Overview

• Ezequiel Cárdenas Rivera, known as “El Junior,” was formally linked to a criminal process for alleged possession of a firearm reserved for the Armed Forces.
• A federal judge deemed his August 17 detention in Matamoros legal and imposed mandatory pretrial custody at the Altiplano maximum‑security prison.
• Authorities say state officers stopped him in the Villa Española area and seized a firearm, a magazine and five live rounds from his vehicle.
• The resolution was obtained with evidence presented by the FGR’s Regional Control Prosecutor’s Office (FECOR) in Tamaulipas, and a two‑month window was set for complementary investigation.
• Media accounts note his lineage as Tony Tormenta’s son and report ties to Los Escorpiones, though the current proceeding concerns only the weapons charge; separately, a tribunal rejected an amparo by Osiel Cárdenas in an older weapons case.