A Narcotopetón (shootout among rival cartels) leaves a gunman dead and two injured in Villa de Cos, Zacatecas

April 3, 2013

 

With balance of a person killed, and two wounded suspects, ended in the early hours of Wednesday a clash between opposing criminal cartels, in the municipality of Villa de Cos, Zacatecas.

According to the attorney general of the state, Nahle Arturo Garcia, the incident had occurred around 2:00 am in the morning on Federal Highway 54 Zacatecas-Saltillo, at the height of said county seat.

 

Apparently, two groups of armed men belonging to criminal gangs antagonistic, they met at the junction and clashed with bullets, leaving two of them injured, who apparently were moved by his accomplices to receive care in a hospital in the state capital .

On the asphalt was abandoned Honda CRV a van in which they moved some of the criminals, but a few meters ahead, was also stranded a van carrying values, with plates of Mexico state, fully shielded.

Inside the latter vehicle was found the body of a person, whose data are collated by the PGJE to check if there is stock enterprise, if he is an employee, or if you could try a stolen vehicle .

Stranger still was that, given the condition of the truck armor values, had to use special tools to open it, it was locked from inside, and inside there was no money, no drugs, no weapons, only the body of his driver.

Having made the removal of the body and evidence, the elements of Expert Services moved the body to the Forensic Medical Service of the capital corresponding to necropsy, while research continues on the strange event.

 

 

 

 

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This Mexican Cartel Controls 80 Percent of the U.S. Meth Trade, Study Finds

April 2nd, 2013

 

The Sinaloa Cartel, the criminal organization headed by Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, controls a lucrative synthetic drug trade and money laundering route that begins in Asia Pacific and travels through Mexico to the United States, according to a new study.

Guzmán’s drug trafficking organization accounts for 80 percent of the U.S. meth trade and is a key player in both the legal and illegal global economy, writes José Luis León, a researcher for Mexico’s Autonomous Metropolitan University who wrote the section on the meth trade in the study. Called “Methamphetamine Traffic: Asia-Mexico-United States,” the study was published this week by Seguridad con Democracia, a Mexican think tank that focuses on security issues.

“This organization is a truly global enterprise,” León wrote, “for both its markets and its products exhibit a high degree of diversification. North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia stand out among its markets. Marijuana, cocaine, opiates, and methamphetamines are prominent among its products.”

According to the study, the growing involvement of the Sinaloa cartel with methamphetamines and the Asia-Pacific region dates back to the 1990s. During that period, Guzmán’s lieutenant, Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, consolidated an extensive ring to import ephedrine and pseudoephedrine — two drug precursors used in producing crystal meth — from China, Thailand and India. Coronel, also known as the “King of meth,” then used the organization’s networks to distribute free samples throughout the U.S., establishing a market that has seemingly contributed to the gradual decrease of meth production in America.

 

 

This file photo from July 10, 1993 shows drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera ‘el Chapo Guzman’ at the Almoloya de Juarez,maximum security prison in Mexico. Mexican authorities announced that Guzman escaped prison on January 20 January, 2001.

 

 

“Thanks to the penetration of Mexican cartels in this market, the number of local meth labs seized [in the U.S.] went down from 10,212 to 5,846 between 2003 and 2006,” the study said. Other Mexican cartels like the Zetas and the Colima cartel are also important players in the meth market.

The study found that ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are the starting point of the triangular money route that starts in the Asia Pacific region. These two types of drugs, which were banned in Mexico in 2008, arrive illegally from Asia at the ports of Lázaro Cárdenas and Manzanillo in Mexico, or at Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala. From there, they are moved to labs in the states of Michoacán, Jalisco, Sonora and Sinaloa, where they are processed in order to produce methamphetamines.

Tons of meth are then shipped to the U.S. through ever more creative methods and sold across America. The money obtained from those sales is later sent to China or laundered through fiscal paradises like the Cayman Islands, León writes in the study, citing information from Stratfor, a global intelligence firm. In China, the money is used to buy more drug precursors and to acquire domestic appliances and other appealing goods, which are then legally shipped and sold in Mexico.

This global drug network is a serious security threat to all the countries it touches, León concluded. The cartel’s reach in the United States, for instance, is so great that El Chapo was recently billed “public enemy number one” by a Chicago security organization concerned with the impact that the drug trade is having in that city.

León also wrote that the “chain” which links Asian drug precursors, Mexican labs and U.S. meth consumers makes up a “dynamic” business model in which the Sinaloa Cartel rakes in massive profits. The RAND Corporation a U.S. Think Tank, estimates that this cartel makes up to 3 billion dollars per year, from trafficking marijuana, cocaine and meth, which is as much as the income as digital companies like Facebook and Netflix. El Chapo even made Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires four years in a row, the last being in 2012.

 

 

 

 

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/chapo-guzman-controls-meth-trafficking-us-asia-study/story?id=18865196

 

Million dollar meth bust catches South GA woman

Apr 03, 2013

 

 

Brownsville, Texas – A Fitzgerald woman is arrested on the Mexican border with over a million dollars worth of meth hidden in her car.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers say the found 42.5 pounds of methamphetamine inside 50-year-old Corrine Downing Gillis’ 2002 Ford Ranger as she attempted to cross the boarder from Mexico into the United States.

