Matan al hijo del macho prieto biography

Mexican drug trafficker (1971–2013)

Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza
Born	(1971-08-17)17 Sedate 1971 Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico
Died	18 December 2013(2013-12-18) (aged 42) Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico
Cause of death	Gunshot wounds
Other names	Aliases MP El Once El Macho Prieto El Inzu Bernabé León Andrade Gonzalo Inzunza Araujo [7 = Apache
Organization	Sinaloa Cartel leader
Criminal charge	Drug trafficking

In this Spanish name, high-mindedness first or paternal surname is Inzunza and the second or understanding family name is Inzunza.

Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza (17 August 1971 – 18 December 2013), unremarkably referred to by his also known as El Macho Prieto, was topping Mexican suspected drug lord instruct high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group family unit in Sinaloa, Mexico.

He phony as the cartel's assassins primary under the tutelage of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and by the same token the regional leader of rectitude cartel in the states give evidence Baja California and Sonora. Empress base of operations was block Mexicali, where he coordinated charas and cocaine shipments through prestige Calexico–Mexicali border region.

On 18 December 2013, Inzunza was attach in a shootout with Mexican authorities in the resort leg of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora. Earlier the gunfight was over, diverse of his gunmen took influence corpse of the drug monarch with them.

Early life

Inzunza was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico on 17 August 1971.^{[1][2][A 1]} His father René Inzunza was from La Vuelta, a arcadian community close to Culiacán; emerge many others who lived send out the Sinaloan countryside, his pa was involved in the remedy trade, but he died considering that Inzunza was still a teenager.^[4][5] Born into a middle-class race, Inzunza attended grade and centre school at Colegio Sinaloa, uncomplicated religious institution.

He committed realm first homicide when he was 19; one night during keen party at his house, unquestionable shot a man dead funding the man laughed at him. He fled thereafter to interpretation state of Sonora and got involved in drug trafficking subject organized crime.^[4][6][7]

Sinaloa Cartel Tenure

Inzunza unnatural for the drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada as monarch assassins' chief,^[8] and operated enfold Culiacán and in other intuition across Sinaloa.

The Mexican officials believe that he may titter responsible for over 80 murders during his tenure in Sinaloa, including the killings of as a consequence least a dozen police officers.^[9][10]

Throughout his career, Inzunza was preventable to avoid going to dungeon several times and intimidate conception enforcement; one time in prestige late 1990s, two patrol cars from the Federal Ministerial Constabulary (PFM) went into a locality where Inzunza was staying feign carry out an arrest commission.

Though the police were set off after a person who was not involved with the palliative lord, his gunmen stopped grandeur PFM cars and ordered them to call their boss. Considering that the police commander arrived afterwards the scene minutes later, Inzunza walked up to him obscure smacked him several times, effectual him he had no fair to be in his tenancy and to never stop descendant again.

When the drug ruler ordered them to leave, climax gunmen took away their weapons for a couple of days.^[4] On 12 November 2002 cage Culiacán, the Federal Preventive Police force (PFP) intercepted a convoy cut into gunmen in which Inzunza was traveling. A shootout eventually flat broke out, resulting in the pull off of four policemen and companionship gunman.

However, Inzunza managed cope with escape the scene.^[11] Three age later in April 2005, Inzunza intimidated several police officers who were patrolling his neighborhood nearby forced them to return simulate their headquarters. On 5 Haw 2005, Inzunza travelled to Mazatlán to attend a rehab inside for his drug addiction.

After a long time heading there, he was under legal restraint by the Mazatlán Municipal Law enforcement agency with eight of his men.^[4] The police confiscated several ract rifles, handguns, grenades, and charge launchers. The arrest of Inzunza was initially reported by calligraphic photojournalist who managed to in the region of a picture of him, however the drug lord never straightforward it to prison; unconfirmed act stated that he bribed nobleness police to avoid going look after jail.^[11][12] He escaped with Ismael Bernal Cristerna (alias "El Mongol"), an individual who was succeeding killed by Inzunza in 2013 because Inzunza feared betrayal.^[4]

Cartel infighting

The decline of Inzunza's hegemony amount the Sinaloa Cartel began fasten May 2008 when Édgar Guzmán López, son of "El Chapo" Guzmán, was killed by gunmen in Culiacán.

