Internal Fight in “Los Cabrera” Detonated Violence in Ojinaga

The four people found dead on the highway leading to Ojinaga correspond to those who were reported missing last weekend.

Intelligence work by the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) and the State Public Security Secretariat (SSPE) suggests that the acts of violence that occurred in Aldama in recent days, which left five people dead, four of whom were reported missing, may be related to an internal dispute within the “Los Cabrera” criminal group.

The conflict allegedly arose because at least the five men who were murdered belonged to the criminal group, but they refused to move to the Coyame and Ojinaga area, where Los Cabrera currently has the greatest presence, in addition to a territorial dispute with La Línea.

After remaining in Aldama, these individuals began to operate independently in the retail sale of crystal meth, which is why leaders of the group to which they belonged allegedly murdered them.

According to information received by state security agencies and even the Aldama municipal police, Edgar Adrián Trujillo Irigoyen and Jonathán Israel Lozano Cordero, ages 36 and 26 respectively, were forcibly taken from a home in the Los Álamos neighborhood, which had already been identified as a methamphetamine sales location.

Both were abducted early this morning in Aldama by armed men who forced them into a white Cherokee. The home, located on Álamo Afgano Street in the Los Álamos neighborhood, had already been identified as a crystal meth shop, colloquially known as a tiendita, authorities were closely monitoring the activities taking place.

Days later, the prosecutor’s office issued inquiries into Kevin Ulises Meraz Montes and Francisco Javier Mendoza Montes, ages 24 and 26, respectively. Both originally from the state capital, they were last seen in Aldama. According to the information provided, both were last seen on June 7 in the municipality of Aldama, and their whereabouts have remained unknown since then.

These four missing individuals were located at kilometer 63 of the Aldama-Ojinaga highway when emergency calls received a report of dead men. Upon arrival, prosecutors removed the four bodies, noting that they had been shot and showed visible signs of violence.

On June 11, the prosecutor’s office confirmed that the four missing individuals were Edgar Adrián, Jonathán Israel, Kevin Ulises, and Francisco Javier, who were reported missing.

Regarding the fifth individual killed and killed with a firearm, the incident occurred during the early hours of Monday, June 9, aboard a gray 2014 Jetta vehicle with gunshot wounds. Alex O.A. was located there after 911 calls reported shots fired on the street.

The investigation suggests that it was a settling of scores by one of the groups maintaining the conflict in the region from Aldama to Ojinaga, in this case Los Cabrera, since Alex O.A. was allegedly linked to organized crime which is why he fled to the United States.

Alex had been deported from the United States for days, where he fled due to alleged problems with one of the organized crime groups in the region. The deceased was 24 years old when he was shot to death with a .223 caliber firearm early Monday morning on the streets of Aldama.

The dispute between the Cabreras and La Línea arose after “El Menchaca,” the leader of the second criminal group, surrendered to U.S. authorities. Presumably, La Línea’s leadership in Ojinaga was assumed to be “El O4,” but the group remained under the command of “El Menchaquita.”

In response to this, El 04 approached the Durango group “Los Cabrera,” an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel that works under the orders of Los Zambada, to offer them control of the so-called corridor that runs from Aldama to Ojinaga, passing through Coyame and Manuel Benavides, to which the Durango group agreed.

As a result, since August 2024 to date, the number of deaths in the state as a result of this conflict has exceeded twenty, due to various clashes and violent acts.

Source: El Heraldo de Chihuahua