Armed group rescues two detainees in Chichihualco, Gro

Guerrero.- An armed group subdued and forced state police to hand over two of their comrades who had detained in the town of Chichihualco.A report from the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) of Guerrero states that on Tuesday 12 state police accompanied the Secretary of Development and Public Works, Irene Jiménez Montiel, to Chichihualco, where he held meetings with municipal authorities in the atrium of the church of that town. When the state agents had finished their activity and were passing through the Chichihualco-Chilpancingo highway, they noticed that in a white van were two armed men, who were marked by the stop but they fled. After a chase, the two gunmen, identified as Kevin Jiménez Hernández and Veda Rodríguez Fernández, were arrested on Luis Donaldo Colosio Street, in Colonia Lázaro Cárdenas, on the outskirts of Chichihualco.The two detainees, who identified themselves as members of the La Sierra and Los Tlacos cartels, were secured an Ak-47 rifle, an MP5 submachine gun and a Pietro Beretta pistol, in addition to the van in which they were transported. According to the SSP report, when the agents were traveling with the two detainees on the road to Chilpancingo they were intercepted by about 100 armed men who were traveling in about 50 vans. The individuals, who were carrying Ak-47, AR-15 and MP5 G-3 rifles, identified themselves as Los Tlacos and the Cartel de la Sierra, surrounded the police and threatened to shoot them. According to the agents, after talking with the criminals they decided to give the two detainees, the weapons and the van, to avoid a confrontation, in addition to the fact that they were in numerical inferiority. State police identified that the head of the armed group is Mario Ronces Pérez, “El Chepo.” In the identification sheets of the SSP, it is detailed that one of the detainees, Veda Rodríguez Hernández, is 30 years old and is known as “Conejo”. Meanwhile, Kevin Jiménez Reyna, “El Kevin”, is 27 years old and both, said the SSP, are members of the Cartel de la Sierra, an organization led by Isacc Navarrete, “El Señor de la I”. Currently Navarrete no longer resides in that area of the Sierra, but his organization fights the territory of the planting and transfer of the poppy with Onésimo Marquina, who heads Los Tlacos.For years these two organizations have caused terror in this area of the Sierra that has led to deaths, kidnappings and hundreds of displaced people. Read more: Violence does not stop: 5 people killed in one day in different places in Ciudad Juárez



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