 

Agents at the Veterans’ International Bridge examined the vehicle and Gillis and sent her to secondary for further examination.

That’s when they discovered the meth, which has a street value of $1.3 million.

This information was provided by U. S. Customs-

Brownsville, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Veterans’ International Bridge this weekend intercepted a significant load of alleged methamphetamine. CBP officers discovered the alleged narcotics, valued at approximately $1.3 million, molded into statues and hidden within the tires of a Ford Ranger.

On March 29, 2013 CBP officers working primary at Veterans’ International Bridge encountered a 2002 Ford Ranger driven by a woman. A CBP officer’s primary examination resulted in the vehicle and its sole occupant, identified as a 50-year-old United States citizen who resides in Fitzgerald, Georgia being referred to CBP secondary for further examination.

While in secondary, CBP officers discovered four statues allegedly molded out of methamphetamine and 24 packages hidden within the Ford’s tires. CBP officers removed four statues which held a combined total weight of approximately 19.3 kilograms (42.50 Pounds) and 24 packages from the vehicle’s tires which held a combined total weight of approximately 20.8 kilograms (45.95 pounds) of alleged methamphetamine.

The alleged methamphetamine from this seizure has an estimated street value of approximately $1.3 million. CBP officers seized the narcotics and the vehicle and turned the woman over to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for further investigation.

“Brownsville CBP officers’ interception of these dangerous drugs is a direct result of their commitment to the safety of our nation’s borders. I congratulate our officers for this outstanding seizure and for the arrest of this would-be smuggler,” said Michael T. Freeman, CBP Port Director, Brownsville.

 

 

 

 

http://www.walb.com/story/21859815/million-dollar-meth-bust

 

INFILTRATION: Mexican Cartels Move Agents Deep Inside US Borders

April 3, 2013

 

Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

 

 

If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels’ move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering.

 

Cartel activity in the U.S. is certainly not new. Starting in the 1990s, the ruthless syndicates became the nation’s No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, using unaffiliated middlemen to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and heroin beyond the border or even to grow pot here.

But a wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. Cartel operatives are suspected of running drug-distribution networks in at least nine non-border states, often in middle-class suburbs in the Midwest, South and Northeast.

 

 

“It’s probably the most serious threat the United States has faced from organized crime,” said Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Chicago office.

 

The cartel threat looms so large that one of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins — a man who has never set foot in Chicago — was recently named the city’s Public Enemy No. 1, the same notorious label once assigned to Al Capone.

 

The Chicago Crime Commission, a non-government agency that tracks crime trends in the region, said it considers Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman even more menacing than Capone because Guzman leads the deadly Sinaloa cartel, which supplies most of the narcotics sold in Chicago and in many cities across the U.S.

 

Years ago, Mexico faced the same problem — of then-nascent cartels expanding their power — “and didn’t nip the problem in the bud,” said Jack Killorin, head of an anti-trafficking program in Atlanta for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. “And see where they are now.”

 

Riley sounds a similar alarm:“People think, `The border’s 1,700 miles away. This isn’t our problem.’ Well, it is. These days, we operate as if Chicago is on the border.”

 

Border states from Texas to California have long grappled with a cartel presence. But cases involving cartel members have now emerged in the suburbs of Chicago and Atlanta, as well as Columbus, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., and rural North Carolina. Suspects have also surfaced in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

 

Mexican drug cartels “are taking over our neighborhoods,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane warned a legislative committee in February. State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan disputed her claim, saying cartels are primarily drug suppliers, not the ones trafficking drugs on the ground.

For years, cartels were more inclined to make deals in Mexico with American traffickers, who would then handle transportation to and distribution within major cities, said Art Bilek, a former organized crime investigator who is now executive vice president of the crime commission.

 

As their organizations grew more sophisticated, the cartels began scheming to keep more profits for themselves. So leaders sought to cut out middlemen and assume more direct control, pushing aside American traffickers, he said.

 

Beginning two or three years ago, authorities noticed that cartels were putting “deputies on the ground here,”Bilek said. “Chicago became such a massive market … it was critical that they had firm control.”

To help fight the syndicates, Chicago recently opened a first-of-its-kind facility at a secret location where 70 federal agents work side-by-side with police and prosecutors. Their primary focus is the point of contact between suburban-based cartel operatives and city street gangs who act as retail salesmen.

That is when both sides are most vulnerable to detection, when they are most likely to meet in the open or use cellphones that can be wiretapped.

 

Others are skeptical about claims cartels are expanding their presence, saying law-enforcement agencies are prone to exaggerating threats to justify bigger budgets.

David Shirk, of the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute, said there is a dearth of reliable intelligence that cartels are dispatching operatives from Mexico on a large scale.

 

“We know astonishingly little about the structure and dynamics of cartels north of the border,” Shirk said.“We need to be very cautious about the assumptions we make.”

 

Statistics from the DEA suggest a heightened cartel presence in more U.S. cities. In 2008, around 230 American communities reported some level of cartel presence. That number climbed to more than 1,200 in 2011, the most recent year for which information is available, though the increase is partly due to better reporting.

 

Dozens of federal agents and local police interviewed by the AP said they have identified cartel members or operatives using wiretapped conversations, informants or confessions. Hundreds of court documents reviewed by the AP appear to support those statements.

