Leader of “La Chokiza” transferred to the Altiplano after operation in Ecatepec

With a deployment of infantry elements from the Mexican Navy (Semar), Defense, National Guard (GN), Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), Alejandro Gilmare Mendoza, alias “El Choko,” was transferred to the Federal Social Readaptation Center Number 1, known as El Altiplano, in the State of Mexico.

According to sources from the SSPC, “El Choko” is identified as a priority target and leader of a criminal cell linked to homicide, extortion, payday loans, protection rackets, drug dealing, and dispossession, in addition to “montachoques” (a type of robbery). These activities allowed him to woven a network of control in several towns in the State of Mexico, where residents and business owners were subject to his law.

The leader of the criminal cell known as “La Chokiza” was arrested just 48 hours earlier in a shopping mall in Ecatepec, a municipality that had become fertile ground for organized crime and where Gilmare Mendoza operated with complete impunity.

According to sources from the security cabinet consulted, “El Choko” remained under intense interrogation within the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO) until a judge residing at the maximum security prison issued the internment order.

Investigations conducted to date indicate that he owned at least 72 properties linked to dispossession and other crimes in the municipalities of Tultitlán, Nezahualcóyotl, Acolman, and Ecatepec.