Plea Deal: El Mono Muñoz free, turned state witness

The Coahuilense has been released for several days now, reported sources close to the case. Juan Manuel "El Mono" Muñoz was released by US authorities, after pleading guilty last week, where he had reached an agreement with the Texas prosecution to give information , sources close to the case reported to Milenio.

The Coahuilense linked to Los Zetas, was released a few days ago was reported last night, without there being a confirmation or denial from the US authorities or the Mexican.

Last week, it was reported that "El Mono" Muñoz pleaded guilty before a Texas court for the crime of conspiracy to launder money.

Although the records in the file were sealed, it was learned that the US Attorney's Office told Judge David Ezra that Muñoz Luévano made illicit financial transactions with money that came directly from the sale of drugs.

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Jalisco: Homicides of minors is on the rise

The homicides of minors are on the rise in Jalisco. And proof of this is the case of a 14-year-old teenager who was executed early yesterday, in Colonia Alamedas de Zalatitán.

According to figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National System of Public Security (SESNSP), during the first four months of 2016 there were 15 victims, while in the same period of this year there were 40. This represents an increase of 166.6 percent.

On April 29 it was learned that the cells of organized crime are increasingly recruiting children and young people, which exposes them more to violence.

Rogelio Barba, the criminal investigative coordinator of the CUCSH (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) said that the criminals offer to enter their ranks with the guarantee that they will not go to jail because of their age, in addition to that many of the minors have few opportunities to develop.

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Estado de México: Tortured and bagged

The bagged bodies were discovered inside a house in Iztapalapa by agents of the Secretariat of Public Safety.

Two bagged corpses were found in a house located in the San Miguel Teotongo neighborhood of the Iztapalapa city center in Mexico City.

Agents of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of the capital found the bodies tied, beaten and tortured inside bags, after breaking into a home.

So far the sex of the bodies and the motive of the attack are unknown, so the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City is investigating the facts.

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Vicente Zambada Plea Agreement

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

In case you may have missed my posting of this Plea Agreement a few moths ago, I am re-posting. This plea was entered into in November 2018.  There are some interesting tidbits pertaining to his history and sentencing guidelines.

Although Vicente Zambada received a favorable sentence of 15 years and credit for time served, it could have been much sweeter as the range was 10 years to life.

With a maximum fine of 10M.

In the plea, Zambada agreed to cooperate with the government in locating assets that could be used to pay the fine.

His ability to remain in the U.S. is subject to immigration court and no certainty is given or implied.

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Children face greater danger in Mexico than in Syria

 In Latin America and the Caribbean, violence continues to be one of the leading causes of death for girls and boys, said the new global report by Save the Children.

The report entitled 'Building a better life with children' evaluated 176 countries using international indicators on infant mortality, access to education, nutrition, protection against harmful practices, such as child labor, child marriage, homicide and forced displacement.

In the 2019 edition, Mexico again falls three places in the ranking from 93 to 96, ranking below Latin American countries such as Cuba, Chile, Argentina or Peru.

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"El Chuky" and 4 CJNG Members Arrested After 3 Searches in CDMX

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: AnimalPolitico

     Five members of the Jalisco Cartel were detained in the CDMX after searching three houses

The Mexican government dealt a heavy blow to the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG) led by Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho", by arresting Aldo Jesús Azcona Corté s alias "El Enano" or "El Chuky" in Mexico City , chief of the criminal group in the capital of the country, ie the Jefe de Plaza.

Among the detainees is Aldo Jesús, "El Enano" and /or "El Chuky", identified as the leader of the criminal group in the capital of the country and one of the main generators of violence in the eastern area of ​​CDMX and Edomex, according to federal authorities.

The Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and the Army captured in the Venustiano Carranza area five alleged members of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), plus Aldo Jesús Azcona Cortés, "El Chuky", leader of the organization in the City from Mexico. 

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Phantom Secure Exec Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Blackberrys to CDS

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

Sentenced to 9 years in prison: the director of company that sold Blackberrys to the Sinaloa Cartel

The director of a company providing telecommunications equipment and services encrypted to the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to nine years in federal court in San Diego, California on crime charges related to the facilitation of drug trafficking.

