{"id":6915,"date":"2026-03-31T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/sinaloa-cartel-officer-el-payin-killed-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:21:00","slug":"sinaloa-cartel-officer-el-payin-killed-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/sinaloa-cartel-officer-el-payin-killed-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinaloa Cartel Officer &#8220;El Payin&#8221; Killed by Car Bomb Outside Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By &#8220;El Huaso&#8221; for Borderland Beat<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhWGy_8h1NZPRvO1jRGDMcm7IWmDi3V8w10_DS5hIPqB5pIeKu7l3cPbu7B_SehCjtTfJSP5JfOKNSak5d9MU58A4Sd-ObaU56yXvYviCgAMqM16_S1uZ3sOSm6hYi8277UhexMrHpCpKDiS9egmpQac0yzA2Mkf9AKa5Xl5VdgWXDB35UjjlMU1sxvVHGw\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"666\" data-original-width=\"1273\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhWGy_8h1NZPRvO1jRGDMcm7IWmDi3V8w10_DS5hIPqB5pIeKu7l3cPbu7B_SehCjtTfJSP5JfOKNSak5d9MU58A4Sd-ObaU56yXvYviCgAMqM16_S1uZ3sOSm6hYi8277UhexMrHpCpKDiS9egmpQac0yzA2Mkf9AKa5Xl5VdgWXDB35UjjlMU1sxvVHGw\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sinaloa Cartel officer Francisco Beltr\u00e1n \u201cN\u201d alias &#8220;El Payin&#8221; was killed when his vehicle exploded just after arriving at Felipe Angeles International Airport just outside Mexico City yesterday afternoon.<span><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/span><br \/>The explosion was captured on a rear camera of another vehicle while driving on highway 85 Mexico-Pachuca towards Mexico City. The video shows an explosion under a black Toyota Tacoma, which then veers off its path before crashing off the highway. Authorities have not confirmed the cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed to be a car bomb, it would be the fourth on record in Mexico this year.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/video.g?token=AD6v5dxsnUSDBkjq9qqRoxUmzdUZY2vQsF1xT1U9B5O-MtOOFABoB3BtCNqgczdmvVNuLm8fN2kLMsBIwYBF6Y0icA\" class=\"b-hbp-video b-uploaded\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Video posted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/josuealeexis\/status\/2038736613514362958?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Josue Aguilar<\/a> Twitter.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Photos taken after the explosion show both El Payin (passenger seat) and the driver, Humberto Raquel \u201cN\u201d, both from Sinaloa state, dead inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiKUSKnrs9NtSR2-CqG17QBV1gExUAAbsu66-YdY1q0DavDbcRvDBd5KUoHjCEEs7WoJjk9j1HzZqhxutUAGkczj85fKcL--DaKsmQmitNIsfqpQ1eguZ0tI5Nm4W_RNbLv64SpdINFgm4GlDRfssXgYMyxiZ5K4bCpmN73WQmYvszBQRRWeC0yiQZvRGnX\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"660\" data-original-width=\"1267\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiKUSKnrs9NtSR2-CqG17QBV1gExUAAbsu66-YdY1q0DavDbcRvDBd5KUoHjCEEs7WoJjk9j1HzZqhxutUAGkczj85fKcL--DaKsmQmitNIsfqpQ1eguZ0tI5Nm4W_RNbLv64SpdINFgm4GlDRfssXgYMyxiZ5K4bCpmN73WQmYvszBQRRWeC0yiQZvRGnX\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The location was geolocated to (19.7268773, -98.9705649) by @natsecboogie, @VaqueroJoe and @el6rin6o6aucho.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg1M4lLHlfVxv4-UArrJq5afXVu3IUBl0wsd8d_XEg0RAIy4XjmfE7G1GtvIyF-LcUBHyyLMMo-ywlqzbT4l7hP_bzhPuCN2WwnKlhVLhLmRJWoLOininBlApYkks-24YFNv40gc57dHFHktMTKLRsUWDCk3_y8_-DNutY-zTtQVTun1dI9xhThigmCULwc\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1000\" data-original-width=\"1051\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg1M4lLHlfVxv4-UArrJq5afXVu3IUBl0wsd8d_XEg0RAIy4XjmfE7G1GtvIyF-LcUBHyyLMMo-ywlqzbT4l7hP_bzhPuCN2WwnKlhVLhLmRJWoLOininBlApYkks-24YFNv40gc57dHFHktMTKLRsUWDCk3_y8_-DNutY-zTtQVTun1dI9xhThigmCULwc\" width=\"252\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">According to journalist Antonio Nieto, the two men were headed to Tepito, a neighborhood in central Mexico City known for being a hotbed of criminality, with narcotienditas, stash houses, and locations for purchasing weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about El Payin. Vivo en Marte, a cartel news Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VivoenMarte2\/status\/2038763205040722238?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> he was an officer under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderlandbeat.com\/2025\/03\/undated-photograph-is-leaked-of-manuel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manuel Noriega<\/a>, alias \u201cEl Me\u00f1o\u201d or \u201cEl 4&#215;1,\u201d a powerful lieutenant and security chief within the Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. This has not been claimed elsewhere.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/zetatijuana.com\/2026\/03\/explosion-cerca-del-aifa-mata-a-el-payin-presunto-operador-criminal-originario-de-sinaloa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zeta Tijuana<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HuasoBB\/status\/2038791206298059122\" target=\"_blank\">@natsecboogie Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LuisCardenasMx\/status\/2038748406013743336\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\">@LuisCardenasMx<\/a> Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/josuealeexis\/status\/2038736613514362958?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Josue Aguilar<\/a>\u00a0Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/siete_letras\/status\/2038766696526135729?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Nieto<\/a> Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &#8220;El Huaso&#8221; for Borderland Beat Sinaloa Cartel officer Francisco Beltr\u00e1n \u201cN\u201d alias &#8220;El Payin&#8221; was killed when his vehicle&hellip;<\/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-6915","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\/6915","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=6915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}