{"id":5117,"date":"2026-03-17T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/cjng-hitman-commander-killed-in-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:15:00","slug":"cjng-hitman-commander-killed-in-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/cjng-hitman-commander-killed-in-html\/","title":{"rendered":"CJNG Hitman Commander Killed in Shootout in El Alpuyequito, Colima"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four CJNG members, including \u201cEl Joker\u201d a hitman commander responsible for ten murders & ordering another 15, were killed in a shootout in El Alpuyequito, Colima on Saturday. In 2025, El Joker was arrested and sentenced to 3 years for carrying a firearm, but was conditionally released after paying a 500 peso (USD 28) fine.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Iv\u00e1n \u201cN\u201d \u201cEl Joker\u201d and Fernando \u201cN\u201d, another of the four killed, were allegedly behind an attack on Colima State Police forces on February 27, killing one officer and injuring another.\u00a0Authorities were able to identify El Joker by through surveillance footage and vehicle monitoring.<\/div>\n
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Investigators first identified a silver Honda pickup linked to the attackers passing through Tonila, Jalisco on February 21 before entering Colima later that evening. A February 24 report of armed men in a dark SUV in Coquimatl\u00e1n led authorities to identify a maroon Renault Koleos the next day, which then became the focus of the investigation. On February 28, facial recognition software identified the vehicle\u2019s driver as El Joker.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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The SUV was not detected again until March 13, when authorities received reports of armed men near the Alpuyeque brecha. When state police attempted to stop the Renault Koleos, the occupants opened fire, prompting officers to return fire and kill the four individuals inside. El Joker, along with\u00a0Fernando \u201cN\u201d \u201cLa Bomba\u201d, Junior \u201cN\u201d and Enrique \u201cN\u201d \u201cChirimiki\u201d, were all killed. No police officers were injured. Police recovered firearms, tactical vests, and explosives.<\/div>\n
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This was not El Joker’s first encounter with the authorities.\u00a0He was arrested in Manzanillo in September 2025 for possession of firearms, sentenced to three years, but was released with a “conditional sentence” after paying 500 pesos.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources: Red Michoacan<\/a>,\u00a0ADN40 Noticias<\/a>, SSP Colima Facebook<\/a>, El Comentario<\/a>,\u00a0@OscarAdrianL<\/a> Twitter, SinEmbargo<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By \u201cEl Huaso\u201d for Borderland Beat Four CJNG members, including \u201cEl Joker\u201d a hitman commander responsible for ten murders &…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[24,21,20,22,27,23,25,19,28,26],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-cartel","tag-el-chapo","tag-el-mayo","tag-el-mencho","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-zetas","tag-mexico","tag-narco-news","tag-san-diego","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}