Blow to “Los Chapitos” in Sinaloa: 10 searches, 5 arrests, 10 cars seized

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Federal authorities dealt a blow to the criminal organization of “Los Chapitos”, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.

They carried out 10 simultaneous raids in the municipalities of Culiacán, Mazatlán and Rosario, Sinaloa, resulting in 5 people arrested, 13 firearms seized and 10 vehicles confiscated.

Among those arrested is Brayan Paul Vega Valdez, alias “El Wero Brayan”, identified by the authorities as a drug dealer and hitman, generator of violence and operator of a criminal cell of “Los Chapitos”.

“These actions are the result of analysis and monitoring work on a criminal cell linked to a criminal group in Sinaloa, where security agents gathered sufficient evidence with which a Control Judge granted the ministerial orders,” reported the Security Cabinet.

As a result of intelligence work, agents of the Ministry of Security, Defense, Navy and Attorney General’s Office of the Republic searched six properties in the municipality of Culiacán, two in Mazatlán and two more in Rosario.

In these actions, five people were arrested (two men and three women) and 10 vehicles were seized, 3 of them with armor, as well as 13 firearms, including two Barret rifles and two machine guns.

Useful cartridges, magazines, 31 50-caliber cartridge boxes, live cartridges of different calibers, 12 grenades, a grenade launcher, cash, tactical equipment and various documentation.

“It should be noted that among those arrested is Eric “N”, who was part of a criminal cell linked to drug trafficking and homicides, and also has an arrest warrant for the crime of qualified homicide, since he is related to the murder of a person, which occurred on April 20, 2023, in a shopping center in Mexico City,” the Cabinet added.

SSPC reports indicate that one of the detainees is Brayan Paul Vega Valdez, “Wero Brayan”, 24 years old, drug dealer, hitman and operator of a criminal cell belonging to Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benítez, alias “Perris” or “El 27”, member of the Pacific Cartel faction “Los Chapitos”.

Eric Domínguez Galván, 27 years old, was also arrested; he is a member of a criminal cell dedicated to drug trafficking, as well as being a hitman. He is linked to the murder of the member of the “Los Arellano Félix” cartel, Julio César Soto Meza, registered in 2023 inside Plaza Carso, in Mexico City.

Source: politica.expansion