Vincent Ramos, chief executive of the Canadian company Phantom Secure, must deliver $ 80 million dollars, which represents the profits of his business with the Sinaloa Cartel, to the US government as part of the ruling issued this day, the South District Attorney's Office reported in San Diego California.

This is the first time that the United States government has brought a company to court for selling services to a transnational criminal organization with knowledge that they would be used for illicit activities.

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Vincente Zambada Sentenced Today

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

Vicente Zambada receives 15 years, and credit for time served, will be released in three years

Vicente Zambada Niebla stood before the court this morning and speaking to U.S. District Chief Judge Ruben Castillo, he accepted responsibility for “bad decisions” on his part [ noticeably omitting the words his crimes], he apologized. 

He added: “Today I feel I can be a better father, a better husband — I feel I can be a better son, and most of all a better human being.”

Further stating how he still has his family, whom he loves and who the most important thing to him is.

The prosecutor in the El Chapo trial, Amanda Liskman stated how the cooperation from Zambada as “extraordinary”.

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A book bomb explodes in the hands of MORENA senator

The senator from Morena, Citlalli Hernández Mora, suffered an attack around 7:07 pm in her office when she opened a package in the form of a book she had received the day before.

Apparently, it was a gift in the form of a book that when she opened it, it started a  fire that struck her face and burned several electronic devices that were on the desk.

At the close of this edition, Hernández Mora did not give any statement about the aggression of which she was a victim.

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El Jumex, ex leader of CDG killed in Matamoros prison

The execution of Emiliano González Beas, alias "El Jumex", former leader of the Gulf Cartel and also former ministerial police has been reported in the prison of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. El Jumex had been arrested in August 2018 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by SEDENA personnel.

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from VXT

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Crystal Meth: From Sinaloa Cartel Labs to the Middle East

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

     Methamphetamine trafficking: From the laboratories of the Sinaloa Cartel to the Middle East

An investigation of US authorities carried out for more than a year, reveals how a group from Sinaloa managed to distribute methamphetamines from California to the United Arab Emirates through fraudulent parcel and postal service accounts.

It is common for drug traffickers to use the mail service to send packages with narcotics, but the mechanism designed by an organization of the Sinaloa Cartel in San Diego, California, to infiltrate the shipping systems of prestigious companies such as Ralph Lauren and reach destinations like United Arab Emirates, it was what caught the attention of a group of American detectives and prosecutors.

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AMLO's first big swipe against corruption--PEMEX and EPN

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat 

Mexican president denies 'political persecution' 

Mexico City (AFP)

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday denied that he was persecuting figures linked to the previous government, as authorities began making arrests in his administration's first major corruption case.

Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment leftist, was elected last year on a promise to wage war on Mexico's deep-rooted political corruption.

This week, his government made its first high-profile moves to do just that, zeroing in on the alleged plundering of state oil company Pemex.

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Guadalajara: CDS leaves narco manta in Villa Hidalgo, announcing arrival

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Guadalajara - This morning a narco manta was located at the intersection of Periférico and Calzada Independencia.

Manta reads as follows:

Hector failed to comply with the agreement that says Briseño and Aguilar were to pay for the fiscal year. We already sent you the governors payment. If you do not comply then you must suffer the consequences. This goes for you and your bitch ass people from Team Jalisco. Don’t involve other people in this matter. 
Sincerely, C.D.S.    Brace yourselves. We are already here. 

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from VXT

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High Ranking Member Of CDS, Antonio Marrufo, "El Jaguar",Extradited

El Armadillo For Borderland Beat From DOJ

Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo (aka “Jaguar”) has been extradited from Mexico to face federal racketeering charges in the Western District of Texas, stated U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson, El Paso Division; FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Boshek, II, Dallas Division.

Torres Marrufo remains in federal custody awaiting his initial appearance in federal court tomorrow morning in El Paso

“Through close and sustained cooperation with our partners in Mexico, we are bringing cartel leaders to justice,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Williamson.  “This extradition sends a message to those leaders that we will relentlessly pursue them, no matter where they are or how long it takes.”

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Tabasco: Killed with narco cartulina left on his chest

Villahermosa, Tabasco - A man was executed last night in the Gaviotas Sur neighborhood; his attackers left him with a narco message nailed to his body.

