Borderland Beat

El Chayo: buried weaponry cache located and additional death photos

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:08 PM PDT

Chivis Martínez for Borderland Beat

Four women retrieve the body of Chayo-
the woman front second left is Chayo's only sister

A hoard of heavy artillery was discovered yesterday in an area El Chayo was known to operate in. Nazario Moreno González, aka El Chayo, maximum leader of Caballeros Templarios, was killed by federal forces last Sunday.

With intelligence and guidance by the Michoacán Autodefensas, federal forces located the leader in Tumbicastío, a municipality in the sierra mountains. He was killed in a shootout, in the shootout several of his guards were wounded and taken into custody.

It was information given by detainees that led authorities to an area in Cerro El Negro, Tumbicastío, in search for the weapons buried underground. Federal forces observed freshly disturbed soil at the location indicated by the detainees, and began digging resulting in the discovery of the cache:

11 rocket launcher

4 grenade launchers

15 guns –one with an engraved Templarios cross-

3 pistols

4 rocket launcher fins

78 magazines

1300 rounds of ammunition of various calibers