“This is the first time we’ve been seeing it — cartels who have their operatives actually sent here,” said Richard Pearson, a lieutenant with the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, which arrested four alleged operatives of the Zetas cartel in November in the suburb of Okolona.

 

People who live on the tree-lined street where authorities seized more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana and more than $1 million in cash were shocked to learn their low-key neighbors were accused of working for one of Mexico’s most violent drug syndicates, Pearson said.

Jack Riley Chicago DEA Chief

One of the best documented cases is Jose Gonzalez-Zavala, who was dispatched to the U.S. by the La Familia cartel, according to court filings.

 

In 2008, the former taxi driver and father of five moved into a spacious home at 1416 Brookfield Drive in a middle-class neighborhood of Joliet, southwest of Chicago. From there, court papers indicate, he oversaw wholesale shipments of cocaine in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.

 

Wiretap transcripts reveal he called an unidentified cartel boss in Mexico almost every day, displaying the deference any midlevel executive might show to someone higher up the corporate ladder. Once he stammered as he explained that one customer would not pay a debt until after a trip.

“No,” snaps the boss. “What we need is for him to pay.”

The same cartel assigned Jorge Guadalupe Ayala-German to guard a Chicago-area stash house for $300 a week, plus a promised $35,000 lump-sum payment once he returned to Mexico after a year or two, according to court documents.

 

Ayala-German brought his wife and child to help give the house the appearance of an ordinary family residence. But he was arrested before he could return home and pleaded guilty to multiple trafficking charges. He will be sentenced later this year.

 

Socorro Hernandez-Rodriguez was convicted in 2011 of heading a massive drug operation in suburban Atlanta’s Gwinnett County. The chief prosecutor said he and his associates were high-ranking figures in the La Familia cartel — an allegation defense lawyers denied.

 

And at the end of February outside Columbus, Ohio, authorities arrested 34-year-old Isaac Eli Perez Neri, who allegedly told investigators he was a debt collector for the Sinaloa cartel.

 

An Atlanta attorney who has represented reputed cartel members says authorities sometimes overstate the threat such men pose.

 

“Often, you have a kid whose first time leaving Mexico is sleeping on a mattress at a stash house playing Game Boy, eating Burger King, just checking drugs or money in and out,” said Bruce Harvey. “Then he’s arrested and gets a gargantuan sentence. It’s sad.”

Because cartels accumulate houses full of cash, they run the constant risk associates will skim off the top. That points to the main reason cartels prefer their own people: Trust is hard to come by in their cutthroat world.

 

There’s also a fear factor. Cartels can exert more control on their operatives than on middlemen, often by threatening to torture or kill loved ones back home.

 

Danny Porter, chief prosecutor in Gwinnett County, Ga., said he has tried to entice dozens of suspected cartel members to cooperate with American authorities. Nearly all declined. Some laughed in his face.

 

“They say, `We are more scared of them (the cartels) than we are of you. We talk and they’ll boil our family in acid,”‘ Porter said. “Their families are essentially hostages.”

 

Citing the safety of his own family, Gonzalez-Zavala declined to cooperate with authorities in excange for years being shaved off his 40-year sentence.

 

In other cases, cartel brass send their own family members to the U.S.

“They’re sometimes married or related to people in the cartels,” Porter said. “They don’t hire casual labor.”So meticulous have cartels become that some even have operatives fill out job applications before being dispatched to the U.S., Riley added.

In Mexico, the cartels are known for a staggering number of killings — more than 50,000, according to one tally. Beheadings are sometimes a signature.

 

So far, cartels don’t appear to be directly responsible for large numbers of slayings in the United States, though the Texas Department of Public Safety reported 22 killings and five kidnappings in Texas at the hands of Mexican cartels from 2010 through mid-2011.

Still, police worry that increased cartel activity could fuel heightened violence.

 

In Chicago, the police commander who oversees narcotics investigations, James O’Grady, said street-gang disputes over turf account for most of the city’s uptick in murders last year, when slayings topped 500 for the first time since 2008.

Although the cartels aren’t dictating the territorial wars, they are the source of drugs.

Riley’s assessment is stark: He argues that the cartels should be seen as an underlying cause of Chicago’s disturbingly high murder rate.

 

“They are the puppeteers,” he said. “Maybe the shooter didn’t know and maybe the victim didn’t know that. But if you follow it down the line, the cartels are ultimately responsible.”

Associated Press
Thanks to “Empire23” of BB Forum for the heads up

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/04/infiltration-mexican-cartels-move.html

 

Young man shot and killed in Cardenas, Tabasco

April 2, 2013

 

Yesterday organized crime perpetrated the first execution of the month, when an armed young man surprised a bus at a bus stop waiting for someone and there ended up dead, riddled with assault rifles AR-15.

The boy of just 23 years old, was identified as Darwin Sanchez de la Cruz, of its own motion mason and residing in the settlement Mantilla, his family claimed to know the reason for the actions of the unknown against humanity for their loved one, who presumably did not get involved with anyone or had much less trouble with someone.

 

The underhanded crime was perpetrated yesterday at noon at the height of road sections crossing the Peripheral Calzada, locals said they heard rumblings shot gun and then grinding of tires speeding cars were removed from the area.

