"El Marlon" fell: the former policeman who became the murderer of "Los Arzate" in Tijuana

In Tijuana was arrested on Wednesday, April 17, one of the closest lieutenants of brothers René and Alfonso Arzate García, operators of Sinaloa cartel.

Marco Tulio Carrillo "The Marlon", there was a group of badbadins who carry out activities in Tijuana and Rosarito in Baja California.

The intelligence division of the Federal Police captured it in the main avenue of the municipality, at the corner of the third section of Magnolia and Colonia El Florido.

Authorities he was arrested in possession of high-caliber weapons, such as an R-15 badault rifle and a 9-millimeter pistol. In addition to 900 grams of methamphetamine.

Will be prosecuted for possession of firearms and explosives for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The offense will result in an informal preventive prison, in accordance with the amendment to Article 19 of the Political Constitution entered into force on April 13, 2019.

Marco Julio Trujillo was a municipal policeman in Tijuana in 1995However, he was accused of having links to organized crime and health offenses, for which he was removed from office.

Since then, he has been identified as Baja California's link with the Sinaloa cartel. However, despite his many apprehensions, he never stopped working.

"The marlon" He had an arrest warrant against him since 2010, after the authorities identified him as responsible for the wave of violence in Baja California that did not stop in the following years.

The same year was captured for the first time. The army stopped him at Diaz Ordaz Boulevard, at the height of Plaza Las Brisas in Tijuana. In his file, the armed forces call him "one of the officials linked to organized crime". He was released a few days later

In 2016, he led an armed attack on a palenque in which four people were killed. two of them minors and 19 wounded.

Two months later, the The army and the federal police arrested him during the search of a building in Rosarito. They found two short weapons for the exclusive use of the army, 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, marijuana and stolen vehicles. However, on this occasion, he was also released.