This Thursday, authorities blocked the accounts of several people and companies linked to Edgar ‘N’, alias ‘El Limones’, arrested yesterday, Wednesday, when he was identified as the financial operator of a criminal network that was dedicated to the extortion of ranchers and merchants in Durango.
According to the Security Cabinet, after the arrest of the alleged leader of the criminal group ‘Los Cabreras’ and five other members, the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) tightened its financial siege by blocking several accounts of people close to ‘El Limones’ and various companies that presented “irregular financial patterns with apparent resources of illicit origin.”
“They had characteristics of front companies, in addition to being used to simulate payroll payments and carry out transactions for the purchase and sale of luxury vehicles, cash payments and fractional transfers, without real economic activity identified,” detailed the security coordination body.
This blockade by the UIF occurs after the arrest of the leader of the criminal network in question, identified as a “priority target” by the authorities as he is the current leader of a group dedicated to threatening and extorting merchants and ranchers in Durango.
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Likewise, security force agents arrested five other people from the same criminal group in different searches, which made it possible to “weaken the criminal structure” of the organization.
During the operations, firearms, tactical equipment and various vehicles were seized.
According to the authorities, all those detained are related to the crime of extortion, the illegal extraction and sale of hydrocarbons, as well as money laundering.
These actions “constitute a direct blow to the extortion networks, in line with the National Strategy against Extortion instructed by the president” Claudia Sheinbaum, said the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, when reporting on the operation against ‘Los Cabreras’.
The crime of extortion has grown by 23.1% in Mexico, between September 2024 and November 2025, the first 14 months of President Sheinbaum, the Security Cabinet reported with preliminary figures.
In the same period, 38,700 people have been arrested for high-impact crimes and 311 tons of drugs have been seized, including more than four million fentanyl pills.
Additionally, 20,169 firearms have been confiscated and 1,760 methamphetamine laboratories have been dismantled, according to the government report.
With information from EFE
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