5. Arellano Felix group kills Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
Six months after the formation of Barron’s assassins, they traveled to Guadalajara to kill Guzman. Once Guzman was spotted at the airport, Barron took the rifle, and Guzman’s bodyguards responded. Tijuana Cartel started shooting at white Grand Marquis (Guzman owned the same one) thus killing the passenger and the driver. After the shooting was over, all media outlets, including LA Times published the news that the passenger from the Grand Marquis was Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, one of the two Mexico’s Roman Catholic cardinals. Guzman fled to Guatemala, where he was arrested two weeks later, and Arellano brothers sent two cartel members to take the blame for the event, thus avoiding their incarceration. Besides the cardinal and his driver, two of Guzman’s bodyguards and five bystanders were killed.
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