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- Another Los Zetas Boss of Plaza captured in Nuevo Leon
- Mexico ambush leaves 10 dead, including 5 federal police
- BCS war between CAF and Sinaloa
- Former mayor with ties to Caballeros Templarios dies while incarcerated
| Another Los Zetas Boss of Plaza captured in Nuevo Leon Posted: 21 Mar 2015 12:53 AM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article by Otis B Fly-Wheel Less than a month after having assumed control of the Plaza of Nuevo Leon for the group Los Zetas, state authorities captured Eleazar Moreno Rodriguez, "El Chacho", informed a spokesman for the state Government.  With this, there are six group Bosses of Los Zetas apprehended, in the entity in the present year. "El Chacho", 38 years of age, and originally from Monterrey, took command of the criminal group in the entity, after the detention of Mario Alberto Roldan Magana, "El Fresa", on February 26th passed. Together with Moreno Rodriguez, two women were detained and identified as Perla Lorena Gonzalez, 33 years of age, and Ana Maria Saenz Lares, 19 years of age, both are residents of the Nuevo Leon capital. The three were captured in an operation carried out by elements of the State Agency of Investigation (AEI) Thursday night opposite the Motel Marbella, located on kilometre 64.8 of the Monterrey - Saltillo highway, in the Municipality of conurbado de Santa Catarina. The detained were captured with 150 bags of Cocaine, 46 bags of Marijuana, and a set of scales. Also a " brick" of a vegetative drug. They are being investigated, provisionally for narco trafficking, said a source that requested anonymity. On the 16th March, elements of SEMAR, captured in two operations in Monterrey and Escobedo, Artemio Olvera Luna, ex policeman of Monclova, who controlled the transit of drugs for Los Zetas. With him was also captured accountant Severo Gonzalez Lunas and Crisitian Arias Valencia, and in these actions were also killed two men and two women, of no precise affiliation. The apprehensions of the leaders of this criminal organisation, has incremented after the detention, in San Pedro, Nuevo Leon, of Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, "El Z-42", top Boss of the Cartel, on the 4th of February. With him were captured simultaneously, his financial operator Carlos Arturo Jimenez Encinas, and another four accomplices. Before these, and detained in this entity, on the 8th and 9th of January were 22 member of the same criminal group cell. This past Thursday, the Government Secretary, Miguel Osorio Chong, affirmed that the structure of Los Zetas had been dismantled with the recent captures of its heads. Original article in Spanish at Proceso, Image from Exploring Mexico | ||
| Mexico ambush leaves 10 dead, including 5 federal police Posted: 20 Mar 2015 02:33 PM PDT Borderland Beat Posted by DD Republished from Yahoo News, el Universal, and Informador.Informador.comMX yahoo. News  By Ulises Zam The attack took place late Thursday as the seven vehicles carrying paramilitary gendarmerie officers were on patrol in Ocotlan, Jalisco state, the federal police said in a statement. Eight other officers were wounded, including one in serious condition. It was the deadliest shooting for Mexico's new gendarmerie, a 5,000-strong unit modeled after European military-like forces that President Enrique Pena Nieto launched last year to protect key economic sectors from organized crime. "We have regrettably had minor losses of one officer in some other events," but never so many in one attack, a federal official told AFP. - 30-minute gunfight -  A gendarmerie commander deployed in Jalisco said the officers were checking on reports of an attack on municipal police when they were ambushed. The police statement said the officers were on patrol at around 9:15 pm when a vehicle approached the convoy and "without uttering a word, one of the individuals pulled out a large weapon and shot at the federal agents." The officers shot back and more gunmen arrived in about 10 other vehicles, firing in all directions. The gendarmerie commander said the shootout lasted 30 minutes and took place in several streets.  "As a result of this clash, we report the deaths of five gendarmerie division officers and three civilians whose bodies had cartridge belts and tactical equipment and who presumably are part of organized crime," the statement said. The statement did not say what criminal organization the suspects belong to, but the region is home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. The suspects kept shooting as they fled the scene, leaving bullet holes in several vehicles parked in several neighboring streets. Authorities found seven "large weapons" -- a term usually referring to assault rifles -- and four grenades. The suspects left behind five vehicles. The federal attorney general's office will investigate the attack.  - Other ambushes - More than 100,000 people have died or gone missing since Mexico's drug war began to escalate in 2006 with the deployment of troops to combat drug cartels. Criminals have attacked authorities in Jalisco in recent years. In October, a federal lawmaker was abducted on a highway as he drove to the airport near Guadalajara, Mexico's second biggest city. His charred body was found hours later in a neighboring state. In May 2014, a group of 30 gunmen armed with grenades ambushed a military truck near the Jalisco town of Guachinango. Four soldiers were killed after the assailants tossed their grenades, sparking a shootout. El Universal reported that 2 other civilians "who apparently oblivious to the event and whose bodies were located in same direction of fire which was aimed at the Federal Police Informador reported that nhabitants of the municipality even recorded a video from a rooftop, and immediately shared through video portal YouTube . Several corporations are directed to the site; among these, the air group of DPP, because after the shooting the criminals fled the site and have not been located. A mobilization ambulances leaving from Guadalajara are added. So far no reports on what conditions are officers injured. - > | ||
