The kidnap wasnt the story, but its punchline was: The victim wound up captive in Tijuana. Well put trackers on your moms car and tail her to church, if thats what it takes to find you., For months, CRIM Squad members worked lead after lead, sitting on addresses from East Lake to Poway on tips from Vargas informants. Another was abducted. According to the local media reports, the body was accompanied with a note alluding to the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. They never told us more than we had to know.. 2:21. July 18, 2010. Of the 10 deadliest cities, per capita, in the world, Mexico scores five or six in a given year. Five of the Locos were charged with murder. The men also had their hands severed and appeared to tortured to death. Vargas tracked Yeyo to an exs in south L.A., then handed him off to the Mexican police. He pumped them for ways to mine national-security databases, looking for felons whod been jailed and deported, but whod snuck back in with false papers. They identified, by code, who was who in the zoo: the half-dozen or so narcos who spoke directly to Teo from either side of the border. Only Vargas kept a burner lit for Furcio while he and his squad were out chasing narcos. Nowhere is that riddle harder to solve than in greater San Diego. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. Teo, untouchable, paraded through town in his convoy of SUVs, while his crews snatched innocents off the streets and tortured them to squeeze money from their families. No one knew Timmy was on U.S. soil till Vargas called his sources in Mexico. Vargas, an undersized nose guard in college, still looks like he squats 400 in his fifties. One of the friends fell dead. Till one drunken night in 2003, when a Palillo punched an AFO in-law. MUERE LA CATRINA DEL CARTEL JALISCO EN ENFRENTAMIENTOayer, en El Aguaje Mich. El Ejr Mex Fue Emboscado por sicarios del CJNG ya que se encontraba el M2 con La Catrina y 10 sicarios, el M2 huy abrindose paso sobre sus sicarios atropell a 1 de ellos y dej tirada a La Catrina pic.twitter.com/uM7gCYWSXz. One day that fall, Vargas got a call from a DEA agent with the Group One Task Force whom Ill call Nikki. The perp was some dude called Furcio.. 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. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. He picked up tricks for poking holes in statements from the felons theyd arrested for smuggling. According to police at the scene gunmen shot against four men outside a house, killing three and injuring one. 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. 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. Eventually, I heard something about wed played a part, but no one ever reached out and said so, says Vargas. One body was identified as Luis ngel, who was being investigatedfor double murder. Next to the bodies, that had their feet and hands tied and a plastic bag covering their heads, police also found a message allegedly from a drug cartel. Vasquez repeated the same action on the parents. Three generations of one family were killed in what is described as a "cartel-like execution" at a California residence known to police for drug-related activity. Surrounding the men are other armed Los Tiacos henchmen. With a population of 1.3 million, 2,600 people died in drug-related violence last year and 500 so far this year, including two Americans recently who worked for the U.S. Consulate and were killed as they returned from a children's party. The response among U.S. cops was rather more restrained. The ferocity of their mission; the foxhole esprit de corps; that sense of doing truly important work for half a decade, these men fell in love with their jobs and, to no small degree, with one another. Reportedly, Teodoro Garca Simenta, an alleged lieutenant for the Tijuana cartel, paid Lopez to get rid of the cartels victims. Police said they had been ordered to stop the students disrupting a speech by the mayor's wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda. Theyd earn it, and then some, in the months to come. The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego. No one at Group One would give me specifics on the nature of Timmys assistance: Hes still a protected informant 12 years after Teos capture. That list includes Carlos and Ismael Camacho-Higuera, the hothead brothers whom Vargas squad collared in the spring of 2006. It is where Chapo commissioned his first tunnels, baiting the AFO into a gunfight. Kettlebells here, chinning bar there and every fucking set was a contest.. CRIM Squad would find the perp, surveil him for weeks, then sack him up as he left to do his dirt. The biggest cheers went up from TJs cops, he adds. Hours before the video, gang members left four bodies in front of Mayor-Elect David Gamas home, the report said. By now, half of Mexico was chasing Teo: Hed turned Tijuana and most of the Baja peninsula into an abattoir. A gruesome war between Mexico's powerful Gulf cartel and its former armed wing, the Zetas, has killed a record 290 people in Monterrey and surrounding areas since the start of the year, when the two groups split and bloodshed escalated. Often, theyre in boxer briefs sweating it out, because the car and its A/C are off all day and theres nothing but window tinting to fade the San Diego sun. Authorities identified one