Tijuana: "La Perra", infamous El Teo ally released from prison, returns to the city

La Perra infamous Tijuana "El Teo" ally released from prison

Tijuana surpassed 2008, in terms of homicides, last year, but the years of 2008-2009 were the most shocking in their brutality, and killings. The city fell into numb terror and panic as the  Cartel Arellano Felix ruptured, and began savagely attacking each other, like two dogs in a cage, tearing at the other's throats, like a couple who know all the others secrets, and vulnerabilities.  One of the men responsible for this bloodshed, was released this month, silently, in Oaxaca.  Jose Filberto Ramos, of many corridos, and many killings returns to the battle he left almost 10 years ago. 

In early 2008 kidnappings at reached a crisis point, as the group of Teodoro "El Teo" Simental Garcia grew in size power, and audacity.  His men rejected the previous agreements of the mafia, and set up kidnapping rings and stash houses around the city, rumors of 50 gallon drums and cages in grim houses, where some were returned and many were not.

Teo, and other powerful CAF affiliates were not pleased with the choice of Fernando Sanchez Arellano as their boss, after his uncle, Javier Francisco Arellano's arrest in 2006.  There were multiple viable cell leaders who felt they deserved the position, including El Teo.  Gustavo Rivera Martinez, El EP 1, a longtime Arellano Felix trafficker and member, who was close with Endenina Arellano Felix, was one.  Jorge Brisceno, El Cholo, beloved and feared enforcer was another. 

The spot was given to El Inge, the younger junior, who had grown up, not in the mafia, until he was in his mid to late 20's.  He was considered weak, inexperienced, and hadn't made his way the way the others had, brutality, loyalty, and countless killings, high dollar drug trafficking, and years of paying their dues.  Resentments grew on both sides, as the kidnappings grew increasingly brazen, and Inge found his new leadership being questioned in Tijuana, as 2008 began.  

In April, the dogs were let off their leashes.  El Teo had grown powerful enough, with his own crew of enforcers and cell leaders, he wasn't even pretending to respect Inge. Lines were being drawn, people were asked, where their loyalty lie, blood was beginning to pour from the wounds of resentment and mistrust.  Jose Filberto Ramos, La Perra, was an early Teo defector, along with Raydel Lopez Uriarte, "El Muletas" both who would become infamous in Tijuana.  

After the Insurgentes shootouts of April, in which 13 gunmen were killed in a running shootout across the streets, the lines were clear.  Teo or Inge.  Divisions ran across cells, across families, across relationships, and the rules were death, torture, dismemberment for the wrong choice.  Teo fled to Sinaloa, and came back with a new partner of sorts, and a mission to turn Tijuana into a living hell for Inge, and any who would follow.  

La Perra was instrumental in this, and the shift into the massive, relentless retail drug epidemic that has consumed Tijuana, and fueled the frenzied violence.  Rather then trafficking cocaine, meth, and heroin across the border, La Perra, Muletas, formed retail outlets in the cities eastern zones, long their strongholds, which still remain.  La Perra was one of Teo's strong hands that helped contest the city. He was said to be present at the gunfight in 2008, as well as participating in the kidnapping and torture of police officers in 2008, and 2009. 

Teo, La Perra, and Muletas sowed fear and savagery across Tijuana, severed heads, cut out tongues by the dozen, burned bodies, and ones dissolved in acid by "El Pozolero".  They mocked Inge, calling him a mason and a bricklayer, and the two factions tore into each other's soldiers, girlfriends, families, hitting everywhere they could.  

Teo's girlfriend, Karla, El Telcel, was executed.  Close family members of El Inge were murdered.  Everyone called in tips for the PEP and Federal Police to raid stash houses.  The US released the most wanted in Tijuana, which read like a playlist of all the players fighting.  El Dani was first to fall, and by July, the Marina cornered La Perra, and he was consigned to prison.  

The DEA wanted Teo and his men stopped, as they turned Tijuana into a virtual killing field, Inge's lieutenants discussed executing a DEA official to get them to back off, as law enforcement strangled operations in the city, drug shipments couldn't make it across the border.  However, an indictment would have taken too long and the DEA decided to aid Mexico in the capture of Los Teo's, to cease or curb the violence.  As a result, none of Los Teos, including La Perra were ever able to be extradited to the United States. 

La Perra was released from prison in Oaxaca, which ends a long, arduous sentence, in which it is said he has been partially paralyzed from beatings.  He was incarcerated at Altiplano, with other known bosses, including Mario Cardenas, Erik Salazar Valencia (El 85, CJNG), his former boss El Teo, and La Barbie, and Eduardo Arellano Felix.He participated in numerous complaints alleging violations of his health, and safety, conditions he was subjected to. A cell mate said he was impossible to live with because "he was always angry".  

It is said he has returned to Tijuana, returned to the war of another decade, which still rages, with new players and faces, and alliances, but the same warm and cold blood, spilled out into the street.  

Sources: ZETA Tijuana