| BCS war between CAF and Sinaloa Posted: 20 Mar 2015 01:07 PM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana Special Report by Otis B Fly-Wheel More than 100 subjects have been assassinated in the first 69 days of the year, bodies riddled with accurate shots to the face, charred bodies in state of putrefaction have been found, seven bodies in three days alone in Tijuana, shows an upsurge of violence in the past week including Mexicali and Ensenada.  Zeta Investigations In Tijuana the deaths multiply because the brothers Alfonso and Rene Arzate intend to control the criminal operators of the CAF and "Los Teos". In Mexicali, they are assassinating women, and in Ensenada with just 6 deaths a year on average they located their first dismembered body.Of the 101 homicides that have been committed in Baja California between the 1st of January and the 10th of March 2015, 75 have happened in Tijuana, 12 alone in the first three days of March. Seven of these dead were killed between the 7th and 10thof March. In the intelligence analysis of the areas of Baja California they have catalogued two separate conflicts: One in the North Zone between the criminal remnants of the CAF and criminals that serve Alfonso Arzate Garcia "El Aquiles" of the Sinaloa cartel.The other is in the Zone Sanchez Taboada, between "Los Aquiles" and the operators of "Los Hermanos Uriate", the group that since 2010 were headed by Eduardo Garcia Simental "El Teo".(Otis: BB reporter J 2012 post on Tijuana). The cartel Arellano Felix controlled criminal enterprise in Baja California for 30 years, between 2008 and 2010 the group of "Los Teos", separated and staged an internal struggle with many dead reducing its capital, circumstances that the Sinaloa cartel took advantage of to enter the plaza. Today the CAF and "Teos", keep on fighting for the Plaza.  In the North Zone, outside of the area controlled strongly by the CAF, the assassinations are a product of the fight between Luis Manuel Toscano Rodriguez "El Mono", who during the years has controlled the zone for the CAF and "El Migues" or "Miguel", a subject who started out as a Coyote but now controls the area, supported by the brothers Lucre and Marco Cerda Cabrera " Los Cuates", who control the Obrera Zone in the service of "Los Aquiles". In Sanchez Toboada and in general, the East Zone of Tijuana, the fight is between Arturo Gomez Herrera "El Groos", on the side of Alfonso Arzate, against "El Nino" of the Uriate group. This subject has the criminal support of Jose Juan Trejo Gutierrez "El Chapito Trejo".According to the versions of detained criminals, Rene Arzate "La Rana", brother of "El Aquiles", ordered the take over of all points of sale of drugs of "El Nino" and they are killing the dealers. La BarredoraOn the Sunday of 8th of March, a man of 45-50 years of age, was assassinated by gunfire opposite the Hotel Niza in the North Zone of Tijuana, identified as a drug dealers pitch and safe house of "Los Aquiles", also the Hotel San Carlos. Even though the dead man has not been identified, the residents of the area commented that he was known as "El Gordo Bicicletas" an addict and drug dealer, in charge of no more than five wraps, which he sold then went for more. (reported by BB reporter Colleague J see link).After he was shot from a distance, the killers approached his body and stuck a manta on his abdomen with an ice pick that said " This is going to happen to all the coyotes, drug dealers, visiting west zoners who changed sides, Northern Zone belongs to CAF compliments " La Barredora" (the sweeper).For the Authorities, the subjects killing was not the objective, it could be something else, maybe he was killed opposite a point of sale of "Los Aquiles", to send a message to Manuel Toscano "El Mono". They are bluffing with the intention of creating fear, commented the Secretary for Public Security in the state, Daniel de la Rosa, he affirmed that there are no indications of a presence in the Baja California of a criminal group that are called "La Barredora".The investigators recorded a triple homicide occurred in 2009 in the Sanchez Taboada Colonia, where they left a message also signed by "La Barredora". There were allegations in November of 2013, when persons deprived of liberty in the North Zone, reported that they had kidnapped a group of men who called themselves "La Barredora". According to the antecedents, this is also the name of a group of homicidal thugs from various cells of the CAF who came together to attack the henchmen of Eduardo Garcia Simental "El Teo", when he separated from the CAF in 2008, but particularly linked to Toscano and his chief of thugs "El Panchito", currently imprisoned for drug possession.In this moment the deaths are happening