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Arrested Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, Former Director General of Tabasco Police Linked to La Barredora

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Another official of the criminal structure that ruled Tabasco has fallen under the mandate of Adán Augusto López. The then director general of the state police, Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, has been arrested in Chiapas for his association with the criminal group La Barredora, related to extortion of merchants, kidnapping, drug sales and homicides, according to Omar García Harfuch, secretary of federal security. The fall of other men of Hernán B…

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Authorities arrested in Chiapas Leonardo Arturo Leyva, former director of the Polic a de Tabasco linked to the criminal group 'La Barredora'.

·Mexico City, Mexico
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Another official of the criminal structure that ruled Tabasco has fallen under the mandate of Adán Augusto López. The then director general of the state police, Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, has been arrested in Chiapas for his association with the criminal group La Barredora, related to extortion of merchants, kidnapping, drug sales and homicides, according to Omar García Harfuch, secretary of federal security. The fall of other men of Hernán B…

·Spain
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Gaspar RomeroAccused for the crime of aggravated extortion, six public servants of the Colleges of Baccalaureate of Chiapas were arrested, in violation of a woman with a reserved identity in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The detainees respond to the names of Julio César “N”, Administrative Director; Mauricio “N”, Head of Maintenance Department; José “N”, Deputy Legal Director; Francisco “N”, Head of Department of Warehouse and Inventory; Juan “N”, Normative…

·Mexico
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Federal forces arrested Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, alias El Carnal or León, who was the third in the criminal organization La Barredora and liaison of Hernán Bermúdez Requena, El Abuelo or Munra, former Secretary of Security of Tabasco, with the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).In the criminal structure, El Abuelo, accused for the crimes of criminal association, extortion and express kidnapping, headed the organization and below it were…

Governor Javier May Rodríguez said that “there will be more results”, after the capture of another exmando of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), who is allegedly linked to the criminal group “La Barredora.” The president was questioned about the insurance of Leonardo Arturo “N”, who served as general director of the State Police of Tabasco in 2021. In addition to José del Carmen Castillo Ramírez, another person accused of…

Gustavo Castillo Ciudad de México. Federal and state authorities in Chiapas captured the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, "El Carnal", who was one of the main collaborators of Hernán Bermúdez Requena, former Secretary of Public Security of the state of Tabasco and founder of "La Barredora".

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Proceso broke the news in Mexico on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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