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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Sinaloa Cartel Money Laundering in Los Angeles Part 3: Luxury Cars, Nightclubs, Restaurants & El Mago

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Part 3 of a Series Looking into Money Laundering Operations Out of Southern California tied to the Sinaloa Cartel. Read Part 1Part 2

Part 3 Business Fronts & Investments

Part 3 of the 'Sinaloa Cartel Money Laundering in Los Angeles' series dives into several Sinaloa connected traffickers and their involvement in legitimate businesses such as nightclubs and restaurants, including those operated around the nexus of "El Mago" and connected friends. 



El Rodeo Nightclub

In 2012, Edgar Fragoso, owner of El Rodeo Nightclub in Pico Rivera, California, allegedly told a DEA informant that the night club was used for money laundering for Mexican-based but California born trafficker Ramón González also known as"Don Ramon."

El Rodeo Night Club owner Edgar Fragoso.

The DEA then placed Fragoso under surveillance, and recorded all of his cell phone conversations and text messages. The BlackBerry phone that Fragoso used for sending messages was registered to Javier Pineda, an immigration attorney based in Santa Ana, California.

The investigation into the Pico Rivera club was initially triggered by the 2012 arrests of two people who were trafficking methamphetamine in Texas. That investigation lead back to two businesses registered to Fragoso's mother and sister.

The undercovers eventually made multiple payments to Fragoso at El Rodeo including 3 payments for purchases of methamphetamine originating from the Mexican drug dealer and 2 payments for a fictitious drug trafficking organization introduced to Fragoso by the informants.

Fragoso laundered the drug proceeds and returned multiple checks to them, including from an account registered to his mother, Eva Meneses. At first the laundering amounts were small at $6,000. Then in May 2013 a $19,000 request was processed.


Fragoso offered to launder even more money through the purchase of properties and through construction opportunities. He also said he could launder the money through “promotions” at his nightclubs.

Fragoso explained that they could bring the cash to the club then the club would set up a night where the cash would be used to pay for the music, alcohol, and staff. The club would then write them a check for “promotions” for an amount equaling the total amount of cash brought in, minus the percentage charged for laundering.

Fragoso explained that if the money was laundered this way, everyone would be clean; he would be clean and the money would come back clean. Fragoso then said he would be able to launder quantities of around $50,000 and return the money within a few days; larger amounts would take longer to return.

In April 2014, Fragoso agreed to launder $150,000 through a construction scheme. Two checks were both written in June from the account of Vidal Vargus Construction. The amounts were each $30,000 with 'Payment for Loan' written on the check, one made out to a payee 'Kim.'

The feds raided the night club Febuary, 2015, seizing the property and arresting Fragoso. In addition to money laundering conspiracy, Fragoso was charged with seven counts of money laundering for allegedly issuing more than $200,000 in checks to a fictitious drug trafficking organization. The bogus drug operation was set up by the DEA and IRS in an undercover operation. Fragoso pleaded guilty in 2015 to laundering cartel money for "Don Ramon" and the fictitious undercover drug organization.

Ramón González was a major producer and distributor of methamphetamine who trafficked across the borders of Texas and California, and had warrants in Chicago and Dallas. Fragoso also boasted of having friendly relations with some family members of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero.

Ramón González was born in Southern California, living in the Monterey Park, and Whittier areas of Los Angeles County. He was using the nightclub to launder some of the cartel's meth proceeds. According to court transcripts, Gonzalez and Fragoso were ‘compadres’ working together on money laundering at least since 2009.

“Gonzalez directs others to deposit money (drug proceeds) into his wife’s bank account that she in turn spends on any number of things, such as paying the mortgage on their Hacienda Heights home and purchasing vehicles,” court records said. Members of the drug conspiracy, including some in North Texas, deposited his illegal drug proceeds into various accounts she set up in the U.S. since 2009, federal authorities said. It had totaled about $10,000 per month in cash, authorities said.

