Hitmen Burn & Kill Young Mother After El Topo is Killed by Police in Tabasco

 "El Lic" and "HEARST" for Borderland Beat

El Topo, from the cartel group “La Barredora”, was killed in a gunfight with police in Tabasco after a fellow cartel member turned him in. El Topo was known to sexually assault minors, kidnap, murder, and charge extortion fees from priests in Chontalpa.

 

Topo’s cartel group burned vehicles on the highway after hearing of his death. They trapped a mother and her son inside a burning bus, leading the mother to die from the flames after bravely tossing her child to safety.

Warning: Graphic images below this point.

 

 

The following is taken from an article by Diario Presente

 

El Topo is Killed

 

Luciano Vicente García, alias “El Topo”, was a cartel leader from the group La Barredora. His group primarily operated in La Chontalpa, Tabasco.

On Monday, April 22, he was shot was shot four times by police officers while he was in a safe house in Cárdenas, Tabasco.

Four of his bodyguards were arrested in the operation. They are named:

 

Gustavo Alfredo A. L.

Pedro Antonio L.

William Josué C. F.

Pedro S. P.

 

The detainees were found to be in possession of 6 AR-15s; 3 ballistic vests; ammo and a stolen motorcycle. The bodyguards were handed over to the Attorney General’s Office.

The death of El Topo led the other members of the cartel to set fire to more than a dozen vehicles on the federal highways connecting Cárdenas to Comalcalco on the afternoon of Monday, April 22.

A woman burned to death after hitmen burned a TRT bus on the Cárdenas to Comalcalco highway.

 

There was also an attack on a police patrol car near the mayor’s house. And there was an attack on the Army base of the 57th Infantry Battalion as well as the burning of more vehicles nearby.

 

 

Who Was El Topo? Who Turned Him In?

 

According to military intelligence agents El Topo is accused of raping minors, kidnapping, extortion, land theft, robberies, executions, in addition to charging “derecho de piso” [an extortion fee] from priests of Chontalpa churches.

The State Attorney General's Office [FGE] investigation El Topo and Euler Rubalcaba Colorado, alias “El Rayo”,  for the recent homicide of José Livio Pons Echeverría, a sugar cane grower and the leader of the C.N.C., who represented almost 4 thousand sugar cane growers. Pons Echeverría was also a recognized political leader.

The military intelligence files state that these two dangerous subjects kidnapped the sugar cane grower leader and kept him captive for four days.

They then stripped him of his assets, which included 500 hectares of sugar cane, tractors, heavy machinery, and there is even talk of a light aircraft. He was forced to transfer these assets to people who are close with Topo before they killed him.

El Topo and El Rayo reportedly made a profit of more than 200 million pesos from this.

 

Many claim that Euler R., alias “El Rayo”, betrayed El Topo and handed him over to police on Monday.

 

El Topo resisted being arrested and he was shot four times, while “El Rayo” fled, presumably, wounded.

 

At the moment, Rayo’s whereabouts are unknown, but he is being sought by law enforcement. Yesterday Cárdenas was calm again, however civilians were apprehensive about leaving their homes.

 

 

 

The following is taken from an article by Milenio

 

More on the Woman Who Was Burned by Cartel Members

 

Jessica Domínguez López lost her life saving that of her little son, whom she threw out of the window during the attack perpetrated by criminal groups on a bus on the TRT line on the Cárdenas-Comalcalco  route .

 

On Monday night, the young mother boarded the bus to go to her home located in Libertad, where she was originally from, without ever imagining that she would meet a tragic end.

The journey seemed calm but upon reaching Santa Rosa the bus was intercepted by members of the criminal group "La Barredora" who attacked it, setting fire to the bus and six other cars in various parts of the municipality.

 

Witnesses reported that during the bus attack, Jessica Domínguez and her 11-year-old son did not manage to flee the bus in time, so they were trapped inside while the truck caught fire.

Finding no way to get out alive, the young mother chose to throw her son out of a window to save his life, however she could not escape herself.

In videos circulating on social media, the body of the brave mother can be seen being consumed by the flames, while the son was rescued with a fracture in his arm and he was taken to his relatives.

 

Video Source: Perturbador

Video Source: Eco_1_LVM

Jessica's body was taken by the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) to carry out genetic tests and later it was handed over to her relatives, in order to give her a Christian burial.

 

 

Sources: Diario Presente, Milenio, Perturbador