Before the announcement citizen, was natural to see minutes later the arrival of dozens of policemen, state, federal and military, that does not alter the crime scene, the curious and withdrew after it gave way to the authority of competition only served to make the removal of the body and shell casings that were scattered near where life would be without the young mason.

The operations were conducted in the area but the police were unable to find the attackers. No group is credited first home run month April.

 

 

 

 

 

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Was this child a killer?

April 3, 2013

 

 

[Background: Jorge Armando Moreno, 13 years old, was killed on February 27, 2013. His body was found with five other bodies on the side of the highway between Morelos and Vetagrande, about six miles from the state capital of Zacatecas. All the bodies showed signs of torture. Jorge Armando had been arrested on February 4, 2013, along with several suspected members of the Zeta Cartel and several Guatemalan individuals accused of organized crime activities. Although the prosecutor claimed that the boy had confessed to having committed ten murders, the judge released him into his mother’s custody because he was not yet 14 years old, the minimum age for incarceration in the state’s juvenile detention center. –un vato]

 

 

Detained and tortured by federal police, Jorge Armando was kidnapped again and tortured by a criminal organization — believed to have been Zetas — and then murdered. He was 13 years old. In the television news media he was called “the child assassin” because that is how he was portrayed by the state attorney general, and for the media, it was easy to disseminate the nickname. To this day, neither the Zacat3ecas Attorney General nor the Federal Attorney General (PGR) have issued corrections. This would constitute an admission that, in reality, the boy was the victim of the police and the criminals they say they’re fighting.

 

ZACATECAS, ZAC. (Proceso).– Federal police arrested him the afternoon of February 4 and then tortured him, along with 14 other persons, supposedly because he belonged to a criminal organization. Two days later, a judge released him because he was just 13 years old.

 

Although he was at risk, no authority provided him protection because an official disclosed — and the media assumed– that he was a “child assassin.” That can no longer be proven or contradicted because the child was again tortured, then murdered.

 

At dawn on February 28, the ministerial police found his body, with five others, on the side of the highway between Morelos and Vetagrande, five miles north of the capital of Zacatecas. He was executed with large caliber weapons.

 

The death of the minor shocked Zacatecas society. The Network for Infant Rights in Mexico (Redim: Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en Mexico), the Organization for Social Development and Education for All (Odisea A.C.); (Organizacion para el Desarrollo Social y la Educacion para Todos) and the State Commission on Human Rights (CEDH: Comision Estatal de Derechos Humanos) are demanding that the public officials who failed to respect the adolescent’s due process rights be identified and held accountable, because, they argue, he was victimized by organized crime and by the authorities.

 

Mexico’s Office of Attorney General (PGR) and Federal police (FP) are not giving out any information on the events in which their personnel intervened; the State Office of Attorney General (PGJE: Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado) has denied any responsibility in the case and the State’s Superior Justice Tribunal (Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado) has remained silent on the matter.

 

The 14 persons who were arrested with the minor in early February have already been transferred by the PF to the SEIDO facilities [special unit for organized crime investigation] in Mexico City, where they remain incarcerated.

 

Being a child in Zacatecas

 

Jorge Armando Moreno Leos dropped out of elementary school at the age of 10, when his family fell apart. He lived a few months with his father, but then he went back with his mother and two younger sisters.

 

For three years, he earned a living on the street: washing cars, dumping the neighbors’ trash and selling popsicles, But he also learned to use drugs on the street.

 

He dreamed of buying his mother a washing machine, but he didn’t have enough money, so he decided to do what many others had done and joined the Zetas two and a half months ago.

 

His mother, Maria Isabel Leos, begged him to get out of that life and to go back to school, since he had finished grade school in June of 2012 in the Zacatecas Institute for Adult Education (IZEA: Instituto Zacatecano de Educacion para los Adultos) with an “A” grade point average, which is why Governor Miguel Alonso Reyes had awarded him a showy, three color diploma the following November, only four months before Jorge Armando was murdered.

 

Mrs. Leos talks about him with tears in her eyes: “My life went away with Jorge because he was a very good boy. Like all children, he was rebellious, he liked to go out with his friends. He dropped out of school because I work and he wanted to help me.”

 

She describes him: “He was very helpful. You can talk to everybody and nobody believes it when you tell them he was the so-called “child assassin.” He would see a person outside his house and ask, ‘Can I help you sweep?’, ‘Can I help you take out the trash?’, ‘You want me to wash your car?’

 

He sold popsicles on the street when those people (Los Zetas) grabbed him. The boy would tell me that he was going to buy me a washing machine, that they were going to give him the money. I would tell him, ‘Don’t believe them, m’ijo (my son)’, Because he never had any money! They promised him a lot of things that weren’t true.”

 

She supports her daughters working as a street vendor. She found out her son was arrested by the PF because he saw his photograph in the morning news on TV Azteca Zacatecas. 24 days later, she learned of his murder the same way.

 

Today, she’s begging President Enrique Pena Nieto and Govenor Miguel Alonso Reyes for protection for her and her daughters. She doesn’t want anything else, because, since the death of Jorge Armando, she has received messages and calls with death threats on her cell phone, from alleged members of the “three letters” organization.

 

Meanwhile, she lives terrified with her daughters, unable to get a full time job. She still owes the costs of her son’s funeral because the state social security office let her rent the casket and chapel for the wake and the funeral.

