With Warrant Active, Gayosso Ran Cross-Border Network From Coronado

Gayosso kept moving luxury property and industrial imports through California despite an active arrest warrant in Mexico.

By Guadalupe Lizarraga

CORONADO, California — The luxury residence at 46 Spinnaker Way in Coronado Cays served for years as the principal luxury asset tied to Manuel Rodrigo Gayosso Cepeda, stepson of former Morelos governor Graco Ramírez, former PRD party leader and onetime gubernatorial candidate in that state. The property’s transfer history, valued at nearly $4 million, shows that the home left Gayosso’s direct control while an arrest warrant reactivated in Mexico in 2025 remained in force over an alleged fraud of nearly 9 million pesos — roughly $520,000.

The residence entered Gayosso’s asset sphere in December 2021, when it was acquired for $3.2 million, according to the real estate records reviewed for this investigation. That period of control lasted until its initial transfer to Gaytor Group LLC in February 2026, before resurfacing weeks later inside what this investigation identifies as the Fimbres network.

The same Coronado address where Gayosso established his residence was also recorded as the mailing address, principal office, and California agent address of Gaytor Group LLC, a Delaware entity registered to operate in California. The listed agent and principal is Manuel R. Gayosso Cepeda himself, meaning the luxury residence did more than hold a high-value asset: it centralized the company’s correspondence and the corporate records of a binational structure.

The subsequent sale of the house did not end that paper trail. By following the new title, the property resurfaced inside the Fimbres network, as another piece of the same cross-border structure.

California corporate records for Gaytor Group LLC identify Manuel R. Gayosso Cepeda as agent and establish 46 Spinnaker Way, Coronado, as the company’s official address — the same luxury residence documented in this investigation.

Gaytor Group LLC’s activity did not remain confined to property records and corporate filings. The company resurfaced in an international trade operation involving replacement parts for plastic recycling machinery shipped from Yangshan, China, by ZERMA Machinery & Recycling Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a manufacturer specializing in shredding and granulation systems.

Shipping records reviewed by Los Ángeles Press identify Gaytor Group LLC as the declared importer, using the same Coronado address tied to both the residence and the California LLC filing.

The shipment consisted of a 78-kilogram granulator spare-parts kit, packed in a single case. It departed Yangshan aboard the Ever Frank and arrived in Southern California on March 28, 2025. Tracing that voyage led once again to 46 Spinnaker Way, where Gaytor Group LLC remained the import reference address.

Upon arrival in Southern California, the cargo was not intended for the U.S. market. Customs documentation reviewed by this outlet shows the shipment entered under a transit regime, allowing it to move through U.S. territory before continuing to another destination. Based on weight, volume and route logic, the most consistent sequence points to deconsolidation in the Long Beach area, followed by shipment through the Tijuana–Otay crossing, where the operation once again reconnected with the documentary structure based in Coronado.

The final destination of those replacement parts appears in the shipment file itself. Maritime and customs records identify the consignee contact email as compras@idrg.mx, corresponding to International Disposal Recycling Group (IDRG), the recycling plant located in Lerma, State of Mexico. That detail connects the route that began in Yangshan, crossed Southern California and moved through the border with the Mexican plant that had been expanding its industrial capacity since 2022 with shredding, pelletizing and plastic sorting machinery.

The arrival of those parts was not an isolated event. Customs filings and open trade databases show that Integradora DRG / IDRG built out its own industrial recycling line between 2022 and 2023 through successive machinery imports: first a plastic shredder and granulator, then a pelletizer, and later a color-sorting machine. The sequence describes the growth of a plant that evolved from material reduction into the production of recycled pellets with greater uniformity and traceability.

Those Zerma replacement parts were not intended for a basic recycling line, but to sustain the production of recycled PP and HDPE destined for higher-spec packaging markets. That growth explains the significance of the replacement parts shipped from China in March 2025. By then, IDRG was no longer operating in a low-end recycling segment, but in the production of PP and HDPE pellets with levels of consistency and traceability geared toward higher-value markets such as caps, cosmetic containers, personal-care packaging and multilayer structures. At that industrial scale, maintaining precision in the granulation line was central to the business.

As that industrial operation expanded in Mexico, 46 Spinnaker Way continued to surface in the documentary route sustaining it. Gaytor Group LLC, based at that same Coronado residence, remained the import and correspondence reference even as the property itself was already moving toward transfer. The residence had become more than a passive asset: from that address, the binational operation linking the Lerma plant to the California corporate structure continued.

When the property changed hands in March 2026, the documentary trail did not break. The title chain shows the residence was transferred for nearly $4 million to Luis Arturo Malagon Maciel. Following the new filing led the investigation to 428 Evening View Dr, LLC, in Chula Vista, where Malagón had already appeared since September 2025 as manager of a company registered by Fimbres Consulting Group, Inc. The luxury residence thus resurfaced within the same cross-border asset structure, no longer under Gayosso’s direct sphere, but as another piece of the Fimbres network.

The sale chain clarifies that continuity. Property history shows that on February 6, 2026, Manuel Rodrigo Gayosso Cepeda transferred the residence to Gaytor Group LLC, the same company based at 46 Spinnaker Way. Just weeks later, on March 16, the LLC sold the property for $3.7 million to Luis Arturo Malagon Maciel, in a transaction recorded on April 1, 2026, through a grant deed.

The sequence carries added weight because the real estate transaction again passed through Cesar “Zepe” Ybarra, a recurring operator in the asset structures associated with Fernando Salgado Chavez and a partner in another LLC with Gustavo Fimbres, while Salgado had already appeared in federal FGR investigations as a defendant in alleged money-laundering and illicit financial operations.

The story of 46 Spinnaker Way did not end with the sale. Documents show the residence moved from Gayosso’s personal holdings to his own LLC, then into the industrial circuit supplying the plant in the State of Mexico, and later to a buyer already tied to the Fimbres network, under the management of the same broker associated with Fernando Salgado Chavez.

The residence may no longer be in Gayosso’s name, but the paper trail shows it never left the same structure — a network that, even with the arrest warrant against Manuel Rodrigo Gayosso still active in the nearly 9-million-peso ($520,000) fraud case, continued to move assets, companies and cross-border operations between California and Mexico.