The Mexican military stated late Friday that the violent Jalisco drug cartel has kidnapped a colonel who commanded a detachment within the gang-dominated northern border metropolis of Nuevo Laredo, throughout from Laredo, Texas.
The kidnapping of Col. José Isidro Grimaldo Muñoz occurred farther south whereas he was on trip within the state of Jalisco, the cartel’s dwelling base.
It was the second time in lower than a month {that a} Mexican military officer has been attacked by cartels.
Gen. Crisóforo Martínez Parra stated the lacking colonel was vacationing at a rural cabin within the city of Tapalpa, Jalisco, when armed members of the cartel kidnapped him after a visitors incident.
“He was intercepted by armed individuals in two vehicles, who violently forced him to get out and took him away to an unknown location,” the Defense Department stated in a press release.
The military stated Grimaldo Muñoz had a “good professional record,” serving with distinction in Nuevo Laredo, a metropolis dominated by the Northeast Cartel, an offshoot of the outdated Zetas cartel.
It was not instantly clear if the Northeast cartel had any hyperlinks to the Jalisco gang, or if the colonel’s captors knew who he was once they kidnapped him. The Defense Department stated a seek for him was persevering with.
In November, a military normal serving in Mexico’s National Guard was killed in a shootout within the north-central state of Zacatecas.
Gen. José Urzúa Padilla was the highest official of the Guard within the state. He died whereas pursuing a suspected drug cartel gunman in an space the place the Jalisco gang has been combating turf wars with the rival Sinaloa cartel and allied teams.
The U.S. Department of Justice considers the Jalisco cartel to be “one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world.” The cartel’s chief, Nemesio Oseguera, “El Mencho,” is among the many most sought by Mexican and U.S. authorities.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration instructed CBS News that the Jalisco cartel is a driving drive behind the inflow of fentanyl within the U.S. that is killing tens of hundreds of Americans.
“What we see happening at DEA is essentially that there are two cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, that are killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we have never seen before,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram instructed “CBS Mornings” in August. “Those cartels are acting with calculated, deliberate treachery to get fentanyl to the United States and to get people to buy it through fake pills, by hiding it in other drugs, any means that they can take in order to drive addiction and to make money.”