Overview
- Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office led coordinated operations across Baja California, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Coahuila and San Luis Potosí to execute formal arrest orders for extradition.
- Genaro López Hernández was seized in Baja California, where U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of California identify him as a logistics leader who moved large drug loads to San Diego using border routes and underground tunnels.
- Gilberto Cabrera was detained in Mexicali on a Southern District of New York case alleging conspiracy involving cocaine and fentanyl distribution and importation, while Noé Alejandro Castillón Saucedo was captured in Piedras Negras on a DEA-backed Western District of Texas indictment for conspiracy and drug offenses.
- José Silverio Rodríguez Alonso faces 12 counts in Utah for aggravated sexual abuse and rape of minors, René Bustamante Vázquez is sought in Brazos County, Texas on child-sex charges, and Mario Vidal Arteaga is charged in Riverside County, California with sexual abuse and rape of a minor.
- Néstor Alonso García Leos was arrested in Apodaca on a Harris County, Texas first-degree murder charge tied to a killing in Houston, and all seven detainees remain in Mexican justice centers pending extradition proceedings under Mexican law with presumption of innocence.