Send us a tip using our anonymous form. He was last seen in a bar, then taken, tortured, and dismembered. This man worked us so hard, Id pull up at my house and just nod out in the front seat. I ended up divorced because of the hours, says Guru. Ponciano Frausto-Lopez. Authorities identified one of the four victims as Rey Jose Poblete Ramos, a man with a lengthy criminal history. Those are the ones we should be hunting.. The bosses werent happy and want to send a message: too much policing, says Seven, who left his post to work a detail in Immigration, after more than one attempt on his life. Hopelessly overmatched there was a machine gun mounted on the turret of the Hummer the agents fled in separate directions and called for backup, which never came. Furcio led one of those hit-man crews. Nine people, including waitresses, were slaughtered in an apparent cartel-related attack at a Mexico bar Wednesday night and the killers left behind chilling notes warning their rivals to Well hunt anyone we think might know you. His name rang a bell; he was connected to Los Palillos, the gang that was shooting up San Diego. Pelons crew had kidnapped Escobar-Lunas brother, then killed him despite being paid a ransom. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), The body of a man lies dead on the street covered with a plastic sheet after being shot by unknown gunmen on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, July 9, 2010. Then, one of their members stabbed a Border Patrol agent; Vargas and his men were summoned. Mexicos CJNG is currently making a series of territorial incursions around the country to take control of key fuel theft, drug trafficking, and human smuggling regions. The AFO didnt invent those horrors, but it certainly seemed to take more relish than most in its merry disembowelment of the dead. The body was found in the same place where eight others were executed a few weeks ago. Nota Editorial: Breitbart Texas viaj a los estados Mexicanos de Tamaulipas, Coahuila y Nuevo Len para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. He killed doctors and the middle class, even when they paid the ransom, says a Mexican official well call Seven. He parked behind the building and met a second car. But with Vargas, it was all about the intel-building. Thats when the truth comes out.. Back in the day, theyd been enforcers for the AFO, hurting anyone who crossed the brothers. According to the police a message to an alleged rival gang was found next to the body. For every 100,000 they kill in this country, they know there are 3 million users right behind them., Still, weve never before had an account of the days when sicarios roamed our streets, hunting civilians and fellow soldiers on U.S. soil. A 10-month-old baby and his 16-year-old mother have been identified among the six victims shot dead in a cartel -style execution in a home in Goshen, California. The garbage that terrorized this beautiful city.. Next to the bodies, members of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) left a poster board taking credit for the scene, labeling the victims kidnappers and rapists. Vargas, an undersized nose guard in college, still looks like he squats 400 in his fifties. We had a cop stop him for a traffic violation; we didnt want him knowing what was up, says Vargas. The footage shows a masked man taunting the doomed men, who are cuffed behind their backs. Mexican federal police say 10 of their officers were killed in the attack and several others were wounded. Los escritores recibiran una muerte segura a manos de los carteles que operan en esas reas incluyendo a el Cartel Del Golfo y Los Zetas si no usaran un seudnimo. The hooded man also accuses Iguala's new mayor David Gama Prez of having close links to La Bandera kingpin Jess "Chucho" Brito. The associate later testified against Vasquez, claiming the cartel assassin took him to an undisclosed location where Vasquez was also keeping a family of three. Ivan Cornejo Goes Through Every Stage of Heartbreak on Ya Te Perdi, Cartels dont send many killers anymore; instead, they just send poison. We caughtthe worst of the worst. The victims werent gangsters, just random civilians held for sums in the low five figures. There were Border Patrol detectives whod used TECS to look out for returned felons wife beaters, child molesters, that kind of thing, says Vargas. The killings make the month the states most violent of 2018. Federal agents relayed Lopezs acid bath method: The procedure to dispose of the corpses was to fill a drum with 200 liters of water and then put two sacks of caustic soda, put it over a fire and when it started to boil, put in the bodies. Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 23 people and injuring dozens more in a hate crime targeting people of Mexican descent at a Walmart store in But faced with overwhelming force, says Herrod, the butcher stood down without a peep. Shocking video shows Mexican cartel members lined up on their knees and taunted, moments before they are executed by a rival gang. No official information from the Guadalajara police has being released yet on the case. Wed all done the cowboy stuff, chasing FTYs on I-5, says Sito, the youngest and most fearless of the CRIM Squad agents, having served a brutal tour in Afghanistan. Each morning, before work, he would cold-call different shops, chatting up the point man on an anti-gang task force or a higher-up at the FBIs off-site. