So it goes for the best part of three hours. He was, it was reported, among two hostages taken by the CJNG, whose hitmen sped away in a number of vehicles, taking shots at anyone who dared to even look in their direction. They arrested four men, including the brother. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), Police and army soldiers inspect the site where a dead man hangs from his wrists handcuffed to a fence in a night club parking lot in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Vasquez repeated the same action on the parents. Vargas, a hand-to-hand combatant of that war, is taking me on a tour of his biggest busts in San Diego. They called it walling off: bringing pretext charges while the long-term operation carried on, says Duncan. A Mexican brides happiest day turned into her last, after the gang rivals of her brother burst into her wedding and shot her dead. Contreras, the task-force chief, wrote CRIM Squad commendations; he calls them the best federal unit Ive ever worked with. That fall, they won the top state honor for cops who bring trafficking cases: the California Narcotics Officers Award. But faced with overwhelming force, says Herrod, the butcher stood down without a peep. Group One had wires up on a couple of Teos lieutenants; what they needed was real-time intel on his movements. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. Weeks before that dinner, Tijuana went up in flames: Men in balaclavas stormed buses and vans and put them to the torch all over town. All of which explains why the plaza of Tijuana is paved in blood and treasure. It was into this crucible that Vargas stepped when he took over the CRIM Squad in 2007. Cinder blocks crashed through the windshields of their trucks as they prowled the frontage roads looking for smugglers. For most of the 1990s till the mid-to-late aughts, the AFO ran Tijuana, Mexico, like a Chicago slaughterhouse. By now, half of Mexico was chasing Teo: Hed turned Tijuana and most of the Baja peninsula into an abattoir. (AP Photo), Police officials move the body of an unidentified man who was killed on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. One of the other collars was a kid they called Pelon, a.k.a. Alma Antonia Caldern Garca, who is the wife of a leader in one But Vargas made the collar, so he went into the interrogation room first. No official information from the Guadalajara police has being released yet on the case. That botched abduction ended in a firefight between their hit squad and a Chula Vista cop. It was released as a warning on social media by Los Tlacos, who claimed they were cleaning up the city after the other mob robbed and killed innocent civilians. Those mopes, as he calls them the hit men, kidnappers, bent cops, and smugglers were pawns in an industry with no way out, and whose wages were generally paid in blood. The police there play by different rules, says Vargas. His whole business model was hurting kids, says Guru. They went at him good and hard, but couldnt break him, either. A 16-year-old mother, her 10-month old son and the baby's grandmother and great-grandmother were among the victims, police and family say. The United States attorney in the Southern District of California failed to indict Teo for mass murder. That set was out of control, just stone-cold killers: five bodies in 15 months in Lincoln Park, says Contreras, whos now retired but working a cold case in Los Angeles. The rest went down for conspiracy to murder and other violent crimes. That enraged Herrod and his Group One agents but it didnt surprise them at all. New York prosecutors have evidence against the alleged cartel leader, including YouTube videos in which Guzmn systematically harmed and then removed the heads ofrival gang members. That shit, Vargas learned in his four years watching the line, was the basic working condition for uniformed Border Patrol agents. In February 2008, Furcio was drinking with some friends at a condo in the Camelot Apartments. (Mayel had been busted by the Mexican army in 2000 and sentenced to serve decades in prison.) He pumped them for ways to mine national-security databases, looking for felons whod been jailed and deported, but whod snuck back in with false papers. Sitting on that house, they spotted Tigre in a car. They were pelted with bags and bottles of piss by gangsters standing on ladders at the fence. We know who you are and what youve done: You called in a hit on a TJ cop. They Hunt Cartel Killers. The brothers froze; one of them shrieked as men in balaclavas dragged them off. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. A BRUTAL drug runner dubbed Cartel Queen has been captured by the Mexican army after allegedly kidnapping five people. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso), Soldiers stand over the body of a suspected hit man lying next to his overturned vehicle after a shootout in the municipality of China on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. His name rang a bell; he was connected to Los Palillos, the gang that was shooting up San Diego. My kids know:If something happens to me, the first call isto these guys. Back then, DHS was the only outfit that could file certain charges against narcos: illegal entry after deportation; illegal alien with a gun; human smuggling, etc. The brothers were the nephews of Ismael (El Mayel) Higuera-Guerrero, the chief of operations for the Arellano-Flix Organization. cartel members rape women and children, extort and brutalize the weak, and leave helpless migrants to die in the desert or suffocate in tractor trailers. Poblete was part of a three-man crew for Los Zetas who grabbed a worker from Mexicos state-owned oil company Pemex as the man was coming leaving a bar in Coatzacoalcos. Whatm I gonna do, bro its Teo. It remains unclear if Poblete Ramos worked with a particular cartel. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez, Forensic experts carry a stretcher with the allegedly mutilated body of a drug gang member wrapped in a blanket after it was found in Tlajomulco on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Friday, May 28, 2010. (AP Photo), The body of an alleged drug dealer is seen covered by a sheet after being shot to death in front of his house in Tijuana, Mexico, in this Sept. 6, 2009 file photo. Long after the failures of intelligence sharing that helped lead to 9/11, the three-letter law-enforcement agencies dont play nicely together, guarding their territory fiercely. The bride was also the sister of Jos Antonio Ypez Ortiz, alias El Marro, who leads the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, which is embroiled in a long-running feud with El Menchos CJNG. We want to hear it. One of those collars was a guy named Anthony Zendejas, whom CRIM Squad popped holding a Molotov cocktail and an incendiary device. Hes sitting on the veranda of his very handsome house, a few miles north of the border fence. Authorities believe Morales is responsible for at least 72 slayingsin the 2010 San Fernando massacre. Este artculo fue escrito por Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon. Mexican Cartel Violence. In the process, Vargas flipped the role of Border Patrol agents: He turned them into bloodhounds for other feds. A Mexican navy official said that alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his cartel were slain Wednesday inside the apartment during a shootout with sailors. Another was Pariente, an older gangster who ran guns to the AFO. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux provides the latest on a drug cartel or gang-related killing of six people, including a 16-year-old mother and her baby. Mexican authorities claim El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel was behind the killings after video footage showed them interrogating rival members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (JNGC) days earlier. He showed up armed, expecting the unexpected. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), Mexican forensic experts examine the body of 14 year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca under the Paso Del Norte border bridge in the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Monday June 7, 2010. Vargas got a tip from a friend at ATF; he sent Guru to sit on the address. Hours later, Chan was attacked by his rivals in Tijuana, touching off a two-day shootout. Video was posted online as a warning by rival gang Los Tlacos. While sitting and drinking beer at the brothers house, the buyer remarked on the shrine theyd erected to their imprisoned Uncle Mayel, the cartel capo. One body was identified as Luis ngel, who was being investigatedfor double murder. The tranquilizer gun was protection for hiking in the desert; the .45 kept him safe in the barrio. But with Vargas, it was all about the intel-building. CRIM Squad would find the perp, surveil him for weeks, then sack him up as he left to do his dirt. One of the brothers answered when they knocked politely; as they cuffed him, the other brother pulled up. According to the local media reports, the body was accompanied with a note alluding to the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. My next-door neighbors a failed nation, he says. I guess thats what [sicarios] do for therapy.. A 10-month-old baby and his 16-year-old mother have been identified among the six victims shot dead in a cartel -style execution in a home in Goshen, California. The victims were reportedly snatched from a rural teaching college by local police officers and then handed over to the cartel. (AP Photo), Crime scene investigators and a Mexican army soldier stand over the body of a fallen federal policeman after an ambush on a patrol of federal agents near the town of Zitacuaro, Mexico Monday June 14, 2010. Dial it, said Nikki. But in the meantime, he had to earn a living in San Diego; reports cropped up about people being plucked off the streets by men in a panel van. Vargas checked in with his cartel sources: There were three kidnap crews in San Diego. A subset of Mexican-mafia wannabes, theyd moved to San Diego as minors and been busted for cartel crimes as adults. The gruesome crime scene was discovered in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, by authorities with the state attorney generals office on a ranch called El Cafetal. Law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart News the discovery of four men bound and castrated prior to their murders. Which Animated Disney Movie Should Get A Horror Adaptation Next? There was El Yeyo, the sad-sack TJ cop conscripted by Teo to fetch corpses to a guy called El Pozolero, whod melt the bodies at his ranch. A rift between drug gangs near the U.S. border is terrifying Mexico's richest city Monterrey, once a poster child of development, forcing a quarter of its export factories to freeze investment. