Templarios Financial Officer Dead, Reports of Soldiers Seizing Body from Funeral

Chivís Martínez for Borderland Beat

Reports of body snatching of a dead narco has a twist,  the body was taken by Mexican soldiers. 

Samer Joseph Servin Juarez “El Rigoberto “ died of a heart attack.  

He was designated as one of the 15 Caballeros Templarios leaders most wanted by the Mexican agency PGR.  Within the rewards offered, ranging up to 30 million pesos, was the 10 million peso reward for Servin Juarez.

Servin Juarez was not among the Templarios “heads” indicated by autodefensa leaders as their most wanted.

The dead Templario was a financial operator for slain leader Kike Plancarte, while working in the key  Michoacán cities of Morelia, Querétaro and Reynosa Tamaulipas.  He was a close friend of  and as his financial officer, he  worked closely with the now deceased Enrique “Kike” Plancarte.

The story being reported is a group of Mexican army soldiers, burst into a Morelia Michoacán funeral home and took the body.  In the presence of family and friends, the body was placed on a stretcher by soldiers, placed in a van, and driven away.

He was to be cremated on Wednesday at 6PM, and as the story goes, the body was taken an hour prior to the cremation.  The body was taken to Michoacán state PGJE facilities,  where a premier diagnostic laboratory resides, among other diagnostic tests conducted there, is  DNA testing.

The DNA testing of Nazario Moreno, El Chayo, and Francisco Galeana, El Pantera, among others was conducted at this facility.

In speculation, it is possible that upon learning of the pending cremation of the deceased, authorities wanted to extract DNA.   There is such a deep mistrust by the people of Michoacán, pertaining to information issued from  the government, by both states and federal governments. 

Subsequent to the 2014 killing of “El Chayo” - the premier leader of Templarios aka “died twice”-, was officially  announced for the second time,  public announcements are now rejected sans solid proof.  

Although EPN supporters were quick to point out the 2010 official announcement of El Chayo’s death in Apatzingán  was reported in the previous Calderon , not by the Peña administration.

The problem with that attempt to distance them from the 2010 “killing” is the proverbial elephant in the room,  EPN’s administration never dispelled the death as being false, and did not have Chayo on the most wanted list.  That leaves either one of two possibilities… or both, the federal administration, as previous administrations, simply have never cared about the heavily indigenous populated Michoacán or the gross lack of security within its borders, or  EPN’s administration they believed Chayo to be dead and did not think it important to investigate the claims of citizens.

Either case is a shameful travesty.

Almost immediately after Chayo’s (above) 2010 “death”, citizens reported seeing the Templarios leader, saying he was in fact alive.  Autodefensas had been very vocal and adamant that Chayo was unquestionably alive.  It is indisputable now, that the people and autodefensas were correct. 

Dr. Mireles is doubtful that Plancarte is dead.  Or I should say he is not satisfied with the proof offered by the government. 

When I heard of Plancarte’s death, I immediately contacted Dr. Mireles and asked if it was true.  He replied, “Apparently so, however DNA testing is needed”.    That is yet to be conducted or perhaps completed.  A bout a week ago there were many reports saying that Dr. Mireles insists Plancarte is alive.  That is not 100% the story, the full story is that he wants proof and in this day of indisputable evidentiary conclusion based on DNA, there really is no reason to challenge the need in these cases. 

Dr. Mireles has a trained scientific mind, he is a surgeon, and he requires more, in that context, and when it is possible to attain indisputable proof, one is hard pressed to argue against that position.

Until and if that should ever occur, Dr. Mireles is “not buying it”.

I do believe Plancarte is dead, but I also thought Chayo was killed in 2010, based on the photos, and  must say if Kike Plancarte should become “twice dead ll”, I wouldn’t be in complete shock.