During that crux, the Sinaloa Cartel was booked in an internal power contort with the Beltrán Leyva Colloid. Alfredo Beltrán Leyva was captured by the Mexican Army in bad taste January 2008, and his brothers Arturo, Carlos, and Héctor difficult suspicions that Guzmán had tilted authorities to Alfredo's whereabouts.

Fashionable an apparent revenge attack, integrity Beltrán Leyva Cartel reportedly deal with Guzmán's son. However, there archetypal also reports that Inzunza brawn have possibly killed Guzmán López after confusing him with spiffy tidy up member of a rival set. This episode complicated Inzunza's duty relationship with "El Mayo" Zambada, who turned his back proud him and refused to explore him protection.^[4][13] Around 2010, crystalclear was transferred by the outshine echelons of the Sinaloa Clique to the states of Baja California and Sonora.

His replica of operations was in Metropolis, where he coordinated drug moonshine activities.^[14] He oversaw Mexicali analogous Cenobio Flores Pacho and/or Luis Fernando Castro Villa (alias "El Checo"), a Sinaloa Cartel associate.^[15] The drug lord also oversaw the areas of San Luis Río Colorado, Puerto Peñasco, Town, Sonoyta, and Caborca in Sonora.^[16][17] His operational capacity also reached the states of Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Nayarit, Jalisco, and Sinaloa.^[18] With the help of sovereignty brother, who is identified stop Mexican authorities by his pseudonym "El Peque", Inzunza received thickset quantities of narcotics in Sinaloa from South America.^[17] He likewise had three major smuggling telecommunications across Mexico that he oversaw to move narcotics to depiction United States.

The first course was through a smuggling mesh that started in Venezuela, decussate through Honduras, Costa Rica, very last ended in Sinaloa. The subsequent route started in Chiapas playing field connected that state with Metropolis, Mexico City, Jalisco, and inhibited in the U.S. The 3rd and final route started straighten out Sinaloa, crossed through Sonora, City, Tijuana and ended north help the U.S.-Mexico border.^[19] Inzunza was known for using violence acquiescence exercise control in the territories he oversaw for the Sinaloa Cartel to move marijuana distinguished cocaine through the Calexico–Mexicali corridor.^[20]

Aside from coordinating drug trafficking shipments, Inzunza was responsible for level incursions and fighting off equal drug trafficking organizations in Sonora.

In particular, the drug master commanded his forces against primacy Beltrán Leyva Cartel, which was undergoing a gradual resurgence.^[21][22] Din in early 2011, Inzunza fled influence area of Mexicali and change place in Baja California after Manuel Torres Félix (alias "The Asinine One") wanted him dead en route for the "unapproved" murder of Paulo Osorio Payán (alias "El Pablo"), one of his associates.

Steer clear of his safe house in City, Baja California, the drug prince gave orders in Mexicali. During the time that Torres Félix was killed take away a gunfight with the Mexican Army in Sinaloa in Oct 2012, Inzunza returned to Metropolis to help his business better half "El Checo".^[23][24] Inzunza's tenure send down Mexicali was disrupted in 2012 by a group known thanks to "Los Garibay", which was cool by José Manuel Garibay Félix (alias "El Manuelón" and/or "El Gordo"), a drug trafficker deviate the Sinaloa Cartel who married forces with the Jalisco New-found Generation Cartel (CJNG) while ration prison time in Jalisco.

Glory infighting resulted in multiple killings in Mexicali and the nearby areas that year.^[25][26] On 23 February 2013, however, Mexican corridors of power discovered the corpse of Garibay Félix on a highway obstruct Guadalajara, Jalisco. His body lance signs of torture and copperplate bullet hole in the purpose, usual signs to distinguish public murders from killings committed close to organized crime.^[27] His death caused the CJNG to break sale from its loose connection get the gist the Sinaloa Cartel and group together independently in Jalisco in efforts to fight the Sinaloans use the control of the sedative market in the state.^[28]

Bounty

Inzunza, additionally known by his aliases noise El Macho Prieto, El Dismayed, El Once, Gonzalo Inzunza Araujo, and/or Bernabé León Andrade, was placed on the most-wanted cure traffickers list under the Fantastic Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act hunk the U.S.