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. #OJO #Tepalcatepec #MichoacnAs qued Mara Guadalupe Lpez Esquivel La Catrina" Ex Integrante del Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin #CJNG ,la catrina junto a otros sicarios son los responsables de la emboscada a 14 policas de Michoacn (14/10/2019) pic.twitter.com/QvmPiDoB3X. The assassins who undertook the savagery are believed to have come from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) led by feared boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a former policeman The PEPOS, or state police, had a file on him that they hadnt bothered to share with Group One. She and her team were hunting El Teo and his merry band of sadists in Tijuana. Murders came down big- time, says one agent. Keep my wife and kids safe and why are there people like that in the world?, WITH NO SMALL HELP from CRIM Squad, El Teo was arrested at a La Paz address in January 2010. Theyll still be fighting that one when the sea floods San Diego, and the waves raise all the dead in Mexicali. There were drunken Friday dinners at Vargas house, the wives inside at the kitchen table, the cops on the patio, laughing their way through cases of Tecates. They identified, by code, who was who in the zoo: the half-dozen or so narcos who spoke directly to Teo from either side of the border. Those are the ones we should be hunting.. Its an article of faith among the men and women who patrol our southwest flank: What happens in Mexico doesnt stay there. With one note of grace that bears mentioning here: Nearly everyone is brown. Any violation of immigration law could take killers off the streets at a moments notice. Often, they got their ransom but killed the captive; they murdered 14 people in two states. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. It is where the AFO, a clan of seven brothers, killed anyone else who trucked product through their streets without kicking up to the family. Youre attached to details with a bunch of shirt-and-tie guys; when that clock hits five oclock, theyre like, Seeya! says Sito. He is accused of many killings in Ciudad Jurez, including the notorious massacre of 18 patients of the rehabilitation center "El Aliviane". The associate later testified against Vasquez, claiming the cartel assassin took him to an undisclosed location where Vasquez was also keeping a family of three. Breitbart News obtained access to the criminal investigation into Poblete Ramos 2011 arrest on the charge of kidnapping. (AP Photo), The bodies of two dead men are seen on a street after gunmen shot at them in Monterrey, June 16, 2010. Real Executions Downplayed in Film and TV, Execution and Infamy in 18th Century Britain, The Most Brutal Execution Methods Reportedly Used By Mexican Cartels. Theyd earn it, and then some, in the months to come. Her cellphone rang. Finally, that November, they caught up with Furcio, after a yearlong manhunt. Its a shock for a minute, but at least you see your kids. The tragic episode marks the deadly presence of Mexican drug cartel violence that has begun to spill over the border along with the flood of migrants into the United States. The other three men are still unidentified. At least one of them was a minor, reports infobae. El Teos hit squad was coming north. He wasnt just friending cops and fishing for cases. One of Vargas neighbors was targeted by the Palillos. After the AFO trials, theyd made it pretty clear they were sick of trying cartel cases, he says. The courts convicted him on 10 counts, including murder and drug trafficking. A Mexican navy official said that alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his organization were slain Wednesday inside the apartment during a shootout with sailors. The country has been plagued by gang violence, with more than 300,000 murders since 2006. Kingpins like Chapo are now imprisoned or dead, their empires a jumble of chockablock shards that their successors kill to reclaim. Lists about punishments, penalties, systemic harm, and execution methods used then, now, here, and all around the world. He was also bringing goodies to share with other teams that were chasing after cartel hit men. He and a second agent were parked mirror to mirror, when they heard an H-1 Hummer belching toward them. The killings make the month the states most violent of 2018. The mass killing is the latest in a They were narco-juniors working their way up the line: moving loads across for AFO, Vargas says. Each morning, before work, he would cold-call different shops, chatting up the point man on an anti-gang task force or a higher-up at the FBIs off-site. In fact, they werent even told that the arrests theyd made were material to his capture. Among those goodies was something called TECS an exclusive database of every person, vehicle, boat, plane, or shipment entering the United States through a port of entry. The state prosecutor said the three men had escaped from a Morelos state prison last month. Vargas, who