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Bystanders flee Zapopan restaurant raid as forces arrest R2

The report combines street footage and digital reconstructions to explain an operation coordinated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Capturan en Jalisco a 'El R2', presunto líder de una célula criminal del CJNG

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0:00The presenter reports R2's arrest at a Zapopan restaurant in an operation coordinated with the DEA.
0:45Digital reconstructions illustrate the report's account of a celebration lasting more than 20 hours.
1:10Street footage shows bystanders fleeing or sheltering as armed forces operate nearby.
1:35The narration says R2 wounded a naval member before being wounded himself and taken to hospital.
2:52The report says 19 other people were detained, including musicians and restaurant employees.
3:32The restaurant is secured and closed; a neighbor describes its repeated changes of business use.

Helicopters pass overhead and pedestrians retreat as armed security forces move around a restaurant in Zapopan, in Mexico's western state of Jalisco. The street footage captures the alarm surrounding the arrest of Rafael Álvarez Ayala, known as R2, a suspected operator of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Mexico's NMás reports that Mexican authorities coordinated the operation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Its report moves between bystanders' recordings, photographs and clearly identifiable digital reconstructions of events at Restaurante Sabea.

According to the report, Álvarez Ayala and his companions had spent more than 20 hours celebrating at the restaurant before the operation. People outside begin running or seeking shelter as they notice long guns and shooting breaks out nearby.

The broadcaster says Álvarez Ayala fired at the authorities, wounding a member of the Mexican Navy, before he was himself wounded. Footage shows him being taken away on a stretcher for hospital treatment.

The report identifies him as a suspected leader of a criminal cell within the CJNG, the Spanish initials for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. It says he faces U.S. federal charges involving alleged weapons and drug trafficking. The DEA, which works on drug investigations both inside and outside the United States, is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Another 19 people were detained at the restaurant, according to the report, including musicians and employees. Their detention alone does not establish involvement in the alleged criminal activity. The segment ends with the premises secured and closed, while a neighborhood resident describes the property's repeated changes of business use.

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