February 6, 1966 - Servando Gómez Martínez
Known by the alias "La Tuta," he rose from schoolteacher to one of Mexico's most wanted cartel leaders, helping found La Familia Michoacana before becoming the head of the Knights Templar Cartel in Michoacán. Both organizations operated with a distinctive quasi-religious and ideological veneer that set them apart from other trafficking groups, even as they engaged in the full range of cartel violence and criminal enterprise. His trajectory illustrates how Michoacán became a focal point of organized crime's evolution in Mexico during the early twenty-first century.
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Servando Gómez Martínez (born February 6, 1966), commonly referred to by his alias La Tuta (The Teacher) for once being a teacher, is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, a criminal organization based in the state of Michoacán. He is a former leader and founder member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, the split-off group of the Knights Templar. On February 27, 2015, he was arrested by Mexican security forces in Morelia, Michoacán. In 2019, he received a 55 year prison sentence for a kidnapping conviction. On August 12, 2025, he was extradited to the United States.
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