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This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
WRITTEN BY: BRANDON SAINZ
MARCH 26, 2024
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador talks about his handling of the border, Mexican drug cartels, fentanyl, the Mexico-U.S. relationship and more during a conversation with Sharyn Alfonsi.
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The five men are charged with one count of conspiracy to traffic firearms, which carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
The US Attorney's Office announced the arrest in Texas of five men accused of buying more than a hundred weapons to send them to a cartel in Tamaulipas.
The men were identified as:
* Gerardo Rafael Pérez Jr., 'Jerry', 23 years old
* Francisco Alejandro Benavides, 'Frankie', 23 years old
* Mark Anthony Trevino Jr., 24 years old
* Luis Matías Leal, 'Wicho', 30 years old
* Antonio Osiel Casarez, 26 years old
Gerardo Rafael Pérez, a resident of Laredo, Texas, coordinated the acquisition of more than 100 firearms in Texas to be smuggled across the border with Mexico and delivered to a drug trafficking cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, according to the indictment.
All five are charged with one count of conspiracy to traffic firearms, which carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, and one count of conspiracy to purchase firearms with a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
The criminal organization, also made up of three other men who had already been arrested in 2023, allegedly used front buyers, including the co-defendants.
Court documents allege that the organization would acquire guns from unlicensed dealers, or from federal firearms licensees, where straw purchasers would make false representations to secure the firearms.
Luis Matías Leal is accused of providing cash and instructions to facilitate the conspiracy, and Antonio Osiel Casarez, of smuggling the firearms into Mexico.
High-powered firearms included FNH SCAR rifles, .50 caliber Barrett, FNH M294S rifles, and M1919 rifles.
The five were named in a formal indictment filed on March 6 and were arrested last Wednesday, the Prosecutor's Office detailed. Pérez, Casarez, Leal and Benavides are also charged with one count of conspiracy to smuggle merchandise from the United States and one count of conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Three other alleged accomplices who were already named in the initial indictment are José Emigdio Q. Mendoza, Gerardo Antonio Ibarra Jr. and Gerardo Corona Jr., all arrested in 2023.
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Rosemary Márquez, of the Federal Court for the District of Arizona, based in Tucson, ruled, on March 25, 2024, that the Mexican Government could move forward with a lawsuit that accused five arms sales companies of said entity of the United States. Of participating in the trafficking of weapons and ammunition to drug trafficking cartels in Mexico.
The federal judge rejected the arguments of the distributors - Diamondback Shooting Sports Inc, SnG Tactical LLC, Loan Prairie LLC, Ammo AZ LLC and Sprague's Sports Inc -, who argued that they enjoyed a so-called "immunity from prosecution" under the Trade Protection Act. Arms Law (PLCAA), which since 2005 has shielded US manufacturers and distributors from receiving civil complaints for misuse of their products.
Márquez said the Government of Mexico made plausible claims that were exempt from PLCAA protection, including that the five companies violated several US laws related to firearms, causing harm to the Central American country.
The Government of Mexico alleged that Arizona gun dealers facilitated the trafficking of military-style assault weapons such as the AR-15 and ammunition to drug cartels through reckless and illegal practices, including the sale of firearms to front buyers, who illegally acquired these products for third parties.
But while the federal judge allowed much of the lawsuit to move forward, she dismissed several of the Mexican government's individual legal claims, including the allegation that the companies violated U.S. organized crime law and caused public nuisance.
Following the decision of the US judge, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) indicated that in the following stages of the lawsuit, evidence would be presented to demonstrate the “negligent conduct” of said companies and an attempt would be made to obtain compensation for the damage.
“Today, the Federal Court for the District of Arizona, based in the city of Tucson, handed down a favorable ruling for Mexico in its lawsuit against five gun stores located in that state. In October 2022, Mexico initiated this litigation arguing that the defendants, according to traceability data, facilitate the trafficking of high-powered weapons to our country,” the SRE said in a statement.
“In today's ruling, Judge Rosemary Márquez established that the stores had various signals to know that the firearms they sold would end up in Mexico, and that these would be used for illicit purposes. For this reason, the Court recognized that Mexico has the right to sue on its own behalf and on behalf of its population,” the Foreign Ministry added.
“It is notable that the judge noted that Mexico successfully argued that the stores do not enjoy immunity for their negligent business practices. This decision is added to the favorable ruling of January 2024, issued within the framework of the first lawsuit presented by our country. In that ruling, a Court of Appeals ruled that weapons manufacturing companies do not enjoy immunity either and that they must respond for their conduct before a court,” the SRE emphasized.
