Borderland Beat
Last night a shootout took place in Tijuana when a group of criminals tried to "pick up" a young man whose name hasn't been revealed but has been identified as a 25 year old business owner who has previously been target of attacks against his life.
One of the attackers dies in the shootout and 3 more where arrested by the Municipal Police. This shootout happens days after several banners were left in the city allegedly by CJNG and CTNG in which they complain of the rampant kidnappings and warn of attacks against "La Gente del Tomate y sus aliados"(The people from El Tomate and their allies, Tijuano´s note: My guess is they mean Sinaloans as La Gente del Tomate and not a former Teo lieutenant nicknamed El Tomate who was a low rank member).
According to Miguel Angel Guerrero Castro, member of the State´s Attorney General Office (PGJE), the young man had just arrived from Mexico City and had been victim of previous attacks: "He knew they wanted to kill him". He denied this was a failed kidnapping and called this a "Direct attack".
The names of those arrested are: Marcos Diaz Arreola, Daniel Perez Eugenio and Carlos Ray Flores, all of them with previous criminal records and one of them is wanted in the US for homicide.
The shootout took place last night at about 11:00PM local time when the 25 year old victim, apparently the owner of several junkyards and a barber shop in Tijuana travelled with his bodyguards in the upper class neighborhood of Lomas de Aguacaliente. The criminals caught up with him and began the attack against him and his bodyguards, according to ZETA one of them was armed and was able to shoot back apparently killing one of the attackers, the others tried to escape in a taxicab but were arrested by the local police, 3 AR-15 rifles and 2 handguns were seized. The attackers were using bulletproof vest too.
The crashed vehicle of the attackers was left were another AR-15 was seized along the dead body of one of them.
SOURCES: AFNTijuana ZETA Tijuana El-Mexicano.com.mx
La gente del Tomate is a reference to Sinaloa, namely Culiacan. Who's very popular baseball team is Los Tomateros de Culiacan [Culiacan Tomato "growers"]. You can usually see the logo on the back of windows of cars in the US if the person is from that region. People from Culiacan and alot from Sinaloa in general call themselves Tomateros. They are in essence calling out the Sinaloa Cartel people and their allies who pay a fee to operate in Tijuana.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha a failed direct attack, i love it! Keep your guard up gente de Tijuas no se dejen!!
ReplyDeleteHa ja ha ja ha ja
ReplyDeleteDon't send rookies to do a Mans job
A single person with one bullet can do it even he is surrounded by body guards
Rookies
Exactly or more like drug addicts. My father had some serious aim. He used to shoot appes off of heads when he was a kid growing up in mexico. :0
DeleteIt seems to me that the tijuana cartel when they are strong the they act strong it looks like they have invested there money in bullets and not bribes the sinaloa cartel and the days of diplomacy are over
ReplyDeleteAppear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak... sun tzu.
DeleteLos arellano seran los jefes de tijuana por siempre eso jefes de sinaloa fueron el papa de tijuana ni como negarlo saludos de la baja
ReplyDeleteComenso la limpia!
ReplyDeleteCon las placas de tomatito pendejetes yall don't even know what you're talking about lol
ReplyDeleteThe public shootouts never left, did they?
ReplyDeleteIts el tomate and his people getting killed la rana bought el ninos puntos and all of ninos vendedores are getting taken out.el groos and his people who are with akiles and la rana are most likely gonna take that zone they started fighting with el Nino .those puntos where sold twice whoever owns them played them dirty and if you don't know who owns that zone by now your very lost and have no clue whats going on. same thing happen in Baja Sur but in a bigger scale they sold the plaza twice and someone from damasos got took out .el panterita pelo Gallo colgo el rifle. el rana is on a sick one.they call him el ranacuajo. no doubt tomates people and uriartes are tomateros there from mochis badiraguato novajoa Sinaloa but not backed up by CDS there CDS hit list and also akiles and ranas hit list that seem to be CJNG delivery boys now
ReplyDeleteA ver si no le dan un sustito al jesus Ojeda por andar cantándole al Mencho así como al olivas trini a su tío
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