“El Parra” Detained: “It was only a Matter of Time”

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: ZETA

                                                                  Óscar Parra Aispura
                        "El Parra", the main traffic operator of totoaba bladders finally detained.

By: Eduardo Villa Lugo/ Zeta
NOTE: See my original post entitled: Totoaba Bladders, The Cocaine of the Sea here.

One Kilo of Totoaba Bladder is worth $60,000 - $100,000 USD in China. The illegal poaching of Totoaba for their bladders is what has put the barely surviving Vaquita Porpoise near extinction which is endemic to the upper Sea of Cortez.

                                                      "It was only a matter of  time"

State police had been on the heels of Óscar Parra Aispuro for months, allegedly the main operator of totoaba bladder traffic in San Felipe, who was arrested in a special operation early Thursday that ended on the San Felipe-Mexicali highway #5.

In possession of two AR15 weapons, two AK47s, bulletproof vests, three small arms and two vehicles, plus two bodyguards, it was like they apprehended the dangerous sea capo, who could not defend himself when the PEP units blocked him on the highway.

Since last year the head of Óscar Parra Aispuro, known as "El Tekolín", became visible due to constant altercations he had in the Port town of San Felipe. 

The situation went out of control until last December 31 when he was involved in the murder of a member of the Mexican Army, who allegedly shot him during a traffic altercation; the soldier stopped the traffic by requesting jumper cables, which stopped the vehicular flow, causing the annoyance of "El Parra".

Under pressure from the Sedena, the Attorney General's Office initiated the investigation against "El Parra", after a series of searches on houses allegedly owned by him; the operation lasted several days and generated enough evidence to release the arrest warrant against him.

After a few weeks the calm returned to the Port, since the special group that was appointed to try to stop him and his poaching activities was dismantled upon the arrival of Gerardo Sosa Olachea to the Public Security Secretariat of the State. 

The Attorney General's Office also made adjustments that reduced the persecution of the alleged poacher.

In June of this year, as part of the celebrations of Father's Day, the former PEP intelligence director, Fabricio Ruiz Valenzuela, was attacked with bullets when he visited the Port town of San Felipe , BC. Sicarios opened fire against him when he was traveling aboard his compact vehicle on the street named Mar de Jápon.

More than 40 projectiles from three different weapons were located in the place, but fortunately, the agent survived thanks to the attack realized seconds before and managed to maneuver his vehicle to later repel the attack when he discharged his weapon.

The alleged intellectual author was Parra Aispuro, according to the investigation carried out by the authorities, where an element of the Ministerial Police was also identified as a material aggressor.

On September 1, the son of the former commander of the Ministerial Police of San Felipe, Adán Uribe Herrera, was also shot when he was traveling aboard an Aveo car, a recent model, bound for a grocery store near his house located in the subdivision Villa Florida.