With one note of grace that bears mentioning here: Nearly everyone is brown. She and her team were hunting El Teo and his merry band of sadists in Tijuana. (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. 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. 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. A month later, his top lieutenants were caught in Baja. No one at Group One would give me specifics on the nature of Timmys assistance: Hes still a protected informant 12 years after Teos capture. In hindsight, the certificate felt a tad premature for a crew that hadnt faced its greatest test. Alma Antonia Caldern Garca, who is the wife of a leader in one 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. Then, one of their members stabbed a Border Patrol agent; Vargas and his men were summoned. (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. Theyd found the elephant gun allegedly used on kidnap victims, plus his .45, false IDs, and fake-cop get-ups. According to the army, two suspected hit men were killed during a shootout with soldiers along the highway to Reynosa after refusing to stop at a military checkpoint. The FBI, DEA, ATF, Group One: Everyone but the Secret Service wanted a crack at Furcio. Ranked among Americas safest, cleanest towns, its praised for fiscal health by good-governance groups, and exalted for both its beaches and civic stability. The courts convicted him on 10 counts, including murder and drug trafficking. (Mayel had been busted by the Mexican army in 2000 and sentenced to serve decades in prison.) My kids know:If something happens to me, the first call isto these guys. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Here, the American dream goes big a class of Mexican strivers who came, saw, and conquered for the right to be soccer moms. In the fall of 2003, one of their U.S. clients flew to Baja California to do a drug deal. Tigres face went pale as he listened to Teo talk. The perp was some dude called Furcio.. From his tone, it isnt clear which nation he has in mind: Mexico, the worlds lead supplier of narcotics, or America, the worlds lead consumer. He wound up doing fed time for the guns and fake IDs, then was handed to the Mexican military for sweating. Formed in about 2010, the Jalisco cartel is the strongest and most aggressive competitor to the Sinaloa. 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. 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. The other feds moved on to fresher cases. TikToks True Crime Community Is Turning on Idaho Murder Survivors. There used to be a gate there called Whiskey Two: a door in the wall that only the feds could unlock. Another says Brito has has profited from construction projects that were awarded to him. 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. Police say they found the bodies of three men hanging from two bridges along with threatening notes signed by a drug cartel. The brothers froze; one of them shrieked as men in balaclavas dragged them off. The ferocity of their mission; the foxhole esprit de corps; that sense of doing truly important work for half a decade, these men fell in love with their jobs and, to no small degree, with one another. 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. 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. Five of the Locos were charged with murder. The mass killing is the latest in a Meanwhile, under the border, dozens of narco tunnels link warehouse districts on either side of the fence. They all spoke fluent Spanish and could pass for sicarios minus the gold Breitlings and Jesus pieces. Vargas stayed on to supervise his section before drifting off to intelligence operations. Next thing he knows, hes chained up to a sink, with a big red welt on his ass. The welt, said Vargas source, was from an elephant gun the kind used at zoos to dart big game. Now, surveillance is not what youve seen onscreen: two cops hunkered in an unmarked car, chatting and wolfing fast food to fend off boredom. 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. Teo, untouchable, paraded through town in his convoy of SUVs, while his crews snatched innocents off the streets and tortured them to squeeze money from their families. We encountered an issue signing you up. Local media reports that the attorney general of Guanajuato state is investigating the matter, but none of the victims have yet been officially named. He looked stunned when they pulled him from the Caddy and cuffed him he surely assumed he was about to be killed. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. A man narrating the disturbing footage says, This plaza already has an owner, El Pas reported. Fifteen gang members got jail time, then were deported back to Mexico for good. Real Executions Downplayed in Film and TV, Execution and Infamy in 18th Century Britain, The Most Brutal Execution Methods Reportedly Used By Mexican Cartels. