Mexican drug cartels were rocked when Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was captured and killed after a daring Sunday raid.
And the gangs can apparently thank a paramour of Cervantes’ for the trouble.
According toFox News, authorities were able to successfully track Cervantes after it had kept tabs on one of his “romantic partners.”
“On February 20, through central military intelligence work, a man of trust of one of El Mencho’s romantic partners was located, who took her to a facility in the town of Tapalpa, Jalisco,” Mexican Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo told reporters on Monday.
Local authorities had identified “a trusted courier or guard” associated with one of Cervantes’ partners.
That “trusted” source was followed, and eventually found to bring one of Cervantes’ partners to a secretive location for a rendezvous with the drug lord.
The next day, the partner apparently left the premises — but Cervantes did not.
This window was all local authorities needed to greenlight the raid that eventually captured and killed Cervantes.
Cervantes’ well-armed inner circle fought ferociously, but were ultimately beaten by Special Forces.
Eight gang members were killed, while two members of the military were wounded.
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