Ramón's wife, Bambi Adams, was arrested in February 2015 at her Hacienda Heights house. Court documents showed that Adams was receiving around $10,000 month in cash from her husband who was a fugitive living in Mexico. All the while she was taking care of her 5 kids and was active in her school PTA.

Prosecutors said Bambi Adams knew about the source of the money, which was her only source of income, and traveled to Mexico 13 times during the prior two years to visit her husband. She pleaded guilty to the money laundering conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 9 years in a federal prison and released in 2021.

Another shooting took place at the nighclub in 2013. A valet was killed and a security guard wounded.

Violence Connected to El Rodeo

El Rodeo Nightclub was a popular hangout for cartel figures, money launderers and gang members. It has a long history of violence associated with the Mexican Mafia, the prison based gang that was running protection for the owner and the club. Fragoso told the undercover informant that, “The guys from La Eme came and said that here (in El Rodeo) a lot of money was made with people who sell drugs and that they wanted something, that they wanted $5,000 a month.” Prostitution was also suspected to have taken place at the club. Following the raid on the nightclub, it shuttered its doors and was ultimately demolished in 2020.


The nightclub was also connected to the infamous 2008 shooting death of Jose "Huerito" Macias in his silver Bentley, following a serious of altercations stemming from a fight at the Pico Rivera nightclub. 

Macias worked for the Arellano Felix organization, the Tijuana-based rival cartel. Macias’ friends often got into fights with Andy Medrano and his friends. Andy is alleged to be Eddie Escobedo’s brother, better known as "El Mago."

On February 23, 2008, Victor Iriarte went to El Rodeo nightclub with his brother and two friends, including Jose Macias. Andy Medrano and his friend Michael Angel Aleman, were also at the nightclub and Iriarte recognized them. A woman who briefly dated Aleman told police that Aleman and his friends got into fights at El Rodeo with friends of prominent “big shot” Macias.

Iriarte was tipsy when he arrived at El Rodeo, and proceeded to drink 8 or 9 glasses of liquor there. He departed at closing time in a friend's Chevrolet Camaro. Three to five gunshots were fired at the Camaro, one of which struck Iriarte. He was hospitalized for a grazing bullet wound to his chest, inches from his heart.

Sabino Cabral, a friend who was in Aleman's Cadillac Escalade on the night of the Iriarte shooting, had arranged to meet Aleman and Medrano at a church festival at Placita Olivera. After picking up his friends Richard and Marlene Moreno, Cabral drove to the post office parking lot at Cesar Chavez and Alameda to meet up with the rest of the group and go to the festival.

Medrano told Cabral that he and Jose Macias got into a fight during the festival, which was broken up by security guards. Around 2:30AM, Cabral and the Morenos walked back to Cabral's car. A passing Bentley caught Cabral's and the Morenos' attention.


Richard Moreno saw the Aleman and Medrano standing at the intersection with singer Roberto Tapia. They argued with Macias, the Bentley driver, who pulled away then made a U-turn. When the Bentley stopped, several gunshots were heard.

Macias' car crashed on the 101 freeway 2 miles from the church festival. The festival was about 100 steps from the shooting site at Cesar Chavez and Alameda. A festival goer unknowingly helped place Aleman at the festival that night when they took a photo of him next to Roberto Tapia, later posting it on social media.

The shooting seeminhly stemmed from a serious of altercations amongst the rival groups but police suspected that Eddie Escobedo had ordered or at least ok'd the killing. According to a search warrant affidavit, detectives believed he and Macias were engaged in “a power struggle” over control of trafficking networks in the Los Angeles area.

Escobedo was never charged in the murder, but Andy Medrano, supposedly his brother and Aleman were convicted and are serving life sentences. At his 2014 detention hearing in federal court, Prosecutor Braverman said Los Angeles detectives suspected Escobedo “ordered the homicide to occur.”

“Our understanding is that individual was a rival drug trafficker driving in that Bentley,” he said. The luxury car came from Dream Motor Cars on La Cienega but was not registered to Jose Macias at the time of his death.


"El Mago" Ivan's Guy in LA


Eduardo "Eddie" Escobedo-Silva, a 39 year-old convicted marijuana distributor for Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, was shot to death in South Los Angeles, on Thanksgiving morning in November 2023.