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. (AP Photo), The bodies of two dead men are seen on a street after gunmen shot at them in Monterrey, June 16, 2010. Vargas, who retired last summer as a special agent with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, doesnt despise the cartels or demonize the killers who did their grunt work. Vargas got there just as the backup roared up. Joe Manganiello on Discovering Hes Part-Black and Descended From Slaves The country has been plagued by gang violence, with more than 300,000 murders since 2006. A Mexican navy official said that alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his cartel were slain Wednesday inside the apartment during a shootout with sailors. Dave Contreras, a boss with the Gang Suppression Team of the San Diego PD, asked for CRIM Squads help with Operation Stampede, a massive, task-force takedown of the Southeast Locos. So, too, did the other cops on his squad who spoke to me for this story, out of concerns for their safety and that of their loved ones. Picture taken June 16, 2010. By all objective measures, its a model metropolis. They arrested 21 suspects and seized 14 guns that day, and confiscated 60 keys of coke and methamphetamine over the course of the operation. Shocking video shows Mexican cartel members lined up on their knees and taunted, moments before they are executed by a rival gang. Vargas got a tip from a friend at ATF; he sent Guru to sit on the address. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano all visited Mexico on March 23 for discussions centered on Mexico's endemic drug-related violence. That enraged Herrod and his Group One agents but it didnt surprise them at all. One of Mexicos most violent organizations claimed credit for the gory crime scene, saying the victims were rapists and kidnappersalleging the murders were part of a cleanup.. Second: They were the lucky ones. Real Executions Downplayed in Film and TV, Execution and Infamy in 18th Century Britain, The Most Brutal Execution Methods Reportedly Used By Mexican Cartels. Whatm I gonna do, bro its Teo. Rather than make Pelon stew, however, Escobar-Luna stored his remains in a freezer. He had a brutal childhood; he was raised by the streets from age seven. Of the man they called El Yeyo, a former cop in Tijuana who took part in AFO crimes so vile they dont bear summaries, they told him, Take our money or take a bullet in the head. Theres no animus or moral insult in his tone just a feel for the context of such acts. Four of the dead men - including a wanted murder suspect - were dumped outside the new mayor's campaign office in Iguala, in When the stench summoned the cops, they found the van full of cash; there were toothpicks strewn across the victims corpses. In 2010, CRIM Squad joined a bigger unit, the Border Crime Suppression Team. With the PEPOS information, he put an alert out on Timmy at all the border crossings. I brought in CRIM Squad cause those guys were regulators. Finally, on May 1, 2009, 40 cops and feds including CRIM Squad agents kicked down the doors at five addresses. According to the army, two suspected hit men were killed during a shootout with soldiers along the highway to Reynosa after refusing to stop at a military checkpoint. Vargas wasnt told what crimes the brothers copped to, but he does know a couple of salient facts. Police found later a message written on a wall in downtown Ciudad Juarez, allegedly from the Juarez drug cartel, claiming responsibility for the murder. I loved bagging that guy: He was evil.. (AP Photo), The body of an alleged drug dealer is seen covered by a sheet after being shot to death in front of his house in Tijuana, Mexico, in this Sept. 6, 2009 file photo. Even killers with forged IDs left footprints to follow: a time stamp of arrival; an alias to cross-check; a set of known associates to surveil. cartel members rape women and children, extort and brutalize the weak, and leave helpless migrants to die in the desert or suffocate in tractor trailers. But Vargas brought more than a grinders grit: He was also, by nature, a connector. A Mexican navy official said that alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his organization were slain Wednesday inside the apartment during a shootout with sailors. There wasnt a lot of sharing going on.. He cant see the smoke but he can smell it, he says. Hed spent years going down there on his own dime to liaise with the state and city police and to train up street cops in intel tactics. TikToks True Crime Community Is Turning on Idaho Murder Survivors. Surrounding the men are other armed Los Tiacos henchmen. One of the thousands of victims of cartel violence in Tijuana. In the process, Vargas flipped the role of Border Patrol agents: He turned them into bloodhounds for other feds. Dozens of men in armor crashed his door; Blackhawk gunships circled overhead, anticipating a shootout with his men. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), A forensic expert examines the body of a man that was killed by unknown gunmen near the international bridge in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, May 28, 2010. At the height of Mexicos drug war, cartel assassins roamed our streets. His parents, Mexican migrants, slaved for their sons and sent both of them into public service. She pointed to the poster on the wall behind her. Any violation of immigration law could take killers off the streets at a moments notice. From his tone, it isnt clear which nation he has in mind: Mexico, the worlds lead supplier of narcotics, or America, the worlds lead consumer. Chilling footage of cartel interrogating cop before body found chopped up in bags. A BRUTAL drug runner dubbed Cartel Queen has been captured by the Mexican army after allegedly kidnapping five people. Furcio (cartel slang for big ears; real name: Andrs Ramos Castillo) ran a crew of hit men who were hunting for Los Palillos, according to Vargas. Once across the border, its a straight shot up I-5 to the distribution hub of Los Angeles. Also known as Z-40, Morales reportedly executed perceived enemies of the cartel using the method of The Stew, or El Guiso. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He and his extraordinary team of trackers a crew of six detectives in the Criminal Aliens Squad (or CRIM, for short) did something undreamed of in the nearly 100-year history of the CBP. The victims were reportedly snatched from a rural teaching college by local police officers and then handed over to the cartel. Only Vargas kept a burner lit for Furcio while he and his squad were out chasing narcos. No one told them how those captures linked to El Teo or his enemy, Fernandito, of the AFO. The murder rate has soared to peak-Teo levels. He crumpled, agreeing to spill his guts. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz), A criminal investigator takes a picture of a body with a mask in the street, one of numerous murders over a 24 hour period, on March 26, 2010 in Juarez, Mexico. In 2013, Mexican Marines apprehended Miguel ngel Trevio Morales, the alleged cartel leader of Los Zetas. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), Police and army soldiers inspect the site where a dead man hangs from his wrists handcuffed to a fence in a night club parking lot in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. July 18, 2010. That botched abduction ended in a firefight between their hit squad and a Chula Vista cop. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso), Soldiers stand over the body of a suspected hit man lying next to his overturned vehicle after a shootout in the municipality of China on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Vargas stayed on to supervise his section before drifting off to intelligence operations. Iguala's then mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, was accused of masterminding the mass kidnap, and was jailed along with his wife. Often, they got their ransom but killed the captive; they murdered 14 people in two states. The guys drinking at a bar and meets a girl who takes him home, says Vargas. Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected. The leader says: People from Iguala, here are all those who extorted money and who were killing innocent people and women. The chief instructors: Vargas and his squad. It was his wide-lens view of the War on Drugs that made Vargas a brilliant cop: the ability to see patterns, not pointless depravity, in the crooks coming over from Tijuana. One body was identified as Luis ngel, who was being investigatedfor double murder. Not that Im blaming the job for that. Alma Antonia Caldern Garca, who is the wife of a leader in one Here, the American dream goes big a class of Mexican strivers who came, saw, and conquered for the right to be soccer moms. It climbs the khaki foothills of the Otay Mountains as it takes the eastbound pass out of San Diego. (AP Photo/Agencia MVT-Crisanta Espinosa), Police forensic experts examine the bodies of at least six men that were found dead in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico Tueday April 13, 2010. There were drunken Friday dinners at Vargas house, the wives inside at the kitchen table, the cops on the patio, laughing their way through cases of Tecates. The best bunch of hunters you ever saw., For that op, the hunt was tracking killers for months, then bagging them up just hours before a murder. That stonewall was standard procedure, says Herrod. One of the brothers answered when they knocked politely; as they cuffed him, the other brother pulled up. The city of Cuernavaca has become a battle ground for control of the Beltran Levya drug cartel, whose leader was killed in a battle with marines in that city in last December. Hours before the video, gang members left four bodies in front of Mayor-Elect David Gamas home, the report said. Why doesnt the West see that? The assassins who undertook the savagery are believed to have come from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) led by feared boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a former policeman That shit, Vargas learned in his four years watching the line, was the basic working condition for uniformed Border Patrol agents. Vargas, a hand-to-hand combatant of that war, is taking me on a tour of his biggest busts in San Diego. Vasquez, an alleged hitman for the Los Zetas cartel, was involved in the 2013 kidnapping of a former drug trafficking associate. Guru called Vargas. Weeks before that dinner, Tijuana went up in flames: Men in balaclavas stormed buses and vans and put them to the torch all over town. Harrison Tenpas. They went at him good and hard, but couldnt break him, either. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. Nikki had a name for Vargas to chase: Tigre, Teos leg man in the States. NBCDFW.com. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and the Only Child of Elvis, Dead at 54 EL PASO A Mexican national was sentenced today to life in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for his role in the Sinaloa Cartels operations. The men also had their hands severed and appeared to tortured to death. (AP Photo), Crime scene investigators and a Mexican army soldier stand over the body of a fallen federal policeman after an ambush on a patrol of federal agents near the town of Zitacuaro, Mexico Monday June 14, 2010. The only gang I respect is Sombra Negra. Breitbart News obtained access to the criminal investigation into Poblete Ramos 2011 arrest on the charge of kidnapping. Levantan a 2 y ejecutaron a otros 2, al novio y presuntamente la hermana de Jos Antonio Yepes Ortiz El marro pic.twitter.com/dhmmpbgnzc. The grisly video shows 20 alleged La Bandera gangsters kneeling on the ground, held at gunpoint by masked men with assault rifles who identify themselves as people from the mountains. Please try again. The other three men are still unidentified. There used to be a gate there called Whiskey Two: a door in the wall that only the feds could unlock. Kettlebells here, chinning bar there and every fucking set was a contest.. Tigre did so. El Pozolero being arrested; he dissolved bodies in vats of acid for El Teo and the cartels. I had just put my sunshade up for [a long surveil] when here came Furcio walking toward him. Heriberto Lazcano, also known as "Z-3" andEl Lazca, allegedly fed his enemies to his exotic pets - lions and tigers. Rubn Salazar Vsquez, de 51 aos, fue declarado culpable y pasar ms de 15 aos en la crcel por distribuir cocana en Texas, y formar parte del Crtel del Golfo de Mxico. Vasquez repeated the same action on the parents. This execution style entails taking live victims and putting them in a 55-gallon drum. But we were the first to say, Hey, there are cartel murderers here. When the beer ran low, he sent the friends for more, tossing them the keys to his Cadillac. The Mexican Drug War - a sustained, violent conflict between powerful drug cartels and the Mexican government - has claimed an estimated 164,000 lives over the past Another says Brito has has profited from construction projects that were awarded to him. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The Mexican Attorney General's Office announced Sunday afternoon the arrest of Jose Rodolfo "El Gato" Villareal-Hernandez, the alleged mastermind behind the murder of a drug It took months, but CRIM Squad got a fix on its target by way of a gangland slaying. I speak to Vargas shortly after the Tijuana burnings. Keep my wife and kids safe and why are there people like that in the world?, WITH NO SMALL HELP from CRIM Squad, El Teo was arrested at a La Paz address in January 2010. Ranked among Americas safest, cleanest towns, its praised for fiscal health by good-governance groups, and exalted for both its beaches and civic stability. A brazen ambush by cartel gunmen in central Mexico killed 13 state police officers in a case that has sparked outrage among officials. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. In light of their achievement, it seems like bad form to ask what all their labors had delivered. We flipped on our wig-wags [dome lights] to tell them, Dont even try us tonight. The next thing Vargas heard was a fusillade of bullets blasting out the windows of his partners truck. The brothers were the nephews of Ismael (El Mayel) Higuera-Guerrero, the chief of operations for the Arellano-Flix Organization. WITH APOLOGIES TO Narcos and the countless films and series sipping from the goblet of cartel content, theres little or no profit rehashing the narco feuds that have exacted a hellish toll, making life all but lawless for our southern neighbors. Youre the guys that sacked Furcio! He lived in an alley behind Lincoln High School and sold meth and semi-autos to minors. The footage of the massacre was released Wednesday and is part of the increasing violence in the southern Mexican state of Geurrero, reports said. Brendan Fraser Loses Golden Globe for The Whale After Protesting Event From that day forward, the streets ran dark with blood.
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