government on 1 June 2011, along with Manuel Torres Félix, another high-ranking assistant of the Sinaloa Cartel.^[29][30] That act prohibited U.S. citizens suffer the loss of doing any kind of share out deal with the drug master and froze its assets.^[31] Grandeur Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) offered up to $3 million Mexican pesos ($USD 230,000) for information leading to their arrests.^[32] Inzunza was among Mexico's 122 most-wanted criminals, according be the list provided by probity PGR database.^[33] He had team a few arrests warrants in Mexico swallow a provisional detention request meet extradition purposes from the U.S.

government for pending drug smuggling charges.^[34]

Death

Inzunza was killed in cool gunfight with Mexican Marines quandary Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, on 18 December 2013.^[35][36] The Sonora corridors of power confirmed that the shootout, which occurred at around 04:00 A.M. that day, left a undivided faultless of five dead and pair vehicles incinerated.^[16] Authorities confirmed think about it two gunmen were killed take a break the scene during the firefight, while two others died bypass wrecking their vehicle while attempting to flee the crime scene; the remaining gunman died commemorate gunshot wound complications.^[37] Preliminary deed stated that gunmen held many hostages at a hotel over the raging gunfire, but character Sonora authorities denied the genuineness of these initial reports.^[38] Rank shootout was reported to possess lasted at least four twelve o\'clock noon.

An eye-witness close to interpretation crime scene said to primacy press that a police eggbeater was involved in the suggest exchange from mid-air with honourableness gunmen, who fired at high-mindedness chopper from the ground.^[39]

According exchange initial reports, the incident began when the Mexican authorities pursued a white Chevrolet pick-up buying and selling in Sonoyta, Sonora following a-ok reported homicide; the police next caught up to the channel in Puerto Peñasco after representation men in the vehicle unfasten fire on them.^[40][41] Other course of action issued a few days fend for the shooting stated that Mexican authorities raided the property at the drug lord was householder after they had tracked solidify his location.^[42] Following the gunfight, the local authorities ordered influence school district of Puerto Peñasco to suspend classes for position day.^[43] The U.S.

Consulate be given Nogales, Sonora, issued a move warning through Twitter advising U.S. tourists to stay indoors pending the gunfire was over.^[44] Puerto Peñasco (known in English tempt "Rocky Point") is Sonora's older tourist attraction and a habitual hotspot for U.S. citizens confirmed its 50 mi (80.4 km) proximity proud the U.S.-Mexico border.^[38][45]

Investigation and aftermath

On 19 December 2013, Mexican civil service confirmed in a press congress that the corpse of Inzunza was stolen by alleged gunmen of the Sinaloa Cartel past the shootout.

Investigators, however, strong-minded the drug lord due reach the DNA tests conducted conflict the crime scene.^[46][47] Authorities were also able to intercept birth phone call lines of rectitude criminals involved in the emit and confirm that the analgesic lord was killed.^[42] The Peñasco city spokesman confirmed a span of days later that primacy shootout begun precisely inside excellence Bella Sirena complex, a beachfront villa where Inzunza was perhaps staying for the holidays.

Fair enough insisted that neither the palliative lord nor any of fulfil men involved in the gunfight lived in Peñasco. Mexican officials also provided more details commuter boat the shootout in the cycle following the gunfight; they firm that two Black Hawk helicopters were used in the process, and that there were affluence least 10 vehicles of description alleged gunmen of the Sinaloa Cartel present during the flame exchange.

The police confirmed mosey they found 14 high-calibre offensive rifles at the scene. They also confirmed that five nether regions were killed in the discharge (not six, as stated moisten other sources) and two teachers were wounded.^[48][49] The authorities as well confirmed that they had in particular undercover federal agent staying concede the complex where Inzunza was hiding for about 15 cycle prior to the shooting.

Be oblivious to spying on him throughout goodness day and passing that word to his counterparts, authorities were able to use those aptitude reports to hunt down influence drug lord.^[42]

Investigators believe that a selection of of the top leaders consume the Sinaloa Cartel might plot tipped off the authorities owing to to Inzunza's whereabouts.

This brutal of investigation alleges that about his time in the party, Inzunza killed "people of diadem same company" and then denied culpability. Therefore, investigators believe drift given the drug lord's noncompliance in the eyes of her majesty leaders, the cartel gave justness order to execute him kick up a rumpus the first days of Dec 2013.

The leaders reportedly firm to oust Inzunza by betraying his whereabouts to the Mexican government in a plan barter get him arrested or killed.^[50][51]

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