because people don't know who the boss is, the buyers, sellers, they have to pay piso, and if they pay it to "Los Aquiles", they get killed by "El Mono" and vice versa, said an investigator. Attacking the drug shops of your competitors  Also on Sunday the 8th of March, in the location of Avenue Centenario of Sanchez Taboada Colonia, a man identified as "Martin" was shot dead by Sabas Salvador Lopez Zavala, who was accompanied by Fidel Perez Basillo. They fled in a taxi and were intercepted by Municipal Police and decided to attack them, the Police repelled the aggression and arrested them.In his resulting testimony, Sabas Lopez said that "El Jalo", who had been killed was a "shooter" who had been killed for disrespecting his sister. However intelligence sources noted that the area where he was killed was a drug shop point for "El Nino" who works for Uriate. Lopez had no criminal antecedents. A second attack occurred on the night of the 10thof March, in the Avenue Ruiz Cortines opposite number 58 annex Panamericano part of the Sanchez Taboada delegation. According to intelligence sources this area is controlled by Arturo Gomez Herrera "El Groos".Here left dead with five shots in the face, a man of 1.70 metres height, his body had various tattoos of English phrases, and on his neck the name Angela. The Municipal Police identified him tentatively as Jose Luis Garcia Ochoa. The same Tuesday, in the morning two subjects in a gray Caravan, shot Alejandro Matinez Rodriguez, 62 years of age, who the shot inside a pickup in La Calle Centenario in the Sanchez Taboada Colonia.The family of the man refused to make any official declaration, they only reclaimed the body, but unofficially the authorities said that the man belonged to a family with money and property in Nayarit, however in the past had "gone down the wrong path" selling cocaine. One of his brothers, a Dentist, was kidnapped and killed in the past year but according to authorities, this victim never carried out illegal activities. In respect of this zone of the City, the Authorities inform that the people of "El Aquiles" ordered a "burn" of the people of Dalia Rodelo "La Prima" and Julian Lopez "El Chino". "El Javo" protected The special operations group (GOE) of Tijuana, of the SSPM, assured that on the 10th of March at a checkpoint in the Loma Dorada neighbourhood, they stopped Javier Olguin Hernandez, who was in possession of a FN Herstal 5.7mm pistol known in Mexico as "matapolicia" cop killer, and he offered 10,000 dollars in exchange for not being arrested. (Otis: this weapon has tungsten tip ammunition coated with Teflon which will penetrate Kevlar vests, hence its nickname)
In the Police station, "El Javo" said his name was Daniel Vazquez Silva, was identified as Javier Olguin Hernandez. "El Javo" had been detained in 2009 for crimes against health, however Federal Authorities released him on that occasion without reporting it to the state of Baja California, who claim there had not been an effective arrest warrant, but it was still pending for the murder of three girls from Mexicali, whose tortured bodies were located in Tijuana in 2007. Additionally while in custody the subject confessed to the transit of drugs to the United States for a Michaocan Cartel. It is pertinent to add that when the criminal was being identified, he had been in the station a half an hour, when an actuary of the District Court arrived requesting his release citing that the family had launched an amparo against his arrest. But the request was not carried out as the document that arrived had been filled out with the false name of Daniel Vazquez Silva, while the Municipal Police could demonstrate that they had arrested Javier Olguin. Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana | ||
| Former mayor with ties to Caballeros Templarios dies while incarcerated Posted: 20 Mar 2015 12:48 PM PDT Lucio Borderland Beat with Material from Reforma  Salma Karrum, 64, former Mayor of Patzcuaro, arrested in August for alleged ties to the Caballeros Templarios cartel, has died. The Ministry of State Security said the former mayor had requested house arrest, because of declining health due to a degenerative disease that she has suffered from for over five years. In a statement the spokesman , said the death was due to hemorrhagic shock. She was incarcerated in 'David Franco Rodriguez' prison (Mil Cumbres) but due to her condition, prison authorities said authorities were considering a house request application. Authorities stated; "In the midst of this process, to avoid a complication to her physical condition, for the past month, at the request of her family, Karrum Cervantes was cared for under the supervision of the prison authorities, in a private clinic in the Michoacán capital ".
The former Municipal President was being held from August in the prison of Mil Cumbres, accused of alleged links to the Templarios cartel and its leader La Tuta. In August a video and photographs circulated where Karrum appeared at a meeting with representatives of the cartel and La Tuta himself. Also attending the meeting with La Tuta, was the former Mayor of Huetamo, Dalia Santana, who was arrested. Karrum won the election of Patzcuaro in 2011, when the PRD accused the PRI had been supported by organized crime during election campaigns. She was formally was accused of extortion, organized crime and drug crimes. |
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