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Sunday, June 4, 2023

5 American Tourists Kidnapped by Gulf Cartel Members Were Rescued in Tamaulipas

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat


Last week, members of the Gulf Cartel (CDG) allegedly kidnapped 5 American tourists who were traveling through Mexico. Mexican authorities rescued the tourists, and over the weekend they recovered the victim's vehicles, arresting several members believed to be part of the local cell of the Gulf Cartel.

The recovered vehicles included a blue Lamborghini Urus, a Jeep JL Wrangler, and Jeep Cherokee. The rescued hostages are originally from the Dominican Republic and are naturalized US citizens having left Florida to travel to Veracruz, Mexico.


Mexican authorities speak with one of the rescued tourists.

Kidnapping

The kidnapping occurred on Thursday, June 1, 2023, in the city of Soto de La Marina, in Tamaulipas, where, according to reports, a checkpoint was established at one of the city's entrances. Based on the area and those later arrested, it was likely to have been set up by members of the Gulf Cartel.


The five victims are identified as Joel Rodríguez, Brian Lazala, Ramón Méndez, Bonifacio Sánchez, and Carlos Núñez, all originally from the Dominican Republic but residing in the United States.

After the kidnapping, a relative of one of the victims called Mexican authorities from the United States, reporting that his brother had been kidnapped. He also explained that he had lost all communications with the group and that their phones were turned off. 

On Friday morning, authorities detected a convoy of gunmen heading to Soto de La Marina through the surveillance camera network in the area. The Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (FGJE) traveled to Soto La Marina to investigate.


Rescue

“After reporting C4, suspicious vehicles in #SotoLaMarina, and after repelling an attack, Police Investigators from the #FGJT and State Guards this morning secured 4 weapons and rescued a person reported as missing. Investigations continue." The Tamaulipas Secretary of Security reported.



Suspicious vehicles, possibly including the Jeeps taken from the tourists, were seen in the area and began to attack authorities when stopped. A white Ford truck belonging to the gunmen got stuck in the mud and the authorities repelled the attack. After the attack was over, authorities seized the truck, rescuing one of the men. 

Four weapons, one with an attached grenade launcher, and bulletproof vests were found as well as one of the disappeared tourists.



Hours later, the Tamaulipas Prosecutor's Office confirmed the release of the other four men, who, according to reports, are in good health. They had been left on the side of the highway connecting Soto La Marina to Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.


Lamborghini Recovery & Arrest

On Saturday, June 3, 2023, FGJE investigators located one of the vehicles in which the tourists were traveling, the blue Lamborghini Urus, in the border city of Matamoros.


Some early reports and rumors were circulating that the operation had resulted in the arrest of "La Kena," driving the blue Lamborghini Urus. José Alberto "La Kena" García Vilano, known by the codename "Ciclon-19" is said to be the leader of the CDG cell in Matamoros, having been the second in command prior to the arrest of Jose "El Contador" Alfredo Cardenas Martinez in March of last year. 


Following the arrest, an internal power struggle for control occurred between the Kena-led faction and "El Contador's" son, Axel Cardenas. A truce and cease-fire treaty was announced via a narco manta that the collective Matamoros was allied and would not attack Los Metros, another faction of the Gulf Cartel.

Sergio "El Ciego" Guevara Vásquez was spotted driving the stolen Lamborghini Ursu and arrested.

But the detained man was identified as Sergio "El Ciego" Guevara Vásquez. "El Ciego" is allegedly a member of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros operating under "La Kena." This group out of Matamoros, is the same that had kidnapped 4 Americans, killing two, on March 3, 2023. The two surviving hostages were released and the cartel gave up the men said to be responsible for the attack.

Graphics by HEARST

54 comments:

  1. Im an American living in TAmps and I’m just mystified as to what would make an Americans think it’s a good idea to come through that area now, and drive high target high value vehicles. It’s an unbelievable stupidity. What were they thinking? And what is CDG thinking by kidnapping Americans again?

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    1. Theyre idiots.

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    2. Drugs, man.. they’ll make most users do anything.

      Am I the only one however, who noticed a peculiar connection between these 5 and the 4 that made big news last time?

      Perhaps CDG (once again) thought they were users/pushers from the states and clearly got that racial bias going on..

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    3. @10:12 naw those guys are from the DR - definitely look hispanic and definitely do not look like Hatians. Also, drugs? Huh? You think "drug users" are driving 3 high end vehicles down thru TAMPS to VC just to buy some drugs? And unsurprisingly, I have not seen a peep of this in the press in the US news.

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    4. I also think it had to do with drugs. They for sure are not drug users. I think more like traffickers. But you're right, mot a peep out of the US

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    5. Doesn't add up. I have said this in response to the fabricated and unfounded drug allegations for the Moros kidnapping - american drug suppliers do not need to drive through the US, cross the border, drive through Mexico, return across the border, just to buy cartel supplied drugs. Doing so would make you quite possibly the most unsophisticated drug wholesaler of all time, which of course would likely preclude you from rising to wholesaler.

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    6. There’s a difference between drug users and drug veins. Here’s a obvious to most but secret to some Drug users are your neighbors the ceo of companies and millionaires all over the world. American of all tax brackets like to get high. It’s amazing that ppl still think they know what a person that uses drugs looks like.

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    7. what in the world are you yammering on about? they drove to mexico just to get high? lol what in the world are you talking about? they got kidnapped by cdg because they use drugs? are you using drugs? what is it you're saying exactly?

