By The opinion
02 Nov 2023, 2:55 PM EDT
A few weeks ago, narcomantas appeared in Tijuana, in the Mexican state of Baja California, where Los Chapitos and the cartel The Arellano Felix They banned the production and trafficking of fentanyl due to the US government’s campaign against organized crime, but a man defied the order, which cost him his freedom.
Ernesto Alonzo, alias “El Neto”, 33 years old and originally from Mocorito, Sinaloa, was arrested in possession of more than 150,000 fentanyl pills and seven kilograms of cocainewhen he was on board his vehicle, as reported by Síntesis TV, an anonymous call to the emergency number alerted him to the presence of a suspicious person.
After the warning, police officers went to the indicated location and asked the occupant of the vehicle to get out of the unit. Upon doing so and inspecting the car, the aforementioned drug was found. In a bag were the white pills that together They weighed three kilograms.
Another discovery was made in the trunk, there was a blue plastic box containing nine packages with tan tape marked with the number 1; In all the packages there were blue pills with the legend “M-30”. Three packages marked with the number 21 were also found containing blue pills, weighing approximately 12 kilograms of fentanyl.
But it was not the only illegal thing that “El Neto” had with him, he also had seven packages of white powder in his possession, which weighed seven kilograms of cocaine.
The ban on trafficking fentanyl
Sinaloa was the Mexican state where the first narcomantas signed by Los Chapitos appeared that prohibited fentanyl trafficking, in addition to exposing the reasons, They threatened to “pay the consequences” to anyone who did not comply with the order.
Days later in Tijuana, identical blankets appeared, but signed by the Tijuana Cartel, also known as Los Arellano Félix, they assured that they joined the measure of Los Chapitos and threatened to “persecute and punish” anyone who manufactured, sold, or transport said drug.
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