of the four victims as Rey Jose Poblete Ramos, a man with a lengthy criminal history. JUST WEEKS AFTER clocking in as CRIM Squad chief, Vargas got pinged by an FBI buddy about a very odd kidnap in San Diego. Authorities found the dead man beaten, naked and castrated, and have not identified him but believe he is Rogelio Sanchez, a Baja California state government official who went missing this week. It was released as a warning on social media by Los Tlacos, who claimed they were cleaning up the city after the other mob robbed and killed innocent civilians. We've received your submission. Chihuahua State officials released a statement Tuesday June 8, demanding a full investigation into the death of the boy who was allegedly shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after a confrontation, according to Mexican authorities. We told them and the time came, this turf already has an owner.". Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. (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. Finally, on May 1, 2009, 40 cops and feds including CRIM Squad agents kicked down the doors at five addresses. 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Those mopes, as he calls them the hit men, kidnappers, bent cops, and smugglers were pawns in an industry with no way out, and whose wages were generally paid in blood. Shocking video shows Mexican cartel members lined up on their knees and taunted, moments before they are executed by a rival gang. We encountered an issue signing you up. 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. They were the best and worst years of my life, says Sito. The killings make the month the states most violent of 2018. Jan. 16, 2023. DISTURBING video shows Mexican cartel hitmen lining up 20 rival gangsters in a forest before executing them one by one. 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. Read more about cookies here. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Among those goodies was something called TECS an exclusive database of every person, vehicle, boat, plane, or shipment entering the United States through a port of entry. There were Border Patrol detectives whod used TECS to look out for returned felons wife beaters, child molesters, that kind of thing, says Vargas. It killed and beheaded street cops, cooked the flesh of its rivals on flaming tires, and delivered bodies by the hundreds to a man it called El Pete. Usually, Vargas crew could take a nickname and get rolling, but Furcio was on no ones radar screen. Because we were quote-unquote Immigration, we could sack up bad guys no one else could touch, he says. 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. 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. 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. Hed later tell the cops what the gunmen told him: Furcio was their target, and theyd botched the hit. In hindsight, the certificate felt a tad premature for a crew that hadnt faced its greatest test. With the PEPOS information, he put an alert out on Timmy at all the border crossings. The grim scene, shocking even by recent standards in the crime-battered country, played out at Our Lady of San Juan church in Celaya in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the Sun and Daily Mail report. In the fall of 2003, one of their U.S. clients flew to Baja California to do a drug deal. My next-door neighbors a failed nation, he says. At the height of Mexicos drug war, cartel assassins roamed our streets. Duncan was assigned to the Group One Task Force, a legendary squad of state and federal agents who broke the AFO after 20 years. Pete then dissolved the corpses into chunks of stew and poured the liquid remains down a drain. Debriefing every collar to get the next guy up the ladder, then doing surveils for five days straight., Yeah, the hours were just stupid but he worked em same as we did: four in the morning till whenever, says Guru, the workout fanatic and know-it-all gun nut who could fieldstrip an M-4 blindfolded. We were soldiers bagging soldiers. Cartel violence in the Mexican border state of Sonora continues to escalate. Sitting on that house, they spotted Tigre in a car. That kid they called Pelon? We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Also known as Z-40, Morales reportedly executed perceived enemies of the cartel using the method of The Stew, or El Guiso. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and the Only Child of Elvis, Dead at 54 Drive-by shooter empties shotgun at British funeral mourners; girls, 7 and 12, among six wounded. obsessed over the top-of-org-chart types the kingpins, lieutenants, and logistics wizards of the cartels Vargas went after their murderous gunsels on the streets of San Diego. It remains unclear if Poblete Ramos worked with a particular cartel. Not that Im blaming the job for that. 