La Familia Michoacana and it successor, Los Caballeros Templarios (the Knights Templar), is a major drug cartel based in the Mexican state of Michoacn and "is responsible for the trafficking of hundreds of thousands of pounds of controlled substances, including methamphetamine, from Mexico into the United States," according to the indictment. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. [20], On 22 May 2014, Rosales Mendoza was released from prison in Jalisco after fulfilling his ten-year sentence for illegal possession of firearms, organized crime, and drug trafficking. La Familia members attacked the Federal Police station in Morelia to try to free Rueda shortly after his arrest. : El Ms Loco or The Craziest One) published his own 'bible,'[27][34] and a copy seized by Mexican federal agents reveals an ideology that mixes evangelical-style self-help with insurgent peasant slogans. [10] The cartel gives loans to farmers, businesses, schools and churches,[40] and it advertises its benevolence in local newspapers in order to gain social support. Los Zetas cocaine kingpin Heriberto Lazcano, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican Marines in 2012, was notorious for feeding victims to the lions and tigers he kept on his ranch. Before releasing her in August, he and his henchmen had torn off pieces of her fingers. Infobaereports that five of those detained are men and three are women, while another is a minor under 15 years of age. OCDEFT and Narcotics Section Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Calvert and Assistant U.S. Attorney George Leal prosecuted the case. Moreno Gonzlez, who was killed on December 9, 2010,[35][36] seems to have based most of his doctrine on a work by Christian writer John Eldredge, using his own understanding of the idea in Eldredge's message that every man must have "a battle to fight, a beauty to rescue and an adventure to live." [54][56] Based on these charges, on December 14, 2010, Godoy Toscano was impeached from the lower house of Congress and therefore lost his parliamentary immunity; he fled and remains a fugitive. They are known to produce large amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Michoacan. Specifically, Rueda-Medina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to . CNN's Ariel Crespo and Rafael Romo contributed to this report. "They believe they are doing God's work, and pass out Bibles and money to the poor. The pet monkey of a drug gang member dressed up in a bulletproof vest and camouflaged jacket has been killed in a bloody shootout which also left 11 other cartel members dead. Local prosecutors claimed two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, remained unrepentant after they were drugged with crack then forced to eat human flesh by senior cartel bosses. In mid-2015, members of the group even used a rocket-propelled grenade to shoot down an army Black Hawk helicopter, killing nine. They also produced large amounts of methamphetamine along the highlands of the Sierra Madre. April 14, 2010. This article needs to be updated. Mexico Arrests Important Familia Michoacana Boss. This led the former leaders of La Familia Michoacana, Plancarte and Gomez, to form the Knights Templar cartel,[21] while Jess Mndez kept the leadership of the formerly disbanded La Familia Michoacana. Univision fires anchor for racist Michelle Obama insult, 'Star Wars Episode 8' to be released May 2017, Talking Barbie is too 'creepy' for some parents, Scammer tries to swindle top tax-crime fighter, Authorities say Nazario Moreno Gonzalez crafted La Familia's philosophy, His death comes after two days of clashes, The cartel espouses religious values and claims to protect people, It is known for violence, including hurling decapitated heads onto a dance floor. They show off their luxury life on social networks but the authorities don't have any evidence to arrest the two cousins or other known associates. But it grabbed national attention in 2006, after reportedly hurling five decapitated heads of rival gang members onto a dance floor. According to Mexico Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, it recruits members from drug rehabilitation clinics by helping addicts recover and then forcing them into service for the drug cartel or be killed. 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Although the Mexican authorities claimed the group was crushed in 2011, it retains some power in the region. The money laundering conspiracy count has a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years in federal prison and a fine of not more than $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction, whichever is greater. "[14] However, President Felipe Caldern's government refused to strike a deal with the cartel and rejected their calls for dialogue. Overall, almost 2 metric tons (2.2 short tons) of cocaine, 1,240 kilograms (2,730lb) of methamphetamine, 13 kilograms (29lb) of heroin, 7,430 kilograms (16,380lb) of marijuana, 389 weapons, 269 vehicles, and the two drug labs were seized. "It purportedly originated to protect locals from the violence of drug cartels. (April 2020) La Familia Michoacana Cartel Area of influences of the La Familia . La Familia Michoacana was one of the strongest and fastest growing cartels in Mexico.