BC war between CAF and Sinaloa

Translated for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana Special Report by Otis B Fly-Wheel

More than 100 subjects have been assassinated in the first 69 days of the year, bodies riddled with accurate shots to the face, charred bodies in state of putrefaction have been found, seven bodies in three days alone in Tijuana, shows an upsurge of violence in the past week including Mexicali and Ensenada.

Zeta Investigations

In Tijuana the deaths multiply because the brothers Alfonso and Rene Arzate intend to control the criminal operators of the CAF and “Los Teos”.

In Mexicali, they are assassinating women, and in Ensenada with just 6 deaths a year on average they located their first dismembered body.

Of the 101 homicides that have been committed in Baja California between the 1^st of January and the 10^th of March 2015, 75 have happened in Tijuana, 12 alone in the first three days of March. Seven of these dead were killed between the 7^th and 10^th of March.

In the intelligence analysis of the areas of Baja California they have catalogued two separate conflicts:

One in the North Zone between the criminal remnants of the CAF and criminals that serve Alfonso Arzate Garcia “El Aquiles” of the Sinaloa cartel.

The other is in the Zone Sanchez Taboada, between “Los Aquiles” and the operators of “Los Hermanos Uriate”, the group that since 2010 were headed by Eduardo Garcia Simental “El Teo”.(Otis: BB reporter J 2012 post on Tijuana).

The cartel Arellano Felix controlled criminal enterprise in Baja California for 30 years, between 2008 and 2010 the group of “Los Teos”, separated and staged an internal struggle with many dead reducing its capital, circumstances that the Sinaloa cartel took advantage of to enter the plaza. Today the CAF and “Teos”, keep on fighting for the Plaza.

 

In the North Zone, outside of the area controlled strongly by the CAF, the assassinations are a product of the fight between Luis Manuel Toscano Rodriguez “El Mono”, who during the years has controlled the zone for the CAF and “El Migues” or “Miguel”, a subject who started out as a Coyote but now controls the area, supported by the brothers Lucre and Marco Cerda Cabrera “ Los Cuates”, who control the Obrera Zone in the service of “Los Aquiles”.

In Sanchez Toboada and in general, the East Zone of Tijuana, the fight is between Arturo Gomez Herrera “El Groos”, on the side of Alfonso Arzate, against “El Nino” of the Uriate group. This subject has the criminal support of Jose Juan Trejo Gutierrez “El Chapito Trejo”.

According to the versions of detained criminals, Rene Arzate “La Rana”, brother of “El Aquiles”, ordered the take over of all points of sale of drugs of “El Nino” and they are killing the dealers.

La Barredora

On the Sunday of 8^th of March, a man of 45-50 years of age, was assassinated by gunfire opposite the Hotel Niza in the North Zone of Tijuana, identified as a drug dealers pitch and safe house of “Los Aquiles”, also the Hotel San Carlos.

Even though the dead man has not been identified, the residents of the area commented that he was known as “El Gordo Bicicletas” an addict and drug dealer, in charge of no more than five wraps, which he sold then went for more. (reported by BB reporter Colleague  J see link).

After he was shot from a distance, the killers approached his body and stuck  a manta on his abdomen with an ice pick that said

“ This is going to happen to all the coyotes, drug dealers, visiting west zoners who changed sides, Northern Zone belongs to CAF compliments “ La Barredora” (the sweeper).

For the Authorities, the subjects killing was not the objective, it could be something else, maybe he was killed opposite a point of sale of “Los Aquiles”, to send a message to Manuel Toscano “El Mono”.

They are bluffing with the intention of creating fear, commented the Secretary for Public Security in the state, Daniel de la Rosa, he affirmed that there are no indications of a presence in the Baja California of a criminal group that are called “La Barredora”.

The investigators recorded a triple homicide occurred in 2009 in the Sanchez Taboada Colonia, where they left a message also signed by “La Barredora”. There were allegations in November of 2013, when persons deprived of liberty in the North Zone, reported that they had kidnapped a group of men who called themselves “La Barredora”.

According to the antecedents, this is also the name of a group of homicidal thugs from various cells of the CAF who came together to attack the henchmen of Eduardo Garcia Simental “El Teo”, when he separated from the CAF in 2008, but particularly linked to Toscano and his chief of thugs “El Panchito”, currently imprisoned for drug possession.