Eddie Escobedo, who also went by Emilio according to his 2014 indictment, was nicknamed “El Mago,” or “The Magician.” He was born and raised in East Los Angeles and rose to become the primary distributor of marijuana in Los Angeles for Guzman’s oldest son, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, the prosecutor said at a 2014 detention hearing.

In July 2011, Escobedo, then 27, was arrested leaving a stash house in Torrance, California where police found a ton of marijuana. In October 2013, Escobedo was caught on a wiretap speaking with Ivan Guzman Salazar about smuggling more than 5 tons of marijuana through a tunnel under the US-Mexico border, Braverman said. Authorities seized 2.7 tons of cannabis from a courier working for Escobedo, according to the prosecutor.


Escobedo was also helping Ivan launder money through the purchase of sports cars that were shipped to Culiacan, prosecutors said. Federal agents determined that Escobedo used a false name to buy two Lamborghinis from an Orange County dealership.

An example of a 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago.

Mago's Mercialago

Covered in depth in Part 2 of this Series is the method of moving drug proceeds employed by the Sinaloa Cartel and other organizations called the 'Black Market Peso Exchange' also termed 'Trade Based Money Laundering.' This is a system of value transfer (including goods and services) as opposed to the transfer of actual currency. 

In 2011, Orange County California had been without a Lamborghini dealership since 2009, when Lamborghini Orange County owner Vik Keulyian pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges. In 2011, a new team opened up a temporary dealership site in Costa Mesa as Lamborghini of Newport Beach before eventually opening the dealership and showroom in nearby Irvine.


In 2011, 17 separate cash deposits totaling $164,200 were deposited to a bank account owned by Lamborghini of Newport Beach to purchase of a 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago. The 17 deposits were conducted at 16 different U.S. Bank branches throughout Southern California, all on the same day. Each of the 17 cash deposits was for an amount between $9,400 and $9,800 just under the reporting threshold. This pattern was clear evidence of "structuring."


The vehicle was purchased by a third party using a dealer's license belonging to the company Remate. Aside from being a way to layer and hide not only the source of the purchasing funds but the true owner of a car; dealer-to-dealer sales are often used to exempt the purchase from sales tax, saving thousands on the overall cost of the car. The LNB salesman testified that he was aware of this type of arrangement, where people would borrow an associate's dealer paperwork in order to purchase luxury cars for personal use while avoiding sales taxes.


Remate's principal, Raul Ernesto Zugasti-Coria was apparently aware that the vehicle was purchased in Remate's name. However, according to his wife Mariscal, Zugasti was only seen around the vehicle on one occasion. It was never registered as part of Remate's sales inventory, nor placed on their dealership lot for sale.

Further cloaking the origins of the funds and eventual driver of the Lamborghini, it was delivered from the Newport Beach dealership to an address in Los Angeles. The address provided on the paperwork didn't actually exist; so the driver contacted the purchaser en route to obtain a delivery address.

Mariscal believed Eddie Escobedo was the person in possession of the Lambo when purchased in 2011 and impounded by Irwindale PD in early 2012 after the dealer plate and registration had expired. On February 1, 2012, the car was seized by ICE agents as part of a federal seizure warrant.


Eddie Escobedo was an associate of Zugasti. According to court documents, Eddie Escobedo would give money to Zugasti to buy cars; he would also use Remate's dealer's license to buy cars himself. 

Exotic Cars Seized in Mexico

Agents listened on a wiretap as Guzman Salazar asked Escobedo to purchase a Nissan GTR and make $50,000 in modifications, prosecutor Braverman said. Mexican authorities seized the Nissan GTR in Culiacan in 2014, as well as a McLaren that Escobedo had bought in California for $175,000. These seizures stemmed from a 2013 indictment charging Ivan as well as "El Mayo" and his sons as well.


In a March 2018 interview for belha Knack magazine, Iván revealed some of the cars in his collection. “I love my Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys, my thoroughbred horses,” he told journalist Ernesto Rodríguez Amari.

