Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda (born August 12, 1984), also known as "''La China''", is a suspected Mexican drug trafficker, assassin and the ex leader of "''Las Fuerzas Especiales de Los Dámaso''", an enforcer group of the
Sinaloa Cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel ( es, link=no, Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel, the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is a large, international organized crime syndicate that specializes in il ...
under the orders of Damaso Lopez Nuñez. Left after being replaced as leader. Starting Cartel California Sur With her then boyfriend El chino Lopez and unknown members of Southern California gangs. little else is known She is allegedly responsible for over 150 murders in Mexico and multiple outbreaks of violence in
La Paz.
Biography
Calderón was born to José Alfredo Calderón Cota and Alma Guadalupe Ojeda Angulo. She began her criminal career with the Sinaloa Cartel in 2005.
Calderón was the leader of the
Damaso Cartel, a sub-division of the Sinaloa Cartel, until she was forcibly removed of her rank by cartel leader "''
El Grande
''El Grande'' is a German-style board game for 2-5 players, designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, and published in 1995 by Hans im Glück in German, by Rio Grande Games in English, and by 999 Games in Dutch. The game board represent ...
''", who killed her first boyfriend, Erick Davalos Von Borstel. In response, she became the leader of "Las Fuerzas", along with her second boyfriend Hector Pedro Camarena Gomez ("''El Chino''"), and launched an internal war against "El Grande".
On September 20, 2015, police arrested Calderon at the
Cabo San Lucas International Airport
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The airport has air taxi s ...
, where she attempted to board a flight to
Culiacán
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. She is currently imprisoned in
Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1.
References
1984 births
Living people
Mexican crime bosses
Mexican drug traffickers
Mexican female murderers
Sinaloa Cartel traffickers
Prisoners and detainees of Mexico
Female organized crime figures
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