This case resulted from the ongoing efforts by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), a partnership that brings together the combined expertise and unique abilities of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Their tireless efforts, commitment to their agencies, and dedication to their communities have led law enforcement to a victory in the continuing battle against the gangs and drugs that plague our communities.. La Familia Michoacana, (English: The Michoacn Family) La Familia (English: The Family), or LFM is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacn.They are known to produce large amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Michoacan.Formerly allied to the Gulf Cartelas part of Los Zetasit split off in 2006. We are a necessary evil." 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La Familia members attacked the Federal Police station in Morelia to try to free Rueda shortly after his arrest. [65] Criminal activity in the State of Mexico was also now only contested by Los Rojos, dissidents from the Beltrn Leyva Organization, splinter groups from La Familia Michoacana and criminal gangs from Mexico City. The Southern California Drug Task Force is comprised of federal and local law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, the ATF, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Pasadena Police Department. [6][8] The cartel was founded by Carlos Rosales Mendoza, a close associate of Osiel Crdenas. It is alleged that La Familia used proceeds from the sale of drugs to purchase or obtain hundreds of firearms that were then moved illicitly to Mexico." Cuernavaca your right except the part you say matazetas were CDSThey were clicked up with CDS but were never CDS..Why you think cjng got Colima and jalisco after they broke their ALIANCE?Because those were cjng plazasIf they would have been CDS those plazas would not be cjng.They joined forces to fight Los zetas. It's all FACTS.It's not my opinion. Omar Hugo Robles, 30, of Sylmar, an alleged associate of La Familia, who was arrested this morning. La Familia is a heavily armed cartel that has utilized violence to support its narcotics trafficking business including murders, kidnappings and assaults. La Nueva Familia Michoacana operates in the southern areas of Mexico. O local possui belas praias naturais de gua doce, que so invadidas por turistas gachos em finais de semana e frias de vero. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas. Of course not! This group is known to have military style weapons obtained from their cartel connections in the United States and Mexico. On April 20, 2009, about 400 Federal Police agents raided a christening party for a baby born to a cartel member. Project Coronado Results in Nearly 1,200 Arrests During 44-month Operation, Seizures of Approximately 11.7 Tons of Drugs and $32.8 Million in U.S. Currency, the increases in cooperation between U.S. and Mexican authorities in recent years, we are taking the fight to our adversaries. "Project Coronado, our massive assault on the La Familia Cartel,is part of our continued fight against all of the powerful Mexico-based drug cartels," said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. This investigation into the Mexican Mafia started in May 2010 and also involved the Montebello Police Department, the Bakersfield Police Department, the Long Beach Police Department, the Glendale Police Department, the United States Marshals Service, the United States Secret Service, the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency, the United States Bureau of Prisons, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Special Services Unit, and the Huntington Park Police Department. Osiel started off recruiting Guzmn Decena (Z1) then he recruited the other GAFE deserters. Didn't those pendejos learn their lesson? The signs declared that one of Mexico's most feared drug cartels, La Familia Michoacana, was disbanding after body blows from a federal offensive that is . The investigators have done a magnificent job at thwarting this relationship. Many of its leaders have been arrested for threatening and blackmailing people on social media. An official website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 12 Mexican federal officers were tortured and killed in retaliation for La Minsas capture, Immigration Authority Delegation Program 287(g). We will be waiting for you here. La Familia is philosophically opposed to the sale of methamphetamine to Mexicans, and instead supports its export to the United States for consumption by Americans. It was a big threat to chapo so he paid good money to Calderon to make sure he was the top dog and eliminating any threat to his big dog position. On Feb. 25, 2010, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Rueda-Medina under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his involvement in drug trafficking. The La Familia cartel is a violent drug trafficking cartel based in the state of Michoacn, in southwestern Mexico. 