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. The victims were reportedly snatched from a rural teaching college by local police officers and then handed over to the cartel. The other Vargas called in backup, but they were 20 minutes south in traffic, so Guru tailed Furcio in his Cadillac with blacked-out rims. That isnt, strictly speaking, the official view. Guru called Vargas. The brothers froze; one of them shrieked as men in balaclavas dragged them off. In 2010, CRIM Squad joined a bigger unit, the Border Crime Suppression Team. A Mexican brides happiest day turned into her last, after the gang rivals of her brother burst into her wedding and shot her dead. Joe Manganiello on Discovering Hes Part-Black and Descended From Slaves We were together so much, we turned the office into our dungeon. Breitbarts Las Crnicas De Cartelessern publicadas tanto en ingls como en su contenido original deEspaol. (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. The chief instructors: Vargas and his squad. (Mayel had been busted by the Mexican army in 2000 and sentenced to serve decades in prison.) At the wheel of his seven-seat Escalade a car that drives like an opium dream and is fancied equally by narco bosses and the retired federal agents who chased them Vargas speaks of the Camacho-Higuera brothers like promising kids who made a rash mistake. Better to just let Mexico lock em up. Herrod cant confirm that Teo was charged in Mexico, either, though he has been indefinitely detained, says Seven. When the congregation had finished scattering, the bride was dead and the groom was nowhere to be seen. One night, he was sitting in his SUV in the pitch-black desert of Arizona. They do what youd call enhanced interrogations, which may or may not feature a shaken can of Coke sprayed up the nostrils of detainees. There wasnt a lot of sharing going on.. Then his cellphone rang: It was Teo. Murders came down big-time; we set a record low that year, says Seven, the former police chief of the town. He committed the cardinal sin of narco bosses, says David Herrod, the case agent for the Group One Task Force. All of which explains why the plaza of Tijuana is paved in blood and treasure. No suspects were named. Better still, you could arrest perps without them even knowing that they were part of a larger sting. The worst of said butchers was the monster called El Teo. That enraged Herrod and his Group One agents but it didnt surprise them at all. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. 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. The tranquilizer gun was protection for hiking in the desert; the .45 kept him safe in the barrio. One of the thousands of victims of cartel violence in Tijuana. 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 night, after taking the long way home he always changed his route after a face-to-face with narcos Vargas got down on his knees and prayed. Her husband-to-be was then kidnapped by cartel hitmen who sped away in vans. 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 La Silla Rota, citing a law enforcement official, reported that the bride had in fact been killed. 19 Mar 2021 0. His name rang a bell; he was connected to Los Palillos, the gang that was shooting up San Diego. It was the bust of the decade in San Diego, wiping the Southeast Locos off the gangland map and liberating the blocks theyd held by force. Terry Glavin: Theres a revolution going on in the Mideast. His organization splintered, his stew-maker was jailed, and a fragile peace broke out in Tijuana. Vargas wasnt told what crimes the brothers copped to, but he does know a couple of salient facts. He was on his way over to burn down the house of a rival gangster. It was into this crucible that Vargas stepped when he took over the CRIM Squad in 2007. Y The trash that terrorised this beautiful city. Kingpins like Chapo are now imprisoned or dead, their empires a jumble of chockablock shards that their successors kill to reclaim. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez, Forensic experts carry a stretcher with the allegedly mutilated body of a drug gang member wrapped in a blanket after it was found in Tlajomulco on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Friday, May 28, 2010. 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. There are certain jokes you dont make, says 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. When the hitman removed the blindfold, the drug associate saw a family - a couple and their 6-year-old daughter - standing near a flaming barrel. Rand503 May 29, 2020 After watching this several times, I m convinced that the guy gets hard as his head gets chopped. Their set dissolved and was never heard from again. Pelons crew had kidnapped Escobar-Lunas brother, then killed him despite being paid a ransom. They would often meet discreetly at a 7-Eleven in San Ysidro he liked the American Slurpees better than Tijuanas. The Mexican cops wouldnt help us out unless we showed them an actual indictment. But everyone in TJ helped out Vargas. 