Mexican authorities arrested Edgar Rodríguez, alias He Lemonsan extortionist of breeders and traders, as reported by the Secretary of Federal Security, Omar García Harfuch. El Limones is one of the components of the Cabrera criminal organization, a family clan that has served in recent years as support for the Pacific cartel in the mountains of Durango. This arrest, Harfuch stressed, represents a direct blow to extortion networks, “in accordance with the National Strategy Against Extortion” ordered by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
El Limones is one of the big names of the criminal group, under the orders of José Luis Cabrera, alias 03 either The 300. He is also the head of the Cabrera family in the Laguna de Durango and Coahuila region. Harfuch said he was responsible for the Cabreras’ finances and that the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) had identified irregular operations linked to extortion and fraud. Authorities said the inmate received $1 million in deposits without justification and made transfers to companies linked to money laundering.
The Security Ministry said it identified Cabrera’s operations through information from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and that the operation also took place in Coahuila. Limones was not alone. Authorities also arrested several other people, although they did not specify the number. “Sufficient evidence was obtained and presented to a supervising judge, who ordered intervention at various properties,” the agency’s statement said.
The operation is the result of one of the interinstitutional operations in which the Government of Mexico is engaged, led by the federal authorities: the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Security and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. But supported by the government of Coahuila. Officers seized five long guns, a pistol, a grenade and tactical equipment from the searched premises.
This is not the Sheinbaum government’s first offensive against this criminal group. In March, security forces arrested Leonel Salas Fabela, The nephew34 years old, criminal wanted by the American authorities for drug trafficking and human trafficking. At that time, Mexican authorities had promoted the capture as the arrest of “one of the 10 most dangerous criminals wanted in Chihuahua and Texas”, a member of the Cabreras, but he was not on the list of Texas’ 10 most wanted criminals, nor on the state’s fugitive list. Harfuch then explained that El Sobrino had an arrest warrant “for aggravated kidnapping.” He was operating in Chihuahua, but was arrested about 900 kilometers away in Los Angeles, Durango.
Durango is one of those Mexican municipalities that have managed to cope, relatively, with the security that hosts different territories of the country, according to official data. The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reports that 36.8% of its residents consider Durango dangerous, according to the agency’s latest data. This figure is a little far from the 63.2% of the country’s average, and even further from that of other territories where the perception of insecurity borders on totality. An example of this is Culiacán (Sinaloa, 90.8%), Ecatepec (State of Mexico, 90.7%) or Uruapan (Michoacán, 89.5%).
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