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Friday, March 26, 2021

4 Gunmen from Los Linces Die in Shootout With Chihuahua State Police

"MX" for Borderland Beat

Two out of the four sicarios died inside the vehicle

The four gunmen who were killed earlier this week in the municipality of Gómez Farías, Chihuahua, during a shootout with state police officers belonged to Los Linces, the armed wing of La Linea.

The events occurred in the rural community of El Porvenir, where a group of Chihuahua State Police officers were attacked by Los Linces during a routine surveillance in the area.

The state policemen were able to neutralize the attack and kill four sicarios while the rest managed to escape. No injures or casualties were reported on the police's side.

So far no suspects have been detained, according to the Chihuahua Secretary of Public Security Emilio García Rui. He added that security forces implemented a search group to arrest those responsible, and that 125 agents from the State Security Commission (CES) arrived from Ciudad Juarez to assist in Gomez Farias.

In a separate incident in Ciudad Juarez, authorities discovered 4 bodies inside a home in Parajes del Sur neighborhood. The victims were visibly tortured and were found with their hands and feet tied up. Investigators say they were killed with a coup de grâce blow to the back of the head.

Background

Los Linces is a paramilitary squad under La Linea, the former armed wing of the old Juarez Cartel. Los Linces were formed in the 2000s and originally served as an elite paramilitary group responsible for the security services of the Carrillo Fuentes clan. The group was mostly composed of ex-military members -- similar to Los Zetas when they were formed under the Gulf Cartel.

One of the group's earliest members, Gregorio Cobos Tellez ('El Cobos' and/or 'El Lince'), was in the Mexican Armed Forces. He died in a shootout with security forces last year.

With the disintegration of the old Juarez Cartel in the mid-2010s, La Linea grew into much larger criminal network. It now directly hires local gangs as "contract enforcers" and has Los Linces as its dedicated armed wing in parts of Chihuahua.

Location of Gomez Farias Municipality within the state of Chihuahua. A source cited in this report stated that Gomez Farias has been under the control of La Linea for over a decade.

La Linea is competing for control of the Sierra Madre mountains with Gente Nueva, the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel. Gente Nueva and La Linea want control of the following municipalities: Ignacio Zaragoza, Gómez Farías, Buenaventura, Madera, Bachiniva, Matachi, and Nuevo Casas Grandes.

Last December, Los Linces ambushed and killed two Chihuahua State Police officers in Gomez Farias. Alejandro Venzor, 54, the commander of the investigation agency in the area, was killed along with Otoniel Zaragoza, 39, his second-in-command. The attack occurred while the police officers were filling up their tank at a gas station.

Their deaths triggered a large manhunt in Gomez Farias, where more than 20 arrest warrants were issued by the Prosecutor's Office. Officials mentioned that those responsible face between 60 and 70 years in prison for the crime.

Sources: El Heraldo de Chihuahua; La Parada Digital; Noticias en la Mira; Diario de Juarez (1); (2); (3); (4); (5); (6)El Heraldo de Juarez; La Jornada; El Puntero

33 comments:

  1. Special thanks to a reader for giving us a heads up on this story.

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  2. I thought La Línea was the armed wing of the Juárez cartel. So, Los Linces is the armed wing of the armed wing? Too many wings, too many arms. Hard to keep up.

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    1. Juarez Cartel didn't survive the ass whopping from ten years ago. This embarrassment is what's left!

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    2. I think Los Linces is just another name they call La Linea. Kind of how sinaloa cartel is sometimes known as the snitchaloa cartel.

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    3. @9:04
      The ass whopping from ten years ago? BOTH sides had heavy casualties. If you could remember, Sinaloa never gained full control of Juarez and still doesn’t own it to this day. Both cartels are nothing close to what they were 20 years, especially CDS after the splinter with the Beltran Leyvas. On the other side, Juarez was never as dominant as CDS but it did own a majority of Chihuahua and it still does. Sinaloa will always be in chihuahua just like la línea no matter how small or big they are.
      SurDeJalisco

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    4. 9:04 well this embarrassment is not letting cds settle in those areas so who is more of a embarrassment? Cds or linea? Just a question

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    5. 749 Have you ever heard of a typo ? Damn these ppl Write articles daily and you want to bitch about one sentence gtfo

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    6. 11:52 - I went through the entire Diario de Juarez online archives (2021 to 2010) I found that a few reports say “Los Linces o La Linea” as if they were interchangeable. But most do say it’s an armed wing, including one with a statement from a high-ranking state police official.

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    7. 7:49 - Thanks for your comment. Los Linces is indeed an armed wing of La Linea. Check some of the cited sources. People just continue to think La Linea is an armed wing when it really isn’t anymore since the old Juarez Cartel doesn’t exist.

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    8. MX, it's my understanding the original linces no longer exist and these are "linces" in name only. The original group reported directly to either the head of the cartel or a commander who reported to the head. Over ten years ago there was a lone YouTube video that had the name of their commander but I can't find it anymore.

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    9. 9:58 - Thanks for your comment. Was it by any chance El Chester? He was arrested +10 years ago and was apparently a top Lince commander.

      And I agree with you that Los Linces original members are not around anymore. That Cobos guy may have been the last OG. I think the group still calls itself that, similar to how the Zetas called themselves Zetas for a long while despite there being hardly no OGs.

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    10. 9:40
      That's pretty obvious.

      12:17
      WTF you talking about

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    11. MX, it wasn't that name it was actually a pretty weird name.

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    12. grupo lince was an attempted copy of what the zetas were to el golfo

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    13. 9:17
      Los Linces, the original group, were superior than the Zetas both in secrecy and quality of operations. They communicated only with their commanders which, among others, were el Monico, el JL, el Junior, and the one who's name appeared in a YouTube video.

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  3. Lea dije putos. Por culos se les va a meter Sinaloa en el estado otra ves. Ya aqui de ve que compraron a la poli otra ves.

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    1. Si sinaloa nunca salio de Chihuahua

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    2. No salio pero no se a podido estableser en las mejores areas, estan peor que cjng en michoacan

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  4. Linces fucked up by killing those 2 cops in December. Now they are after them

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  5. Vicious cycle. Now they will retaliate against police, and then it just keeps on going and going.

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    1. This is true

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    2. Mayhem and chaos. Death and destruction. Every single day. There is no end in sight. Death death death. My god.

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  6. Once again, we need much higher body counts. More cockroaches shot dead. Hope these wannabes rot in Hell....they are the spawns of Satan. Good riddance!

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  7. Yoo there's been couple videos lately of gente nueva del tigre interrogating linea members in cuauhtemoc. La Linea took cuauhtemoc back sometime last year or late 2019 but it seems gente nueva del tigre are coming back since they have support from other cds cells.

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    1. Post them here or in the forum. Thanks!

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    2. Send me the link if you’d like and I can take care of the rest. Otherwise it can go up in the forum.

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    3. There’s no link because there’s no videos.

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    4. I sent you a email sol prendido

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  8. The problem with cartels is that they like talibans..partizan style..the most unpredictable! Shoot and run!

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  9. Animo Sicarios!

    Los Linces are supposed to be "Elite" and/or "Ex Military " yet 4 state Police Men killed them. Just amatuers with guns .Sinaloa is your father!

    Pura Gente Nueva Special Forces Tier One Operators ! The only elite of elites!

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    1. No te mojes los calzones todavia Sicario.
      Estos cuates no eran Linces.
      La poli solo dice esto porke se queire parar el cuello pero estos pendejos muertos no eran Linces.

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    2. Those are not the original Linces.

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    3. @9:51 The original linces made the most sinaloa elite group look like amateurs

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