'El Señor de la T' and 18 Network Members Formally Linked to Trial in Michoacán

On September 23, 2026, a Michoacán control judge formally linked Manuel Alejandro Rendón Aguilar, alias 'El Señor de la T,' to criminal proceedings alongside three co-defendants — Daniel 'N,' Luis Fernando 'N' and Gladis Yareli 'N' — on charges of crimes against health (drug offenses), receiving stolen property, and possession of a firearm, cartridges and magazines reserved for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces. The judge imposed both justified preventive detention (state charges) and automatic preventive detention (federal charges); Rendón Aguilar was placed at the Centro Penitenciario de Alto Impacto Número 1 de Michoacán, with prosecutors given a two-month window to close their complementary investigation. In a related ruling reported September 24-25, the same court also formally linked to trial 18 other people detained in the wider sweep tied to Rendón Aguilar's September 17 arrest announcement — including four municipal police officers, one of them José Armando H., director of the Angamacutiro municipal police — on narcomenudeo (retail drug-trafficking) charges, all likewise ordered into preventive detention. The National Detention Registry documented Rendón Aguilar's actual capture as occurring September 15 on Boulevard Juan Pablo II near the Altozano residential zone in Morelia, ahead of the September 17 public announcement.