The facts were recorded on Las Torres Avenue in the Explanada sector, according to official reports, the victim of approximately 30 years, had several bullet wounds.

In the message a warning could be read for all those who commit crimes in the neighborhood 

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CJNG in Uruapan: Forcing Governor Silvano to Take Different Security Measures

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: SinEmbargo

The announcement of the new security strategy comes a day after at least four elements of the Municipal Police of Zamora were killed in an attack allegedly perpetrated by hit men of the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación. 

The bloody arrival of the CJNG to Uruapan forces the Government of Silvano to redesign its strategy

For his part, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said, in his morning conference, that the National Guard will also be deployed in Michoacán, with the aim of reducing the levels of violence in the state.

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New Protection for "El Menchito": He Wins an Amparo

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

                      Complainant complained that he is prosecuted twice for organized crime

Despite the sanction imposed by the Federal Judicial Council on a circuit magistrate for issuing rulings allegedly committed to organized crime, three magistrates of a Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters granted an appeal to Rubén Oseguera González "El Menchito", son of leader "El Mencho" of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Convinced unanimously of their verdict, the members revoked the amparo that had been denied by a Unitary Court with residence in Zapopan and decided to grant the protection of the justice of the Union in favor of the presumed drug trafficker who is prosecuted in two different cases for the crime of the delinquency of organized crime.

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Cancun: The arrest of El Pipo

Mica for Borderland Beat from Quintana Roo Hoy

CANCUN. In a joint operation between the three levels of government was able to arrest Óscar Alejandro Rivero Matos, alias "El Pipo", currently a member of the CJNG, who previously led the Cancun Cartel.

"El Pipo", according to unofficial versions, at the time of his capture he was in a  Tahoe truck with plates of circulation of the state of Yucatan with plastic bags that contained drugs inside.

This operation involved agents of the Ministerial Police of the State Attorney General, the State Police and the Secretary of the Navy, who intercepted the dangerous criminal and then arrested him, although it is said that there was no confrontation between the authority and the criminal, so that there were no injuries or deaths.

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Tabasco: 2 executed by La Barredora in La Guayra

Tabasco.- Two subjects were found executed today with an intimidating narco message, in the Ranchería Río Viejo Sector la Guayra of the Municipio del Centro, in Villahermosa Tabasco.

The discovery was made by the inhabitants of the area, who gave the notice to the corresponding authorities, the elements of the Ministry of Public Safety and Citizen Protection, the first to take jurisdiction of the events by cordoning off the crime scene.

Both subjects were located on a dirt road, with one shot to their heads, tied by their hands and left with a threatening manta that said: This happened to me for stealing from the working people, combis, students, and merchants. Those from El Centro are next. Sincerely, La Barredora.

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El Mayo narco mantas in Tlaquepaque and Tonalá

Jalisco.- During the early hours of Tuesday, a manta with a threatening message signed presumably by the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, was found; the same morning another was also located.

Manta reads as follows:

The people of El Mayo are in charge here you sons of bitches! Now there will be people getting fucked up. Fall into formation or I’ll make you fall into formation! Sincerely, Ismael Zambada Garcia. El Papa de los Pollitos (The Father of all the small chicks)

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from VXT

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TJ Crime Wave Continues: 10 Executed, Human Remains + Narco Message

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

                                      The homicidal crime wave in Tijuana, BC continues.

In the last hours 10 people were killed in different parts of the city, as well as the finding of human remains accompanied by a narco-message signed by the nickname "Moreno".

At noon on Monday on the Atotonilco Street and De las Torres in Colonia El Pipila were found two bags with the dismembered remains of a male with the following message: I 'll keep killing all those who still sell blue baloons: ATT. Moreno"

In the General Hospital  Francisco Javier Corona Rivas, 27 years old, died after the shots he received in the abdomen and thorax. Also José Muñoz Cervantes died there , 60 years old, after being the victim of an armed attack in Las Campos neighborhood. "El  Felix", Silva Jauregui, 46, was also died in the hospital after he was shot in the head.

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They sold us a security shield, but the narco has already infiltrated the municipal police, MORENA

Chihuahua - The actions of the municipal police of Chihuahua have raised strong suspicions of a probable infiltration of criminal groups within the corporation.