“Following today's decision, the District Court can continue studying Mexico's claim. In the following stages, evidence will be presented to demonstrate the negligent conduct of the defendants, seeking to obtain compensation for the damage that will be determined by the judge," the Foreign Ministry detailed.
“Although the defendants have the right to file an appeal, today's decision is of great relevance for our country. "Mexico is convinced that it is supported by legal and moral reason in its legal actions against illicit arms trafficking, and will continue to promptly defend its interests and those of citizens through all means at its disposal," the SRE insisted.
Lawyers from Mexico, including Jonathan Lowy, president of Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV) - a US-based gun control advocacy group - explained that they hoped to strengthen this case in court.
“Today's ruling is a big step toward holding the gun industry accountable for its contribution to gun violence and stopping the flood of guns being trafficked to cartels,” Lowy said in a statement.
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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
A video of the confrontation that took place early Sunday morning on Culiacán's Malecón Nuevo, where one member of the National Guard died and another was injured, was disseminated on social networks.
In the recording from a security camera, it can be seen when shortly after 3:00 a.m., a blue and a black van are loading gasoline at a gas station, where members of the NG arrive and point their guns at them.
The drivers accelerated their march and started the fuel hoses, while the soldiers moved forward. Subsequently, the black unit returns and from inside it they shoot at them. Two agents fall to the ground. Later one of them gets up.
The incident occurred on Diego Valadez or Malecon Nuevo boulevard and Tauro alley, in the La Lima neighborhood in the city of Culiacan.
The authorities reported that during the incident one national guard died at the scene and another was wounded; three of the assailants were arrested.
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A conversation about the Fedepales (Federal Municipal Policemen), the Delegación Norte police station, and assassins for the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL) returns to Borderland Beat once more.
For this broadcast, the CSRL tries to make us believe that their captive is actually guilty of his every action. The onset of the interrogation will have us thinking it’s actually true. But the way they went about presenting the facts eventually shows us the holes in their flimsy narrative.
It’s unknown why the captors started to fumble their manufactured communique. Or what compelled them to go forward with what they had recorded. However, that didn’t stop them from executing their captive in the end. There is a surprise twist to how the enslaved male choose to leave though.
Captive: Every young man who is placed inside the Delegación Norte police station is tortured and physically assaulted. Whatever crooked individuals they come across they kill inside there. Every new inmate that’s in there doesn’t have any training whatsoever. They’re all just well known individuals who’ve been on the inside before.
The inmates could be taxi drivers or butchers. It’s a hodgepodge of individuals in there. And they have no prior training. Which is why they get them to run in the mornings. Overall they’re wanting people to assume leadership roles at some point. The authority figures are only here because the state sent them. It has nothing to do with the municipality.
All of the Fedepales (Federal Municipal Policemen) who have left, the so called hitmen who were here in Celaya. Every bomb that was reported about, they placed that blame on you guys in order to clean their hands of those deeds. All of those firearms that were found in Camargo actually belonged to them. Every seizure that the ministerial policemen allegedly came across.
My partners claimed that they were provided with weapons and because of this videos were made where everything supposedly belonged to you guys. The recent bust made by the Sedena was split between the Sedena and the Fedepales. It was done with the understanding that the Jalisco gunmen would be blamed for it. But it’s all bullshit that was carried out just to cover up the truth.
* At 48 seconds into this video someone is heard in the background coaching the captive on what he has to say.
Sicario #1: This will be the fate of everyone who was fucking up.
Captive: This will be the fate of everyone who was fucking up. The fucking bombs that were thrown are being blamed on you so that they could clean their hands of this crime. The bombs thrown at the Delegación Norte police station was done so by Jose Luis Suarez. He’s the individual responsible for having thrown them at the police station. The only reason they didn’t detonate was because they were duds.
* At 1:05 the scene cuts off.
The five pixelated uniforms that surfaced with five of my accomplices were given to us in order to confuse us with them. Because we apparently did have police training. Son of a bitch. Here recently Luis Suarez threatened us. He said that things would fucking end horribly for us. According to him it was the absolute 4 letters cartel in charge here. And their code in reference to us being gunmen for El Marro is 06. This is according to them. Jose Luis Suarez is who threatened 8 of us from the police force. And if we protested anything against them they said they’d kill us. Or if we said anything about them killing off the young men they also said we’d be killed.
* At 1:57 the scene cuts off again.
They spy on every store or big business that opens. They spy on them in order to extort them. This is the reason why they want the PAN political party to win the elections. So that they can continue to steal from everyone.