In this moment the deaths are happening because people don’t know who the boss is, the buyers, sellers, they have to pay piso, and if they pay it to “Los Aquiles”, they get killed by “El Mono” and vice versa, said an investigator.

Attacking the drug shops of your competitors

 

Also on Sunday the 8^th of March, in the location of Avenue Centenario of Sanchez Taboada Colonia, a man identified as “Martin” was shot dead by Sabas Salvador Lopez Zavala, who was accompanied by Fidel Perez Basillo.

They fled in a taxi and were intercepted by Municipal Police and decided to attack them, the Police repelled the aggression and arrested them.

In his resulting testimony, Sabas Lopez said that “El Jalo”, who had been killed was a “shooter” who had been killed for disrespecting his sister. However intelligence sources noted that the area where he was killed  was a drug shop point for “El Nino” who works for Uriate. Lopez had no criminal antecedents.

A second attack occurred on the night of the 10^th of March, in the Avenue Ruiz Cortines opposite number 58 annex Panamericano part of the Sanchez Taboada delegation. According to intelligence sources this area is controlled by Arturo Gomez Herrera “El Groos”.

Here left dead with five shots in the face, a man of 1.70 metres height, his body had various tattoos of English phrases, and on his neck the name Angela. The Municipal Police identified him tentatively as Jose Luis Garcia Ochoa.

The same Tuesday, in the morning two subjects in a gray Caravan, shot Alejandro Matinez Rodriguez, 62 years of age, who the shot inside a pickup in La Calle Centenario in the Sanchez Taboada Colonia.

The family of the man refused to make any official declaration, they only reclaimed the body, but unofficially the authorities said that the man belonged to a family with money and property in Nayarit, however in the past had “gone down the wrong path” selling cocaine. One of his brothers, a Dentist, was kidnapped and killed in the past year but according to authorities, this victim never carried out illegal activities.

San Antonio de los Buenos, also in conflict

As for the murder of Manuel Campos Hernandez "El Tota", committed on March 11th on La Calle Vincente Guerrero in the pedral of Santa Julia, in the San Antonio de los Buenos delegation, the Authorities have made no progress.

They have only reported that the man killed was known as a thief, addict, but not a drug dealer, and his corpse had multiple gun shot wound to the face.

In respect of this zone of the City, the Authorities inform that the people of "El Aquiles" ordered a "burn" of the people of Dalia Rodelo "La Prima" and Julian Lopez "El Chino".

"El Javo" protected

The special operations group (GOE) of Tijuana, of the SSPM, assured that on the 10th of March at a checkpoint in the Loma Dorada neighbourhood, they stopped Javier Olguin Hernandez, who was in possession of a FN Herstal 5.7mm pistol known in Mexico as "matapolicia" cop killer, and he offered 10,000 dollars in exchange for not being arrested. (Otis: this weapon has tungsten tip ammunition coated with Teflon which will penetrate Kevlar vests, hence its nickname)

FN 5.7 mata policias

To try and avoid arrest, "El Javo" also communicated via cell phone with two corrupt cops identified as "Maria Luisa de la Delegacion Cerro Colorado" (Otis: damn she must hate filling in forms) and "Heredia de Centenario", who tried to convince their fellow police at the scene to release the criminal without arrest.

In the Police station, "El Javo" said his name was Daniel Vazquez Silva, was identified as Javier Olguin Hernandez. "El Javo" had been detained in 2009 for crimes against health, however Federal Authorities released him on that occasion without reporting it to the state of Baja California, who claim there had not been an effective arrest warrant, but it was still pending for the murder of three girls from Mexicali, whose tortured bodies were located in Tijuana in 2007.

Additionally while in custody the subject confessed to the transit of drugs to the United States for a Michaocan Cartel.

It is pertinent to add that when the criminal was being identified, he had been in the station a half an hour, when an actuary of the District Court arrived requesting his release citing that the family had launched an amparo against his arrest. But the request was not carried out as the document that arrived had been filled out with the false name of Daniel Vazquez Silva, while the Municipal Police could demonstrate that they had arrested Javier Olguin.

Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana