Overview

• A control judge at Reclusorio Norte linked Irving “N” to criminal proceedings on charges of crimes against health, cohecho and firearm possession, and also linked María Isabel “N”.
• The court ordered justified preventive detention for both defendants and set up to three months for complementary investigations.
• Jurisdiction over the firearm offense was declined to federal authorities, while the remaining counts proceed locally.
• Irving “N” was arrested on September 15 in Cuauhtémoc after surveillance operations, with officers seizing a loaded handgun, cash, packaged drugs and a white truck.
• Authorities frame the case as part of a yearlong crackdown that has led to more than 40 arrests of alleged Unión Tepito members and operators.