31 relaciones: Antnez (Michoacn), Atentado en Morelia de 2008, lvaro Colom, Caballeros Templarios (crtel), Crtel (organizacin ilcita), Crtel de Jurez, Crtel de Sinaloa, Crtel del . General Marcelino Garcia Barragan the Butcher of Tlatelolco born in chiguauguau was governor of jalisco, and owner of drug trafficking before the Tlatelolco massacre his son in charge of the DFS worked with guadalajara cartel and the grandson alias The Ghost of Ayotzinapa is running shit on the DF (mexico city) making points to get the secretary of defense or at least national intelligence director he worked with drug traffickers all his motherfucking to life, that is Omar Hamid Garcia Harfuch an animal with no intelligence whatsoever but with the necessary pedigree to go places and an ally of genarco garcia Luna presently working for la candidata presidential Claudia Sheinbaum of la 4taAfter AMLO is gone, there will be trouble, with the Neo-Carrancistas replacing the neo-liberalistas as even worser rats in Mexican Politics, I bet omarcito will still own Jalisco and Colima after that. [49] The cartel has moved from smuggling and selling drugs and turned itself into a much more ambitious criminal organization which acts as a parallel state in much of Michoacn. "This organization, the newest of Mexican cartels, is directly responsible for a vast majority of the methamphetamine pouring into our country across our Southwest Border, and has had a hand in fueling the cycle of violence that is wracking Mexico today. The indictment unsealed today focuses on how the gang has generated illicit profits through the sale of drugs and firearms, fraud, and extortion. Otra dos versiones, de acuerdo con InSigh Crime, tienen que ver con integrantes del Crtel Milenio que se rebelaron. Cartel members were arrested across the United States, and face charges in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C.[62] This announcement came just a month after Mexican authorities announced the capture of cartel leader Jos de Jess Mndez Vargas.[63]. 64 relaciones: Alcalde, Arizona, Armada de Mxico, Baja California, Beretta 92, California, Crtel de Jalisco Nueva Generacin, Crtel de los Beltrn Leyva, Crtel de Sinaloa, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, CONAFE . [57], On October 22, 2009, U.S. federal authorities announced the results of a four-year investigation into the operations of La Familia Michoacana in the United States dubbed Project Coronado. In May 2022, Mexico's Excelsior newspaper stated that the Nueva Familia Michoacana was the third-largest cartel in the country. The detainees are Daniel de Jess Tirado Pea, 28 years old; Ricardo Vsquez Aguirre, 24, and Jess Eduardo Jimnez Rubio, 26, who were apprehended with marijuana, a gram scale, and a gray Renault vehicle with license plate PBY6554. DALLAS The leader of "La Familia Michoacn" (LFM) Mexican drug cartel was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve more than 43 years in federal prison and fined $5 million for offenses related to his leadership role within LFM. "Multi-agency coordinated investigations such as Project Coronado are the key to disrupting the operations of complex criminal organizations like La Familia. Not all of the firearms involved in the massacre were confiscated, so not all the sicarios involved were apprehended. During the attacks, two soldiers and three federal policemen were killed. Stupid dudedoesn't CJNG have a pact with CDG. [10] The cartel gives loans to farmers, businesses, schools and churches,[40] and it advertises its benevolence in local newspapers in order to gain social support. Flores Camargo moves large quantities of high grade marijuana and cocaine through the I-75 corridor for distribution in Detroit, supplying the city and its outskirts and suburbs. The Mexican Mafia is a powerful prison gang that controls much of the drug trade and other criminal activities within California state prisons, county jails and some federal prisons, according to the indictments unsealed this morning. Assistance for Project Coronado was provided by the Criminal Divisions Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section and Office of International Affairs. The .gov means its official. ITS FACTS SON, 2:17 bro we know your a teenager dont try and hide it, 1:47 michoacan cartels ALL made a truce with CDS to fight their common enemy Los zetas. WASHINGTON Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics as part of a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Project Coronado." [39] Its members use murder and torture to quash rivals, while building a social base in the Mexican state of Michoacn. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. The indictment alleges that participants in the Project sought to give La Familia members free rein to sell methamphetamine in Southern California and to provide protection for incarcerated cartel members in exchange for money and methamphetamine going to Mexican Mafia members. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. An indictment is merely an allegation and is not evidence of guilt. [53] When that failed, cartel members attacked Federal Police installations in at least a half-dozen Michoacn cities in retribution. After his arrest, members of LFM attempted to free him, and although unsuccessful, a shootout ensued through the streets of Morelia, Michoacan. More than 300 federal, state, local and foreign law enforcement agencies contributed investigative and prosecutorial resources to Project Coronado through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. It was a very well planned operation by hit men who have no military background most are just your average person who know the basics of a gun little to nothing of experience use has decoys since they cause lot of caos are replaceable the next day if needed, It's a mess in michoacan right now.Michoacan was solid at one point but Calderon messed that up with the michoacanazo starting around 2006.Michoacanos were tight and that's when they took out the zetas after creating FM. [38], On July 16, 2009, Servando Gmez Martnez (La Tuta), the cartel operations chief, contacted a local radio station and stated: "La Familia was created to look after the interests of our people and our family. El chango and El mas loco with tuta broke off and created la familia michoacano and went to war with los zetas do you not remember the five heads that were rolled on the dance floor that was one of the opening salvos of the FM-zetas war. Outside of the United States, the operation resulted in the arrest of more than 1,900 members. For media inquiries about ICE activities, operations, or policies, contact the ICE Office of Public Affairs at (202) 732-4646. 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