Melissa Calderon is the 30-year-old
cartel boss who has become known as one of the most powerful cartel bosses in
Mexico. Known also as ‘La China’, her reputation for violent bloodshed, and
murder is so great that her own boyfriend is believed to have turned her into
authorities.
According to reports from The Daily Mail, La
China, who was arrested earlier in the week in Mexico City, is a maniacal
‘control-freak’ whose ruthless brutality and short temper left her underlings horrified
and too terrorized to cross her.
Those who got on her bad side would
be tortured and disposed of. In the investigation into her crimes, it is
believed that she may have murdered as many as 180 people.
La China’s boyfriend, who also acted
as her right-hand man, Pedro Gomez recently betrayed her to authorities in
exchange for a reduced sentence for his own crimes. He included the details of
her crimes, the locations of her secret burial sites for her victims, and more.
The final straw for Gomez was after
La China turned on several of her closest henchmen, after she believed they
were disloyal to her. She had them murdered, and the bodies dumped in remote
secret graves.
Terrified of her, and disgusted by
her ruthlessness he fled and fell into the hands of the police. He gave
them information into her murders, which led to the discovery of several
bodies.
La China was subsequently arrested.
She is currently waiting to stand trial and is charged with over 150 murders.
She was a known member of the Damaso
Cartel since 2005, and she rose to power quickly through her willingness to
participate in violence.
According to some reports, murders
in her territory tripled in the years after she took over.
Apparently her most infamous
‘calling card’ was to kidnap her victims from the safety of their family homes,
and send back their dismembered bodies—dumping them on their own doorsteps as a
warning message to all.
She loved to show off too. As the
photos in the slideshow above depict, she amassed a huge collection of weapons
and would often pose for fearsome pictures with them.
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