Lieutenant of El Chapo, "El Tigre" Confirmed Killed

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra died in confrontation with the army

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra and three others were in a clash with the Mexican army the night of Friday, March 28, in the community the Sinaloa, Navolato municipality. 

Versions collected in the scene, established that a military patrol passed through the town when it was attacked with bullets and grenades by suspected gunmen. The confrontation occurred around 18:00 hours. 

At least four soldiers were wounded and taken to the clinic of the Issste of Culiacan. No serious injuries.

Other versions explain that the army received notice that armed men were in a house in this community and searched for them. 

Responding to aggression, the suspects fled taking road to Highway Culiacan Navolato.  They were riding in a black Hummer, when the driver lost control and crashed into a canal.

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra was at the wheel, and was killed on impact (so says unofficial sources). One more accompanying him also died Two more of the assassins were shot, but not seriously and are incarcerated.

Previously, there was no official identification of the dead or wounded soldiers, but unofficial police sources told Ríodoce that there was no doubt that the fallen man at the wheel of the Hummer was Germán Ceniceros Ibarra.

The PGR delegation waited until Saturday the presentation of weapons and ammunition and insured and informally spoke that there was also some detainees. 

The history of the 'Jaguar'

Initially it wasn't realized that the man killed it was El Jaguar. 

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra, who achieved the rank of Commander after 14 years of service in the Navolato municipal police, he was appointed in January 2008. Director Gabino Terrazas said that the designation of Germán Ceniceros Ibarra  was supported on an assessment of the performance and analysis of his career. 

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra had held the positions of Deputy Commander of the Municipal police, Deputy Director of the Municipal jail and operational commander in the administration of Víctor Godoy. 

It did not take long for the real mission of  Germán Ceniceros Ibarra, to be revealed while in the Corporation.

On  October 27^th  of that year, at least 15-vehicle military convoy, arrived at the home of Cruz Carrillo Fuentes - in the heart of Navolato.   Cruz is the younger brother of Amado Carrillo the Lord of the Skies. They asked for the young man, and in front of his wife and children took him away.

Along with the military a patrol of the municipal police of Navolato had arrived at the home, including Germán Ceniceros Ibarra and his bodyguards. Cruz's wife recognized him, and thus he was denounced. 

On the same day was found a burned body at a railway station on the Culiacan-Costa Rica road. The body was taken to the forensic medical service for identification, but after the autopsy, two days later, the corpse was stolen by an armed command. 

The authorities kept quiet about the identity of the corpse and it was not until December of that year when the Attorney general of the Republic, Eduardo Medina Mora, in a year end meeting with journalists, said José Cruz Carrillo had been slain in Culiacán. 

And then Doña Aurora Fuentes, who formally denounced his disappearance, said that if he was dead, it was because the army had murdered him. Already had been accused the army of facts and with Germán Ceniceros Ibarra and his brother, Andres, also police, leading the military operation to take José Cruz Carrillo. 

Against the Mayor

The afternoon of November 4, 2008, a group of assassins perpetrated a shooting attack against the municipal President of Navolato, Fernando García, where three employees of his administration  were killed and at least two were wounded. 

The victims were the aldermen Andrés Carrillo and César Villaescusa Gastelum and César Villaescusa Urquiza, his father, who had been a candidate for municipal President. 

The convoy circulated along the road of Navolato-Altata, between Bariometo and the flag, when the command massacred them. Two weeks earlier, the Chief Clerk of the municipality, Fabián Rodríguez Parra, was gunned down in La Palma, Audit Office of Villa Angel Flores.

The authorities never explained the attack nor wanted to speculate openly, but unofficially these facts linked to the killing of Cruz Carrillo Fuentes. 

Something akin to hell

From that fact, Navolato became an inferno. Dozens of policemen were killed, more than fifty resigned in 2009, the Mayor called the people to voluntarily obey a curfew from ten in the evening. 

Doña Aurora Fuentes has always had the certainty that in the taking of his son Cruz and subsequent murder, Germán Ceniceros Ibarra was involved because she was told so by her daughter-in-law, María Elena Retamoza. 

That day that he was taken, soldiers had closed several streets,. they  knocked on the door and she  opened. They ordered her not to interfere, they then took him away. 

From the door of his house, María Elena saw that they took her husband to patrol 1430 of Navolato, manned by the police agents German and Andres Ceniceros Ibarra. The police vehicle was guarded by 15 Hummer military vehicles, 13 of them with ID numbers: 

ID: 2441, 2480, 4026, 4044, 4048, 4057, 4058, 4149, 4151, 4158, 4161, 4166 and 4167, all preceded by the 092.

The next day, Tuesday, October 28 - related sources said, according to Sra. Aurora, a municipal patrol appeared with vests and police weapons, but agents never appeared."

Germán Ceniceros Ibarra had been transformed into 'El Jaguar'.

Since then, the police said that he had gone to work with Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán. 

Sources of Ríodoce confirm that Jaguar ended up as head of assassins of Dámaso López Núñez in the areas of Navolato and Eldorado. 

Former police commender, had  in his possession a driver's license in the name of Sergio Enrique Cisneros Angulo, but  fingerprints confirmed his identity. 

Source: RioDoce also posted by SiskiyouKid