2009 Mexico most-wanted drug lords

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This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009. According to a BBC Mundo Mexico report, the 37 drug lords "have jeopardized Mexico national security." [1] [2]

Contents

The list of drug lords is grouped by their drug cartels. As of 2009, Mexico has offered up to 30 million pesos for the capture of each of the fugitives. [2] [3] [4] The United States also offers rewards for two of them. [5]

The most-wanted of the 37 drug lords was Joaquín Guzmán Loera, for whom Mexican and U.S. governments offered a total bounty of US$7 million. [6] He was captured on 22 February 2014 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, where he was staying at a hotel. [7] He escaped on 11 July 2015 through a 1.5 kilometer long tunnel from his cell in the Mexican maximum security prison but was recaptured by Mexican Marines following a gun battle on 8 January 2016. [8] On 25 July 2024, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the last remaining drug lord yet to be arrested, incarcerated, or killed, surrendered to U.S. authorities.

Chronology

As of 18 January 2011, Mexico had captured or killed 20 of the 37 in the most-wanted list. [9] The 21 June 2011 arrest of José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, [10] a.k.a. "El Chango", brought the total to twenty-one captured or killed. [11] [12] On 4 November 2011, Francisco Hernández García was captured. A leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Raúl Hernández Lechuga was captured on 12 December 2011. [11] [12] [13] On 26 September 2012, Iván Velázquez Caballero was captured by Mexican security forces. [14] The 7 October 2012 killing of Heriberto Lazcano brought this total to 25 captured or killed so far. [15]

On 15 July 2013, Miguel Treviño Morales was apprehended by the Mexican Marines in a town called Anáhuac, Nuevo León, near the border of the state of Tamaulipas. [16] Then, the 27 January 2014 apprehension of Dionisio Loya Plancarte, [17] a.k.a. "El Tío" left the Mexican government with 10 fugitives still on the loose. On 23 June 2014, Fernando Sánchez Arellano was arrested by soldiers of the Mexican Army and federal agents of the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) at the La Mesa borough of Tijuana, Baja California. On 1 October 2014 Héctor Beltrán Leyva was arrested by the Mexican Army inside a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. On 9 October 2014, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by Mexican authorities in Torreón (Coahuila). On 27 February 2015, Servando Gómez Martínez, the leader of the Knights Templar cartel, was arrested by Mexican security forces in Morelia, Michoacán. [18] On 4 March 2015, Omar Treviño Morales was captured inside a residence in Fuentes del Valle, an upper-class neighborhood in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, by the Federal Police and the Mexican Army. On 8 January 2016, Mexican Marines captured Joaquín Guzmán Loera after a heavy firefight in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, bringing the total captured or killed to 33.

Grouped by drug cartels

Mexico offered up to 30 million pesos (about 1.76 million U.S. dollars in 2024) for each of the following:

Beltrán-Leyva Cartel

La Familia Michoacana/Knights Templar Cartel

Gulf Cartel

Juárez Cartel

Sinaloa Cartel

Tijuana Cartel

Los Zetas

Sortable table

No.CartelNameAliasReward (Mexican pesos)StatusDate of statusNotes
1 Beltrán-Leyva Arturo Beltrán Leyva El Barbas$30MKilled16 December 2009 [21]
2 Beltrán-Leyva Héctor Beltrán Leyva El General$30MCaptured1 October 2014 [23]
3 Beltrán-Leyva Sergio Villarreal Barragán El Grande$30MCaptured13 September 2010 [24]
4 Beltrán-Leyva Edgar Valdez Villarreal La Barbie$30MCaptured31 August 2010 [28] [29]
5 Beltrán-Leyva Francisco Hernández García El 2000$15MCaptured4 November 2011 [84]
6 Beltrán-Leyva Alberto Pineda Villa El Borrado$15MKilled12 September 2009 [85] [95]
7 Beltrán-Leyva Marco Antonio Pineda Villa El MP$15MKilled12 September 2009 [87]
8 Beltrán-Leyva Héctor Huerta Ríos La Burra$15MCaptured25 March 2009 [88]
9 La Familia Michoacana Nazario Moreno González El Chayo$30MKilled9 March 2014 [32]
10 La Familia Michoacana Servando Gómez Martínez La Tuta$30MCaptured27 February 2015 [34]
11 La Familia Michoacana José de Jesús Méndez Vargas El Chango$30MCaptured21 June 2011 [10]
12 La Familia Michoacana Dionisio Loya Plancarte El Tío$30MCaptured27 January 2014 [17]
13 Los Zetas Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano Z-3$30MKilled7 October 2012 [15]
14 Los Zetas Raúl Lucio Hernández Lechuga El Lucky$15MCaptured12 December 2011 [13]
15 Los Zetas Sergio Peña Solís El Concord$15MCaptured14 March 2009 [94]
16 Los Zetas Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales Z-40$30MCaptured15 July 2013 [16]
17 Los Zetas Omar Treviño Morales L-42$30MCaptured4 March 2015 [79]
18 Los Zetas Iván Velázquez Caballero L-50$30MCaptured26 September 2012 [96]
19 Los Zetas Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa El Goyo$30MCaptured30 April 2009 [83]
20 Los Zetas Flavio Méndez Santiago El Amarillo$15MCaptured18 January 2011 [93]
21 Los Zetas Ricardo Almanza Morales El Gori I$15MKilled4 December 2009 [90]
22 Los Zetas Eduardo Almanza Morales El Gori II$15MAllegedly dead4 December 2009 [97]
23 Los Zetas Raymundo Almanza Morales El Gori III$15MCaptured22 May 2009 [91]
24 Gulf Cartel Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes El Canicón$15MCaptured23 March 2009 [42]
25 Gulf Cartel Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén Tony Tormenta$30MKilled5 November 2010 [39] [40]
26 Gulf Cartel Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez El Coss$30MCaptured12 September 2012 [98]
27 Gulf Cartel Sergio Enrique Ruiz Tlapanco El Tlapa$15MCaptured8 September 2009 [43] [44] [45]
28 Juárez Cartel Vicente Carrillo Fuentes El Viceroy$30MCaptured9 October 2014 [46] [47]
29 Juárez Cartel Vicente Carrillo Leyva El Ingeniero$30MCaptured3 March 2009 [49]
30 Juárez Cartel Juan Pablo Ledezma El JL$15MDisputed (Reportedly Killed or Fugitive) [99] [100] No longer reported as La Linea leader [101] [102] [103] [104] by 2020 [105] Bounty for his death was offered by El Chapo. [99]
31 Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín Guzmán Loera El Chapo$30MCaptured18 January 2016 [8]
32 Sinaloa Cartel Ismael Zambada García El Mayo Zambada$30MCaptured25 July 2024 [106]
33 Sinaloa Cartel Ignacio Coronel Villarreal El Nacho Coronel$30MKilled29 July 2010 [56]
34 Sinaloa Cartel Juan José Esparragoza Moreno El Azul$30MAllegedly dead7 June 2014 [58]
35 Sinaloa Cartel Vicente Zambada Niebla El Vicentillo$30MCaptured19 March 2009 [60]
36 Tijuana Cartel Teodoro García Simental El Teo$30MCaptured12 January 2010 [63] [65]
37 Tijuana Cartel Fernando Sánchez Arellano El Ingeniero$30MCaptured23 June 2014 [68]

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