This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. He lived in an alley behind Lincoln High School and sold meth and semi-autos to minors. Cardenas was arrested in 2003 and is currently serving 25 years in jail in the US. These Trainers Are Trying to Save Them, He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs. Big Love in Spanish Grande Amor! CRIM Squad revoked Chans B-1 visa and pushed him through the gate at Whiskey Two. Teo told me this Teo told me that. July 18, 2010. He made things bad for business everyones business.. I loved bagging that guy: He was evil.. 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. When the killing went over the top [in 2007], Mexico sent the army to Tijuana, says Duncan, the task force leader working the AFO. Then his cellphone rang: It was Teo. Back in the day, theyd been enforcers for the AFO, hurting anyone who crossed the brothers. Breitbart News obtained access to the criminal investigation into Poblete Ramos 2011 arrest on the charge of kidnapping. Thats when the truth comes out.. Well put trackers on your moms car and tail her to church, if thats what it takes to find you., For months, CRIM Squad members worked lead after lead, sitting on addresses from East Lake to Poway on tips from Vargas informants. Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties. We taught everything from intel to mobile surveillance. To be sure, those are givens of investigative policing but till CRIM Squad, no one did that at CBP. Dozens of men in armor crashed his door; Blackhawk gunships circled overhead, anticipating a shootout with his men. Well hunt anyone we think might know you. By all objective measures, its a model metropolis. 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 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. In February 2008, Furcio was drinking with some friends at a condo in the Camelot Apartments. Anyone can tell a lie start to finish, he says. Iguala's then mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, was accused of masterminding the mass kidnap, and was jailed along with his wife. Those are the ones we should be hunting.. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The biggest cheers were from Tijuanas cops: He killed 60, 70 police in two years., 1,000 Dogs Are Put Down Every Day. The kidnap wasnt the story, but its punchline was: The victim wound up captive in Tijuana. This story has been shared 209,091 times. 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. 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. (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. Then we found the ledgers at his place.. Any violation of immigration law could take killers off the streets at a moments notice. 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 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 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. (FTY, or failure to yield, is BP shorthand for high-speed pursuits.) If Mayels such a badass, whats he doing in a cell? snarked the visitor, misreading the room by a mile of blow. 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. Teo dumped them in the street with their fingers off, and bruises all over their body, says Seven. Mexican authorities recovered the soccer ball from the footsteps of city hall in Ciudad Juarez. Not that Im blaming the job for that. Tigres face went pale as he listened to Teo talk. They arrested four men, including the brother. The trash that terrorised this beautiful city. Theyd thought that was him in the Caddy. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. They called it walling off: bringing pretext charges while the long-term operation carried on, says Duncan. He killed doctors and the middle class, even when they paid the ransom, says a Mexican official well call Seven. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Inside the luxe lives of El Chapos sons including jailbird Ovidio Guzmn Lpez, Arizona officials say Mexican cartels control US border: Ticking time bomb, Passengers on Aeromexico flight crouch in fear as plane caught in cartel crossfire: video, Unprecedented NY flood of fentanyl causing heartbreaking loss. #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. There are certain jokes you dont make, says Vargas. He was also bringing goodies to share with other teams that were chasing after cartel hit men. Because we were on wires, we knew when a hit was coming: We stopped at least 20 murders from taking place, says Contreras. Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed Leyva along six members of his organization in a two-hour gun battle. Lists about punishments, penalties, systemic harm, and execution methods used then, now, here, and all around the world. Too much time, too much manpower, too much money invested. All of which explains why the plaza of Tijuana is paved in blood and treasure. Four police officers were killed and two other people were injured in the incident. Backed by a tactical unit, Vargas squad approached the door. MUERE LA CATRINA DEL CARTEL JALISCO EN ENFRENTAMIENTOayer, en El Aguaje Mich. El Ejr Mex Fue Emboscado por sicarios del CJNG ya que se encontraba el M2 con La Catrina y 10 sicarios, el M2 huy abrindose paso sobre sus sicarios atropell a 1 de ellos y dej tirada a La Catrina pic.twitter.com/uM7gCYWSXz. The second was that he never again wanted to wait around for his target to come at him. No suspects were named. Vargas wasnt told what crimes the brothers copped to, but he does know a couple of salient facts. CRIM Squad sifted through their intel cross-checks, searched every alias linked to Tigre, and found a car connected to a name. In the fall of 2003, one of their U.S. clients flew to Baja California to do a drug deal. Reportedly, US officials seized a shipment of narcotics, and Chano sought retribution against the man for failure to pay for the lost goods. Pelon, however, wasnt holding drugs or guns, so they brought him to the station, then cut him loose. (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. Police found later a message written on a wall in downtown Ciudad Juarez, allegedly from the Juarez drug cartel, claiming responsibility for the murder. Seven, a former police chief of Tijuana, worked closely with Vargas for most of a decade. In exchange, Timmy got the Sammy the Bull [Gravano] deal, as Vargas calls it, sneering. There wasnt a lot of sharing going on.. The narrator accuses the incoming mayor of Iguala of having connections to Guerreros Unidos, a cartel believed to be tied to the 2014 kidnapping of Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, El Pas said. Theyd found the elephant gun allegedly used on kidnap victims, plus his .45, false IDs, and fake-cop get-ups. 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. The brothers were the nephews of Ismael (El Mayel) Higuera-Guerrero, the chief of operations for the Arellano-Flix Organization. The victims werent gangsters, just random civilians held for sums in the low five figures. 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. And it is where, after the brothers arrests or violent deaths one of them, Ramon, was shot by a cop; a second, Francisco, was shot by a clown at his 64th-birthday party war broke out between a series of butchers who broke the golden rule: Dont kill civilians, especially rich ones. 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. 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. It was the DEAs Most Wanted List, bearing the photos of 32 kingpins and their capos. Lopez confessed to dissolving over 300 bodies in acid baths for the Tijuana cartel. Hours before the video, gang members left four bodies in front of Mayor-Elect David Gamas home, the report said. 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. He parked behind the building and met a second car. 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. Vargas shows me the place on Brandywine Street where the Palillos ditched a van stacked with corpses. When the hitman removed the blindfold, the drug associate saw a family - a couple and their 6-year-old daughter - standing near a flaming barrel. They arrested 21 suspects and seized 14 guns that day, and confiscated 60 keys of coke and methamphetamine over the course of the operation. 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. Another says Brito has has profited from construction projects that were awarded to him. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. When the stench summoned the cops, they found the van full of cash; there were toothpicks strewn across the victims corpses. Of the 14-year-old sicario who beheaded another kid, then casually confessed to the cops, Vargas winces, saying, I talked to his mother. The biggest cheers went up from TJs cops, he adds. 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. His cousin was among the six slain, along with a schoolgirl hit by stray gunfire. Called the SIG Academy, it was mandatory coursework for Border Patrol investigators in San Diego. (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. In 2009, Federal Agents apprehended Santiago Meza Lopez, known as The Soupmaker, or El Polozero. 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. 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. We know who you are and what youve done: You called in a hit on a TJ cop. East Chula Vista is a magic place, the topographical love child of the American Southwest and the Pacific Ocean. Weeks later, he got a call from Customs agents; they had Timmy in holding. Sitting on that house, they spotted Tigre in a car. They were miners with their heads down, sifting through the dirt. 2:21. But make em tell it backwards and you find the holes. What he got was a small, stubby man in a faux-hawk, mouthing the standard mob subjunctives. A Mexican brides happiest day turned into her last, after the gang rivals of her brother burst into her wedding and shot her dead. The squad members recount the killers they caught at their day jobs, including one guy working at a