They capture “Chicharra” in Mexico, alleged capo of the Flexes Cartel, claimed by the US.

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March 12, 2025March 12, 2025By Mario Vásquez
They capture “Chicharra” in Mexico, alleged capo of the Flexes Cartel, claimed by the US.

The alleged drug trafficker of the Flexes Cartel, Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, aka “Chicharra”, was captured this Tuesday, March 11 in Mexico, and the Public Ministry (MP) coordinates its transfer to Guatemala to submit it to the extradition process to the United States, where a court indicates it of several crimes related to drug trafficking.

In March 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, in English) of the United States Department of the Treasury appointed “the Organization of Drug Trafficking Los Fishes” and its leaders, including “Chicharra”, in accordance with Executive Order 14059, for drug trafficking that threatens people and the safety of the United States and Guatemala.

According to the MP, Samayoa Recinos is required to appear at the trial in the United States District Court for the Columbia district, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine with the intention that, knowing and having reasonable cause to believe it, said substance was illegally imported towards that nation.

“An investigation by the law enforcement authorities revealed a large -scale drug trafficking organization operating in Guatemala, identifying the leaders of the organization and the coordinators responsible for facilitating the transport of illicit,” says the Prosecutor’s Office.

He adds: “The required and other conspirators were directly responsible for distributing tons of cocaine that arrived in Guatemala by land and through their ports, before distribution to Mexican drug trafficking organizations and, finally, their illegal import to the United States.”

“The maximum fleeing leader, Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, aka Chicharra, has been captured. It was the most wanted in Guatemala and appeared on the list of the 100 most sought after by the US.

According to the Treasury Department, Samayoa Recinos supervised traffic operations and coordinated cocaine shipments from Huehuetenango to Chiapas, Mexico.

In addition, he was dedicated to money laundering on behalf of fleeing, so in 2018 he was accused of drug trafficking charges by a court in the Columbia district, in the United States, after an investigation led by the DEA.

Links with politics

In 2018, the Insight Crime organization revealed that the then deputy of the Central American Parliament (Parlacén), Freddy Arnoldo Salazar Flores, had family ties with “Chicharra”, because a daughter of this was married to the parliamentarian.

Insight Crime said that, according to a report by El Periódico, during an investigation that extended for five years, the MP determined that Salazar Flores had family ties with the criminal organization of the fleeing.

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