Julián Leyzaola

Julián Leyzaola Pérez (born 27 February 1960) is a former Mexican military officer and former police chief and public safety secretary of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

[1][2] He became the new top cop in Ciudad Juárez after serving as the state police chief of Baja California, and is "credited with cleaning up Tijuana" from the drug violence.

[3] In the border city of Tijuana, Leyzaola launched "a crackdown on organized crime and police corruption," resulting in multiple assassination plots by the cartels.

[5] He replaced Jesús Alberto Capella Ibarra and as top cop, he fought to dismantle the corruption inside the police forces, and appointed military commanders and added new patrol cars to his security strategy.

In fact, Leyzaola mentioned that he rejected a "$80,000-a-week offer" from the Sinaloa Cartel drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, who wanted to make a deal with him.