Navy forces arrest Jalisco Cartel boss in northern Mexico wanted by the US

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The highly effective Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) suffered a brand new blow on Monday with the arrest in northwest Mexico of Audias Flores Silva, alias “El Jardinero,” who was recognized as one among the leaders of the group and for whom the United States provided a reward of 5 million {dollars}.

The seize of Flores Silva happens two months after the army operation in which the chief of the CJNG, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”in the state of Jalisco.

The capo was arrested in the state of Nayarit in an operation by the particular forces of the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR), the federal Security Secretary, Omar García Harfuch, mentioned in his X account.

Flores Silva is initially from the western city of Huetamo, state of Michoacán, and based on native media he served as head of safety for Oseguera Cervantes after which assumed a part of the CJNG operations in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacán and Guerrero the place he had below his management a number of methamphetamine laboratories and supervised the operation of a number of plane and clandestine touchdown strips for the switch of medicine.

Some media shops indicated that Flores Silva may assume the management of the CJNG after the dying of “El Mencho.”

The United States Department of State provided a reward of 5 million {dollars} for info that will assist in his location and seize.

Flores Silva was arrested in 2016 for his alleged participation in an ambush in opposition to cops in the city of Soyatlán, state of Jalisco, which occurred a 12 months earlier, however he was later launched.

Oseguera Cervantes died on February 22 in an operation by the Mexican military in the city of Tapalpa, south of the state of Jalisco. After his dying, a wave of violence was unleashed in twenty states that left greater than 70 useless, together with 25 nationwide guardsmen.