All you glass aficioniados better stock up asap. Ovidio Guzman nicknamed “the Mouse” has been captured by the Mexican military. He was immediately taken to Altiplano prison- Mexico’s equivalent to Florence ADX in the sense that is the most secure and holds the most important prisoners. THough, Altiplano is where EL CHAPO escaped from LOL.
The reason I sarcastically said all you glass aficionadas better stock up is because Ovidio and his brothers primary business, that the US Federal government knows about, at least, is the operation of 11 Meth superlabs that pump out up to 10,000 pound per month… now if pounds are 2k wholesale in LA, let’s assume that Ovidio and his team were getting $1k for each, which is very conservative, thats $120 Million per year just from that. Now, of course, him being captured probably won’t slow production or the movement into America of the Drug du Jour. Incidentally, Los Angeles county is, to my knowledge, the only large county in the United States that has more OD deaths from the clear white than from any other illegal substance, which should tell you how rampant its availability and use is here in the city of Lost Angels.
If you remember back in 2019, the Mexican Army got ahold of Ovidio but when Sinaloa Sicarios came into Culiacan- capital of Sinaloa State- and HQ of the Meth production business- by the thousands the government, in a major embarrassment, had to release Ovidio.
Guzmán’s arrest early Thursday morning prompted chaos around the city of Culiacán, as authorities urged members of the public not to leave the city while administrative activities were suspended.
His arrest was the result of a lengthy operation which involved 200 special forces, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Friday. Local officials urged citizens to shelter at home amid clashes with cartel members in various parts of the city.
At lleast 19 suspected gang members and 10 military personnel died during violent clashes in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, after authorities arrested Guzmán, along with 21 others. No civilian deaths or injuries were reported.
Security at Altiplano prison has been increased since Guzmán was detained, the minister added.
He was previously arrested by federal authorities in October 2019, but was released on the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to avoid further bloodshed.
Guzmán’s father, “El Chapo,” had escaped from Altiplano prison on July 11, 2015, but was captured and convicted in the US four years later of 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, drug trafficking and firearms charges. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years and ordered to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture.
The state of Sinaloa is home to one of the world’s most powerful narcotics trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel, of which “El Chapo” was the leader.
The arrest of Ovidio Guzmán comes days before US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visit Mexico City to attend the North American Leaders Summit.
Capturing Guzmán could be a way for López Obrador to show the US that he is “in control of the armed forces and Mexico’s security situation,” Gladys McCormick, a associate professor at Syracuse University who focuses on Mexico-U.S. relations, told CNN in an email.
“It also defuses the power behind any ask from the Biden administration to stem the tide of fentanyl and other narcotics across the border,” she added.
The State Department, which was offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Guzmán’s arrest, wrote that law enforcement investigations indicated that Guzmán and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, “inherited a great deal of the narcotics proceeds” following the death of another brother, Edgar Guzmán-López.
They “began investing large amounts of the cash into the purchasing of marijuana in Mexico and cocaine in Colombia. They also began purchasing large amounts of ephedrine from Argentina and arranged for the smuggling of the product into Mexico as they began to experiment with methamphetamine production,” the State Department said.
Now, of course, the point of arresting Ovidio Guzman was to send him to America to join his dad doing a very lengthy prison term,
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