The Chapiza Threatens Military Personnel And Execute Their Rivals

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Samuel Ibarra Peralta "El Pia" and his son Jesús Aurelio Ibarra, are two of three identified operators of the Guzmans. Multi-homicide and threat are attributed to them against military and National Guardsmen 

Jesús Aurelio Ibarra Ramiro, alias "El Comandante Aurelio" and Samuel Ibarra Peralta, known as "El Pía" -innocent until their responsibility is determined by a judge's sentence, according to Article 13 of the CNPP-, are two of the three objectives identified as leaders of the plaza that occupy the Gulf of Santa Clara in Sonora, one of the main bases of operations of "La Chapiza". Organization led by the brothers Iván Archivaldo and Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, in addition to Ovidio Guzmán López "El Ratón", sons of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, a perpetual prisoner in a maximum security prison in the USA.

“El Pía” and “El Comandante Aurelio” are father and son, and have historically directed their criminal activity in the Mexicali Valley. However, after the empowerment of the local criminal structure led by Jesús Alexander (Alejandro) Sánchez Félix “El Ruso”, both criminal leaders were “banished” and found support in the Guzmán brothers.

On Wednesday, July 20, elements of the Municipal Police of the Gulf of Santa Clara - a community one hour from San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and which is part of the towns of the Upper Gulf of California - mobilized due to the emergency report because of the presence of plastic bags where several mutilated limbs were identified.

The blue bags were found in an unpopulated area of ​​the community and had a message printed on blue cardboard with text of the same color, but with a different tonality:

“The Gulf of Santa Clara and San Felipe have an owner. We’re in charge here. This will be the fate of you shit filled soldiers and National Guardmen who keep fucking off with your operations. We will cut you into pieces if you continue coming to the gulf. Sincerely, The Commanders Aurelio, my brother Cholo Quintero, and Commander Pia. We are the absolute Chapiza you faggots!"

Initially it was indicated that there were several corpses, but in the end it was confirmed that it was only a dismembered individual.

Almost simultaneously, three other bodies were dumped in the area of ​​"La Grullita" in San Luis Río Colorado, which were handcuffed on the nearby stretch of road to the Gulf of Santa Clara.

These individuals were later identified as José Antonio Díaz Arroyo, 47 years old; Edgar Leonardo Caravez Martínez, 31; and Elmer Ortega Uriarte, 49, who were residents of the community.

Four dismembered bodies abandoned in black garbage bags were found in the Gulf of Santa Clara, along with a threat attributed to "Los Chapitos", who have their base of operations -precisely- in that area located in Sonora.

Initially it was said that these bodies could be related to the first incident, but Sonoran authorities maintain precautions to confirm a link between the two cases.

Hours after the acts of violence, elements of the National Guard undertook an operation in the Burócratas neighborhood of San Luis Río Colorado, where they arrested four individuals in possession of three long rifles, three magazines and 82 rounds.

The information was made public through a press release, but unofficially, it was a reaction by federal elements to the threat exposed on the highway to the Gulf of Santa Clara.

"El Pía" And "Commander Aurelio"

Samuel Ibarra Peralta is a criminal leader who has been operating for several years in the region of the Mexicali Valley and San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, where he has been in charge of drug distribution and contract killings.

His son, Aurelio Ibarra Ramiro, has a residence in Mexicali, according to a voter card in his name -held by ZETA-, which places him at Calle Gran Vía number 3125, Residencial Puerta de Alcalá, in the Golden Zone of the of the State capital, where it has been made known that the main drug leaders of San Luis, Mexicali and San Felipe are hiding out.

"El Pía" has been related to protection fees in the La Puerta de Mexicali neighborhood, one of the various points that made up its area of ​​operations for the unloading of light aircraft, such as the Nayarit, Zacamoto, Durango and Cucapah ejidos.

Last year they still held control of that plaza, until they were exiled for not agreeing to align themselves with "Los Rusos", which generated some confrontations that culminated in the withdrawal of him and his son, along with Luis Alfredo Garibay Félix "El Wicho" , today imprisoned after an operation carried out by the Army on the ranch owned by his uncle Manuel Garibay Espinoza, in Ejido Chiapas III.

To this are added some operations carried out during 2020 by elements of the extinct State Security and Investigation Guard (GESI), in which a drug shipment was seized at a ranch that allegedly belonged to "Pía" in the Mexicali Valley.

After the apprehension of "El Wicho", the intervention of "Pía" and Aurelio in Mexicali was reduced, focusing even more on the Gulf of Santa Clara and San Luis Río Colorado, as well as the port of San Felipe, where cells dedicated to poaching of totoaba were absorbed by “Los Chapitos”. Thus they seized the entire area of ​​the Upper Gulf of California, which turns out to be a strategic point for fentanyl trafficking to the United States, through small and medium-sized vessels that disembark at these points.

The latest reports from Baja California authorities indicated that Samuel Ibarra "El Pía" had died after an armed attack that occurred between San Luis Río Colorado and the community of Puerto Peñasco, but the message suggests that he supports criminal activities in Sonora.

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