Ovidio on the other hand, had a reputation for being less flashy, who only had a weakness for thoroughbred horses and roosters. However, several luxury cars were found at his Jesus Maria ranch after his arrest, including Mercedes Benz G-Wagons and side-by-side RZR all-terrain vehicles. Also found were Rolex watch boxes, Marta Peña jewelry and bags from luxury brands such as Prada and Chanel. Some of these may have been purchased in the United States and sent to Mexico as gifts or payment to the cartel.

Hair Extensions & Music Labels

At the time of his arrest in 2014, Escobedo was living in a sprawling Granada Hills home with a pool and tennis court. DEA agents searched Escobedo and found him carrying a large amount of cash, 4 phones and keys to 5 different cars.

A father of 4, Escobedo claimed his annual income of about $200,000 came from a business he owned with his wife, International Hair Authority, that imported hair extensions and sold them. Escobedo also reportedly owned a record label, Magic Records Corporation.

Braverman said agents suspected Escobedo was using the hair company’s accounts to launder drug money, pointing to a $50,000 wire transfer from a man named Harvinder Singh. Scotland Yard arrested Singh and his associates, who were shipping cocaine from Mexico to London on British Airways flights.

After pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute marijuana and launder money, Escobedo was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. He served 4 years and 9 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute more than 10,000 kilograms of marijuana and laundering drug proceeds. He was released in 2018.

Benihibachi Food Trucks

Soon after his release, just as Los Chapitos were expanding their influence and dominance in Mexico following the extradition of their father, Sinaloa Cartel founder "El Chapo," Eddie Escobedo established a new business, a hibachi style food truck first named Benihibachi. Later, following a copyright infringment suit brought by the owners of Benihana; the company was renamed Besthibachi.

Japanese food, including sushi and hibachi or teppanyaki has become popular amongst Sinaloans due largely in part to the availability of fresh seafood along the southern Pacific Coast of Sinaloa. 


A photo of Eddie in a food kitchen slicing onions was provided to prove his job status and that he was turning away from his criminal past when looking to be released from supervised custody. He is seen wearing a watch valued at nearly $10,000.

His attorney, Ezekiel Cortez, urged the judge to see the good Escobedo had done after leaving prison. “As a society, you recognize that they listened. You recognize people who turned their lives around,” Cortez said at a hearing. “You recognize people who cut their ties, as in this case, with former very bad associations.”


Several of the food trucks and even a brick and mortar location in Los Angeles were operating while "El Mago" continued to flaunt his wealthy lifestyle on social media with posts including high end luxury cars, bags of cash and even singing along at parties or privados.


It was in the early morning on Thanksgiving last year that Escobedo was shot and killed following a late night privado party at a warehouse in Los Angeles. Sheriff's have since closed the case as it was believed that the shooting was done by an 18th Street gang member who was also killed at the scene.


A week prior to his death, Mago alongside narco corrido singer Larry Hernandez and the owner of Culichi Town restaurants headed to Las Vegas for F1 race's debut on the Las Vegas Strip. Track tickets were upwards of $2,000 with some strip facing hotel suites going for over $20,000 per night during the race.

Following the shooting death of "El Mago" several of his associates and friends showed their support across social media accounts. This included several notable figures often seen in photos at parties, concerts, clubs and other venues with Escobedo.


Most notable was a photo taken of a group at the opening of a La Carneceria meat market in. Tagged in the photo was again the owner of Culichi Town Restuarants, singer Larry Hernandez, singer Gerardo Ortiz who was implicated in the DEL Records sanctions violations case related to concert promotions with a CJNG money launderer in Mexico. Other business owners including a exotic car dealer and trucking companies were also tagged in the photo.

Part 2 Trade Based Money Laundering



El Mago Graphics by HEARST

111 comments:

  1. ese larry con todos los de sinaloa esta metido

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    1. But, but, I thought cartels wouldn't operate in the US...🤔

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    2. El mayo en los años 2000 se paseaba en los angeles California con la protección de la eme la DEA tiene videos del mayo hay en los angeles con los críps y bloods tirando barrio

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    3. 3:30 Se vestía de estilo Blood in Blood out :.

