Overview

• Authorities raided Hernán Bermúdez Requena’s vacant home in Residencial Campestre on the night of August 1, securing the property without finding the fugitive exsecurity chief.
• Six alleged members of La Barredora were arrested in Puebla during coordinated operations by the Secretariat of Security, the Navy and Puebla state prosecutors.
• Investigators confiscated tactical vests marked “Operativa Barredora” and “CJNG,” multiple firearms, ammunition reserved for the military and suspected narcotics.
• Two detainees were linked to a vehicle possibly used in the killing of a Puebla state police custodian, while others were captured at a safe house in the Santa Margarita neighborhood.
• Bermúdez Requena remains at large since fleeing Mexico in January and is believed to be hiding in Brazil under a February arrest warrant.