- Mexican military forces captured Audias Flores Silva, known as “El Jardinero,” a top leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), two months after the cartel's overall leader was killed.
- Flores Silva, a regional commander and potential successor to the deceased cartel leader, was apprehended in Nayarit, Mexico, with no casualties reported during the operation.
- The United States had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest and has an active extradition request for him on charges of drug conspiracy and firearms possession.
- His capture is considered a significant blow to the CJNG, which is Mexico's most powerful criminal enterprise and a major player in fentanyl trafficking.
- U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson praised the arrest as an important step against criminal networks, while local reports indicated retaliatory violence, including car and business burnings, following the capture.
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