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  2. El Mago! I call him Mr HomeDepot because he dressed like a fucking tool

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    1. Those are some expensive tools

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    2. No period, are you using Meth?
      Your here all day and it's 1:23 am,
      son get some sleep otherwise you will look like a zombie.

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    3. That's funny!

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    4. Someone sounds jello.

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    5. Yeah he needed some fashion tips ... Got his gear from the barnem and bailey circus

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  3. Rancho humilde is next

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    1. RH is actually clean, Jimmy has prove that everything in that record label is clean. Del Records in the other hand has some dirty stuff hiding.

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    2. Didnt FBI raid Del Records headquarters?

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    3. Jimmy actually played it smart.

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    4. Jimmy le ayudaba a edgar a lavar en el rodeo

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  4. The cartel forgets one thing, in America the government is the largest cartel, you cross them and you'll go to prison so long you'll want to take your own life. Just ask el chapo. The Americans dont mess around

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    1. Exactly. Once the US government is done with you, they’ll turn on you and let you rot in a cell.

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    2. They don't forget that.

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  5. Mago is a heatbag

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  6. So if I see them at the Wynn in Vegas they're cartelijos?

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  7. Just the tip of the iceberg so cal is full of laundry mats and it’s growing across the us!!

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  8. Pinche Larry lambe huevos de todos hahaha

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    1. He’s annoying lol

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    2. Connor, tell us stories of your flasy life, the viejas, downing pistos and immediately breaking the bottle, mad dogging fools, sunglasses hanging from your back...

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    3. 712
      Sunglasses hanging down..
      You GOTTA be the burning rubber out of the liquor store parking lot kid, also!
      Keep them zingers coming, they make my day!
      😂🙂

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  9. Usually what goes around comes around

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  10. El Mago siempre le tuvo miedo al Lil Guy de Los Aretes de TJ!

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    1. True story. Me acuerdo en el 2017-2019 andaba el lil guy paseando por todo California entablando tratos sin problemas de nadie. Muy humilde y respetuoso qepd el lil guy 💯

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    2. Como le gusta mentir a la raza. Ya pa ese tiempo se lo avían comido los gusanos

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    3. Little guy passed?

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    4. 8:10 habló del famoso lil guy que andaba en caballo 🐎 con espada. 🗡️ Iva y venia sin problemas. Y cuando andaba en LOS, bien calladito el compa del título.

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    5. Lil guy ain’t dead mf wtf lol

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  11. Love that Mago didn’t think to take off the AP in his “I’m on the straight and narrow” photo.

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  12. The first from the left Edwi Gutierrez, the middle guy and the third from the right (@rancholm) are the owners of la carnicería meat markets and were at the White House yesterday.

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    1. Yeah that guy and Misael from Culichi town are always out and about

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    2. culichi town def a lavado de dinero, the food is so nasty that I don't get how they still in biz , homie went from selling tamales in a garage to having multiple culichi towns in less than a few years so that right there was kinda sketchy

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    3. My fam is from Sinaloa I totally agree culichi town is straight up trash overpriced garbage

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    4. that dude from (RanchoLM) runs his pops big rigs going to AZ .

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  13. At this point im pretty sure larry hernandez is a dea informant.....

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    1. I thought the same thing. Tekashi69

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  14. Literally all the flea markets in LA have Guzman merch

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  15. Reminds of George Torres número uno market

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    1. No period, you sure have a lot of free time all day, have you thought of getting a job.

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    2. George Torres had an eme representative killed and they backed off. Also, he beat a fed case.

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    3. George Torres was connected big time, and the black hand representative that tried to strong arm him was toast because he reached out to the top guys in CDC and he was the correct in defending his interests. He’s from the state of Guerrero, major H trafficker.

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    4. Also, reminds me of Pablo Perfecto, arrested in Placentia California back in 2009. But, yeah, Torres had the black hand scarred.

