Caught in shorts and a T-shirt, this is how "Captain Sol" was arrested in Zapopan; he will be transferred to Altiplano

Inside the Navy, retired captain Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz was known as "Sol," "Mike," "Fantasma" (Ghost), or "El Rey del Fentanilo" (The Fentanyl King). According to federal sources, the former sailor was located inside the exclusive Villa Verona subdivision in Zapopan, where luxury homes can cost up to 17 million pesos, according to real estate portals in Jalisco. As a result, members of the Mexican Navy and the Attorney General's Office apprehended him inside that residential complex at around eight o'clock last night, while executing a search warrant. He was caught wearing shorts and a T-shirt by federal agents, and according to authorities, he did not resist arrest. The arrest warrant, granted within criminal case 325/2025, was executed at the scene for his probable participation in organized crime with the purpose of committing offenses related to hydrocarbons. Detained in Jalisco: Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, "Capitán Sol," one of those implicated in the fiscal fuel theft case (02/10/2026). Photo: Navy He was then transferred by air to the Toluca International Airport to be admitted to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, where he will be placed at the disposal of the federal judge who requires him. For months, the former sailor had cultivated the image of an operator capable of moving among contacts, ports, and offices without being caught. However, last night's raid in Zapopan broke that narrative, and he was finally captured after a year on the run. His capture does not close the case: it opens the stage in which the FGR must support its accusations with evidence and explain the true scope of the fiscal fuel theft network attributed to the political nephews of the former Secretary of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán, during the administration of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The so-called "Capitán Sol" moved from place to place in France, Greece, Monaco, and Spain, as well as in several residences in Mexico where federal authorities tracked him as part of the investigative work and intelligence operations carried out over nearly 300 days by the involved agencies. With these elements, the lines of investigation were strengthened and surveillance operations were deployed to finally determine his location in the luxurious Villa Verona subdivision. The captain flaunted his power. In the investigations, Solano Ruiz appears as a presumed link for coordinating vessels, permits, and customs documentation. The FGR's inquiries place him in operations in which fuel would have been declared as an additive or lubricating oil to evade controls and tax payments. One of the most sensitive episodes occurred on March 21, 2025. According to a witness statement incorporated into the investigation, during a port operation, Solano was warned that the operation was not authorized and that naval and prosecutors' personnel were heading to the site. According to that account, he responded that he would contact the Secretary of the Navy and that it was a matter for "Andy." Detained in Jalisco: Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, "Capitán Sol," one of those implicated in the fiscal fuel theft case (02/10/2026). Photo: Courtesy of the federal government However, for the Attorney General's Office (FGR), the mention does not prove that he received backing from those individuals. It asserts that the very facts described in the case file point in the opposite direction: the Navy sent personnel to take samples, documented the irregularity, and collaborated with the FGR. The phrase would have served to feign influence, reassure other participants, and buy time when the operation was beginning to fall apart. According to reports from the Financial Intelligence Unit, Solano Ruiz would have made 543 bank transactions between June 2020 and December 2024. This equals 79 deposits of approximately 5.2 million pesos and 464 withdrawals of roughly 4.8 million. Transactions related to gaming and lotteries totaling around 52 million pesos were also reported between 2014 and 2023. Detained in Jalisco: Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, "Capitán Sol," one of those implicated in the fiscal fuel theft case (02/10/2026). Photo: Navy Other testimonies and case files made public link him to influence peddling, illicit enrichment, operations with resources of illicit origin, tax fraud, and organized crime. Some accounts even nicknamed him "Rey del Fentanilo" (Fentanyl King) and linked him to synthetic drugs. However, the warrant executed in Zapopan corresponds specifically to organized crime in hydrocarbons; the other allegations require independent investigations and rulings. According to the ministerial investigation, Solano Ruiz went into retirement status on February 16, 2018, and from that date on he ceased to belong to the active service of the Mexican Navy. Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz was a former external coordinator at Customs and is identified as a man close to the brothers Manuel and Fernando Farías Laguna and an active participant in the hydrocarbon smuggling network that both led. With a level of direction, influence in Customs and the Navy, as well as the management of bribes to simulate inspections. Related to the financial flow of illicit money. You might be interested in: A year after the turnaround against fuel theft, there are 7 sailors detained; in addition, there is one fugitive… and one "unlocatable" A "historic mega-seizure of fuel theft" in Guanajuato that wasn't; first they seize fuels... then they detect anomalies The assets and fortune of Admiral Ojeda, with double protection; his whereabouts, a mystery nro/apr