CJNG disputes square in Campeche: Shooting leaves 4 dead

The deceased hitmen reportedly belong to the Los Chapitos group and the New Generation Cartel

By: SUN.

13 January 2023 - 15:43

They also secured weapons, vests and drugs. SUN

The discovery of a clandestine grave with four corpses, large-caliber weapons and tactical equipment discovered at the El Estirbo ranch, in the Alfredo V ejido. Bonfil and shootings in the ejido José López Portillo de Champotón, was the violent balance of last Tuesday in this town where both the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, and the Attorney General's Office of the State of Campeche minimized the facts.

The state's attorney general, Renato Sales Heredia, said it is likely to be groups of so-called organized crime and said they are working on the investigations of the case.

Unofficially, it was known that people from the criminal group Los Chapitos and the so-called New Generation Cartel would be disputing the "place."

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They assure the hit men an Ak-47 assault rifle

The head of the SSPC, Marcela Muñoz Martínez, pointed out that these were only reports of firearm detonations in the Alfredo V ejido. Bonfil and did not talk about the four dead, four wounded, and the discovery of a grave with four corpses.

In the operations, the Campeche Prosecutor's Office secured the hitmen an Ak-47 assault rifle with five chargers, a 9-mm weapon, handcuffs, bulletproof vests and the double-cockpit Toyota van.

It was also learned that agents of the Prosecutor's Office entered the El Estirbo ranch, where they found a mass grave with at least four unidentified bodies, tactical equipment, weapons and one person who was secured.

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Yesterday's violent events also reported the gunshot confrontation near the José López Portillo ejido, in the municipality of Champotón, where a van was incinerated.

After the arrest of three hitmen, the Campeche State Prosecutor's Office found at the El Estirbo ranch a clandestine grave with four bodies still unidentified.

On the bloody day - the most violent in recent years - there were two gunshot clashes in Bonfil and on a rural road near the Los Laureles ejido.

The first one happened at night. Three ministerial agents were shot dead by an armed group on 1st Street in Bonfil, and Guillermo Corona Jiménez, originally from Quintana Roo, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, and driver of the van where the hitmen were travelling was shot.

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It was okay.

In relation to the violent events, social networks spoke of the insecurity and uneasiness that the families of Campeche are already experiencing, since now there are scenes of "adjustments of accounts," murders with firearms, situations that until some time ago did not occur in the Bell entity.

On the other hand, it was also found that at the crossroads of Chilam Balam, Champoton, a group of people with foreign features were tracked aboard two red vehicles, and a Silverado van and a Toyota Corolla car.

The groups are reportedly part of alleged hitmen who are already in the Campechana town.

Already in the night and dawn yesterday an incinerated van was found on a dirt road near the town of José López Portillo 2, of the module of Nayarit de Castellot, municipality of Champotón. There was no official version of this event.