Los Antrax
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| Named after | Anthrax (Disease) |
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| Founding location | Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Ethnicity | Mexicans |
| Leader(s) | José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa |
| Criminal activities | Murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking |
| Allies | Sinaloa Cartel |
| Rivals | Los Mazatlecos, La Línea |
Los Ántrax is an enforcer gang of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel. The group was led by the drug lords Jesús Peña (El 20) and Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa (El Chino Ántrax), and they are responsible for a number of homicides and for providing armed security services to Ismael El Mayo Zambada. The gang operates in the capital city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, where its members conduct homicides and violent attacks.
The name of the group is inspired from the disease anthrax, although the Sinaloa state authorities have never officially recognized the group's existence.
Los Ántrax works as the security force of the drug lord Ismael El Mayo Zambada, who leads the Sinaloa Cartel along with Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán. Several homicides have been attributed to the gang, which was led by a drug trafficker named Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa (El Chino Antrax), now under U.S. custody, and his right-hand man Jesus Peña (El 20), who was believed to be hiding in the state of Sinaloa. "El 20" was arrested and is now under Mexican custody.
A fierce gunfight between members of the Sinaloa Cartel (with the backing of Los Ántrax or Gente Nueva) and the Beltrán Leyva Cartel (with the support of Los Zetas) left about 30 dead in the town of Tubutama, Sonora in northern Mexico on 1 July 2010. The drug gangs clashed just a few miles across the international border with the U.S. state of Arizona – an area notorious for being a smuggling route for narcotics and human trafficking. Eleven late-model, bullet-ridden vehicles were found at the scene, along with dozens of high calibre assault rifles. Some of the vehicles had "X" painted on their windows, a method often used by the Mexican drug trafficking organizations to distinguish the vehicles of rival drug cartels during armed confrontations.
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