Mexican Army special forces, backed by two armed helicopters, moved into the municipality of Los Reyes, Michoacán, around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 1, and took down Alfonso Fernández Magallón — a man U.S. investigators had spent years trying to reach. Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed the detention that same evening in a social media post, naming the detainee by his two street names, "Poncho" and "La Quiringua." According to La Jornada's account of the operation, the raid unfolded at multiple points across the town simultaneously.