Legislators and leaders of political parties have indicated that drug trafficking groups have managed to infiltrate local police forces, especially the Municipal Public Security Directorate (DSPM), whose chief Gilberto Loya Chávez, has remained at the insistence of the municipal president of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos Galván.

The mayor, and the commissioner Gilberto Loya Chávez

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"El Tortas" and "El Jamon" Detained in Mexico City

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Milenio

         The leaders of 'La Unión Tepito' and 'Fuerza Anti Unión' detained in CdMx and Edomex

Jorge Flores Concha, 'El Tortas', leader of the Fuerza Anti-Union, and Pedro Ramírez Pérez , 'El Jamón', leader of the La Unión de Tepito cartel, are accused of crimes such as homicide, kidnapping, extortion and distribution of narcotics.

Elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency, of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic ( FGR ) , captured in the capital and in the State of Mexico: Jorge Flores Concha "El Tortas" ,  leader of the criminal organization Fuerza Anti-Union , as well as Pedro Ramirez Perez, "El Jamón" , leader of the cartel Union of Tepito. 

Both will be transferred to the Deputy Attorney General specialized in Investigation of Organized Crime (Seido). In simultaneous operations, carried out with the support of the Secretaries of the Navy and National Defense, the capture of these alleged criminals was achieved. The first operation, in the vicinity of the Tlalpan City Hall , in Mexico City, Jorge Flores was captured. 

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Chihuahua: Sicarios are going at it with everything

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Three beheaded and three shot dead were recorded this weekend.

The violent streak began last Saturday, when authorities went to a homicide in El Coyote ranchería in the Atascaderos section.

He had been shot 5 times. He was identified as Clemente Rosita Valenzuela, 33 years old.

In Atascaderos they found two other bodies. A beheaded was shot in Llano Grande. His name was José Carlos Valencia Ramos.

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Iguala, Guerrero: Executed with a narco message

The early morning of Monday was registered with the discovery of a corpse who was handcuffed with a narco message.

The discovery took place on the side of the federal highway Iguala - Taxco, at the crest of the Linda Vista neighborhood, on the side of the Tinajillas bridge, where police authorities arrived, after being alerted of the discovery.

In the place of the events, the authority confirmed the presence of a corpse, who was bound by the feet and hands and blindfolded.

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CJNG multiple attacks on Zamora Michoacan overview

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

Below is shootout video from Zamora

An overview of events

Dozens of CJNG sicarios in 50 trucks went on a rampage [see previous post here] in the city of Zamora, Michoacán. In the video on Yaqui’s post of the convoy, supposedly one can count 50 trucks which would amount to about 200-300 gunmen.

Three colonias were involved Ex Hacienda del Refugio, El Jericó and Fraccionamiento Río Nuevo.

Three Officers were shot while patrolling Ferrocarrill Street,  two later died.

Minutes later another attack on Valle Verde and Jardines de Jerico, resulting in 10 officers being shot and injured and another killed, one of the 10 died at the hospital.  Of the ten, eight were municipal officers’ two state police.

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Cuidad Juárez: Corrupt cop shot while in motel room

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CIUDAD JUAREZ.- A municipal agent survived an attempted murder this morning when he was shot at on his day off. 

According to the version of ministerial agents that arrived at the scene, the officer arrived at the Motel Cúpula with two women. Once inside the room he heard someone trying to force the door open. 

The municipal policeman fired his weapon and a shootout broke out. The assassins managed to escape from the scene.

The officer called for backup. And rapidly soon after the place was swarmed by state and ministerial agents.

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Acapulco: 2 dismembered men thrown at entrance of Santa Cruz neighborhood

The remains of two men were found early Saturday morning on the busy Constituyentes Avenue, in front of the entrance to the Santa Cruz neighborhood.

According to police authorities, at 2:30 in the morning they were alerted to the emergency number that there were black bags with human remains in said road.

Near the bridge of the Camarón River, were the bags scattered on the street, which were removed by workers of the Forensic Medical Service.

