An OnlyFans and Instagram model has addressed brewing speculation on social media that she led Mexican police to a notorious cartel boss.
Mexico’s most wanted drug boss, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who was the leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel, was killed on Sunday (February 22) during a security operation.
Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was left seriously injured after a clash between his supporters and the army, and later died as he was being transported to the capital, Mexico City.
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Following the drug cartel leader’s death, chaos has ensued in Mexico, with the CJNG setting cars alight, building roadblocks and attacking security forces.
Following online rumors and fake AI-generated images, model Maria Julissa took to social media to explain she has had nothing to do with the situation.She also urged people not to take any notice of false headlines and to trust only reliable sources.
“I want to make it absolutely clear: I have nothing to do with that situation,” Julissa wrote on Instagram.
“The information going around is false and lacks foundation.
“I ask that you all not fall for fake news and always look to reliable sources and officials.”
Mexico’s Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla had previously explained that El Mencho was tracked down via a lover.
Details are currently unclear, but it’s believed agents identified a man close to the unnamed woman and discovered she had been taken to an area of Jalisco where El Mencho was also located.
Following the death of El Mencho, US tourists have been left stranded at airports due to canceled flights and violence that has ensued in several states.
Adryan Moorefield, from Dallas, has been holidaying in Puerto Vallarta and was due to fly back home on Sunday, but is now trapped. »It was such a complete shocker, and it almost felt like being in the twilight zone, » he told CNN. « We’ve been to PV before and thought that this would be a no-brainer place to come and do a quick, easy beach vacation.”
Fellow American tourist Jim Beck has also been in Puerto Vallarta and was shocked to find ‘taxi cabs blown up all over town’ when he woke up for breakfast on Sunday morning.
Beck told CNN: « Then immediately, everyone was running down the street, screaming and yelling, and they told everyone to get back to their hotels. »
According to the BBC, the Mexican government have responded to the violent rise by deploying thousands of soldiers to affected states.Trevilla said that an extra 2,500 troops had been sent to western Mexico on Monday, while 9,500 have been deployed overall since El Mencho’s death on Sunday.
In some states, vehicles, including cars and buses, were being set alight in the middle of the road, as were numerous businesses, while roadblocks have been strewn across the country, which Mexico’s Security Cabinet said a majority had been cleared.
Meanwhile, the US embassy has urged American tourists to seek shelter amid ‘ongoing security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity’.
They further advised citizens to ‘seek shelter and minimize unnecessary movements’ as well as ‘avoid areas around law enforcement activity’.
A climber who is accused of leaving his girlfriend to die at the top of the mountain has revealed what their last conversation was.
Thomas Plamberger, 39, is in court in Innsbruck after he was charged with gross negligent manslaughter, following the death of his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, 33.
Gurtner tragically died 150ft below the Grossglockner mountain’s 12,460ft summit on January 19, 2025.
Plamberger has pleaded not guilty, after his girlfriend, a much less experienced climber, died after freezing near the top of the mountain.
Authorities say that she began to struggle on the climb, at which point Plamberger says he left Gurtner behind in order to get help at around 2am, but didn’t return for six and a half hours.
Temperatures dropped to -8C on the mountain, plus there was a windchill temperature of -20C.Rescuers eventually made their way to Gurtner the following morning, but found she had succumbed to the weather.
Plamberger alleged his girlfriend’s final words came as she shouted for him to ‘go, now go!’ after he spent an hour and a half with her.
According to The Mirror, Senior Public Prosecutor Hansjorg Mayr told the court: « Around 2am the defendant left his girlfriend defenceless, exhausted, hypothermic, and disoriented approximately 50m below the summit cross of Grossglockner.
“The woman froze to death. Since the defendant, unlike his girlfriend, was already very experienced with alpine high-altitude tours and had planned the tour, he was to be considered the responsible guide of the tour.”
The Independent reports Plamberger’s lawyer insisted he left her ‘by mutual agreement’.
Judge Norbert Hofer said his story was ‘inconsistent.’
It is alleged that Plamberger waited hours to call for help, and didn’t try to get the attention of an alpine police helicopter that flew over them.It is also claimed he did not answer his phone when emergency services tried to contact him.
However, his legal team insist the couple were managing the climb well when the helicopter passed over, and said he didn’t feel his phone vibrating when contacted.
Police say Gurtner was ill-equipped for such a challenging climb, saying she was wearing soft snow boots.
However, Gurtner’s mother said she didn’t blame Plamberger and told German newspaper Die Zeit: « It makes me angry that Kerstin is being portrayed as a stupid little thing.
“Kerstin was in top physical condition. And she had already mastered far more difficult climbing tours, both alone and with her boyfriend.
« And I think it’s unfair how Kerstin’s boyfriend is being treated. There’s a witch hunt against him in the media and online. »
However, prosecutors claim Plamberger failed to move his girlfriend to a more sheltered spot to protect her from the wind, and didn’t give her a bivouac sleeping bag or aluminium foil blankets to keep her warm.
Plamberger said the relationship was a happy one and they had been planning on moving in together.
He said his mountain climbing skills were ‘self taught’, and his lawyer, Kurt Jelinek, said Gurtner’s death was a ‘tragic, fateful accident’.
