Gabriel Nicolás Martínez Larios is now in Mexico’s Registro Nacional de Detenciones. The registry lists his detention at 8:15 pm on Monday, June 1, 2026, in Real del Valle, Mazatlán, on Paseo del Atlántico.

Cartel history is not only written through violence. It is written through succession, betrayal, family names, prison cells, backroom alliances, and the men and women who understood that power in Mexico’s underworld was never permanent. It had to be seized, defended, inherited, or taken by force.

The material includes a gray Tiguan, weapons, tactical gear, and footage of a gunman opening fire. After the confrontation in Riberas de Tamazula, Culiacán, four people were detained and one suspect was killed.

A video and narcomanta geolocated near El Rosario, Sinaloa, appear to show Chapiza-aligned gunmen sending a warning to Mayito Flaco and Los Cabreras. The message, signed “80,” frames southern Sinaloa as off-limits and turns a roadside killing into a territorial announcement.

The time is finally coming. My debut book will be available for pre-order on Amazon on Tuesday, June 2. I know I missed my original May goal, but I’m taking the time needed to launch this properly. No excuses. We’re almost there.

A cartel interrogation out of Zacatecas accuses Mayo-aligned gunmen, the Cabrera network from Durango, and elements of local security forces of working together through police protection, prison control, extortion, and rural camps. The claims are unverified, but the message is clear: Zacatecas’ war is inside the system, not outside it.