[24]. Having established its authority, it then names local police chiefs. On February 25, 2010, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Rueda-Medina under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act) for his involvement in drug trafficking. This is the policy of The Business.". A MASS grave with 47 sacks containing human remains was discovered underneath the dancefloor of a nightclub in Mexico. Horrified investigators discovered a secret mass grave under the floor of human body parts which are thought to be of at least 20 people. The principal mission of OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, dismantle and prosecute high-level members of drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations and enterprises. The ritual ranged from dismembering people they intended to kill to sometimes serving up the heart, he said, according to the MailOnline. Both men's and women's clothing were found at the site. "[54] The federal agents were investigating crime in Michoacn state;[55] President Caldern, responded to the violence by dispatching additional 1,000 Federal Police officers to the area. Officials say Moreno played a key role in La Familia's philosophy -- frequently displayed on banners hung in public places -- which claims to protect the state's people. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/index.php The Mexican government's dossier describes him as the brains behind a large number of killings. But no one seems to know what provoked the cartel's most recent attacks against civilians and public officials in Guerrero. We are a necessary evil." The eccentric leader of the notorious La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western. The body of the founder of one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, La Familia Michoacana, has been discovered on a motorway with signs of torture. Mexican analysts believe that La Familia formed in the 1980s with the stated purpose of bringing order to Michoacn, emphasizing help and protection for the poor. Rueda-Medina was also ordered to pay a $5 million fine. He confirmed the authenticity of a letter, e-mailed to journalists and dropped on the streets of several towns, saying the cartel is willing to disband if the government can improve security for Michoacan. Reports suggest that Rosales Mendoza's organization can be traced back to the 1980s[7] and that was possibly a vigilante group to counter corruption and local crime, but the organization eventually became involved in the production and distribution of narcotics throughout the Mexican state of Michoacn. [52] In May 2009, the Mexican Federal Police detained 10 Michoacn mayors and 20 other local officials suspected of being associated with the cartel. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php The drug proceeds that were collected were delivered to cartel members or associates in Mexico either by way of bulk cash smuggling in vehicles utilized by LFM couriers or through money remitters such as Western Union. The group's hitmen say they had the "divine right" to kill and have been known to dismember enemies, such as members of rival gangs. He faces a statutory sentence of not less than 10 years and up to life in federal prison and up to a $4 million fine on the drug conspiracy count. Michael Braun, former DEA chief of operations, states that it operates "superlabs" in Mexico capable of producing up to 100 pounds of meth in eight hours. In February 2010, the major cartels aligned in two factions. The La Familia Michoacana cartel emerged from the Los Zetas subgroup around 2006 following frustrations with the groups governance. This group is known to have military style weapons obtained from their cartel connections in the United States and Mexico. Mexicos president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has spoken out in the wake of the shooting, insisting that he would continue with his security strategy of not facing violence with more violence.. [20] Mexican Attorney General (PGR) reported that La Familia Cartel was "exterminated" by 2011. President Felipe Caldern's government refuses to strike a deal with the cartel and rejected their calls for dialogue.[41][42]. Don't miss out!! This shows how trafficking groups are becoming more cunning in hiding from federal authorities. Rueda-Medina will remain in custody pending sentencing. Rueda-Medina was arrested in Michoacn, Mexico on July 11, 2009, and was extradited to the United States on January 27, 2017. "The indoctrination of this group consists of courses in self-improvement, values, ethical principles and morals in keeping with the purposes of the criminal organization. The investigative efforts in Project Coronado were coordinated by the multi-agency Special Operations Division, comprising agents and analysts from the DEA, FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. La Familia Michoacana, (English: The Michoacn Family) La Familia (English: The Family), or LFM[3][4] is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacn. [65], File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Five police officers and three civilians -- including two minors -- were also killed in the clashes, Poire told reporters. Carlos Alberto Rosales Mendoza (12 February 1963 27 December 2015) was a former Mexican drug lord who founded and led an organized crime syndicate called La Familia Michoacana. "Moreno started as a migrant in California, continued trafficking marijuana on the border and became the leader of one of the most violent criminal organizations in the history of Mexico," the report says. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php Only those who deserve to die will die.". Carlos Rosales Mendoza's body was . He was wearing a bulletproof vest, a khaki hooded jacket, and a nappy. [12][25] Authorities suspect Ignacio Andrade Rentera (El Cenizo), a former mob lieutenant who now runs the Knights Templar Cartel. Pictures of the narco monkey went viral online, with many social media users assuming at first that they were fake. [50] Despite its short history, it has emerged as Mexico's largest supplier of methamphetamines to the United States, with supply channels running deep into the Midwestern United States, and has increasingly become involved in the distribution of cocaine, marijuana, and other narcotics. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement(ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) provided special assistance. LFM was responsible for trafficking thousands of kilograms of methamphetamine into the United States through border checkpoints near Laredo, Texas and Tijuana, Mexico and delivered to stash locations in the Northern District of Texas and elsewhere. It doesn't kill innocent people, only those who deserve to die. This story has been shared 102,822 times. Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their causalities, and police believe that Moreno was among the dead, Poire said. By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times. The Knights Templar Cartel (Spanish: Los Caballeros Templarios) was a Mexican criminal organization originally composed of the remnants of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel based in the Mexican State of Michoacn.. During this time it went by the name MataZetas, or Zetas killers, and once dumped the bodies of 35 tortured dead Zetas on the side of a road. The U.S. government added Moreno and six other reputed La Familia leaders to its "Kingpin Act" list in February, a move that prohibits American citizens and firms from having any business dealings with them and freezes any U.S. assets they may have. Video of a man getting hit by a piece of metal not just once but twice has gone viral. Function: require_once, Message: Undefined variable: user_membership, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php A note found at the scene where the bodies were dumped stated Vengan por otro, los estamos esperando (Come for another, we are waiting for you). Overshadowed by the criminal activity and the media skills of the Jalisco Nueva Generacin Cartel (CJNG) and its satellite groups, La Familia Michoacana returns these days to the front pages due . We will be waiting for you here. Alma Antonia Caldern Garca, dubbed "Cartel Queen," who is the wife of a high-ranking member of the group was arrested by authorities last week. This case is the result of the ongoing efforts by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF), a partnership that brings together the combined expertise and unique abilities of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. In 2016 his brother, said to be the financial brains behind the criminal empire, was captured. [51], On July 11, 2009, a cartel lieutenantArnoldo Rueda Medinawas arrested. [7][8] In the year 2000, Rosales Mendoza broke relations with Armando Valencia Cornelio of the Milenio Cartel and founded his own organization in Michoacan called La Empresa ('The Business'), a criminal organization that was the direct predecessor of La Familia Michoacana, some sources state that La Empresa and La Familia Michoacana are essentially the same thing, mainly because they share the same members but not the same allies. One was made up of the Jurez Cartel, Tijuana Cartel, Los Zetas, and the Beltrn-Leyva Cartel. In 2017, a former leader of the gang, Marciano Chano Millan Vasquez, was jailed in San Antonio for 29 killings in Mexico while working for the group. The governor's half-brother Julio Csar Godoy Toscano, who was elected July 5, 2009 to the lower house of Congress, was accused of being a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and of providing political protection for the cartel. However, its roots date back to the 1980s when it was formed as a group of vigilantes looking to bring order to the state of Michoacan. With the alliance, Rosales Mendoza became a Gulf Cartel operator and Crdenas Guilln dispatched two lieutenants of Los Zetas, Efran Teodoro Torres (Z-14) and Gustavo Gonzlez Castro (The Erotic One), to help him to train his men and protect the drug trafficking corridors in Guerrero and in the port city of Lzaro Crdenas. [53] When that failed, cartel members attacked Federal Police installations in at least a half-dozen Michoacn cities in retribution. [11], In 2004, he organised the armed assault on a maximum security prison. Mexican animal rights group Animal Lawyers warns that organized criminals often mistreat the exotic pets that they keep, many of whom are unable to adapt to the new habitat they find themselves in. [64] In June 2020, it was reported that the Cartel del Abuelo and Los Viagras, as well as to a lesser extent the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, were the active cartels in Michoacn. The alleged death of