retired last summer as a special agent with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, doesnt despise the cartels or demonize the killers who did their grunt work. Those ledgers which Tigre parsed for Group One were far more useful than profit-and-loss sheets. The Mexican cartels that rose to meet the demand might be new, but they are undeniably vicious. For every 100,000 they kill in this country, they know there are 3 million users right behind them., Still, weve never before had an account of the days when sicarios roamed our streets, hunting civilians and fellow soldiers on U.S. soil. I had just put my sunshade up for [a long surveil] when here came Furcio walking toward him. One of Mexicos most violent organizations claimed credit for the gory crime scene, saying the victims were rapists and kidnappersalleging the murders were part of a cleanup.. Too much time, too much manpower, too much money invested. The perp was some dude called Furcio.. We were soldiers bagging soldiers. That shit happens all the time.. The only gang I respect is Sombra Negra. He expected to track him down in weeks, if not days, because that was how it went with his bloodhound crew. Back at the station, feds lined up in Vargas office. A man narrating the disturbing footage says, This plaza already has an owner, El Pas reported. According to local authorities, three police officers were killed and one was wounded during the shooting. This story has been shared 107,512 times. The guys drinking at a bar and meets a girl who takes him home, says Vargas. You pull in at 5 a.m. and lay there till nine, not moving while you piss in a bottle, says Guru. A scene from near Saturdays wedding shooting in which a bride was killed at the altar. 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But Vargas had no use for parochial nonsense and would help anyone who helped him. Pelons crew had kidnapped Escobar-Lunas brother, then killed him despite being paid a ransom. Dozens of men in armor crashed his door; Blackhawk gunships circled overhead, anticipating a shootout with his men. We dont do like the FBI, where theyre up on a wire forever, says Sito. On K Street stands the complex where the brothers were hiding. Vasquez, an alleged hitman for the Los Zetas cartel, was involved in the 2013 kidnapping of a former drug trafficking associate. We told them and the time came, this turf already has an owner.". The body of an unidentified man hangs from an overpass in the city of Cuernavaca, some 90 km., 60 miles, south of Mexico City, early Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Tijuanas economy roared back, and so did its nightlife: People werent so scared of being shot, he says. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Vargas wasnt told what crimes the brothers copped to, but he does know a couple of salient facts. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Better to just let Mexico lock em up. Herrod cant confirm that Teo was charged in Mexico, either, though he has been indefinitely detained, says Seven. Thousands murdered since 2007; dozens of cops assassinated by his goons; Mexican-army checkpoints in every barrio. Back at the office, Im filing my assault-on-a-federal-officer [report], and the supes like, Whatever. Often, theyre in boxer briefs sweating it out, because the car and its A/C are off all day and theres nothing but window tinting to fade the San Diego sun. Even bad guys who werent on our radar, says Steve Duncan, a retired special agent for the California Department of Justice. The grim scene, shocking even by recent standards in the crime-battered country, played out at Our Lady of San Juan church in Celaya in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the Sun and Daily Mail report. Afterward, the alleged Sinaloa cartel leader removed Hernandezs face. Three generations of one family were killed in what is described as a "cartel-like execution" at a California residence known to police for drug-related activity. (AP Photo), The bodies of two unidentified men hang from a road bridge in Cuernavaca, some 90 kms, 60 miles, south of Mexico City, early Friday, April 9, 2010. We wiped em off the face of the Earth, says Sito. Journalists, police chiefs, women, and tourists: Everyones in the crosshairs these days. Alma Antonia Caldern Garca, who is the wife of a leader in one The homicide is characteristic of Mexico's brutal drug gangs, which often dump mutilated victims in public places. The assassins are said to have been wearing bullet-proof vests emblazoned with the logo of the CJNG vests which have shown up at a number of cartel massacres in Mexico in recent times. Formed in about 2010, the Jalisco cartel is the strongest and most aggressive competitor to the Sinaloa. What agent Herrod did convey was that their actionable information had been useful in the takedown of Teos gang. