El Chapo Trial: "Blood thirsty Chapo even killed family" here is the backstory

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

Details surrounding the killing of; Chapo cousin Juancho, El Guacho and El Güero

Prosecutors described El Chapo as “bloodthirsty, even killing family members”.  That may or may not be true, but this is the story which begins in 2010.

The family member is the cousin of El Chapo, Juan Guzman Rocha aka Juancho.  He was a Sinaloa Cartel enforcer working in the Los Antrax group.

When he was arrested Manuel Fernández Valencia, aka “La Puerca”, confessed to Federal Police that he personally knew El Chapo.

He also told authorities about the death of his son, Marcial, [below] who died on August 29th of 2010 in Culiacán.   It was a case of mistaken identity; the assassins thought Marcial was the son of El Chapo because he was driving a white Ferrari. Alfredo Guzmán drives a Lamborghini of the same color. When the killing happened, it was initially reported in the press as the son of El Chapo.

Marcial

A day later, he received a phone call from Chapo, the capo expressing his condolences and pledged his support, saying that he would stand by his friend in this time of grief, while vowing he would get find those who were responsible for the Marcial's murder.

“La Puerca” says that a month later, El Chapo's son came to inform him they had found the man who had murdered his son, and the person was Israel Rincón, alias El Guacho. 

El Gaucho was interrogated while being videotaped and was executed  by October 5th.

In a U.S. memo it states;

Mr. Guzmán was fighting another competitor, the Beltrán Leyva organization; he received word that one of its top lieutenants, Israel Rincón Martínez, had been kidnapped by his henchmen. According to the memo, Mr. Rincón was shuttled between a series of El Chapo properties, where he was tortured and questioned by El Chapo’s cousin, Juan Guzmán Rocha. Even though Mr. Guzmán ordered the interrogators not to kill Mr. Rincón to wait until he arrived, however his order was not followed, and the memo claims that by the time he arrived, Mr. Rincón was dead.

According to the Chicago indictment, Juan Guzman Rocha was a key contact of twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores, Chicago drug dealers who ended up cooperating with U.S. drug agents, and will be star witnesses in this trial.

The corpse of Israel Rincón Martínez [below] was found riddled with 7.62 mm rounds from an AK-47. Along with the body was a message that denounced all murderers, rapists and thieves, pledging to cleanse the city of those criminals and provided a phone number to report anyone suspected of being guilty of these crimes.

Also in the message were the names and photos of Arturo Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Heriberto Lazcano, El lazca, Édgar Valdez Villarreal, La Barbie, Israel Rincón Martínez, El guacho o El Miki, Cristiano Urías, Antonio Araujo, Jorge Iribe Araujo, and Osiel (Cárdenas).

On December 16, 2011 authorities in Sinaloa found two bodies, one was identified as Juan Guzman Rocha alias “el Juancho”.

The bodies had multiple bullet impacts, were gagged and dumped on a rural road in the town of Aguaruto.  The second man was identified as Jose Miguel Bastidas Manjarrez aka ‘el Guero Bastidas”

There were no bullet casings or pooling of blood so it was presumed the men were killed elsewhere.

Puerca

In the interrogation of Rincón Martínez he confesses to participating in a meeting where he was informed that El Chapo was the one responsible for the fall Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, alias El Mochomo. He also says he received a phone call from Arturo Beltrán Leyva, who questioned him on his loyalties. El Barbas asked him, “Who side are you on?” He allegedly responds “With Alfredo's people,” although he had started his criminal career with El Chapo.

Rincón Martínez says he felt obliged to stay with the Beltrán Leyva cartel because to say otherwise meant certain death. He also states this was totally confusing for him because he always thought El Chapo was not the one responsible for the arrest of Mochomo, and he had speculated that the whole thing was just being used for an excuse to start a war.

El Chapo’s son Ivan, after losing every legal avenue, was suddenly released from Altiplano a couple of months after the arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva. 

La Puerca is the brother of Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia.  Guadalupe has a plea change hearing scheduled at the end of this month.  Puerca already cut a deal.  Both are potential cooperative witnesses in the Chapo trial.

The superseding indictment alleges that Guzmán and Zambada were also behind the assassinations of Raul LNU, known as “Robachivas,” and Julio Beltrán.

Both Chapo and Mayo are also accused of murder conspiracy and attempted murder of members of the Beltrán, Carrillo Fuentes, Zeta and Felix Arrellano cartels.  They are accused of being the assassinations of Raul LNU, known as “Robachivas,” and Julio Beltrán.

El Chapo has not been charged in Mexico for the alleged murderers of these individuals.

Chapo is charged with conspiracy not actual murder, Below part of the government "kill list" that will be evidence in the trial-click to enlarge