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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Meza and the second or maternal family name is Flores.


Fausto Isidro Meza Flores
ElChapo-Isidro.jpg
Born June 19, 1982 (age 35)
Other names El Chapo Isidro
Criminal charge Drug trafficking, murder

Allegiance Beltrán Leyva Cartel
Fausto Isidro Meza Flores (born June 19, 1982), commonly referred to by his criminal alias El Chapo Isidro ("Shorty Isidro"), is a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He is also the alleged leader of Los Mazatlecos and the right-hand man of the drug lords Héctor and Alfredo Beltrán Leyva.

Contents

  • 1 Criminal career
    • 1.1 Early life and ascension
    • 1.2 Tubutama, Sonora shooting
    • 1.3 Los Mazatlecos era
  • 2 Status
  • 3 Kingpin Act sanction
  • 4 See also
  • 5 References

Criminal career

Early life and ascension

Meza Flores (known in the criminal world as El Chapo Isidro) was born on June 19, 1982.[1] He began his criminal career in the 1990s, at first working for the Juárez Cartel under the tutelage of the then-leader Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After the drug lord died of plastic surgery complications in 1997, Meza Flores deserted the organization along with several other drug traffickers and decided to join the forces of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. As a member of the Beltrán Leyva brothers, he proved to be a "skilled sicario, capable of daring, cunning and bravado."[2] When the leader Arturo Beltrán Leyva was gunned down and killed by the Mexican military in December 2009, many within the cartel deserted and left to form an independent criminal organization with Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as La Barbie. Meza Flores, however, remained loyal to the Beltrán Leyva brothers and possibly forged an alliance with Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.[2]

Tubutama, Sonora shooting

A fierce gunfight between members of the Sinaloa Cartel (with the backing of Gente Nueva) and the Beltrán Leyva Cartel (with the support of Los Zetas and Meza Flores' men) left about 30 dead in the town of Tubutama, Sonora in northern Mexico on July 1, 2010.[3][4] The drug gangs clashed just a few miles across the international border with the U.S. state of Arizona – an area notorious for being a smuggling route for narcotics and human trafficking.[5] Reportedly, Meza Flores and a drug trafficker nicknamed El Gilo were the ones that carried out the surprise ambush attack on the gunmen of the Sinaloa Cartel.[2] Eleven late-model, bullet-ridden vehicles were found at the scene, along with dozens of high calibre assault rifles. Some of the vehicles had "X" painted on their windows, a method often used by the Mexican drug trafficking organizations to distinguish the vehicles of rival drug cartels during armed confrontations.[6][7]

Los Mazatlecos era

His gang, Los Mazatlecos, is based in the region of Guasave, Sinaloa, and is responsible for smuggling large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, and cocaine since 2000.[8][9] He is one of the principal leaders of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel in the city of Mazatlán and in the mountainous areas of Sinaloa state. Since 2010, he is one of the leading rivals of Joaquín "El Chapo "Guzmán, the current leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, along with Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno; the fight between the two drug trafficking groups has generated a wave of kidnappings and executions in Sinaloa.[10][11] Meza Flores is the right-hand man of Héctor Beltrán Leyva, the top leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel; his area of operations is in Mazatlán, Guamúchil, Los Mochis, Choix and Los Cabos. On April 28, 2010, Meza Flores was nearly captured by Mexican law enforcement in the mountains of Choix, Sinaloa. However, the operation left two soldiers dead and twelve of his gunmen killed, including his right-hand man Omar Alfonso Rubio (alias "El Chonte", i.e. the mockingbird). On December 12, 2013, one of Meza Flores's top lieutenants, Ignacio "Nacho" González was arrested in Guasave, Sinaloa by the Mexican Army.[12]

Status

Meza Flores was a fugitive wanted by the United States government for drug trafficking charges. His last known residence was in the state of Nuevo León, where he was reportedly seen with some of his family members at a youth basketball game in San Pedro Garza García on January 19, 2013.[13]

Kingpin Act sanction

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury announced on January 17, 2013 that they froze the assets of Meza Flores, seven of his family members, and three companies that had connection with his criminal organization through the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act").[14]

Businesses included in the sanction
Name Registration # Type Location Citations
Autotransportes Terrestres S.A. de C.V. N/A Automobile Guasave, Sinaloa [1]
Auto Servicio Jatziry S.A. de C.V. 12577 Gas station Guasave, Sinaloa [1]
Constructora Jatziry de Guasave S.A. de CV. 13554 Construction Guasave, Sinaloa [1]
Family members of Meza Flores
Name Alias Birth Status Relationship Citations
Fausto Isidro Meza Angulo N/A March 27, 1962 Fugitive Father [1][15]
Angelina Flores Apodaca N/A July 21, 1958 Fugitive Mother [1][15]
Araceli Chan Inzuna N/A February 8, 1985 Fugitive Wife [1][15]
Flor Angely Meza N/A September 20, 1989 Fugitive Sister [1][15]
Pánfilo Flores Apodaca N/A June 1, 1969 Fugitive Uncle [1][15]
Samuel Flores Apodaca El Pelón October 23, 1962 Fugitive Uncle [1][15]
Agustín Flores Apodaca El Niño June 6, 1964 Arrested Uncle [1][15]

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