Greta Thunberg and other activists have been blocked from entering Gaza, with the young activist claiming she’s once again been ‘abducted’ by Israel.
Thunberg has tried on multiple occasions to get into Gaza to provide aid to those who are suffering as a result of the blockade being carried out by Israeli forces.
There have been reports of ‘widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease’ in Gaza amid the ongoing war with Israel.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) say that one in three people is going without food for days at a time, as officials share fears of a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in the war-struck part of the world.
At least 16 children under five have died from hunger-related causes since mid-July, the United Nations reports.
With the bleak situation in mind, organizations have been trying to get aid into Gaza to help suffering Palestinians.
Greta Thunberg has been part of the efforts and earlier this year she was ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli forces after a Freedom Flotilla (FFC) boat she was on was intercepted.The 22-year-old went on to be deported, but this hasn’t stopped her from trying again.
The Global Sumud Flotilla sent out more than 40 boats and nearly 450 activists, carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid to Gaza, but these vessels went on to be boarded by Israeli forces who detained dozens on board, including European lawmakers and Thunberg.
The organisers of the flotilla said at least 39 of their boats were intercepted or assumed to be intercepted in a night-long Israeli operation.
Israeli authorities later said only one boat remained ‘at a distance’ and would be intercepted if it approached.
Barcelona mayor Ada Colau and European Parliament member Rima Hassan were also among the detainees, says PA.
In light of the vessels being stopped, Thunberg has released a video to social media saying she’s been ‘abducted’ and once again called for her release.
« My name is Greta Thunberg. I’m a citizen of Sweden, » she says. « If you are watching this video, I have been abducted and taken against my will by Israeli forces. »
She goes on: « Our humanitarian mission was non violent, and abiding by international law. Please tell my government to demand my and the others’ immediate release. »
In an update issued today (October 3) by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, it was said that four Italian citizens have already been deported.
On March 2, residents spotted what appeared to be a flying object zig-zagging over the city of Buga, Colombia, in such a way that no Earthy aircraft is apparently capable of.
The metallic ball that was documented in several TikTok videos, and now dubbed the ‘Buga Sphere’, was later recovered after it allegedly ‘landed’ in a field, with researchers noting it had strange symbols on it and have since ruled it to be a genuine UFO, The Mirror reports.
Now, scientists claim to have made even more shocking discoveries inside the mysterious orb, which is growing in weight – though not in size – and can apparently also levitate.Amongst the eerie findings of the Buga Sphere is its core, as researchers say they found three layers of a metal-like material, as well as 18 microspheres around a central nucleus they are calling a ‘chip’.
A new paper about the supposed artefact reveals a microscope was set to 2,000 times to expose hidden wires that are invisible to the human eye, that reportedly all run in different directions and connect on the sphere’s surface, like a microchip.
Rodolfo Garrido, a Mexican engineer working with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on the sphere, said new evidence has also pointed to suggest a decaying ionized field is coming from it.
Speaking to Maussan Televisión, Garrido stunned viewers when he said the orb has since increased in weight since it landed more than three months ago, coming in at five times heavier despite never changing volume.He also said to UFO expert Jaime Maussan on the TV program Interstellar that the sphere is capable of generating its own electromagnetic field, which can be used to levitate off the ground.
It is believed the sphere’s flight and levitation ability was abruptly cut short when it collided with a power cable.
During the broadcast this week, Maussan commented: « This is just the beginning. Strategies and plans are already being developed.
« Various laboratories have been hired to attempt reverse engineering to understand how this sphere works. »However, others are somewhat skeptical about the whole debacle, with Dr Julia Mossbridge of the University of San Diego’s Department of Physics and Biophysics slamming the outlandish reports and saying the sphere is merely a ‘man-made art project.’
However, she said that while initial X-rays of the sphere could not reveal how the object was built, there is little evidence linking the metal orb to that of the flying object seen in videos posted on social media.
Maussan has also been at the heart of controversy over similar stories in the past, such as his claims of having found real UFO sightings only for them to be debunked as comets or stars in the sky.
Nicolas Maduro has issued his first comments following his capture after the US went into Venezuela and detained the president.
Donald Trump revealed on Saturday (January 3) that the US had struck Venezuela’s capital city Carcas in the early morning and had captured the nation’s president and wife, Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores.
This came as a massive shock to much of the international community, and Trump held a lengthy press conference later that day giving more details.
In the press conference, he said: “We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.
“We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years, so we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”He also added that Maduro and his wife would face the full extent of US justice.
Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.
As well as this, a video has begun to circulate online showing Maduro being escorted into DEA headquarters in New York.
He briefly utters a surprising three-word statement, as cameras capture the moment.
With a small smile, he says: “Happy New Year.”During his speech on Saturday, Trump praised the successful operation and also repeatedly condemned Maduro.
He said: “No nation in the world could achieve what America achieved yesterday, or frankly, in just a short period of time.
« All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered perilous as the men and women of our military, working with US law enforcement, successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night.
“The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have. It was dark, and it was deadly.
« But captured along with his wife, Cilia Flores, both of whom now face American justice, Maduro and Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York, with Jay Clayton, for their campaign of deadly narco-terrorism against the United States and its citizens.
“I want to thank the men and women of our military who achieved such an extraordinary success overnight with breathtaking speed, power, precision, and competence.”
