Overview
- Federal and state forces captured Hugo “N,” known as “El 01,” during a planned operation outside a restaurant in the Sacramento Residencial neighborhood of Hermosillo on Monday, June 8, without shots fired.
- At the time of the arrest investigators seized a firearm classified for exclusive Army use, an evidentiary detail that federal prosecutors say points to access to military‑grade materiel.
- The case file was taken over by the Fiscalía Especializada en materia de Delincuencia Organizada (FEMDO) of the Fiscalía General de la República, which will lead organized‑crime inquiries and prosecutions.
- Authorities say investigators consider him a priority target tied to a criminal cell operating in Sonora and Chihuahua and allege he used drones to attack rival groups, security forces and at times civilians.
- Local reporting notes a pattern of criminal drone use in Sonora since 2020 and some extraofficial media link the detainee to the Los Salazar group, but those organizational ties remain under federal investigation.