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How "El Jardinero", the boss of the Mexican cartel that "filled" the US with cocaine, was arrested

2026-04-28 23:23:40Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
How "El Jardinero", the boss of the Mexican cartel that
Arrest of Audias Flores Silva

When he heard the distinctive sound of a helicopter, 46-year-old Audias Flores Silva, with the instincts of a seasoned drug lord, tried to escape from the luxurious place he was hiding. The 60 or so bodyguards guarding him were reportedly instructed to disperse in different directions in the 30 pickup trucks they had.

The main purpose of this order was to confuse the 500 Mexican Special Forces soldiers who had surrounded a site in the El Mirador area, which is located 20 kilometers from Puerto Vallarta. But it was too late for the notorious drug lord from Michoacan, who was captured, literally in the act, without a single shot being fired.

El Jardinero's (The Gardener) mind may have traveled back a few years, to the time when he was growing up, wandering around and involved in the most lucrative profession a teenager can have in Mexico: drugs.

Early years and arrest in the US

Growing up in a family struggling to make ends meet in a country where violence began to increase in the 1990s and beyond, when cartels began a civil war among themselves and drug lords began to gain more and more power, the teenage Audias chose to hide from the start.

There is no official biography of Flores Silva, a sign of how cautious El Mencho's alleged successor, known as Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the former leader of the New Generation cartel in Jalisco, was. Shortly after the early 2000s, the "gardener" was caught by the Americans when he was arrested in the US with a quantity of cocaine and sentenced to 5 years in prison.

When he was released from prison, he was deported directly to Mexico, where it didn't take him long to return to the drug trade, with all that this meant for a smart and ambitious 30-year-old Mexican who measured every step and began to slowly but steadily climb the Jalisco Cartel.

Attack and rise

On that day in 2016 or 2015, there are no details about the incident, Audias Flores Silva, along with several sicarios (cartel hitmen), ambushed police officers patrolling a neighborhood in Jalisco.

He wanted to tell the authorities who the bosses were, but a few weeks after the attack, he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years in prison after refusing to “hit” the others.

When he got out, his friends in the cartel welcomed him with open arms and "El Jardinero" immediately returned to what he knew how to do very well: producing and selling drugs.

The very close relationship she had with "El Mencho" gave Flora Silves the opportunity to rise in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, now as the deputy to the big boss.

According to US DEA files, "El Jardinero" controlled dozens of illegal methamphetamine production laboratories in the Jalisco and southern Zacatecas regions in recent years.

The gardener who "filled" the US with cocaine

He quickly began controlling the flow of drugs leaving Jalisco to the United States, after purchasing several planes that landed and took off on illegal airstrips, many of which were located in pristine areas in the jungle.

He also had hundreds of trucks and their drivers to transport cocaine from Mexico and Central America to the United States, as well as passenger cars to transport the cartel's drugs to illegal distribution centers in California, Texas, Illinois, Washington, Georgia, and Virginia.

Business was booming, drug money was piling up, and Flores Silva felt invulnerable to any threat from the law, even when the United States offered a $5 million reward.

How "El Jardinero", the boss of the Mexican cartel that

Inside an irrigation canal

However, on February 22, he was among the first to learn of Cervantes' death, following a large-scale military operation in the city of Tapalpa, Jalisco.

The cartel leader was seriously injured and died from his injuries while being transported to a hospital in Mexico City, while subsequent incidents of retaliation did not discourage the authorities.

At that time, he may have felt that his turn was coming, as he was one of the leading candidates to lead, as the organization could not remain without a head.

The remaining cartels would seek to exploit the situation, claiming the area, perhaps with a "bloody" settling of scores.

He has been in hiding ever since, but as usual the CIA and possibly the NSA found him via satellite surveillance, and informed the Mexican government, which also had him under surveillance for the past 19 months.

The operation was planned very carefully by the Special Forces, so much so that even though "El Jardinero" was guarded by 60 bodyguards, in the end not a single bullet was fired.

The drug lord tried to escape by entering a large pipe in an irrigation canal, but a drone that had "captured" him from the first moment of the operation led Mexican commandos to the right place.

A few hours later, he appeared handcuffed in front of the helicopter that transported him along with a group of 5 Special Forces soldiers, who were photographed with their backs to each other.

Something that made sense, since, if they showed their faces, from that moment on they would be potential targets of cartel forces in retaliation for the arrest of the "cocaine gardener."


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