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), A wall with bullet holes is seen next to photos and other things sitting on a bed in an apartment in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. The men also had their hands severed and appeared to tortured to death. When a guy like that goes quiet, the first thing you think is: His teeth are in a barrel on someones ranch., IN THE MICRO-CULTURE OF COP LAND, word gets around when you catch a couple of high-end bad guys. One of the thousands of victims of cartel violence in Tijuana. (AP Photo/Valente Rosas, Agencia El Universal), The body of an unidentified man hangs from his neck under a bridge on the old Rosarito highway as authorities stand by in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. The United States attorney in the Southern District of California failed to indict Teo for mass murder. Such is the state of that judicial system that even an ex-police chief cant be sure that a genocidal ghoul has been sentenced. 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. Mexico to Level Massive Fine Against Ticketmaster After Bad Bunny Ticket Disaster (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), A soldier stands guard inside an apartment complex in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. 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/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. 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. A gruesome war between Mexico's powerful Gulf cartel and its former armed wing, the Zetas, has killed a record 290 people in Monterrey and surrounding areas since the start of the year, when the two groups split and bloodshed escalated. Dial it, said Nikki. He lived in an alley behind Lincoln High School and sold meth and semi-autos to minors. DISTURBING video shows Mexican cartel hitmen lining up 20 rival gangsters in a forest before executing them one by one. In exchange for a stipend and a new place to live, hed help them locate Teo and his lieutenants. They have wives, they have kids; someone loves them. (Vargas at the insistence of his wife and children asked that I change his name. The grisly video shows 20 alleged La Bandera gangsters kneeling on the ground, held at gunpoint by masked men with assault rifles who identify themselves as people from the mountains. 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.". But Furcio went to ground after the botched hit, and the trail promptly stopped cold. Even killers with forged IDs left footprints to follow: a time stamp of arrival; an alias to cross-check; a set of known associates to surveil. Reportedly, Teodoro Garca Simenta, an alleged lieutenant for the Tijuana cartel, paid Lopez to get rid of the cartels victims. Nota Editorial: Breitbart Texas viaj a los estados Mexicanos de Tamaulipas, Coahuila y Nuevo Len para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. Furcio led one of those hit-man crews. 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. #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. For most of the 1990s till the mid-to-late aughts, the AFO ran Tijuana, Mexico, like a Chicago slaughterhouse. During the attack, which came right as the wedding ceremony was about to wrap up, Mexican site La Silla Rota reported that armed men arrived in vans at the church door, unleashing a hail of bullets. He expected to track him down in weeks, if not days, because that was how it went with his bloodhound crew. The honor that mattered most, though, came from CBP: It founded a weeklong school in CRIM Squad tactics. Drive-by shooter empties shotgun at British funeral mourners; girls, 7 and 12, among six wounded. 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. Only Vargas kept a burner lit for Furcio while he and his squad were out chasing narcos. Editors picks But make em tell it backwards and you find the holes. 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. Nine people, including waitresses, were slaughtered in an apparent cartel-related attack at a Mexico bar Wednesday night and the killers left behind chilling notes warning their rivals to First: The brothers got decades in prison. The best bunch of hunters you ever saw., For that op, the hunt was tracking killers for months, then bagging them up just hours before a murder. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected. 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. Theyd earn it, and then some, in the months to come. 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. No one knew Timmy was on U.S. soil till Vargas called his sources in Mexico. Picture taken June 16, 2010. Back at the office, Im filing my assault-on-a-federal-officer [report], and the supes like, Whatever. We know who you are and what youve done: You called in a hit on a TJ cop. The Sinaloa cartel included a note: "Happy New Year, because this will be your last.". For the next four years, the Palillos terrorized that town, snatching AFO associates, holding them hostage, and, when they felt like it, returning them alive. NBCDFW.com. 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. At the wheel of his seven-seat Escalade a car that drives like an opium dream and is fancied equally by narco bosses and the retired federal agents who chased them Vargas speaks of the Camacho-Higuera brothers like promising kids who made a rash mistake. 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. 