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Zamora, Michoácan: CJNG Convoy Rolls into Town to Attack Municipal Police

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: MichTresPuntoZero

      3 officers dead and 10 injured in attack to Police of Zamora by alleged CJNG commando

Zamora, Michoacán: The Attorney General of the State of Michoacán (FGE), confirmed that the attacks on the Municipal Police of Zamora, occurred early Sunday, left three officers dead and 10 injured.

The FGE explained that at approximately 3:30 am, the uniformed personnel were traveling in the vicinity of Colonia Centro, in the city of Zamora, on board a patrol, when they were attacked by a group of armed persons.

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Villagran, Guanajuato: 140 kilos of weed hidden in corn cargo

Elements of the Public Security Forces of the State (FSPE) in coordination with the Military Police, captured in Villagrán a man carrying a million 400 thousand doses of marijuana.

After 12:00 hours of this Wednesday, state and federal elements carried out a surveillance patrol in the vicinity of the Salamanca-Celaya road at the crest of the Villagrán bridge.

When patrolling around the area, a male person was seen in a gray Dodge truck with a tubular camper, apparently damaged.

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Video: Michoacan: Autodefensas Disarm And Detain Soldiers

El Armadillo For Borderland Beat From Zocalo

Michoacán.- Self-defense forces of La Huacana, Michoacán, subdue and disarm the military of the Secretariat of National Defense. A series of videos showing a group of soldiers at the moment they are subjected and disarmed by civilians outside the Regional Hospital in the Michoacan municipality of La Huacana circulated on social media.

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Chilpancingo: 8 Bodies Found In Truck Outside College

El Armadillo For Borderland Beat From Proceso 

CHILPANCINGO, Gro. - Eight people killed, six men and two women, were found in the trough of a redilla truck that was left on the channeling of the Huacapa River.

The victims were in front of the private campus called Colegio México, owned by Mercedes Calvo Elizundia, current president of the state DIF (family welfare program) and wife of Governor Hector Astudillo Flores.

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"Why don't they want to give me my son's body?" :Life and Death in Mexico

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from ZonaDocs and VigilanteHuaste

His remains were with 5 others found in plastic bags

 The body of César Octavio was identified on February 16, 2019, by his relatives in the Forensic Medical Service; Despite this, the staff of the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) has refused to deliver it, as they claim to have no certainty as to whether each of the remains found correspond to it; The genetic tests to confirm it have taken more than three months.

Due to these delays and omissions, the family filed a complaint against the IJCF in the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ); the forensic institute told them that they would not give them more information about the delivery of the body or the results of the genetic testing.

Ana has not stopped wondering why in the Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO) do not want to return the body of her son since he has long been identified. And she wonders who could be so heartless to have left his son, César Octavio Mora Castañeda, dismembered.

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Tabasco: The Purge leaves a body in Jalpa de Méndez

Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco. - Around 12:00 in the afternoon this Saturday, elements of the municipal police, responded to the call of neighbors of the R / a Benito Juárez in the municipality of Jalpa de Méndez, on the Cunduacán-Comalcalco Highway , where they reported the body of a deceased male, next to a message.

So immediately, elements moved to the address where they found the lifeless body of a man, along with a narco message, so they proceeded to cordon off the area, and wait for the arrival of the elements of the Prosecutor and elements of the Semefo to perform the removal of the body.

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2 Community Police members dismembered in Chilapa

Guerrero.- On Friday morning, 6 black bags with human remains were found, corresponding to three men according to the Forensic Officer.

It is presumed that two of the victims are members of the Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias, Policías Comunitarias (CRAC-PC), which were deprived of freedom by the Policías Comunitarios por La Paz y la Justicia.

The acts occurred in an area known as "Las Antenas", a place where criminal groups commonly use to leave their victims dismembered.

Residents of the area indicated that since Thursday night they reported the discovery of black bags, which contained human remains inside.

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Sinaloa Prosecutors Office will summon persons who broadcast crime videos

Videos went viral of the execution of two young people in a parking lot in the commercial plaza Tres Rios in Culiacan Sinaloa, and then a third video was leaked where two men are firing rifles. The Prosecutor's Office and the Secretary of Public Security of Sinaloa sends a statement aimed at the oddballs. They would rather not make public what happens in the State of Sinaloa.

The Office of the Prosecutor will call the oddballs to declare that they not record videos of scenes of crime.

