Overview
- Security units from Quintana Roo’s investigative group, the Navy and the Army detained Emilio Alejandro “N” on December 5 in Cancún’s Benito Juárez municipality.
- Authorities identify him as a presumed CJNG plaza leader tied to the Deltas: Operativa Jaguar cell that sought to expand control across northern Quintana Roo municipalities including Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Isla Mujeres.
- Officers seized a Glock 9mm pistol with a magazine and 12 rounds, roughly 300,000 pesos in cash, four phones and a backpack holding packaged marijuana, cocaine and crystal-like fragments.
- The arrest followed an urban surveillance stop in which a vehicle was secured, with officials later transferring the suspect and evidence to the state’s specialized anti-narcotics prosecutor.
- Weeks before the capture, investigators confiscated weapons and tactical gear bearing Deltas markings, and officials now describe the detention as a significant blow to the group’s local structure.