Mexico City: Human remains with narcomanta found on Insurgentes Norte

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Milenio

                    

Armando Monroy/ Cuartoscuro

In an unprecedented event for Mexico City, on Sunday morning the remains of at least two people were scattered on Insurgentes Norte Avenue, at the intersection of Ricardo Flores Magón, in the Nonoalco Tlatelolco neighborhood. 

The police of the Ministry of Public Security were alerted at 5:20 in the morning that the human parts were on Insurgentes Avenue.

When the police arrived they found several body parts and a blanket with an alleged narcomensaje hanging on one of the bridges in the area. 

The Attorney General's Office of Justice informed that the Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation file for the crime of intentional homicide. 

                     

The judicial authorities confirmed that the human remains could correspond to two people.

"According to the investigation initiated by the crime of intentional homicide, at 5:20 am preventive police found the bodies dismembered and scattered on the asphalt, as well as a message on a blanket hanging on the vehicular bridge."

"As part of the proceedings, the fingerprints of the victims will be taken with the purpose of knowing if they have records that allow for their identification," the Mexico City attorney's office explained.

The staff of the General Coordination of Expert Services intervened at the location and agents of the Investigative Police analyzed the surveillance cameras.

Hours later, the agency reported that by making a comparison of the fingerprints, experts in dactyloscopy identified one of the two victims as Alfonso Delgado. 

The man, 42, has had a criminal record since 2009, after being apprehended and imprisoned for the crime of concealment by receiving (possession of stolen property). 

The war between criminal groups dedicated to drug dealing has worsened in Mexico City since last year, when Francisco Javier Hernández Gómez, "Pancho Cayagua," founder and leader of the Tepito Union, was murdered.

Intelligence reports from the city attorney's office detail that this organization controlled the sale of drugs, kidnappings, extortion, and the collection derecho de piso throughout the Barrio Bravo sector, and then extended to the delegations Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza, Azcapotzalco, Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juárez and Gustavo A. Madero.

However, after the death of Pancho Cayagua , the so-called Unión del Betito and AntiUnión de Tepito emerged, led by Roberto Moyado Esparza and Jorge Flores Concha, "El Tortas", respectively. 

One of the lines of investigation of the judicial authorities on the dismembered men is that they would have participated in the execution of Juan Iván Arenas Reyes, "El Pulgas," considered the second in command of the Union of the Betito, perpetrated only last week. 

Statistics from the Attorney General's Office maintain that the first quarter of this year has been the most violent for 20 years, registering 382 cases of intentional homicide, compared to 309 documented in 1998.