 

The “killer” who never killed

On the afternoon of February 4, 2013, in a leak to the news media, not through an official communique, the local government disclosed that, in an “intelligence” operation, the PF arrested 15 suspected criminals and delivered them to the Federal Public Ministry in the City of Zacatecas: five were is a safe house in the Lomas del Lago subdivision and eight in the Condessa Hotel, with the latter individuals being from Guatemala.

 

The news story and the photographs were published the nest day in the press and in electronic media. In the mid-afternoon, Maria Isabel Leos found out from the TV that her son was detained.

 

With difficulty, she got a relative to give her a ride to the PGR installations, located on the west side as you leave the city of Zacatecas, but it was already dark, recalls the lady, “and they did not let me see my son. I stayed there about three hours, and they told me I had to go to court the next day.” [continues on next page]

But it was not until the 6th that, through court order No. 35 of the Zacatecas Judicial Authority, judge Frida Jazmin Rubio Renteria, a specialist on juvenile justice matters, ordered the director of the Juvenile Detention Center (Centro de Internamiento y Atencion Integral Juvenil) to release Jorge Armando, once it was established that he was 13 years old.

 

The minor was delivered to his mother, but he only stayed with her a few hours then returned to the streets. During that brief period, he told Mrs. Leos how the federal police treated him during the 24 hours before they delivered him to the Public Ministry (MP: Ministerio Publico).

 

“The boy came home very beat up on his body — she says indignantly– I asked him what was wrong, because even his left hand was very swollen. He told me that the “federales” would wrap him up in a blanket, throw him on the floor and kick him, they would kick him several times on the body, one of them would step on his hand and another would kick him.

 

“He told me that the “federales” kept them detained in the Howard Johnson Hotel (the agency’s principal center of operations). And that another one would get a pistol and fire it beside his ear to make him talk.”

 

When Jorge Armando went out again, his mother began o hear that the “child assassin” was free. “I don’t know where that name came from. Suddenly, I began to hear that in the news Also, a woman PGR lawyer came here to the house and told me: “Pay no attention to what they’re saying, it’s not true, you know very well why the boy is (being held). They’re going to start to speculate and say things in the news that are not true.”

 

In fact, says Mrs. Leos, “it was even said that I am dead along with the boy. In most of the media and for everybody, I died along with the boy, they killed both of us.”

 

She blames Zacatecas Attorney General Arturo Nahle Garcia, for calling Jorge Armando “child killer” and attributing to him the murder of ten people. “I don’t know why Nahle keeps making those statements; he’s never made it clear that Jorge was not under arrest for that and that I wasn’t killed along with him.”

 

When asked whether her son confessed murdering 10 people, she denies it. “At the court, from the time I went there to ask about him, they would say: ‘It’s just that the kid is a heavy because he’s the one who gives orders here in Zacatecas’. How is a 13 year old boy, who had been with them (the criminals), at most, two and a half months, and I don’t think it was even that long, how could he be the boss of all of them?”

 

And, in fact, in the notice from the court that she personally received at her home on February 19, captioned Criminal Case No. 14/2013, it specifies that the minor Jorge Armando Moreno Leos is accused of several crimes, except that of homicide.

 

“…For the offense of organized crime, violation of the federal weapons and explosives law by keeping firearms reserved for the exclusive use by the Army, Navy and National Air Force, and the possession of ammunition reserved for the exclusive use by the Army, Navy and National Air Force, committed to the detriment of society.”

 

The mother had received the court communication so that on February 20, she would present herself and her son before the court to initiate his prosecution and determine his legal status with respect to the crimes he was accused of. But Jorge was no longer in the house and did not go to the hearing. Maria Isabel went before the court by herself.

 

Fragment of a report published in Proceso, edition No. 1900, already in circulation.

 

Note: Thank you to the reader who requested this story be posted and sent in links.

 

The story condemning the child was in fact posted here on BB also of his death, at time the mother begged people to believe that her son was being framed no one was buying her story, read Havana’s post HERE . This new post story casts doubt on the guilt of other so called teen assassins. In Mexico the lives of innocents are taken and used for many nefarious reasons. Sadly, life is cheap in Mexico, even the lives of children.

 

The government was successful in creating indignation , and exasperation in the public, this is part of the statement issued in February and perhaps reveals the objective intended of why an innocent child would be framed, if that be the case.:

 

“State Attorney Arturo Nahle Garcia said, “really the boy can be even more dangerous because of his age, so it is necessary to reevaluate the criminal age of a person”.

 

The boys mother was wrongly reported dead and among the bodies found with her son. Until today I did not know she was alive. Read that post by Havana HERE. Reading the comments of readers there were few sympathetic comments, as we put our faith in the word of the government, when will we ever learn?…..Paz, Chivis

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/04/was-this-child-killer.html

 

GRAPHIC VIDEO:CDG Executes Zetas , Dismembers, Boils 3 Men 2 Women

March 28, 2013

WARNING!!!  THE EXECUTION VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC!! (it is GRAPHIC beyond imigination!!)

 

C.D.G. Sends Zetas an “Gift for Holy Week” Execution of 3 Men and 2 Women

 

A ghastly, graphic video depicting CDG executing and dismembering five Zeta members. The five victims comprised of three men and two women.