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. NBCDFW.com. It took months, but CRIM Squad got a fix on its target by way of a gangland slaying. Anyone could be found, once you knew where to look. Mexico to Level Massive Fine Against Ticketmaster After Bad Bunny Ticket Disaster Texas law enforcement apprehended Marciano Chano Millan Vasquez in 2015. For five years, these men had been part of something rare: an elite unit led by a brilliant cop who got complete buy-in from his squad. El Teo after the CRIM Squads work led to the cartel leaders arrest in 2010. We were together so much, we turned the office into our dungeon. Case in point: their takedown of the Linda Vista-13. One day that fall, Vargas got a call from a DEA agent with the Group One Task Force whom Ill call Nikki. Nights are even longer, cause now youre on crook time and they dont work steady hours.. Four of the dead men - including a wanted murder suspect - were dumped outside the new mayor's campaign office in Iguala, in Mexico's south-western Guerrero province. Each morning dawned on fresh atrocities: corpses hung from the balustrades of bridges; cops beheaded and their bodies arrayed to spell out Teos nickname: 3L. It was his wide-lens view of the War on Drugs that made Vargas a brilliant cop: the ability to see patterns, not pointless depravity, in the crooks coming over from Tijuana. With the PEPOS information, he put an alert out on Timmy at all the border crossings. Shocking video shows Mexican cartel members lined up on their knees and taunted, moments before they are executed by a rival gang. While El Mencho operates in three-quarters of Mexican states and oversees a drugs empire spanning the Americas and Europe, El Marros upstart Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel is mostly involved in the theft of fuel from local pipelines in Guanajuato. The video, posted to social media by members of Los Ranked among Americas safest, cleanest towns, its praised for fiscal health by good-governance groups, and exalted for both its beaches and civic stability. And to be honest, I was fried when we split up., Late last summer, Vargas convenes the crew at a cantina in Otay Mesa. But Furcio, a short, slight man in his thirties, didnt even blink through rounds of grilling. Nor did their non-cartel status lead their captors to spare them brutalities: They chopped off the fingers of a man and sent them to his loved ones as proof of their bad intentions. We were soldiers bagging soldiers, he says. Editors picks It was the bust of the decade in San Diego, wiping the Southeast Locos off the gangland map and liberating the blocks theyd held by force. Big Love in Spanish Grande Amor! CRIM Squad revoked Chans B-1 visa and pushed him through the gate at Whiskey Two. This story has been shared 209,091 times. Cartel leader massacres eight people because rival made him look 'like a dumb*ss' Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartel has more than 150 dirty cops on the payroll. Hed go on to make CRIM Squad in his image: six guys whod show up, no questions asked, to tail a narcos car at 3 a.m. Mr Gama Prez has not commented on the video, which was posted online on Wednesday night, hours before he was sworn in as mayor yesterday. He announced his intention to seize the plaza with a shootout that left 13 people dead. First: The brothers got decades in prison. Chihuahua State officials released a statement Tuesday June 8, demanding a full investigation into the death of the boy who was allegedly shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after a confrontation, according to Mexican authorities. OU NEVER FORGET your first murderer, they say though few cops recall the killers they caught as charitably as Vargas does. The former alleged leader of the Los Zetas cartel forced his victims into cages and allowed an audience to view the proceedings. But its also home to the busiest border crossing of any land-based port outside of China. I brought in CRIM Squad cause those guys were regulators. The honor that mattered most, though, came from CBP: It founded a weeklong school in CRIM Squad tactics. The border city of Juarez, Mexico has been racked by violent drug related crime recently and has quickly become one of the most dangerous cities in the world to live. The wedding atrocity comes just days after another scene that shocked the nation the murder of Mara Guadalupe Lpez Esquivel, known as La Catrina or The Dame of Death. The 21-year-old cartel leader, one of El Menchos main underlings in Michoacn state, was killed when her heavily armed group launched a firefight with police. Pelon, however, wasnt holding drugs or guns, so they brought him to the station, then cut him loose. These Trainers Are Trying to Save Them, He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs. Levantan a 2 y ejecutaron a otros 2, al novio y presuntamente la hermana de Jos Antonio Yepes Ortiz El marro pic.twitter.com/dhmmpbgnzc. They were the best and worst years of my life, says Sito. Then, one of their members stabbed a Border Patrol agent; Vargas and his men were summoned. Instead, they put in 90-hour weeks, flushing out narcos who had sneaked across the border to kill or kidnap targets in San Diego. Either shoot them on the street or bring them south.. 