{"id":17033,"date":"2026-04-28T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/17033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:20:41","slug":"mexican-cartel-commander-arrested-while-trying-to-hide-in-a-drainage-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/17033\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican cartel commander arrested while trying to hide in a drainage ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Mexican cartel commander arrested while trying to hide in a drainage ditch\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1UC1hGCOFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMexican cartel commander arrested while trying to hide in a drainage ditch<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo shared by officials on social media shows the arrest of one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel in Mexico.<br \/>\nAudias Flores, known as &#8216;El Jardinero&#8217;, is a regional commander in control of swathes of CJNG territory along Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast. He was considered a potential successor to Nemesio Oseguera, alias &#8216;El Mencho&#8217;, who ran the cartel and was killed in a security operation in February.<br \/>\nSecurity forces surrounded a cabin about 20km (12 miles) north of the popular resort city of Puerto Vallarta, where Flores was being protected by a perimeter of about 30 pickup trucks and 60 gunmen, according to a press release from Mexico\u2019s Navy, which led the operation.<br \/>\nFlores\u2019 escorts scattered as a diversion but he was located as he tried to hide in a drainage ditch, it added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican cartel commander arrested while trying to hide in a drainage ditch Video shared by officials on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1796,7185,21130,482,21138,21139,3660,21140,21131,2233,21132,272,240,261,8673,21141,21133,21142,21134,2235,18703,21135,21136,21137,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-17033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guardian-news","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-arrested","10":"tag-audias-flores","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-drainage-ditch","13":"tag-drug-trade","14":"tag-drugs","15":"tag-drugs-trade","16":"tag-el-jardinero","17":"tag-el-mencho","18":"tag-flores","19":"tag-gdnpfpnewsworld","20":"tag-guardian","21":"tag-guardian-news","22":"tag-gunmen","23":"tag-illegal-drugs","24":"tag-jalisco-new-generation-cartel","25":"tag-mexican-cartel","26":"tag-mexican-navy","27":"tag-mexico","28":"tag-mexico-city","29":"tag-nayarit","30":"tag-nemesio-oseguera","31":"tag-puerto-vallarta","32":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116481888308186812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}