Overview
- Police executed an arrest warrant on Calle Las Rosas in Lomas de San Lorenzo, Iztapalapa, after intelligence-led fixed and mobile surveillance.
- The warrant stems from an August 2024 shooting in that neighborhood in which a woman was killed, investigated as qualified homicide.
- Authorities identify the 27-year-old detainee as the presumed head of the cell known as Los Malportados or Cártel Nuevo Imperio, active in Mexico City and parts of Estado de México, Morelos, and Guerrero.
- Investigators link him to five case files from 2023 to 2025 covering narcomenudeo and criminal association, a 2024 feminicide, extortion, organized crime, and firearms-related offenses.
- The operation was carried out jointly by federal and local agencies including SSC-CDMX, SSPC, Sedena, Semar, FGR, the National Guard, and FGJ-CDMX, and officers informed him of his rights before transfer.