Tijuana, Baja California: Male Corpse Found With Narco Message

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

According to data obtained by Zeta Tijuana, the body located on the Libre Tijuana-Rosarito highway corresponds to a member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). In Tijuana there have been 132 homicides in March and 453 so far in 2021.

The violence continues in Tijuana. On the morning of this Saturday, March 27, the lifeless body of a male was located, to whom his perpetrators stabbed him with a narco-message; at another point in the city the discovery of a human head with another threatening text was reported. In addition, two other women were killed.

It was around 06:44 hours when the emergency center was informed that on the Libre Rosarito-Tijuana highway, near the bridge that connects to the Loma Blanca subdivision, there was the naked body of a male person.

Elements of the Municipal Police and National Guard arrived at the crime scene, who had in view the corpse of a man who had a knife stuck in his chest along with a narco-message.

The threat written on a white cardboard said: “Here lies another of your kidnappers attorney Alejandro Estrada Bañueloz and Güero Pecas, you pair of cheap fucks.

Information published by ZETA indicates that Alejandro Estrada Bañuelos, nicknamed "El Lic del Diablo" (The Devil’s Lawyer), was included for the first time in a formal report as part of the structure of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación in 2018.

His unofficial mention as a defender of the cartel dates back to February 29, 2016, when his brother José Manuel Estrada -who served as an escort- and the commercial policeman Rodolfo Gersais Vélez López, hired to take care of him, were shot to death in the parking lot of the Cosmopolitan Tower where they waited for the lawyer. They also have him registered as a defender of criminals from José Soto's group “El Tigre”. On Estrada Bañuelos there is no arrest warrant against him.

While "Güero Pecas", he is considered one of the 15 generators of violence in Tijuana. His name is Óscar and / or Rodolfo López Arellano “Cabo 30” and / or “El Güero Pecas”. Together with Israel Alejandro Vázquez “Cabo 50” or “El Goofy”, he has been confronting David Jiménez formerly “Cabo 20” for two years, trying to kill him and seeking control of the Sánchez Taboada delegation.

In February 2019, he was held responsible for the drug banners that were hung in different parts of the city threatening President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, prior to his visit due to the federal security operation that began on February 4, 2020 in Tijuana. The intelligence groups record criminal operations in Los Pinos, Sánchez Taboada and Natura.

It should be noted that the discovery of the naked body was in the same place where Farrah Fresnedo García, the ex-sister-in-law of René Arzate “La Rana”, the criminal leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was “kidnapped” on March 8, and released 21 days later.

In another criminal act registered this Saturday around 07:27 hours on Gilberto Portugal street in front of number 14052, Julián Sánchez corner, in the Sánchez Taboada neighborhood, the discovery of a human head was reported inside a white plastic bucket.

It should be noted that, together with the rest of the human body, sex and age unknown, there was also a hacksaw and a blanket with a legend written in black ink that read: “This will be the fate of everyone who works for Cabo 13, and Cabo 57. We are the absolute mob of El 100 ”.

While on Friday night the bodies of two women wrapped in blankets and with visible traces of violence were located in different points: the first on Boulevard 2000 near the Delicias 3 neighborhood, the second body was found inside a cart of supermarket on Calle 5 de Mayo in the North area.

So far in March 20 women have been murdered in Tijuana.

No perpetrators have been arrested in any of these crimes. 

Sources: Zeta Tijuana