Mexico arrests cartel members linked to murders of 10 workers from Canadian mining company
Authorities say the suspects belong to a Sinaloa Cartel faction and that the five-arrest total in the case has reached 19.
- Mexican federal forces arrested five suspects in Sinaloa on Friday and Saturday, linking them to the kidnapping and murder of 10 workers from Canadian mining company Vizsla Silver on January 23.
- The government claims the suspects belong to the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which allegedly kidnapped the workers after mistaking them for members of rival cartel Los Mayos.
- Among those detained were Jesus Abraham, alias "El Talibán," and four security personnel reportedly working for Oscar Luciano Martinez Larios, known as "El Casco" or "El 81." The group is also accused of kidnapping four tourists in Mazatlán in February.
- These arrests bring the total number of individuals detained in the Vizsla Silver case to 19, though one engineer remains missing and suspects await charges from the federal prosecutor's office in Culiacán.
- This operation occurs amid persistent violence in Sinaloa, where local daily Noroeste reports 4,062 intentional homicides since September 2024, yet targeting international mining companies remains rare despite broader security challenges.
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Army detains ‘El Talibán’ and 4 others in Vizsla Silver kidnapping case
Back-to-back operations in El Rosario and Mazatlán over the weekend yielded arrests of alleged cartel members who are suspected of involvement in the kidnappings of 10 Vizsla Silver workers in January as well as four tourists in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, in February.
Elements of the secretariats of the National Defense and Public Security of Sinaloa arrested, in two operations, five alleged members of different factions of Los Chapitos named for their possible participation in the kidnappings of 10 workers of the Canadian mining company Vizsla Silver and tourists of the state of Mexico deprived of their liberty in Mazatlan.
'El Taliban', an alleged operator of 'Los Chapitos', linked to the murder of 10 miners and the kidnapping of 4 tourists, was arrested in Sinaloa.
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