2012 Guazapa shootout and cocaine seizure
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Operation José Luís Obregón y Molina | |||||||
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Part of the Mara War | |||||||
A helicopter of the Zapatista Departmental Police firing upon the Menjívar Family Cartel compound around midnight. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Drug cartel and gang affiliates | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Víctor Carpio Galdámez Francisco Mena Luján José Franco León |
Vicente Menjívar Ussía † Adolfo Menjívar Ussía † Juan Beltrán Leyva † Nicolás Santín Guerrero | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
150th Infantry Regiment Zapatista Departmental Police Detachment D3 | Cartel and gang members | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
200 personel | ~70 combatants | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 dead 51 wounded |
21 dead 14 executed 29 arrested (all wounded) |
On the night of 3 to 4 November 2012, the Creeperian government ministries of Defense, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence conducted a joint-operation, named Operation José Luís Obregón y Molina,[note 1] in Guazapa, Zapatista, against a compound controlled by the Menjívar Family Cartel, the then largest drug cartel in the department of Zapatista.
After the shootout, the Creeperian government seized a record 25 tons of cocaine worth an estimated ₡13.04 billion colóns,[note 2] the largest single seizure of illegal drugs in history.
Contents
Background
Government organization
- Ministry of Defense
- 150th Infantry Regiment – 1,000 soldiers, but only 100 deployed
- Commanded by Colonel Víctor Orlando Carpio y Galdámez
- Ministry of Law Enforcement
- Zapatista Departmental Police – 75 deployed
- Commanded by Major Francisco Gustavo Mena y Luján
- Ministry of Intelligence
- Detachment D3 – 25 deployed
- Commanded by Major José de Jesús Franco y León
Shootout
Aftermath
Arrests and extrajudicial executions
Seizure of cocaine
See also
Notes
- ↑ Creeperian Spanish: Operación José Luís Obregón y Molina
- ↑ ₵1.63 billion credits.