I suppose this technically fits in this thread as she's a guntuber, at least adjacent, but holy shit, the
April Nicol stuff has been fucking insane. This is going to be kind of long, so bare with me.
April Nicol has a YouTube channel, albeit it hasn't had videos uploaded in a few months. For the unaware, Activision-Blizzard, and Infinity Ward, used her likeness for an Operator by the name of "Roze" in the current Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) reboot series, though the character wasn't introduced until the post launch content in "Season 5" of the game's live-service life-span, so basically at the very end, although her character reappeared in Modern Warfare II (2022)
Ironically, almost, her character caused controversy due to a skin from the battlepass which was all black, due to the dark lighting of a lot of the maps in the game and the Warzone map "Verdansk" players would use Roze in order to camp in corners, this phenomenon even being referenced in the recently reprised version of the Verdansk map with graffiti in some of the commonly camped corners with "ROZE WAS HERE!"
The specific skin in question
So, Roze is a fairly infamous character in the recent history of Call of Duty / Warzone. Evidently, April Nicol makes being Roze a large part of her online presence and identity overall, due to being in COD 2019 it seems at least from then, she had connections to Black Rifle Coffee Company & one of their prime members, guntuber and fellow COD character,
Alex Zedra, known as "Mara" in Call of Duty.
So, why mention all of this? Well, it's kind of funny to point out that by some proxy, many people who potentially have posted or lurked or viewed this thread may some-what know of April Nicol, because of making Roze a lot of her identity (even repping Shadow Company patches from the game on her real kit.)
Well...
She happens to be the daughter of former New Mexico Judge, Joel Cano. As in, the Joel Cano married to Nancy Cano, both of whom being recently arrested for harboring a member of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, as well as tampering with evidence linked to him.
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Arrest video
The member of Tren de Aragua, who was arrested, was Cristhian Ortega-Lopez.
What does April have to do with this? Well...
Based on this photo shared by previously mentioned Alex Zedra, she seemed pretty cozy with Cristhian! Having taken photos hanging out with him, and appearing in photos taken BY Cristhian, showcasing some of her gear like her helmet and night vision setup
Both, April Nicol (right) and Nancy Cano (left) appear in this photo taken by Cristhian... Nancy appears again, wearing the very same shirt, in a video taken by Cristhian where he is showcasing one of April's guns, and handing it off to both Nancy and Joel cano.
How do we know these are, in fact, both April's firearms and gear?
Well, because she poses with them in photos she's posted on her own Instagram, such as the photo I used when comparing her real appearance to her COD character. But here's some more, just to undeniably prove it.
In these photos, she has the specific rifle from the video of Nancy and Joel brandishing it either on her person or on display.
According to Alex Zedra on Twitter, April has had her firearms confiscated and she has an upcoming court hearing. She seemingly had no involvement in the evidence tampering or harboring the (alleged) illegal.
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Ghostarchive Link
She also allowed Cristhian and seemingly another gang member to borrow some of, if not at least one of her handguns.
What makes this so fucking funny, is that in her real kit she's repping Shadow Company patches. In game, her character (up until the events of Modern Warfare II, set and released in 2022) is a member of the fictional Shadow Company PMC... Who, in Modern Warfare II, basically wage war against a fictional Mexican cartel. I don't know why, but to me, that just makes all of this way fucking funnier.
Edit: I didn't realize there was
already a post, at least covering the arrest and details of Ortega-Lopez as well as Nancy and Joel Cano, posted by
@quaawaa, which covers it way more in depth than I did with this post, though it lacks any mention of April and her relationship with Ortega-Lopez
