Innocent victims of the Narco war in BCS

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

[ Subject Matter: Sicarios of El Cochi
Recommendation: Some prior knowledge of recent events in BCS would be useful]

According to the PGJE, Sicarios of "El Cochi" mistakenly killed Francisco Javier Hirales Romero and his wife, Victoria Berenice Cesena Zamora, and injured their 8 month old baby, Diego Hirales Cesena in the neighborhood of Chametla, in the North of La Paz

Reporter: Zeta investigations
According to the primary investigations of the PGJE of Baja California Sur, an armed attack perpetrated on the 21st of August against three members of a family in the neighbourhood of Chametla, in the North of La Paz, highlights 3 events:

• The execution of two innocent persons who had no links to criminal activities, who were attacked by mistake by the Sicarios.
• Their baby that became an orphan, 8 months old who was injured during the firefight, shot in the foot with entry and exit wounds.
• The utilisation of 3 AK47 ( cuerno de chivo or goats horn, a reference to the curved magazine of the AK47), that according to official investigations, has been utilised by killers in the service of Chief Sicario Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi", and whose arms are related to a series of armed events in La Paz and Los Cabos.

The morning of the 21st of August, the family, Francisco Javier Hirales Romero, 36 years old, his wife Victoria Berenice Cesena Zamora, 26 years old and their baby Diego Hirales Cesena, 8 months old, were attacked by an armed commando from three different directions, when they were driving their 1997 blue Ford Mustang in the neighbourhood or Chametla.



According to witnesses, the Sicarios attacked the family and the driver realizing the danger tried to speed off. They arrived at the crossroads of Calles Baja California and Francisco Villa and received fire from a vehicle on their left, leaving the driver and front passenger dead inside the vehicle, rolling forward until they crashed into a palm tree.

After the vehicle impacted the tree, the baby who was in the front with the mother, hit its head hard on the vehicle dashboard or instrument panel. After the shooting began the baby started to cry loudly, and stayed in the front seat of the vehicle injured, until the attack ceased, neighbors helped the baby, who was immediately transferred to the General Hospital in La Paz. ( Otis: as far as I'm concerned these people have opted out of the human race and deserve to be treated as such. How could any Government stand by and let these people operate).

Inside the vehicle, were found the bodies of the mother and father of the baby, who both had received gun shots to the head.

In the reconstruction of events at the attack, dogs and officers determined that at the moment of the attack, the mother covered the body of the baby with her own, and she received shots to the back and left hand side.

The Sicarios, then fired a further three shots into the parents and the baby, spent 7.62 x 39mm cartridge cases were found three metres from the attacked vehicle.

Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi"

On a trajectory 100 metres form the point where the attack started, until the point where the vehicle crashed into a tree, is a 10 metres radius, dogs found 24 spent cartridges of 7.62 x 39 calibre. (Otis: this type of munition is fired by the AK47 and its many early derivatives).

According to experts who conducted ballistic tests of the bullets left in the victims, vehicle and surroundings, concluded that the same weapons had been used in the following violent crimes:

• The first weapon was used on the 31st of July 2014 in a gun battle where the bodyguard of Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera" was killed, the same weapon was used again on 1st of November 2014, where the Sicario Jose Angel Gonzalez Portillo "El 27" and the drug dealers Jose Luis Ponce Real "El Ponce" and Juan Carlos Morales Vargas "El Chapo" or "El Pancho" were killed in the Calles Ignacio Ramirez and Manuel Marquez de Leon, in the Centro Colonia of La Paz.

The same weapon was used to strafe houses in neighborhoods of El Pescadero and Todos Santos.

* The second weapon had participated in a crime against the brother of an alleged drug dealer, Rosario Cervantes Soto, which was registered on the 8th of July in the neighborhood of El Centenario, where his wife, Rosa Elvira Ruiz was gravely wounded; and on the 29th of July in the execution of the sicario Jose Alberto Lopez Chavez "El Peto" or "El R15" on Calle 1, between Palo Fierro and Palo Escopeta.

On the same day the weapon was used to strafe the house of the Sicario Ramon "El Bolas", in the fraccionamiento Del Mar Residencial in La Paz.

The third and last weapon used was related to the last crimes committed in the neighborhoods of El Pescadero and Todos Santos.

According to investigating Agents of the PGJE, the weapons correspond to Sicarios in the service of the Chief of Sicarios, Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi", which appears to have been hidden after the battle of the 1st of November of 2014, then brought out another time to be used in the latest violent events.

According to Federal and Military intelligence reports, "El Cochi" has been in charge of recruiting hitmen in La Paz, Los Cabos and Sinaloa, contracting men without experience, and whose antecedents are linked to robberies, assaults and side arms. That makes them even more dangerous, in that they shoot at anything that moves, never at a fixed target which increases the risk for any innocent bystanders being caught in a crossfire.

This incident has led to State and Federal Authorities dubbing "El Cochi " as "El Mata Ninos" or "the child killer", and apparently is currently located in safe house of the Head of Plaza of Los Cabos, Javier Acosta Lopez alias Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre" in San Jose del Cabo, who today is known for being the logistics officer for Sicarios of the "Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso, after perpetrating crimes with his cousin Ranulfo Lopez Portillo "La Muneca", according to official sources.

According to the investigators, the criminals count on the protection of two Agents of the State Preventative Police identified as Alex and Vega, who in turn are contact of corrupt agents in the Department of Public Security and the Preventative Police and Municipal Transit Police of Los Cabos.


Once the first Criminal Court issued a detention order on August the 17th, against the mass killer Simon Guillermo Hernandez Pena "El Simon" or "El Sepulturero" or "The Gravedigger", State, Military Authorities foresee that Sicario Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi" assumes criminal command and becomes the new Jefe de Sicarios for "Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso", and under their dirty way of working, its feared that the drug war may restart and he may begin to dismember and throw body parts into the street to create fear among the population and reheat the plaza.

As has happened on Wednesday August the 26th, when the drug dealer Cesar Macias Madrigal, was found murdered, tortured, with his hands and feet tied and a blindfold over his face, in the Calles San Esteban, between Isla Magdalena and San Roberto, in Los Virreyes Colonia, South of La Paz.

The 32 year old drug dealer had signs of torture over his entire body, and based on expert opinion, was strangled and then dumped in a vacant lot, with a black cloth stuffed in his mouth.

Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana