11 Alleged Members of 'Los Deltas,' CJNG Armed Wing, Linked to Prosecution After Zapopan, Jalisco Raids

Mexico's Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSPC) and the FGR announced on August 17, 2026 that a Control and Oral Proceedings judge had formally linked 11 alleged members of 'Los Deltas' — a CJNG armed-wing cell founded in 2018 and tied to murders, kidnappings, extortion, drug trafficking, and arms smuggling across Jalisco and Sonora — to criminal proceedings following three search-warrant operations in Zapopan, Jalisco. In the Mirador del Sol neighborhood, Erick 'N' was detained; in Los Arcos de Guadalupe, Jeremy 'N', Jesús 'N', Genaro 'N', and Ángel 'N' were detained, the latter four also facing ketamine-possession charges. A third raid on a 30-plus-hectare ranch near the community of Huaxtla, described by authorities as a suspected recruitment center, resulted in the detention of Javier 'N', José 'N', Luis 'N', Jorge 'N', David 'N', and Carlos 'N'. Authorities seized firearms and ammunition for the exclusive use of the armed forces — including 48 loaded magazines and more than 1,700 cartridges — plus ketamine, vehicles, motorcycles, tactical gear, and Kevlar helmets. All 11 remain held at the Centro Preventivo de Reinserción Social de Puente Grande in Jalisco while investigations continue (three- to four-month supplementary-investigation windows). The FGR said the operation is part of a sustained offensive against CJNG, under which SEMAR has accumulated more than 2,900 cartel-linked arrests.