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. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. In 2017, the Mexican government extradited Joaqun "El Chapo" Guzmn, a known member of the Sinaloa cartel, to the US. As drug cartels have been fighting over ever lucrative drug corridors along the United States border, the murder rate in Juarez has risen to 173 slayings for every 100,000 residents. The Juarez Cartel wanted the Sinaloa Cartel off its turf, General Homero Mendoza said. He killed doctors and the middle class, even when they paid the ransom, says a Mexican official well call Seven. 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. Mexican Cartel Violence. He was also bringing goodies to share with other teams that were chasing after cartel hit men. The footage shows a masked man taunting the doomed men, who are cuffed behind their backs. Then Morales would either boil them or douse them in a flammable liquid and set them afire. Breitbart News obtained access to the criminal investigation into Poblete Ramos 2011 arrest on the charge of kidnapping. His organization splintered, his stew-maker was jailed, and a fragile peace broke out in Tijuana. Either shoot them on the street or bring them south.. At the height of Mexicos drug war, cartel assassins roamed our streets. Another was Pariente, an older gangster who ran guns to the AFO. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time He crumpled, agreeing to spill his guts. A salt breeze scrubs the air a shade of topaz-blue, and the light that hits the roofs of these seven-figure villas gives the low spark of high-heeled money. There, on the third rung, was Tigres name and photo. Those soldiers would eventually go rogue and form a rival cartel of their own (more on this later). The trash that terrorised this beautiful city. Any violation of immigration law could take killers off the streets at a moments notice. 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. They went at him good and hard, but couldnt break him, either. He then threw her limbs into the fire. Seven of us sit there, sipping Don Julio and recalling the demons of yore. Suspected drug hitmen attacked soldiers who were intending to inspect a cartel safe house in the colonial town of Taxco southwest of Mexico City. 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. Till one drunken night in 2003, when a Palillo punched an AFO in-law. Theyre supposed to charge you within six years, but sometimes they forget, he says, laughing. He was last seen in a bar, then taken, tortured, and dismembered. 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. He picked up tricks for poking holes in statements from the felons theyd arrested for smuggling. Of the 10 deadliest cities, per capita, in the world, Mexico scores five or six in a given year. Inside the legendary crew of federal agents who caught them. They were narco-juniors working their way up the line: moving loads across for AFO, Vargas says. From that day forward, the streets ran dark with blood. But then hes asked if he was there when they cut a guys dick off, says Vargas. Beat cops, staties, the Mexican CIA: He built the kind of alliances you could win a war with though not, alas, the War on Drugs. Lazcanowas reportedly felled in a 2012 shootout with Mexican military officials. It climbs the khaki foothills of the Otay Mountains as it takes the eastbound pass out of San Diego. Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed Leyva along six members of his organization in a two-hour gun battle. 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. El Pozolero being arrested; he dissolved bodies in vats of acid for El Teo and the cartels. The former alleged leader of the Los Zetas cartel forced his victims into cages and allowed an audience to view the proceedings. It remains unclear if Poblete Ramos worked with a particular cartel. 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. By all objective measures, its a model metropolis. Pelon, however, wasnt holding drugs or guns, so they brought him to the station, then cut him loose. That put the clamps on narcotics coming in, so the gangs needed another source of income. Mexican businessmen were snatched for ransom in Tijuana and San Diego. Back in the day, theyd been enforcers for the AFO, hurting anyone who crossed the brothers. It remains unclear if Poblete Ramos worked with a particular cartel. It was the DEAs Most Wanted List, bearing the photos of 32 kingpins and their capos. Some days later, he was found in the mountains; 18 slugs were fished out of him. One of them was a capo called Timmy. He lived part time in San Diego, worked in Tijuana and killed several TJ cops on Teos behalf. Authorities identified one of the four victims as Rey Jose Poblete Ramos, a man with a lengthy criminal history. Often, they got their ransom but killed the captive; they murdered 14 people in two states. Nights are even longer, cause now youre on crook time and they dont work steady hours.. Those pills are mass-produced by the cartels and their chemists dont care about dose strength. 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