The transit police who was executed on Boulevard Juan Pablo II was also tortured at the Delegación Norte police station. It was said that he was a gunman for you guys, a shooter for El Marro. They want the PAN party to stay in power so that El Pelón can bring more of his crew here.
Please sir don’t this. (The hit man is trying to cut his neck open)
Sicario #1: Hold his hands down.
Captive: I ask that you please just shoot me instead of using the knife.
Sicario #2: Hold your fucking hands back you faggot.
Sicario #3: Move your hands you son of a fucking bitch!
Captive: Just give me a bullet instead sir. Please.
* At 3:04 a hitman grants him his wish to be shot to death. A single round is fired into his head.
Sicario #1: Go ahead and fire another round into him so that he dies properly.
* At 3:17 another round is fired into his head.
* At 3:33 the removal of his head begins.
* At 3:59 the camera shows the corpse cut into pieces. Everything that they intended to dismember is complete at this point.
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Joaquín Arzate alias "El Chimuelo", head of the Cadereyta cartel, has started a war in the state of Nuevo León, unleashing a wave of violence that hadn’t been seen in the state for years.
A few days ago, war was declared when Joaquín Arzate ordered the murder and immolation of more than a dozen people in Pesquería, Nuevo León. This is not his first offensive. Several weeks before he did the same in the municipality of Hualahuises, leaving immolated people inside a private vehicle on a rural road.
All this because of their trade war to control the theft of hydrocarbons in the state.
Now the Cartel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel) has begun its counteroffensive by sending direct messages against Joaquin Arzate's organization, murdering direct collaborators whom they interrogate before committing these bloody acts.
In these videos, they confess to working under the command of La Flama as Cadereyta is known for its refinery's burners. And they mention collusion with authorities who protect them so that they can carry out these atrocious acts. Leaving the burned people as a signature of La Flama.
We hope that the government of the state of Nuevo León can take action on the matter before the state becomes what it was in 2010 and 2011.
Interrogator: So, what’s the deal you fool. Who do you work for?
Captive: I work for La Flama.
Interrogator: For La Flama huh? Where exactly do you work with La Flama or with who else?
Captive: I was captured here nearby…
Interrogator: No, no, no. I want to know who you work with.
Captive: Ah, for La Flama.
Interrogator: La Flama?
Captive: Yes.
Interrogator: Where exactly were you captured?
Captive: I was running on a stretch of road near the rail road tracks in the town of Linares.
Interrogator: What exactly were you doing there running?
Captive: I was exercising.
Interrogator: Exercising?
Captive: Yes.
Interrogator: Okay. And what were you doing in Linares?
Captive: I was leaving a truck that had been left in the town of Pesquerías.
Interrogator: What were you guys doing in Pesquerías with that truck?
Captive: There were some corpses inside of it.
Interrogator: You had bodies in there?
Captive: Yes.
Interrogator: What did you do with that truck?
Captive: I torched it.
Interrogator: Where did you torch it?
Captive: Here in Linares.
Interrogator: How much are you being paid?
Captive: I was given 3 thousand pesos about two weeks ago.
Interrogator: You were paid 3 thousand pesos?
Captive: Yes.
Interrogator: Where do you guys get paid?
Captive: In the town of Cadereyta.
Interrogator: Cadereyta?
Captive: Yes.
Interrogator: Who’s the person in charge of paying?
Captive: Its this guy…
Interrogator: Who is it you fool?
Captive: This one dude…
Interrogator: Which guy? You just mentioned his name earlier.
Captive: His name is Chimuelo.
Interrogator: Chimuelo? Ok. And who gives you support there?
Captive: The municipal police.
Interrogator: Who else besides the municipal police?
Captive: (unintelligible)
Interrogator: The only ones in charge here are the absolute Northeast Cartel (CDN) you bitches. The absolute CDN. Chimuelo, send me more men like this my way. Send me more sons of bitches like this guy here. At the very least send tougher men my way you fool.
Interrogator: Keep sending more men, keep sending more pieces of shit like this guy here my way. Take a good look at how I’m going to leave your gang of dumb asses. You piece of shit I’m going to kill everyone who supports you.
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The San Jose de Gracia massacre and the disappearance of police officers from Santa María del Oro are two of the crimes attributed to this criminal boss.
Cornelio Armenta, alias 'Sierra 3' or 'El Negro', was held in the Puente Grande penitentiary center, Jalisco, for his apparent participation in the disappearance and murder of police officers from Santa María del Oro. However, in circumstances still unknown , the prison authorities found him dead.