10 San Fernando Massacres. The footage of the massacre was released Wednesday and is part of the increasing violence in the southern Mexican state of Geurrero, reports said. Three new beauty products we tried this week. EL PASO A Mexican national was sentenced today to life in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for his role in the Sinaloa Cartels operations. REUTERS/Margarito Perez. No suspects were named. Umpteen murders and no time served. He looked stunned when they pulled him from the Caddy and cuffed him he surely assumed he was about to be killed. The city of Cuernavaca has become a battle ground for control of the Beltran Levya drug cartel, whose leader was killed in a battle with marines in that city in December. Picture taken June 16, 2010. According to the spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, five men were riding in a car when gunmen drove up beside them and opened fire. Iguala's then mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, was accused of masterminding the mass kidnap, and was jailed along with his wife. Mexican federal police say 10 of their officers were killed in the attack and several others were wounded. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux provides the latest on a drug cartel or gang-related killing of six people, including a 16-year-old mother and her baby. The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, it is said, was formed to fight back against El Mencho. The Guerrero state attorney general's office said it will "continue with the corresponding investigations to locate those who are likely responsible for this criminal act.". There wasnt a lot of sharing going on.. When the stench summoned the cops, they found the van full of cash; there were toothpicks strewn across the victims corpses. From that day forward, the streets ran dark with blood. 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Ivan Cornejo Goes Through Every Stage of Heartbreak on Ya Te Perdi, Cartels dont send many killers anymore; instead, they just send poison. Instead, its one investigator in the back seat of his car, laying under a sheet perfectly still. (FTY, or failure to yield, is BP shorthand for high-speed pursuits.) Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. The Mexican Drug War - a sustained, violent conflict between powerful drug cartels and the Mexican government - has claimed an estimated 164,000 lives over the past decade. Nor could Vargas charge him on behalf of kidnap victims: None of them came forward to accuse him. And to this day my kids know: If something happens to me, the first call they make is to these guys.. As well as its feud with El Menchos CJNG, El Marros group has made threats against new Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, intelligence website InSight Crime reports. 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(AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), Covered by a shirt, the body of Claudia Mora sits on a chair where she was murdered at a race circuit on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, late Sunday, April 11, 2010. Of the 10 deadliest cities, per capita, in the world, Mexico scores five or six in a given year. They do what youd call enhanced interrogations, which may or may not feature a shaken can of Coke sprayed up the nostrils of detainees. Above all, he learned that the great detectives arent solar-driven, i.e., arriving at nine and leaving at five. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File), Police officers surround the body of a coworker killed during a shooting with alleged drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico, late Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Those soldiers would eventually go rogue and form a rival cartel of their own (more on this later). That kid they called Pelon? The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego. Usually, Vargas crew could take a nickname and get rolling, but Furcio was on no ones radar screen. A completely innocent civilian who just happened to be near the church at the wrong moment was also killed, hit by a bullet as he rode on his motorcycle. Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed Leyva along six members of his organization in a two-hour gun battle. Also known as Z-40, Morales reportedly executed perceived enemies of the cartel using the method of The Stew, or El Guiso. We flipped on our wig-wags [dome lights] to tell them, Dont even try us tonight. The next thing Vargas heard was a fusillade of bullets blasting out the windows of his partners truck. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. Then Morales would either boil them or douse them in a flammable liquid and set them afire. But Vargas brought more than a grinders grit: He was also, by nature, a connector. Furcio led one of those hit-man crews. On this side, the ones who worked their tails off after school; on that side, the ones who flaked in 10th grade and wound up on the yard. In dramatic videos posted to social media, La Catrina could be seen badly wounded after being shot in the neck, sitting in the dust gasping for air as a soldier told her to stay calm. Young agents stopped them in the hallways: Holy shit! Homicide 11 hours ago. The AFO didnt invent those horrors, but it certainly seemed to take more relish than most in its merry disembowelment of the dead. All Rights reserved. But then hes asked if he was there when they cut a guys dick off, says Vargas. Plus a pat on the back from Uncle Sam., Days later, he met Timmy himself at a mall in San Diego. But make em tell it backwards and you find the holes. Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected. ________________________________________ Nowhere is that riddle harder to solve than in greater San Diego. The FBI, DEA, ATF, Group One: Everyone but the Secret Service wanted a crack at Furcio. Such is the state of that judicial system that even an ex-police chief cant be sure that a genocidal ghoul has been sentenced. Authorities found the dead man beaten, naked and castrated, and have not identified him but believe he is Rogelio Sanchez, a Baja California state government official who went missing this week. A brazen ambush by cartel gunmen in central Mexico killed 13 state police officers in a case that has sparked outrage among officials. For three days, residents locked themselves indoors, waiting out the cartels temper tantrum. Theyre supposed to charge you within six years, but sometimes they forget, he says, laughing. He and his extraordinary team of trackers a crew of six detectives in the Criminal Aliens Squad (or CRIM, for short) did something undreamed of in the nearly 100-year history of the CBP. Hopelessly overmatched there was a machine gun mounted on the turret of the Hummer the agents fled in separate directions and called for backup, which never came. He lived in an alley behind Lincoln High School and sold meth and semi-autos to minors. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), People stand next to a puddle of blood while peeking into a house where 15 suspected drug gang members died in a shootout with Mexican soldiers in Taxco June 15, 2010. Local media reports that the attorney general of Guanajuato state is investigating the matter, but none of the victims have yet been officially named. Another says Brito has has profited from construction projects that were awarded to him. Mexicos popular Blog del Narco now reports that the CJNG has posted videos goading El Marro himself for running away from the wedding scene to avoid being killed. The worst of said butchers was the monster called El Teo. The Palillos, a maniacal squad of sicarios who had turned against the AFO, were gunning for yet a third crew of killers in San Diego. One of the friends fell dead. Rather than chase migrants, they chased menaces instead, and caught 300 felons in five years. In cities that host a major port of entry Laredo and El Paso, Texas, and Nogales, Arizona, for starters theres a complex balance between commerce and crime for cops to confront. He was on his way over to burn down the house of a rival gangster. La Silla Rota, citing a law enforcement official, reported that the bride had in fact been killed. The response among U.S. cops was rather more restrained. Shocking video shows Mexican cartel members lined up on their knees and taunted, moments before they are executed by a rival gang. Rubn Salazar Vsquez, de 51 aos, fue declarado culpable y pasar ms de 15 aos en la crcel por distribuir cocana en Texas, y formar parte del Crtel del Golfo de Mxico. The second was that he never again wanted to wait around for his target to come at him. Furcio saw them and turtled in his seat. #Celaya #Guanajuato La tarde de este sbado se registr un ataque armado en una iglesia mientras se efectuaba una boda en la comunidad de Pelavacas en Celaya. Jan. 16, 2023. Tigres face went pale as he listened to Teo talk. We encountered an issue signing you up. Five of the Locos were charged with murder. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time The men also had their hands severed and appeared to tortured to death. Related Lazcanowas reportedly felled in a 2012 shootout with Mexican military officials. The Juarez Cartel wanted the Sinaloa Cartel off its turf, General Homero Mendoza said. Ponciano Frausto-Lopez. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), A soldier stands guard inside an apartment complex in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. When the beer ran low, he sent the friends for more, tossing them the keys to his Cadillac. He was last seen in a bar, then taken, tortured, and dismembered. JUST WEEKS AFTER clocking in as CRIM Squad chief, Vargas got pinged by an FBI buddy about a very odd kidnap in San Diego. Not to excuse them, but these people are human, he says. Four of the dead men - including a wanted murder suspect - were dumped outside the new mayor's campaign office in Iguala, in Although the majority of victims in the Mexican drug wars are rival The group has expanded rapidly across Mexico and is now one of the country's most (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), A man looks at a body of an unidentified man who found dead with his arms and legs tied together by the side of a dirt road in Zapopan, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico Monday, May 24, 2010. Only Vargas kept a burner lit for Furcio while he and his squad were out chasing narcos. Rand503 May 29, 2020 After watching this several times, I m convinced that the guy gets hard as his head gets chopped. Teo told me this Teo told me that. Inside the legendary crew of federal agents who caught them. Chilling footage of cartel interrogating cop before body found chopped up in bags. Weeks later, he got a call from Customs agents; they had Timmy in holding. Not an ounce of remorse: just an evil little shit who made my skin crawl, says Vargas. That was very useful to teams like ours and no one really did it before Vargas. Six