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Judge Gives 20-Year Sentence to 'El Valdo,' Alleged Los Chapitos Fentanyl Operator

Prosecutors tied the logistics operator to Los Chapitos, presenting the case before a Hermosillo control judge.

Overview

  • Mexico’s FGR, through its organized-crime unit FEMDO, secured a conviction for organized crime with directing, administrative and supervisory roles.
  • Investigators say César Osvaldo Toledo Rodríguez planned fentanyl shipments to the United States as a logistics coordinator for the network.
  • Case filings state he worked under Raúl Alberto Carrasco Lechuga, known as El Chore, who had a direct relationship with Iván Archivaldo Guzmán.
  • He was arrested in April 2023 in Culiacán by Federal Ministerial Police and Criminal Investigation Agency personnel.
  • The sentence is to be served at Federal Social Reinsertion Center No. 11 in Sonora, and authorities also link him to the 2019 Culiacanazo.