Nazario Moreno Gonzlez on December 9, 2010, led to a split among cartel leaders Jos de Jess Mndez Vargas, Enrique Plancarte Sols, and Servando Gmez Martnez. Her husband is accused of being involved in a series of crimes including murders, kidnappings, and even bomb attacks on military personnel. Authorities seized various weapons including 20 assault rifles,handguns, ammunition and vehicles in the operation, and also took the body of the monkey away. View our online Press Pack. In a brief statement, Calderon's office confirmed Moreno's death. A reporter who spent time with him told El Blog del Narco, After sentencing him (the victim) to death, he orders him to bathe, and even to shave his whole body and let him de-stress for two or three hours, even better sometimes he gave them a bottle of whisky to relax, then he ordered a very quick death so there is no adrenaline in the meat to prevent it getting bitter or hard.. Mexican authorities put a $2 million bounty on Moreno's head in March 2009. According to plea documents, from September 2007 through October 21, 2009, Rueda-Medina held a leadership position within LFM, a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican State of Michoacn. Cartel members were arrested across the United States, and face charges in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C.[62] This announcement came just a month after Mexican authorities announced the capture of cartel leader Jos de Jess Mndez Vargas.[63]. Several others were wounded. November 17, 2022. [5] "La Familia Michoacn Drug Cartel Leader Sentenced to 43 Years in Federal Prison", "La Familia: Another Deadly Mexican Syndicate", "La Familia Drug Cartel: Implications for U.S.-Mexican Security", "Hola companeros hermanos de la Familia Michoacana", El crtel de La Familia Michoacana est dispuesto a desaparecer, "Cops: Chief of La Familia Cartel Nazario Moreno Believed Dead After Shootout", "Focus on the Family' outreach: Mexican drug decapitation cartel La Familia demand and preach James Eldredge's 'Muscular Christianity', "La nueva fe de los narcos: La Familia, "Salvajes de Corazn". "This is demonstrated by its false calls for a truce and the confessions of its members.". [10][11] Nazario Moreno's partners were Jos de Jess Mndez Vargas, Servando Gmez Martnez and Enrique Plancarte Sols, each of whom has a bounty of $2 million for his capture,[12] and were contesting the control of the organization. Officials also seized bulletproof vests, military uniforms and communication equipment. Local media described a message found at the gruesome scene: "La Familia does not kill for money, does not kill women, does not kill innocents. Rueda-Medina pleaded guilty in September 2017 to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute a Schedule II controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. "[27] The cartel may have direct or indirect ties with devotees of the New Jerusalem religious movement, which is noted for its concern for justice issues. They have taken full control of the now defunct La Familia Michoacana operations in . DALLAS - "La Familia Michoacn" (LFM) Mexican drug cartel leader, Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, aka "La Minsa," 48, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 520 months in federal prison and a $5 million fine for offenses related to his leadership role within LFM. Inside the history of cannibalism in Mexican drug cartels, where teen enforcers are fed crack before feasting on the organs of their victims. La Familia came to the foreground in the 1990s as the Gulf Cartel's paramilitary group, designed to seize control of the illegal drug trade in Michoacn state from rival drug cartels. [12], On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Rosales Mendoza under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with fifty-three other international criminals and ten foreign entities. The government claims that that La Familia has been severely weakened after four years of fighting off its rivals and security forces. La Familia Michoacana (The Michoacano Family) is a Mexican drug cartel. He would then devour the mans buttock flesh in tamales after it had been cooked in lemon and served on toast. Among those arrested was the presumed leader of the cartel, Jaime Luis 'El Pozolero' - who is accussed of kidnapping a woman in Tenancingo last year. Officials are now working to identify the victims. [38], On July 16, 2009, Servando Gmez Martnez (La Tuta), the cartel operations chief, contacted a local radio station and stated: "La Familia was created to look after the interests of our people and our family. It will undergo a necropsy under the charge of specialist vets from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEMex), according to the paper. The Mexican justice department stated in a report that Gonzalez Moreno has made Eldredge's book Salvaje de Corazn (Wild at Heart) required reading for La Familia gang members and has paid rural teachers and National Development Education (CONAFE) to circulate Eldredge's writings throughout the Michoacn countryside. [5] He was arrested twice, on 24 October 2004,[6] and on 5 August 2014, and set free in late 2014. It was reported on social media that the tiger had escaped from the house of its owner who is involved in organized crime. 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