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Mexican Special Forces Arrest Top CJNG Commander Audias Flores and His Alleged Money Launderer

Mexican naval forces, backed by U.S. intelligence, arrested Audias Flores ('El Jardinero'), a top regional commander of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and potential successor to slain leader Nemesio Oseguera ('El Mencho'), in a precision operation in Nayarit after 19 months of surveillance; his alleged money launderer, César Alejandro 'El Güero Conta', was detained later the same day. Separately, the arrest of a Gulf Cartel member in Tamaulipas triggered road blockades in Reynosa, prompting the U.S. Embassy to warn employees to avoid the area.