Overview
- State authorities captured Edgar 'N' (“El Conta” or “El Gordo”) and Marissa 'N' (“La Contadora”) at a shopping center in Cuernavaca.
- A control judge ruled the detentions legal; Edgar 'N' will stay in preventive detention as both await their linkage-to-process hearings.
- Officials say the operation yielded two firearms, suspected fentanyl, cocaine and crystal, cash, credit and investment cards, phones and a Mercedes-Benz AMG.
- Intelligence and preliminary investigations attribute to the pair alleged roles in homicides, extortion, property dispossession in Lomas de Cocoyoc and drug buying and distribution in central Cuautla under orders from Milton “El Tepis.”
- Authorities describe Edgar 'N' as a priority target since 2021 and a onetime aide to a former Tetela del Volcán mayor, while Marissa 'N' is accused of acting as a financial liaison to corrupt officials.