Unofficial reports shared by the Quadratín agency indicate that the death of 'Sierra 3' was recorded by prison staff on March 17, 2024. Apparently, he took his own life inside his cell.
Without further details being offered about the moment in which they confirmed that he no longer had vital signs, it emerged that his body has already been delivered to his family, after notification to the corresponding Public Ministry.
Cornelio Armenta, originally from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, was identified as one of the main leaders of the Pájaros Sierra group, a cell that emerged from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and now disputes control of the territory that connects said state with Michoacán.
Presumably, 'Sierra 3' was 35 years old at the time of his death and was facing multiple criminal proceedings for aggravated forced disappearance, homicide and aggravated torture, crimes committed against municipal police officers who were abducted in Santa María del Oro in July. of 2022.
He was imprisoned for these crimes in January 2024, after the Sinaloa State Police stopped him by chance when they noticed that he was speeding in Culiacán. After stopping him, the agents corroborated his identity as one of the main generators of violence in Jalisco with an active arrest warrant.
'Sierra 3' had already been detained in September 2022 by elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) in the municipality of San José de Gracia, Michoacán, where seven months earlier he ordered one of the most violent episodes in recent history of the country.
Investigations indicate that the massacre perpetrated on February 27, 2022 during a wake was an act of revenge by Los Pájaros Sierra against Alejandro García Bautista, alias 'El Pelón', who deserted the CJNG after one of the ringleaders murdered his brother.
Despite the elements that pointed to 'Sierra 3' as one of the masterminds of the massacre, he was released shortly after his capture in 2022 because the Approved Police Report had erroneous data.
According to information from Quadratín, the military said they had detained him on public roads in possession of a large arsenal, but in reality they had taken him from a home.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to U.S. House Speaker Johnson's comment that Mexico "will do what we say."
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This article was translated and reposted from ALERTA JALISCO
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A captured operative from the Los Deltas / Los Pelones mob narrates on camera some cold hard truths about the crews he was running with in the state of Sonora.
And what he has to say isn’t anything good about leaders Erick Cabrera Cabrera aka El Delta 1 or Omar Felix Loayza aka El Pelón.
Granted that his confession on film has obviously been edited and appears to spontaneously jump from one scene to another. Most of what is gone was in all probability too damaging to be heard for his captors.
Interrogator: What’s your opinion on the Pelones and El Memos mob?
Captive: The Pelones and Los Memos sir? Well, when you’re the boss of a plaza you’re supposed to take care of your men sir. It’s always a good thing if you’re trying to make money. But there are ways to go about doing this.
Unfortunately, these individuals here are just fucking up beyond belief sir. When they’re not killing off innocent civilians they’re burglarizing homes. I personally experienced having to fucking pillage through peoples homes because of orders from my commander.
And it wasn’t just having to steal everything from these homes. It also included tearing up the walls in the hopes that we would find some hidden booty in there. I mean, there was this fucking lunacy of grabbing money from the townspeople, something that didn’t even belong to the leaders.
They were also pulling over particular vehicles just because they didn’t know who they were. I have to be clear about this. And they would talk to them with authoritative voices instead of treating them with respect.
In addition, whenever a call comes over the radio of someone asking for assistance or help. Instead of going out to help, these guys just stand there with their fucking arms crossed. They didn’t know if it could be a trap or what during these moments.
The weird thing is that we’re supposed to be at the ready to act whenever someone needs help. Not just when a commander or one of the top bosses is asking for you to go out and perform. The truth is that for me personally these guys are nothing more than a gang of cowardly rats sir. This is my personal opinion about them.
Interrogator: Who all is giving you guys support?
Captive: We’re being supported by Commander Kelux from the state forces. They’re doing this from their own patrol vehicles. They’re expecting a big hit to go down. (Scene appears to have been cut off here before his last statement)
Interrogator: Who killed the teachers?
Captive: The teachers were killed by the Los Pelones mob.
Interrogator: Why?
Captive: They didn’t want any unknown vehicles coming in from out of town. These automobiles are known as 09’s. A green light was given to shoot on sight whoever refused to stop at one of our checkpoints.
Interrogator: How exactly are you guys recruiting all of the people who have been deceived…
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One month ago, a U-Haul truck full of at least ten Sinaloa Cartel hitmen barreled into Toscana, a gated residential subdivision in the city of Tijuana.
Toscana subdivision was thought to be one of the safest places in the city, so safe in fact that it was where US diplomats chose to live with their young families.
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This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
WRITTEN BY: LUZ IRENE MALDONADO