Melissa Calderon
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Melissa Calderon
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| Born |
Margarita Calderón Ojeda
Mexico
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| Other name | "La China" |
| Occupations | Assassin, drug trafficker |
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Criminal status
| Incarcerated |
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Criminal charge
| Murder, drug trafficking |
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 under the orders of Damaso Lopez Nuñez. She left that organization after being replaced as leader, then started the Cartel California Sur with her then boyfriend El Chino Lopez and unknown members of Southern California gangs. Little else is known about her.[1] 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.[2] 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", 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".[3]
On September 20, 2015, police arrested Calderon at the Cabo San Lucas International Airport, where she attempted to board a flight to Culiacán.[4] She is currently imprisoned in Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1.[5]
References
- ^ "Exjefa de sicarios de "Los Dámaso" horrorizaba a su propio cártel (FOTOS)". El Diario NY. 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ "La Bala: Atrapada La China...Jefa De Un Escuadron De La Muerte Del Chapo Guzman". Juandiaz50.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ Hillary Crosley Coker (2015-09-29). "Meet La China, the Mexican Hit Woman Who Almost Got Away". Jezebel.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ "'La China,' Female Leader of Sinaloa Cartel Assassin Squad, Captured in Mexico". news.vice.com. 22 September 2015. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Michael Daly (2015-09-29). "She Was the Cartel's Top Assassin. And Then Her Boyfriend Turned Her In". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-12-21.