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    5. Back in the 80s and early 90s El Rodeo was called the Latin Village.

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    6. Torres moved product for Arellano's in the 90's right? cuadros. El Rodeo was also featured in 2004 Collateral with Tom Cruise

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    7. Es Michigan no de gro

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    8. Mariscos Hectors in Orange County. The owner Diego Olivares is another one. A very well known DEA informant. But all of a sudden they act and move like capos now people think he’s all good. https://voiceofoc.org/2016/06/drugs-cash-and-parties-the-lifestyles-of-mayor-pulidos-friends/

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  16. Fernando sanchez Arellano el INGE salio de prision y es profugo otra vez de la DEA .. se Ira a reorganizar el CAF ?

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    1. When was he released and what's the update on emmita?

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    2. I don’t think he’s good in TJ anymore

      He can maybe keep working from somewhere else or just keep some properties and decent businesses

      He can work with whoever but he’s not going to risk being killed. If he comes to TJ, he’s probably done.

      Sending some loads form Guadalajara or whatever is a different story. He had no real people left.

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    3. And nothing to offer them.

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    4. (J) LMAO 🤫

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    5. Déjate de mamadas J. Pinche Chilakile cien por ciento. Opinas mucho, pero sabes poco.

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    6. If he's doing good, saludos to Inge

      I grew up around the time Inge was on, around 2008

      saludos to Aquiles team too.

      but ask 10 people in SD or TJ who are active, if INGE is the strong hand in those areas and tell me what you hear. or that Flacos team needs Inge, for what?

      what can he do for them? Maybe he connected inside with reps from CJNG or something. I don't know, but what does he bring to the table?

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    7. Yeah, right, saludos to the ingineer and akiles, who are probably responsible for the torture and brutal deaths of family and loved ones of some of the readers here, what do you got J, a bad case of Stockholm syndrome?

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  17. Fantastic article! Very informative and interesting.

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  18. Now I have a feeling that all restaurants and carnicerías that Mexican artists support have a drug connection.

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    1. Mariscos Hectors in Orange county that’s another scum. https://voiceofoc.org/2016/06/drugs-cash-and-parties-the-lifestyles-of-mayor-pulidos-friends/

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  19. Now i understand why Mexican artists don’t like having random people as friends.

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  20. Dude everyone knows Larry's gay... And he used to hit the pool with carnalio...

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    1. Yess that’s true I heard from a homie he use to dance naked in phoenix

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    2. @1049
      Not defending the clown, but it's HOT in Phoenix, what's he supposed to wear, a fur coat? 🙂

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    3. 8:07 jajajajajajaja 🍻

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    4. Everyone knows? WTF, apoco? Y tu como ye diste cuenta pinche vieja chismosa? Oh de seguro hay andabas de huele pedos con la bola de jotos.

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    5. He was dancing for the fellas with a towel that’s what I am talking about

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    6. 11:12 Y tu a aqui andas tambien de chismosa !!

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    7. 1242
      As if YOU never danced for the fellas in a towel 😹

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  21. Pretty cool guys for east L.A.
    These guys are second class citizens, they maybe could get bottle service in an antro in Pomona, but reservations at Spago might be a bit of a reach.
    If you work in a tire shop, or spend your day chopping iceberg lettuce for westside anglo diners, j can see where these cavemen might be heroic figures to be emulated, but face reality, real power is in the hands of white people.

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    1. Buddy i dont think anyone wakes up and says they want to go to spago in beverly hills LOL . Im not sure if you realize most races stick to their own areas / women / culture , why would a drug dealer want to be around white people / jewish ppl . Imagine him socalizing in these places smh , he would be caught up in a second lmfao . Of course hes an idiot for hanging around bums and so are you for saying such a stupid ass comment lmfao

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      Movies are make believe.

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    3. Spago not even a really hot spot anymore

      that was in the 80's

      but mago moved heavy. F1 races. Mayweather in Vegas. Yacht parties. Richard Milie. He was a Chino Antrax level

      dude went straight up with Ivan

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  22. What a read, thank you!

