The Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala (Mingob) reported how research and operational operation with Mexico and the United States, which allowed The capture of Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, aka Chicharra, Co -founder of the poster the fleets.
Case researchers reported that intelligence work outside Guatemala began in November 2024, when Samayoa Recinos fled Huehuetenango to Mexico, after an operation carried out by the National Civil Police (PNC) and the Public Ministry.
“For years we were trying to capture it, but every time we did a search there was a leak of information or some neighbors of Huehuetenango protected it and prevented the passage of security forces,” said the researcher.
He added that, for a little less than a year, the intelligence work was in charge of the General Subdirectorate of Anti -Narcotics Analysis and Information of the PNC, of the Drug Control Administration (DEA) and other United States agencies to avoid inconveniences in persecution.
“We had located it and fled to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas,” he acknowledged.
In Mexico, he allegedly sought help from the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), a structure dedicated to drug transfer and directed by Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, said the researcher.
El Chicharra was arrested in a shopping center
The fleeing were the link of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, but they also did business with the Sinaloa Cartel and other criminal structures in Mexico and Central America.
The researcher explained that they followed Samayoa Recinos to a Tuxtla Gutiérrez shopping center and, in a tactical operation, apprehended him.
“There was a good collaboration with Mexico for deportation. If he had stayed in Mexico, he would have spent at least two years in a prison before being extradited to Guatemala, ”he recalled.
Francisco Jiménez, Minister of the Interior, said that one of the priorities is to face organized crime structures, including drug trafficking.
He emphasized that fleeing developed a method to negotiate with different drug trafficking cartels in Mexico.
He acknowledged that he does not know who El Chicharra would be, but said they are working to locate criminals from other organizations, such as the Lorenzana band.
“This is not the first case and it will not be the last one,” the official acknowledged.
He added that the arrest of El Chicharra, one of the 100 most wanted by the United States, is not an extraordinary achievement, but the result of a plan they implemented a year and two months ago.
“Our goal has been, from the beginning, to understand the behavior of the structures to dismantle them, but also, within that logic, it is a fundamental issue of cooperation between agencies to the country’s inmate, particularly the Police and the Public Ministry, but also internationally,” he said.
Who is Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, “El Chicharra
Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, aka El Chicharra, was Captured on March 11 in Mexico. He is the highest chief of the poster flees and is requested in extradition by the United States, indicated by drug trafficking.
Samayoa Recinos, together with Eugenio Darío Molina López, directed that criminal organization, which was sanctioned by the United States.
The United States Foreign Assets Control Office (OFAC) He appointed, on Friday, March 18, 2022, to the Organization of Drug Trafficking Los Fistes and its leaders.
El Chicharra, Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, was born on February 27, 1967 in Santa Ana Huista, Huehuetenango, and is currently 58 years old.
According to the sanction imposed by EE. UU. In 2022, it is mentioned that chicharra supervised the drug trafficking operation, coordinating the transport of cocaine shipments from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, towards the Mexican state of Chiapas.
It was also mentioned that Samayoa Recinos was dedicated to money laundering activities on behalf of the drug trafficking organization (OTD).
In 2018, Samayoa Recinos was accused of drug trafficking by a court in the Columbia district, in the United States, after an investigation led by the Drug Control Administration (DEA).