The video was sent to the facebook page of the popular ValorXTamaulipas several days ago. They posted the photo at left.

 

One of the narco blogs advertised they were in possession of the video, but asked for 5000 “likes”before they would publish it. It appears that some blogs regard the tragedy of the drug war as a game.

In the extreme southern portion of Tamaulipas are two cities; Mante and González. They are a 45 minutes drive apart. Zetas control Mante, and their rival CDG controls González.

 

 

In the video are five kidnapped Zetas, kneeling, blindfolded, with the hands of the women duct taped together in the front, while the men have their hands duct taped in the back.  The women are exposed and naked!

 

The five are surrounded by their CDG captors. There is the usual interrogation of the five, questioned one by one, right to left, each admitting working for Zetas. After the interrogation “Mr. Big” of CDG gives the usual warning speech that the same fate would be waiting for others going against “Golfo” (CDG).

 

 

 

The victims are knocked unconscious from a hit to the head by an ax. They are then decapitated, dismembered and body parts thrown into the blue barrel of boiling acid. On the image above one can see the flames under the blue barrel.

This process is used by cartels, and by both CDG and zetas to eliminate evidence, whereby the bodies are cooked and dissolved.

This type of despicable execution is done in what is known as “kitchens” at narco camps. In southern Mexico a process is used to destroy evidence by constructing underground ovens to cook bodies.

 

 

ValorXTamaulipas writes:

 

The conflict between CDG from Cd Gonzáles and Zetas from Cd Mante has been one of the most violent, to the point that in 2010 and 2011 it was required to show an ID to enter Mante. If the person was from González he or her will not be allowed to enter the city. In response CDG in Cd González did a similar thing, they applied restrictions to people and businesses from Cd Mante.

 

 

Since then, the incursions of both criminal groups have been constant, especially in the area Temporalera de ​​Mante and in González, in the southern suburbs of the municipality. Constantly, executed victims are found in vehicles all around the gaps between Mante and Gonzalez.

 

On many occasions, most publications are generated only in large cities, but areas with smaller populations, have come to suffer and continue to suffer violent situations and they are ignored and what is happening in these areas don’t get published in the news.

 

Video narrative transcript:

CDG: What is your name , nickname and where are you from?

 

1st guy: Daniel Hernandez Hernandez, I am from Veracruz

 

CDG: Where did they pick you up?

 

1st guy: In Gonzalez

 

CDG: What organization do you belong to and what do you do?

 

1st guy: Zetas, to give money to Damien

 

CDG: What is your name and nickname:

 

2nd guy: Guillermo Salas Hernandez

 

CDG: What organization do you belong to?

 

2nd guy: Zeta’s

 

CDG: What were you sent to do?

 

2nd guy: To leave something only for Damien

 

CDG: Where were you picked up?

 

2nd guy: In Gonzalez

 

CDG: What is your name and nickname?

3rd guy: Daniel Aguilar Sandoval

CDG: What organization do you belong to?

3rd guy: The Zeta’s

CDG: What were you told to do?

3rd guy: To check the point of Matias (sounds like) to Jose Manuel

CDG: Where were you detained?

3rd guy: In Gonzalez

CDG: Who do you report to?

3rd guy: Comandante Mante

CDG: Who does he report to?

3rd guy: To Ricky Santillan (sounds like) and El Danny (sounds like)

CDG: This goes out to all the scumbags from the CDG. Keep sending

dumbasses like these and you are going to get fucked senores.

CDG: A message for you, Ricardo Santillan, even though you cover your

face just like Polo, that participated in the killings of innocent

people, because that is the only way you intimidate people, by

pretending to be soldiers, lying to the people and local authorities.

For example, I have a list, Homero Cuervos, Chief of Police, who give

the whereabouts of the SEDENA and SEMAR. Felipe aka La Pona, who gives

crooked papers so you can cruise the streets like nothing has

happened. The Deputado, Jose Luis, who helps you launder your money.

All the people who plan to help these scumbags, we remind you that

here in the Gulf is nothing but business, not like all you fucking

cowards that don’t admit your own mistakes. Supposedly when you

whooped our asses the ones you killed were innocent people and you

killed them anyways. Watch your back, Sandia, because in the list of

involved is your cousin, the Barritas, and your wife, La Pansona. All

the people that support La Temporalera so you can see not everybody

wins. Your fucking lousy estakas from San Buena El Chaneke also going

to fall bitches.

THE EXECUTION VIDEO IS ON THE SECOND PAGE WARNING VERY GRAPHIC!! (you must go to the link below to see the video – it is GRAPHIC beyond imigination!!)

Thank you Lacy & Emiliano for your help!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/03/graphic-video-cdg-executes-dismembers.html

 

 

El Chapo’s Asia-Pacific-US Meth. Domination

March 29, 2013
Mexico • The Sinaloa cartel controls the trafficking of methamphetamine in the Asia Pacific triangle-Mexico-United States organization that is considered a “global company” by diversifying its global market.

Its markets include North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, where they sell marijuana, cocaine, opiates and methamphetamine..

 

According to an article by a doctor of political science from Columbia University in New York, Dr. José Luis León Manríquez, published in the Atlas of the security and defense of Mexico 2012, the trafficking in methamphetamine and designer drugs has had a global surge.

 

It is the criminal group headed by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman which has a monopoly on this type of drug.

