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Suspected cartel leader escapes as troops seize vehicles in Jalisco

A Mexican television report links the Ocotlán clash to an abandoned armored SUV and a warehouse containing 18 high-end vehicles.

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Presunto líder del CJNG escapa tras enfrentamiento armado en Ocotlán

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0:00The anchor reports that suspected CJNG leader Adrián Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias escaped after the Ocotlán confrontation.
0:20Pedraza reports two suspected criminals killed, a soldier injured and a woman with non-life-threatening injuries.
0:58The report describes roadblocks involving burning trucks in Atotonilco el Alto.
1:13Federal forces seized a stolen armored SUV believed to have carried the fugitive, Pedraza says.
2:00Pedraza reports tire-puncturing devices and a cartel-related training patch inside the SUV.
2:37Authorities also seized a warehouse containing 18 high-end vehicles and tactical equipment, according to Pedraza.

An armored SUV believed to have carried a suspected cartel leader was seized in Ocotlán, but the man authorities were pursuing escaped, Mexico's MILENIO reports. The discovery adds a new development to the armed confrontation that prompted residents to stay indoors and afternoon classes to move online, as we reported here.

In a telephone dispatch, reporter Luis Ángel Pedraza identifies the fugitive as Adrián Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias, known as "El 08" or "El 8," whom the report describes as a suspected leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, commonly abbreviated CJNG.

Pedraza says two suspected criminals were killed in the confrontation with Mexican army personnel. A soldier and a woman were injured; he describes the woman's injuries as not life-threatening. The violence also extended to Atotonilco el Alto, another municipality in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, where trucks were set alight to block roads, according to the report.

During the early hours of Friday, federal forces seized a black armored Ford Expedition with Florida license plates that had been reported stolen. Pedraza says Guerrero Covarrubias was believed to have been traveling in it. Tire-puncturing devices and a cartel-related patch bearing the Spanish word for "training" were found inside, he reports.

The video is titled "Presunto líder del CJNG escapa tras enfrentamiento armado en Ocotlán," meaning "Suspected CJNG leader escapes after armed clash in Ocotlán." It reports the escape but does not establish precisely how it happened.

Expanded patrols subsequently located a warehouse containing 18 high-end vehicles, tactical clothing and cartel insignia, Pedraza says. The seized material was handed over to federal prosecutors.

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