'El Mencho' tracked to secret rendezvous with romantic partner before deadly raid

Mexico’s most-wanted fentanyl kingpin, "El Mencho," was captured and killed Sunday aft authorities tracked his romanticist spouse to a concealed rendezvous determination implicit the weekend, Mexican officials revealed Monday.

The cognition reportedly began Feb. 20, targeting Jalisco New Generation Cartel person Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known arsenic "El Mencho." He carried a $15 cardinal U.S. bounty and roseate to powerfulness pursuing the apprehension of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the erstwhile caput of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said during a quality league that subject quality identified and located a trusted courier oregon defender connected to 1 of Oseguera Cervantes’s romantic partners.

The subordinate past transported the spouse to a designated compartment for an overnight gathering with "El Mencho."

A mughsot of Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known arsenic "El Mencho," beside graffiti depicting the letters of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, covering the facade of an abandoned location successful El Limoncito, successful the Michoacan authorities of Mexico. (Eduardo Verdugo/AP Images; Drug Enforcement Administration)

"On February 20, done cardinal subject quality work, a antheral of spot of 1 of El Mencho's romanticist partners was located, who took her to a installation successful the municipality of Tapalpa, Jalisco," Trevilla Trejo said.  

The pursuing day, the spouse near the property, but quality confirmed that Oseguera Cervantes remained down with a tiny information detail, prompting authorities, including Army Special Forces and the National Guard’s Immediate Reaction Force, to transportation retired the operation.

Security forces reportedly raided the backstage spot aft aerial surveillance spotted Oseguera Cervantes’ inner ellipse openly carrying amerciable high-caliber weapons, including rocket launchers and agelong guns.

A idiosyncratic sorts freshly printed copies of the paper PM bearing the header "U.S. mapped ‘El Mencho’ and Mexico delivered the last blow, Caught betwixt 2 fires," pursuing the sidesplitting of cause lord Nemesio Oseguera, known arsenic 'El Mencho,' successful a subject operation, Sunday, successful Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,.  (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)

During the confrontation, Oseguera Cervantes’ information item reportedly fired "very violently" connected subject personnel, triggering Special Forces to prosecute the attackers. Officials said 8 criminals were killed successful the archetypal signifier — correcting earlier reports of 4 — and 2 subject unit were besides wounded.

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Smoke billows from burning vehicles amid a question of violence, with torched vehicles and gunmen blocking highways successful much than fractional a twelve states, pursuing a subject cognition successful which a authorities root said Mexican cause lord Nemesio Oseguera, known arsenic "El Mencho," was killed, Sundya, successful Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. (@morelifediares via Instagram/YouTube/via Reuters)

Amid the chaos astatine the cabins, Oseguera Cervantes and his "close circle" fled into a adjacent wooded area, officials said. After soldiers located them "hidden among the brush," cartel suspects allegedly opened occurrence connected the troops. Military unit past wounded "El Mencho" and 2 of his escorts successful the shootout, according to Trevilla Trejo.

Military medics determined that Oseguera Cervantes and his 2 escorts were successful captious information and required contiguous evacuation by helicopter. Oseguera Cervantes and his 2 escorts yet died during transport, officials said.

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Authorities noted that 2,500 reinforcements were sent to articulation the 7,000 already successful the authorities to forestall further unit successful the cartel’s retaliation.

Oseguera Cervantes’ seizure and consequent decease marks 1 of Mexico’s astir important blows to cause trafficking and organized transgression since President Donald Trump called for intensified crackdowns connected cartel violence.

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