Before completing the last six years, the government of Mexico detected the increase in the number laboratories manufacturing synthetic drugs in the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Durango, Sonora and Baja California, where five cartels are vying for control of territory that can generate consumers death within one year.

 

In a report on the subject prepared by various federal states after conclusive operations were conducted by the Mexican Army revealing the production centers.

 

The researcher, who was an adviser to the Foreign Ministry, in their study published information documented that the Sinaloa cartel has been in trafficking methamphetamine since the 1990s.

 

He mentioned that he was the kingpin (killed in a raid in Zapopan, Jalisco, in 2010) was the one who visualized the market potential of methamphetamine, a business that was initially controlled by the Colima cartel, headed by Amezcua Contreras brothers

“Ignacio Nacho Coronel ” was also known as the Crystal King, consolidated a broad network that imported ephedrine from Asia and processed it into meth. in Mexico. Taking advantage of its ability to place other drugs in the U.S., the Sinaloa cartel began distributing free samples in that country, “he explained.

By 2012 the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency of the United States) recognized that that criminal group already controlled 80 percent of the U.S. market.

 

The development of industrial-scale methamphetamine in Mexico was displaced by home production made in small clandestine laboratories in the United States.

 

And thanks to the penetration of the Mexican cartels in that market, the number of methamphetamine laboratories seized began to fall between 2003 and 2006, from 10, 212 to 5, 846.

 

Until August 2012 the government of Mexico dismantled 712 laboratories which the military operations found in 12 states, all under control of the Tijuana and Sinaloa cartels.

In addition, 11 were located in Sonora belonging to groups Beltran Leyva, the Sinaloa cartel and Los Zetas.

 

In August of that same month the then Attorney General of the Republic, Marisela Morales Ibáñez, signed with head of the DEA, Michele Leonhart, a cooperation memorandum to combat clandestine laboratories and synthetic drugs.

 

Federal Police Destroy Planting in Soyopa

Federal Police reported that a marijuana plantation was destroyed in the town of Soyopa, Sonora covering an area of 300 thousand hectares and weighing more than five tons 200 kilograms.

In a statement, the corporation said that through intelligence agents discovered the fields in the vicinity of the ejido Tonichi, near Highway 16 in Hermosillo, Chihuahua route.

 

Seizures

 

The commander of the Second Military Region reported that authorities in coordination with the three levels of government, they seized 9, 840 kilos of marijuana and arrested 27 people from the 1st to 25th of March.

 

They seized 43.29 kilograms of crystal meth, 33 vehicles, two boats, aircraft, 12 handguns, nine long, a thousand 274 cartridges and 700 grams of marijuana seeds.

 

Also seized 5,830 Mexican pesos and U.S. $ 21, said the regional command belonging

to the Department of Defense (Sedena).

Milenio, Elimparcial

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/03/el-chapos-asia-pacific-us-meth.html

 

7 killed, 3 women in Chihuahua Bar

March 29, 2013

 

At least seven people were killed and two others injured after an attack inside a bar in the city of Chihuahua.

 

 

According to early police reports, four men and three women died as a result of gun shots, perpetrated by a man wearing tactical gear. After he committed this crime, he fled on foot out into the streets of Centro.

Unofficial sources said that the alleged shooter was young. The Diario de Juarez reports that the incident took place inside Mogavi, a bar located on 21st and Doblado Streets

 

Elements of different police forces as well as emergency services arrived on the scene to treat the injured.

 

Among the casualties are two waitresses who worked for Mogavi and another employee, identified as “Chava.”

The bodies were taken to the premises of C4 to proceed with proper identification and autopsy as required by law. A major police operation responded to the call to look for the triggerman.

Six of the seven victims have been identified

 

Alma Aracely Miguel Quiroga, 37 años and Tayde Frías Muñoz, 37 both employees at the bar

 

Norma Lorena Santiago González, 41 Sergio Daniel López Montes, 38; Tomas Casillas Tarín, 44, Oscar Guillermo Payán Rodríguez, are four of the five bar patrons that were victims.

 

There still remains one more male bar patron victim client to identify.

 

Chihuahua is one of the most violent states in recent years have disputed criminal groups in the service of the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Juarez.

 

Laraza, Proceso, Diario

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/03/7-killed-3-women-in-chihuahua-bar.html

 

Northeast Mexico: Cartels don’t believe in a change of administration

March 30, 2013

The narcos have shown that they do not believe in a change of government. Far from lying low to wait for a new government strategy for dealing with them, criminal organizations continue to dispute territories amongst themselves and, within their organizations, for their respective leaderships. Since Tuesday, (March) 19, Monclova, Coahuila and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, were the scene of violent confrontations between cartels that, with no government authority able to suppress them, see the entire region as booty that will go to the most bloodthirsty among them.

 

SALTILLO, Coahuila (Proceso).– In recent weeks, Ciudad Victoria, Gomez Palacio and Monclova were transformed into the most violent cities in Coahuila, causing this state to join Tamaulipas and Durango as the most violent in the region.

 

 

Recent splits within the cartels that control the territories — the Gulf, Sinaloa and the Zetas cartels– are taking violence to levels similar to those in Torreon, Reynosa and Monterrey.