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  23. The del records incident where Gerardo Ortiz cooperated with the FBI. He must be from Sinaloa.

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  24. Ohh shit what does he look like in his trousers and whiteboots ? Mexicans and their loud arse cowboy boots ?

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    1. Duranguenses helped create stupid looking boots. I'm Mexican American from Texas and I only wear Texas style boots.

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    2. That's Koo foo

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  25. Who ended up gettting him? I know says 18th st but was it random beef w that cholo, planned hit from higher ups or his past?

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    1. said it was over a table

      like a bottle service table at that after party

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    2. That 18th street dude was inside with Mago

      10 years ago

      probably went back to that, some disrespect

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  26. I think everyone from the LA/IE area knows that La Carniceria and Culichi towns are washing machines.

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    1. Same for Marioscos Hectors in Orange County. The owner is a well know informant. https://voiceofoc.org/2016/06/drugs-cash-and-parties-the-lifestyles-of-mayor-pulidos-friends/

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  27. Magos got a face you just want to punch

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  28. Sinaloas and their culichi themed restaurants have ruined sushi rolls. Everything has cream cheese with dry rice! Wtf? La Carnicería Meat Market is outstanding! Will drive from Ventura to Northridge for some Tasajo every time I’m hosting a bbq!

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    1. Have you ever been to culiacan or mazatlan ? Sure there’s Sinaloa style sushi my parents are sinaloenses it’s a cool style of sushi not my favorite either but I’ve also had sushi in mazatlan and culiacan that blows a lot of authentic spots out of the water ! Also theres a few geared towards a authentic style sushi sure there’s always fusion but there’s few restaurants that all stick to the code not all sushi that is made by sinaloenses is made with loads of cream cheese and fried. En Sinaloa rifa el marisco fresh seafood is easy to come by. Don’t be so harsh they haven’t ruined anything just put there own spin on it. Todos somos raza Saludos.

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    2. In Ventura/ Oxnard there's a lot of people from Michoacan. This probably explains you're dislike for Sinaloa.

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    3. 9:27 I don’t understand all the hate for Sinaloa, first the local cartel, then their music (even though they sing to other heavy hitters in the game) and now their food? Lmfao 😂

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    4. Ey, pero no vayas hablar de sus morisquetas vali por que va habir putasos! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 rice and beans and they swear they came up with a new dish....Out in Oxnard, them michoacanos go into Chipotle asking for morisquetas.

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    5. Big Sushi fan here the Sushi in Mazatlan is subpar at best. If you want good sushi Vancouver Canada kills any spot in Mexico

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    6. Total Wine is close by, might have to stop at La Carnicería after getting my brewskis.

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    7. I’ve never been to Vancouver 1:39 pm I need to check it out !

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  29. Why is this new generational Mex music such STR8 ASS. Alley cats greatest hits. 🙉🙊🙈

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    1. It's not just Mexican music, it's music in general. Rock, hip hop, country, country pop, it all sounds like nails to a chalkboard.

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  30. I tought Larry Hernández had become Christian when he went to jail what happened🤨

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    1. Just because his cellmate made him get on his knees to worship, don't necessarily make Larry a christian! 😹

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  31. Jose Luis Ruiz is about to open his 20th location, all these markets in less then 5 years or so. He went from moving meth, to birds, and now working with big time people washing there money. Guy came from Guadalajara about 10 years ago. No papers, that’s why he got married with Chuy Patabionica daughters for the papers. There both making each other a favor, he’s with her for the papers and she’s with him for the money. Gera from Rancho LM his comadre, Misael from Culichitown, Jimmy from Rancho Humilde, and others stick together and helping each other with washing money.

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    1. How the feds don't know all about this is wild!

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    2. Don't be stupid, of course they do.

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    3. 1132 they do now thanks to the mitoteras like 222.

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    4. Loose Lips Sink Ships
      ..WW2 propaganda slogan

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  32. Jimmy and Rancho Humilde are next unfortunately

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  33. What a shame to see such cool cars go to pieces of shit like them. The cars deserve better.

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