Mexico City: "Cartel de Tepito" and "Los Rodolfos" dispute control of UNAM campus

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from El Universal
                            

A shooting and double homicide speed up investigations against three groups of drug dealers that operate at CU

by David Fuentes

The double homicide last Friday in the area known as El Frontón de Ciudad Universitaria (CU), expedited investigations that the Mexico City authorities already had going, which began in 2015, when information was cross-referenced with the Attorney General's Office ( PGR), revealing that the Tláhuac Cartel had more than 20 various drug vendors in all corridors of the university campus.

The first progress made on this double homicide case points to the fact that after the death of the leader of the criminal cell operating in Tláhuac, Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna El Ojos, and the subsequent capture of who the federal authorities identified as a possible successor, Uriel Isaac "N" El Cochi, who was arrested in Monterrey on January 11, the dismantling of the group is in process.

Another blow to the organization was the murder, on the 27th of the same month in the Tláhuac delegation -also by Navy personnel- of Ricardo Ferro Pérez, alias El Peque or El Richi, nephew of El Ojos who had been the newest presumed leader of the crime group, thus weakening it even more.

This was exploited by smaller cells that began to dispute the points controlled by those of Tláhuac in Coyoacán, Xochimilco, Tlalpan, Milpa Alta and the Chalco Valley. In this sense, the identification of the alleged aggressors, which form part of the file CI-FCY / OY1 / UI-1 / C / D0677 / 02-2018, as well as the victims of last Friday, reveal that the Tepito Cartel and the cell that operates in Xochimilco, identified as Los Rodolfos were responsible for the fight.

Information on the case details that Tepito, once aware of the near extinction of the Tláhuac Cartel and the profits generated by the sale of CU drugs, as well as the benefits - because there are no operatives, checkpoints or policemen around- showed interest in the area and began to infiltrate their vendors, one of who turned out to be one of the victims last Friday.

The deceased was identified as Francisco Axel, who on three separate occasions was arrested for crimes against health, the first in 2008 in the downtown area, the second in 2010 in downtown Coyoacán and the last in 2014, in Playa del Carmen, and according to the authorities, he led at least
five drug dealers who, just last November, began to roam Ciudad Universitaria.

The other group that entered the dispute is the cell that operates in Xochimilco, which the authorities identify as Los Rodolfos. This small group led by Rodolfo Rodríguez Morales La Gorda, was initially an ally of El Ojos and now controls the routes and points of sale that the Tláhuac cell had, including Ciudad Universitaria.

The Rodolfos had control in the area known as El Frontón, the one where El Micky operated for a long time under the orders of El Ojos and from which they obtained profits of between 150 thousand and 200 thousand pesos per week, limiting the sellers of Tepito to the area known as Los Bigotes, where net sales are lower.

Apparently, the dispute began last January, when the Tepito Cartel, wanting to extend its vendors, stormed Los Bigotes and the corridors of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, as well as the surroundings of the Justo Sierra auditorium. At the end of last month, traffickers argued, coming to blows, and fired two shots into the air.

On that occasion there were no injuries, but the university students denounced the incident. Last Friday, the dealers returned to cause what happened next, a balance of two dead.