 

Beginning at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 19, there were reports of confrontations in Monclova between criminal groups using grenades and high power weapons. Afterwards, Federal Police and Army troops intervened in the fight.

City residents informed Proceso that skirmishes broke out simultaneously at several points in the metropolitan area, which includes the municipalities of Monclova, Castanos and Frontera.

 

Minutes prior to 7:00 a.m., dozens of young men began to seize trucks, trailers and cars from drivers to use them to block the main streets and place as obstacles to prevent the arrival of federal forces.

 

“They used city buses to block the entrance to Monclova, at Castanos,” says a woman who was interviewed. The same thing happened in places like Harold Pape Blvd., which runs through the three municipalities, where the federal forces pursued and exchanged fire with criminal gangs.

 

The State Office of Attorney General (PGJE: Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado) reported only one of the confrontations between gunmen: “At 7:45 a.m., it was reported that in Socrates Street in Colonia Tecnologico there was a confrontation between armed civilians.

When the Federal Police got there, they were received with gunfire. At this location, a Federal Police officer dies (sic) as a result of gunfire,” says the report.

 

(The report) also revealed that, in addition, the police secured a house in Socrates Street, where they found an AK-47 and an AR-15, eight loaded magazines and a .40 caliber grenade, also including a Jetta car without license plates (in which were found two full magazines) and a Pacifica pickup.

 

Hundreds of residents were trapped by the gun battles on the way to work. Schools suspended classes; students and teachers already at the schools threw themselves on the floor to avoid being hit by bullets.

 

Monclova Mayor Melchor Sanchez reported that 250 municipal police were deployed to protect school buildings and to prevent students from leaving,. After the confrontations ended, around 10:00 a.m., the public official confirmed that “he had reports of several killed.”

 

For one of the witnesses, “the gunfire sounded stronger in Frontera.” In that municipality, other witnesses interviewed said that “around 20” bodies were left lying on the streets and “were then picked up by soldiers.”

 

The gunshots and explosions lasted approximately two hours. Although official reports only reported one Federal policeman killed and one civilian wounded, conservative estimates by the residents state there were around 40 killed.

 

Monclova [at left] and its metropolitan zone are under the iron grip of Los Zetas, and is part of its border corridor from Ciudad Acuna to Piedras Negras. Also, it was at one time the refuge of Heriberto Lazcano, El Z-14.

 

This gang’s control is such that when a guest arrives at one of the many underground clubs it owns, the host welcomes customers with this basic information: “You are coming into a business (owned) by the Compania.” And he offers them “products” and shows them special places where they can be consumed.

 

To this day, it is not known whether the men who came to “heat up the plaza” for the Zetas were from the Gulf or Sinaloa cartel, or both.

 

On Tuesday afternoon, March 19, they had not even finished picking up evidence in Monclova when there were reports of narco blockades and gun fights in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

 

According to the State attorney general’s office, “at 1730 hours, in the City of Reynosa, there were reports of confrontations between armed civilian groups, causing street blockades and one person wounded, a young woman who was a bystander.” The victim, 16 years old, was shot in the leg and taken to a Social Security hospital for treatment.

 

“The events took place on several streets in the Colonia Balcones de Alcala and, to prevent law enforcement forces from intervening, the armed groups blocked (the streets),” concluded the Tamaulipas government agency.

 

The criminals closed off all access into Colonia Balcones in that manner. When the military troops arrived, they had to stop and listen to the volleys of gunfire coming from a street where gunmen overran a home and its residents. It was the second confrontation of that nature reported this month.

 

On Sunday night, (March) 10th, right at 11:00 p.m., hundreds of armed individuals who were traveling in caravans of up to 30 pickups exchanged gun fire and grenade attacks until sunrise at several points in the city, including areas adjacent to the international bridges to the United States.

 

Hour prior to that, Gulf Cartel men led by Miguel El Gringo Villarreal stole about 18 pickups from six dealerships and used them in their battles. However, the Tamaulipas attorney general reported that the final result was “one collateral victim.” In addition, a minor was injured while riding in the car with his father.

The official version was contradicted by a police source who informed the McAllen, Texas, newspaper, the Monitor, that the fighting left at least “thirty dead.” The source added that the new wave of violence was the result of a power struggle in the Gulf Cartel:

 

“The most recent internal disputes have immersed the city of Reynosa in shootings, like the one that took place on March 10, which lasted 3 hours, between factions of the Gulf Cartel loyal to Mario Pelon Ramirez and the groups with Miguel El Gringo Villarreal,” explained the source.

Reynosa Below

According to the same source, the shooting started when Pelon Ramirez ordered his gunmen to erase El Gringo Villarreal and promised that they could keep whatever they could grab as booty.

 

Ramirez has attempted to take control of the Gulf Cartel, allying himself with his Sinaloa rivals since Jorge Eduardo Cosilla Sanchez, El Coss, and Mario Cardenas Guillen were arrested by marines in September of 2012.

 

Meanwhile, Miguel Villarreal, born in Texas and former plaza boss in Miguel Aleman, is in a dispute for power with El Pelon, with the support of some of the heads of the oldest Cartel families.

 

An ally of Villarreal, El Puma Garcia Roman, was shot in one of the nighttime battles of March 10, in which grenades, .50 caliber Barrett machine guns and armored trucks were used.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/03/the-northeast-cartels-dont-believe-in.html