Gustavo Castillo
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 20, 2025, p. 5
Federal authorities dealt a blow to the operational structure of the Jalisco cartel New Generation (CJNG)by arresting Armando Gómez Núñez alias in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco. Delta 146 years old and leader of one of the main groups of hitmen of this organization.
The security cabinet reported that Gómez Núñez “is identified as a commander of hitmen and members dedicated to lifting up people who are taken to safe houses where they were tortured and then deprived of their lives.”
Delta 1 He is also one of the main operators and trusted man of Juan Carlos, J3, stepson of the leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, The Mencho. Government records identify him as “responsible for the expansion of the CJNG in Michoacán, under an alleged alliance with the cartel The Viagras”.
The cell under his control maintains a presence in various municipalities of Jalisco and its members are classified as highly violent. Gómez Núñez is also in charge of coordinating a group of inmates in the Puente Grande Preventive Prison, Jalisco, to coordinate drug sales and extortion, federal authorities say.
He was captured as a result of intelligence work. “Security agents followed up on a man identified as the leader of a criminal cell dedicated to committing homicides, extortion, and drug trafficking, with a presence in several municipalities of Jalisco.”
With this, a re-arrest order was obtained for crimes against health, in the form of possession of methamphetamine hydrochloride, for commercial purposes, said the security cabinet.