Cheesecake Factory, and a Sinaoloa hit man who hid in the States after fleeing Mexicali in 2002. Some days later, he was found in the mountains; 18 slugs were fished out of him. For most of the 1990s till the mid-to-late aughts, the AFO ran Tijuana, Mexico, like a Chicago slaughterhouse. Timmy poured his heart out at the Group One off-site. When the congregation had finished scattering, the bride was dead and the groom was nowhere to be seen. But then hes asked if he was there when they cut a guys dick off, says Vargas. The PEPOS, or state police, had a file on him that they hadnt bothered to share with Group One. People from Iguala, here are all those who extorted money and who were killing innocent people and women, the man says. In a 2010 video, Guzmn used a chainsaw against Hugo Hernandez, reportedly to send a message indicating he would use aggression against anyone who involves law enforcement with the cartel's enterprises. Ivan Cornejo Goes Through Every Stage of Heartbreak on Ya Te Perdi, Cartels dont send many killers anymore; instead, they just send poison. Ranked among Americas safest, cleanest towns, its praised for fiscal health by good-governance groups, and exalted for both its beaches and civic stability. Next to the bodies, members of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) left a poster board taking credit for the scene, labeling the victims kidnappers and rapists. . Young agents stopped them in the hallways: Holy shit! In fact, they werent even told that the arrests theyd made were material to his capture. The scariest of the bunch were Los Palillos, motivated by vengeance, not profit. It killed and beheaded street cops, cooked the flesh of its rivals on flaming tires, and delivered bodies by the hundreds to a man it called El Pete. REUTERS/Margarito Perez. Her husband-to-be was then kidnapped by cartel hitmen who sped away in vans. I brought in CRIM Squad cause those guys were regulators. Only Vargas kept a burner lit for Furcio while he and his squad were out chasing narcos. So, too, did the other cops on his squad who spoke to me for this story, out of concerns for their safety and that of their loved ones. Guzmn faces charges of murder and laundering funds. Police say they found He picked up tricks for poking holes in statements from the felons theyd arrested for smuggling. That was all they told me, along with a name. Federal agents relayed Lopezs acid bath method: The procedure to dispose of the corpses was to fill a drum with 200 liters of water and then put two sacks of caustic soda, put it over a fire and when it started to boil, put in the bodies. A recent banner or narcomanta reportedly left by the group in Salamanca, Guanajuato is said to have ordered the president to take his security forces out of the area, or else innocent people would die. El Marro denied placing the banner, InSight Crime reports, and instead blamed El Menchos crew for setting up the stunt to make him look bad. They could reach out and touch anyone on this side. The tranquilizer gun was protection for hiking in the desert; the .45 kept him safe in the barrio. Y In 2021, 107,000 Americans died of overdoses, two-thirds of which were caused by synthetics, according to a high-ranking official with the DEA, who, for political reasons, asked that I not name him. Vargas called in backup, but they were 20 minutes south in traffic, so Guru tailed Furcio in his Cadillac with blacked-out rims. Most victims' bodies were never found in a case that has haunted Mexico for seven years. And then there was El Chan, the notorious cop turned capo who had made his bones whacking Chapos henchmen. His parents, Mexican migrants, slaved for their sons and sent both of them into public service. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Above all, he learned that the great detectives arent solar-driven, i.e., arriving at nine and leaving at five. Theyd think they were facing fed time for sneaking across the border with a gun and a fake ID. One day that fall, Vargas got a call from a DEA agent with the Group One Task Force whom Ill call Nikki. On evenings and weekends, hed prowl the web for open-source leads on fugitives. There used to be a gate there called Whiskey Two: a door in the wall that only the feds could unlock. That list includes Carlos and Ismael Camacho-Higuera, the hothead brothers whom Vargas squad collared in the spring of 2006. There, on the third rung, was Tigres name and photo. 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 last December. He wound up doing fed time for the guns and fake IDs, then was handed to the Mexican military for sweating. 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. #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. Cinder blocks crashed through the windshields of their trucks as they prowled the frontage roads looking for smugglers. The homicide is characteristic of Mexico's brutal drug gangs, which often dump mutilated victims in public places. 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