian commanders, they are those who buy cocaine of Mexican origin. The Sinaloa Cartel is the current chief of the ELNsaid the leftist president in a speech in the city of Bucaramanga.

The Colombian Government leads a military offensive against the rebels on the border with Venezuela since mid -January, after a bloody attack by the armed group against the civilian population and members of a split structure of the extinct revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC). The violent wave has left at least 53 dead, eight missing and more than 50 thousand displaced.

In January, Bogotá Councilor Julián Sastoque made public a 2023 police report according to which the guerrillas is engaging in international criminal alliances and negotiating With the Sinaloa Cartel through the exchange of cocaine hydrochloride by weapons.