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  2. I have so many questions, so little known. Also, I love clicking SOURCES links as it opens up further rabbit holes to go down when I need to be asleep(at night) but alas! I'm up way too late reading the random sites...only to damn my my exhaustion come 6:30a alarm clock😵

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  3. Golfos are broke to that.

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  4. La kena sigue libre.

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    1. La kena is making the plaza caliente..

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    2. @10:14 same fuckin shit I thought smh

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  5. The Lamborghini price starts at $236,000..
    🦎

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    1. Then he either is a total idiot or went to meet CDG and thought it was sweet

      🦅

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    2. Not the smartest idea to be driving around in that, while being a cartel leader in Tamaulipas..

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    3. @11:28pm To me that blue car doesn't scream "Lamborghini!" as does a Gallardo or Huracan. I mean, it is one, but it doesn't strut the way its racier stablemates do.

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    4. 5:48 the owner of that vehicle got kidnapped... the authorities were looking for that vehicle.

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  6. Yeah I’m like everybody else on this. Something isn’t clean in all this.

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  7. Señor Sicario#006 tells us the name of the guns on the picture.

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    1. looks like the two on the left are AR-15, or maybe AR-10, the two on the right are AK, or AK variants

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  8. Imagine driving a flashy Lamborghini through Tamps. What could go wrong? Haha

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    1. Once upon a time, an employee working at a seafood restaurant, in Redlands CA, decided to go visit relatives in Michoacan, for the holidays not by airplane, not by bus, but by car he took his gas gussling White newer model Range Rover. He never made it to Morelia.

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    2. http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2020/02/inland-empire-california-man-who-was.html?m=1

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    3. That was my father your MFers!

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    4. They must have paid good money at the restaurant for him to buy that expensive vehicle But most restaurants on or near the border or owned by Mexicans or employees them more inland are money laundered.

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    5. 3:02 my condolences. Any idea what group did it?

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    6. Not everyone is “mobbed up” but there are plenty of pendejos that spend their whole paycheck on shitty new cars to show off when they can barely afford to make ends meet or even fully fill their gas tank and or pay for vehicle maintenance/repairs.

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    7. 9:19
      Your right most spend their paycheck on their cars, too show off.
      We all know those are the ones, that still live with their parents, play video games. Parents did not teach them to contribute to the food and home.

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  9. the coastal highway passes right through Soto de la Marina but another report says the Americans were intercepted in Matamoros. As is typical, the reporting of these events is all over the place. I've passed through Soto many times and we usually have lunch there, and never got that vibe, but then again, it's TAMPS and TAMPS is even hotter right now.

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  10. Im from LA and go to TJ about once a month sometimes every other month, I have a Porsche Panamera no fkn way I would EVER drive it through TJ, F no! I just park on this side in the residential areas and I walk about 30 mins to the border with my backpack. Once in a while I'll see a nice corvette or a g wagon in TJ and I'm like wtf?!!! Some people i swear.

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    1. Probably my G wagon license plate LaMeraV

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    2. He prolly got lost he was trying to get to Tampa bay

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  11. Driving a URUS through Tamps and to VERACRUZ?

    Besides driving from Mochis to Culiacan, or parts of Sonora, can't think of a more dangerous trip.

    I am not one for nonsense conspiracy theories, but that is wildly poor judgement, or we are missing a piece of the story.

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    1. Sonora is cool, I drive my 2023 Silverado ltz all the time in sonora

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    2. In Guayamas? In Navaoja, or Obregon? Altar?

      I don't know first hand, just thinking of the areas I know are hot.

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    3. @3:44 yeah but your bailed out piece of shit Chevrolet is plentiful in Mexico along with DodgeChrysler RAM’s.
      Either way don’t know what these bozos were thinking in driving like nothing could happen to them while being flashy.

      Semper Fi

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    4. If you drive your new truck and are not afraid of being hijacked then are one of them.

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    5. I drive my S580 ,Escalade , Ram TRX to Purrto Penasco all the time

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    6. You cant compare a 20k gmc with an 250k lambo

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    7. @10:44 not thru TAMPS you aren't

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    8. @10:44 Sonora is not the same as Tamaulipas. But then again, Sonora can turn a 180 in a second; everyone is at risk with a new/expensive car/truck.

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    9. Puerto penasco is arizona pretty much

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    10. I have taken my hurucan thru Tamps before @834

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    11. Use to live in Guaymas area. About 3 weeks ago during the daytime, one of the ex-pats in the area was driving a late model F-150 and a car with 4 people with guns and machetes tried to force them to stop on Hwy 15. They were able to get away by turning around and driving the wrong way on the divided hwy until they could cross back over. They are in no way involved in the drug trade, older folks. Unknown if motive was theft of truck/belongings or kidnapping, but this was not the usual vague rumor from a friend of a friend. The victims posted about it on a locals-only online forum. Hwy 15 used to be safe, now it's not. Up until about 5 years ago our 90-year-old next door neighbor drove her late model Lexus SUV down every year and never had a problem. Like a lot of us she sold because she saw what was coming, she much would have preferred to stay and eventually pass in her home there.

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    12. 3:24 part of your story is not real.
      Especially a 90 year old🤣🤣🌵.

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  12. If you can afford an urus why in God’s name would you choose to drive though the most dangerous part of Mexico. Something does not add up.

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  13. These suppose drug lords are sad they flash big time that they are well off yet he kidnapped these Americans just to be able to drive the urus then get caught 🤦🏻‍♂️

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    1. And who said he was a drug lord?

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    2. Corn and bean farmer?
      🦎

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  14. Drugs tourism....

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