Jesús "El Choy" González Peñoles, the second in command of the criminal organization Los Meztalcos linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, also known as the Guasaba Cartel, was killed following an operation by the Mexican Navy in Guasava, in the Sinaloa region of Mexico. Al Choi was one of the main targets of the DEA and the US State Department, with a $5 million bounty on his head.