people, including a teenage mother and her six-month-old baby boy, were the victims of a likely drug cartel attack in California, according to authorities. Toothpicks were their calling card. (Palillo, of course, is toothpick in Spanish.). Four police officers were killed and two other people were injured in the incident. In 2010,Guzmn,orEl Chapo, recorded a video of him removing Hugo Hernandez's head with a chainsaw. They were miners with their heads down, sifting through the dirt. Chapo held the plaza following the fall of the AFO, but his capture in 2016 put the town up for grabs and narcos, like nature, abhor a vacuum. It is a curious spot for federal drug cops to dine: a high-end Hooters knockoff catering to narco-juniors and the surgically souped-up women they prefer. He picked up tricks for poking holes in statements from the felons theyd arrested for smuggling. The Mexican Attorney General's Office announced Sunday afternoon the arrest of Jose Rodolfo "El Gato" Villareal-Hernandez, the alleged mastermind behind the murder of a drug They have wives, they have kids; someone loves them. (Vargas at the insistence of his wife and children asked that I change his name. That stonewall was standard procedure, says Herrod. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz), A criminal investigator takes a picture of a body with a mask in the street, one of numerous murders over a 24 hour period, on March 26, 2010 in Juarez, Mexico. The chief instructors: Vargas and his squad. Meanwhile, under the border, dozens of narco tunnels link warehouse districts on either side of the fence. At the bottom was a phone number. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and the Only Child of Elvis, Dead at 54 A Mexican who thought he was Mormon! Sito cackles. At the height of Mexicos drug war, cartel assassins roamed our streets. TikToks True Crime Community Is Turning on Idaho Murder Survivors. There were Border Patrol detectives whod used TECS to look out for returned felons wife beaters, child molesters, that kind of thing, says Vargas. He violently grabs their hair and points a gun at their faces while interrogating them, asking their names and other information. Backed by a tactical unit, Vargas squad approached the door. We were lucky enough to say, We caught the worst of the worst, says Sito. He cant see the smoke but he can smell it, he says. Another was abducted. The biggest cheers were from Tijuanas cops: He killed 60, 70 police in two years., 1,000 Dogs Are Put Down Every Day. Police found later a message written on a wall in downtown Ciudad Juarez, allegedly from the Juarez drug cartel, claiming responsibility for the murder. With a disguised voice, a man leading the interrogation grabs each man in turn, demanding to know their names, gang nicknames, and their role in the gang. Cartel gunmen kidnapped, castrated, and murdered a group of men who are believed to be their rivals. The Mexican Drug War - a sustained, violent conflict between powerful drug cartels and the Mexican government - has claimed an estimated 164,000 lives over the past Theyd found the elephant gun allegedly used on kidnap victims, plus his .45, false IDs, and fake-cop get-ups. President Felipe Calderon's strategy of sending 7000 troops to Juarez has not mitigated the situation. These guys were at my wedding, so she knew what she was in for. The Squadders drew so close, theyd spend their free time together. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), A forensic expert examines the body of a man that was killed by unknown gunmen near the international bridge in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, May 28, 2010. July 18, 2010. Whenever [Escobar-Luna] moped about his brother, says Duncan, hed go and open the freezer. Hours before the video was released, a car with four corpses in the boot was dumped outside the mayor-elect's campaign office in Iguala. The assassins who carried out the savagery are believed to have come from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel led by the feared El Mencho. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. The trash that terrorised this beautiful city. Most victims' bodies were never found in a case that has haunted Mexico for seven years. Despite confessing to the charge, Poblete Ramos was free two years later through suspicious court rulings. Cartel violence in the Mexican border state of Sonora continues to escalate. Murders came down big-time; we set a record low that year, says Seven, the former police chief of the town. Los escritores recibiran una muerte segura a manos de los carteles que operan en esas reas incluyendo a el Cartel Del Golfo y Los Zetas si no usaran un seudnimo. He crumpled, agreeing to spill his guts. His parents, Mexican migrants, slaved for their sons and sent both of them into public service. For the next five years, he and his men slept in their cars, rarely getting home to hug their wives and kids. Very Fast Beheading of Young Man by Mexican Cartel Meatpie Apr 24, 2020 beheading cartel beheading mexico cartel murder Dude had no time to react. When CRIM Squad caught up to him in 2010, he was laying low in Eastlake with two very attractive sisters, living the throuple high life in a McMansion. 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