Overview
- Federal agents from the AIC, backed by the SSPC and the Defense, executed arrest warrants in Nogales that resulted in the detention of Jesús Said Rochín Aguilar and Claudia Marina Ruiz Carreón.
- Authorities say Rochín Aguilar is an alleged plaza operator for a Sinaloa-linked group and that Ruiz Carreón was arrested as a suspected logistics and administration associate.
- Investigators identified two properties in the Las Praderas and Del Rosario neighborhoods where meetings and planning for criminal activity allegedly took place.
- Officials say the probe targets a transnational criminal network accused of trafficking people across the Sonora–Arizona border and of suspected drug smuggling activity.
- Both detainees were read their rights and turned over to the judicial authority while federal inquiries continue to map the network and prepare charges.