The killing of two Israelis gangsters in Mexico City was a settling of scores, reportedly by CJNG

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Gutierrez said she was paid $262 by CJNG to carry out the hit....

A woman named Esperanza Gutierrez,33, wore a blonde wig, when she took part in the  broad daylight execution plan by her and two accomplices in the Mexico City killings of two Israeli men.

The woman entered the Chinese restaurant with an accomplice and took a seat near Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, aka ‘Johny Ben,’ and Alon Azulay in a Mexican shopping mall, before rising from her seat and shooting them.

The woman and two male accomplices fled the scene, but police apprehended her after she discarded her wig and other items of disguise in the street. The two accomplices, both armed with assault rifles, got away after firing on a police vehicle, hitting an officer in the arm.

The execution of two people in Plaza Artz began with a shooting outside, as a distraction, in which an Auxiliary Police was injured.

According to the initial investigations, the attack on Israelis Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun ​​Sutchi, 44, was planned in two parts.

"The first event is outside the plaza where an auxiliary policeman is shot who then shoots the perp who flees in a vehicle, which subjects this policeman, disarms him, and minutes later, inside the restaurant, two material authors shoot at the victims ", explained yesterday the Secretary of Citizen Security (SSC) Jesús Orta Martínez.

He said there was a third person inside the Hanun Chinese food restaurant.

"In the videos you can see that he has communication with them, although no direct participation in the killings; those are what the facts say,  that are confirmed and there is no doubt," he said.

The first action, he said, was elaborated as a distraction.

"The first hypothesis is that it is a distraction event, in order to establish the escape route of the person.

“However, having this incident where the policeman is injured, they are forced to flee, and then she (the detained woman) runs out of that escape route, which allows her to be persecuted by land and her detention, "he added.

While in custody Gutierrez told police that the killings were a crime of passion. That she had been rejected by one of the two men.   Subsequently police determine she in fact had never met either of the men.

The Israelis both had criminal records in Israel and Mexico

“The event leads us to relate the facts with a settling of scores among criminal groups and/or organized crime,” said Ulíses Lara López from the city prosecutor’s office, adding that both men were well-known in the criminal underworld.

“It could be a settling of scores in the Israeli mafia, which is why a complete identification [of the victims] was possible, along with their criminal records.”

Sutchi was arrested in Mexico in 2005 in a joint operation involving Mexican and Israeli intelligence officers, before being transferred to Israeli custody in a Mexican airport hangar and returned to Israel the next day. He was released from prison last year.

Mexican media at the time reported that he was a major player in the international cocaine business, was wanted by Interpol at the time of his arrest, and was found “in the company of his sex slave” when officers swooped.

In the late 1990s Jewish Link, a journal for Jews in Mexico, reported that Sutchi had been convicted in Israel of the assassination of Many Aslan, son of Israeli gangland boss Ezequiel Aslan, and sentenced to 17 years. He later escaped prison and fled to Mexico in 2001 and in 2004 he was arrested in Venezuela over the killing of a Colombian drug lord.

Mexico’s attorney general said that between 2001 and 2005 Sutchi built a criminal empire based on drug trafficking, kidnappings and casinos, working with Mexico’s own mafia. In the raid, police found photos showing Sutchi together with his friend Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka ‘La Barbie’ (the Barbie), boss of the feared Beltran Leyva Cartel in Sinaloa.

At the time, Valdez was moving about a ton of cocaine into the United States every month. In 2009 the US offered $2 million for information leading to his arrest, which occurred the following year. He is currently serving a 49 year sentence in a US prison.

Sutchi was arrested in Mexico in 2005 in a joint operation involving Mexican and Israeli intelligence officers, before being transferred to Israeli custody in a Mexican airport hangar and returned to Israel the next day. He was released from prison last year.

Mexican media at the time reported that he was a major player in the international cocaine business, was wanted by Interpol at the time of his arrest, and was found “in the company of his sex slave” when officers swooped.

In the late 1990s Jewish Link, a journal for Jews in Mexico, reported that Sutchi had been convicted in Israel of the assassination of Many Aslan, son of Israeli gangland boss Ezequiel Aslan, and sentenced to 17 years. He later escaped prison and fled to Mexico in 2001 and in 2004 he was arrested in Venezuela over the killing of a Colombian drug lord.

Mexico’s attorney general said that between 2001 and 2005 Sutchi built a criminal empire based on drug trafficking, kidnappings and casinos, working with Mexico’s own mafia. In the raid, police found photos showing Sutchi together with his friend Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka ‘La Barbie’ (the Barbie), boss of the feared Beltran Leyva Cartel in Sinaloa.

At the time, Valdez was moving about a ton of cocaine into the United States every month. In 2009 the US offered $2 million for information leading to his arrest, which occurred the following year. He is currently serving a 49 year sentence in a US prison.

El Universal reports that  Gutierrez said she was paid $262 by the Jalisco Cartel New Generation to carry out the hit.