The oddballs who gather to record crime scene videos from their phones could be summoned by the authorities.

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Video of mother and daughter kidnapped last Thursday

The woman was walking peacefully with her two children when they were intercepted by a car. Everything was recorded by a security camera.

A video captured by security cameras located in the downtown area of the capital of Puebla, Mexico, has gone viral on social networks. And has caused great impact because it portrays the insecurity that is currently experienced throughout the country.

In the video you can see a woman walking along with a girl and a boy, many perceived that it has something to do with her children, when suddenly while passing next to a car, they are intercepted by a man.

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TJ: Search Reveals Large Stash Of Meth and Heroin

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: UniMexicali

Staff of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) in Baja California, completed a search warrant issued by the District Judge Specialized in the Accusatory Criminal Justice System of the Federal Criminal Justice Center for a building located in the Colonia Cerro Colorado where they secured 200 Kilos 780 grams 400 milligrams of methamphetamine and 27 Kilos 992 grams 900 milligrams of heroin.

Derived from research techniques of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), a warehouse was located in the vicinity of the aforementioned colony where various types of drugs were stored. 

Elements of the Federal Ministerial Police located and confiscated at the warehouse: 406 packages with methamphetamine, 28 packages with heroin and six vehicles. 

The aforementioned and the place were secured by the agent of the Federal Public Ministry, who continues integrating the investigation folder to find those responsible for this crimes.

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Narcos Call SEMAR Coast Guard for Rescue: 4 Rescued and Arrested with 460 Kilos of Pot

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Excelsior y ReportIndigo

         Semar Authorities apprehended four subjects for the transport of drugs. Photo: Semar

4 subjects approximately 22 miles off the coast of Baja California with large marijuana load called for rescue when they suffered engine failure. They were rescued and subsequently arrested.

The detainees made the distress call after mechanical failure in the boat in which they were traveling; the Marines perform routine search and found drug packages.

The Marina/ Armada Secretariat of Mexico as a National Maritime Authority and acting as the Coast Guard, through the Second Naval Region based in Ensenada, BC; confirms that yesterday they arrested four alleged drug traffickers with 62 packages containing dried grass with characteristics similar to marijuana, weighing approximately 460 kilograms; approximately 37 kilometers west of this city and port of Ensenada, BC.

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El Chapo Trial: U.S. Prosecutors say Chapo is fabricating prison treatment to set up an escape

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat New York Times

Sharp shooter has MCC prison in sight. Prison break failed after helicopter crashed

If El Chapo entertained the possibility that his accommodations were about to get better after sentencing----the latest filing from U.S. Prosecutors show he is sadly mistaken, read below from NY Post

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is only whining about his lack of earplugs and outdoor activity as an elaborate ruse to escape prison ahead of sentencing, according to a new court filing.

Guzman, 61, claimed earlier this month he’d been forced to shove toilet paper in his ears to mask the din of prison, and had nothing but an indoor exercise bike to maintain his physique.

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Juarez can rest peacefully

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from Polaka

CIUDAD JUAREZ.- The Prosecutor's Office carried out 12 simultaneous searches in connection to the arrest of Charly of La Empresa cartel.

The prosecutor Jorge Nava, said that during the searches there were two women located  and a man buried in the courtyards.

In addition, four people were arrested, including a woman and leader Carlos Mendoza Garcia "El Charly", who were in possession of two rifles.

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USCBP Finds $2 Million Worth Of Cocaine in Shipment of Bell Peppers

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: cpb.gov

    CBP Officers Find More than $2 Million Worth of Cocaine Hidden in Shipment of Bell Peppers

Release Date: May 22, 2019
Calexico, California:  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico East commercial facility Monday seized 242 pounds of cocaine after finding the narcotics co-mingled with a shipment of bell peppers.

“This was great work by the team of officers working at the Calexico East port of entry,” said Area Port Director David Salazar.  “Their hard work and inspectional scrutiny stopped an extremely dangerous narcotic from entering the U.S. and ultimately, millions of dollars of illicit funds from flowing back into the pockets of transnational criminal organizations.”

Shortly before 5 p.m. on May 20, an international truck entered the Calexico East cargo facility from Mexico with a shipment that was listed as green bell peppers.

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