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. Furcio pulled off at the H Street exit and stopped at the AmPm mart. Toothpicks were their calling card. (Palillo, of course, is toothpick in Spanish.). He had all the leverage you could ask for with a perp. There, on the third rung, was Tigres name and photo. But make em tell it backwards and you find the holes. Reportedly, US officials seized a shipment of narcotics, and Chano sought retribution against the man for failure to pay for the lost goods. According to the police a message to an alleged rival gang was found next to the body. I brought in CRIM Squad cause those guys were regulators. It remains unclear if Poblete Ramos worked with a particular cartel. Afterward, the alleged Sinaloa cartel leader removed Hernandezs face. (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. We were lucky enough to say, We caught the worst of the worst, says Sito. Very Fast Beheading of Young Man by Mexican Cartel Meatpie Apr 24, 2020 beheading cartel beheading mexico cartel murder Dude had no time to react. Plus a pat on the back from Uncle Sam., Days later, he met Timmy himself at a mall in San Diego. The cartel members forced the parents to watch as Vasquez dismembered the girl with an ax. The best bunch of hunters you ever saw. Such is the state of that judicial system that even an ex-police chief cant be sure that a genocidal ghoul has been sentenced. In February 2008, Furcio was drinking with some friends at a condo in the Camelot Apartments. The murder rate has soared to peak-Teo levels. Lazcanowas reportedly felled in a 2012 shootout with Mexican military officials. 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. 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 Over there, off H Street, is the mini mart where Vargas CRIM Squad ambushed Furcio and a woman. By early 2009, Vargas was getting calls from the other top outfits in town. And to be honest, I was fried when we split up., Late last summer, Vargas convenes the crew at a cantina in Otay Mesa. Gloria Trevi Sex Cult Claims Revived in New Lawsuit 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. Seventy thousand vehicles travel north each day, as do 20,000 workers walking in from Tijuana. To those boys, their Uncle Mayel was a saint., I havent met a fed as empathetic as Vargas in 20 years of covering the War on Drugs. 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. 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. Tigre eyed her: Why should I ever trust you? The brothers were the nephews of Ismael (El Mayel) Higuera-Guerrero, the chief of operations for the Arellano-Flix Organization. Now, surveillance is not what youve seen onscreen: two cops hunkered in an unmarked car, chatting and wolfing fast food to fend off boredom. That was all they told me, along with a name. Eight men in armor poured out of a van with rifles. There used to be a gate there called Whiskey Two: a door in the wall that only the feds could unlock. Mexico to Level Massive Fine Against Ticketmaster After Bad Bunny Ticket Disaster Hours later, Chan was attacked by his rivals in Tijuana, touching off a two-day shootout. Mexican authorities recovered the soccer ball from the footsteps of city hall in Ciudad Juarez. Tijuanas economy roared back, and so did its nightlife: People werent so scared of being shot, he says. We know who you are and what youve done: You called in a hit on a TJ cop. I asked God, Please! In the process, Vargas flipped the role of Border Patrol agents: He turned them into bloodhounds for other feds. The PEPOS, or state police, had a file on him that they hadnt bothered to share with Group One. Please try again. But its also home to the busiest border crossing of any land-based port outside of China. Four of the dead men - including a wanted murder suspect - were dumped outside the new mayor's campaign office in Iguala, in He is accused of many killings in Ciudad Jurez, including the notorious massacre of 18 patients of the rehabilitation center "El Aliviane". Meanwhile, under the border, dozens of narco tunnels link warehouse districts on either side of the fence. A BRUTAL drug runner dubbed Cartel Queen has been captured by the Mexican army after allegedly kidnapping five people. Thousands murdered since 2007; dozens of cops assassinated by his goons; Mexican-army checkpoints in every barrio. This story has been shared 209,091 times. Based in El Salvador, a paramilitary vigilante group of ex military and police, killing and torturing gang members in the name of social justice because the A salt breeze scrubs the air a shade of topaz-blue, and the light that hits the roofs of these seven-figure villas gives the low spark of high-heeled money. Four of the dead men - including a wanted murder suspect - were dumped outside the new mayor's campaign office in Iguala, in Mexico's south-western Guerrero province. (AP Photo), The bodies of two dead men are seen on a street after gunmen shot at them in Monterrey, June 16, 2010. And it is where, after the brothers arrests or violent deaths one of them, Ramon, was shot by a cop; a second, Francisco, was shot by a clown at his 64th-birthday party war broke out between a series of butchers who broke the golden rule: Dont kill civilians, especially rich ones. During the attack, which came right as the wedding ceremony was about to wrap up, Mexican site La Silla Rota reported that armed men arrived in vans at the church door, unleashing a hail of bullets. They were pelted with bags and bottles of piss by gangsters standing on ladders at the fence. 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. Well hunt anyone we think might know you. Formed in about 2010, the Jalisco cartel is the strongest and most aggressive competitor to the Sinaloa. He killed doctors and the middle class, even when they paid the ransom, says a Mexican official well call Seven. A lackey who killed his way up the ladder as an enforcer for the AFO, he rose to lieutenant, then broke with the AFO when the last brother fell in 2008. And then there was El Chan, the notorious cop turned capo who had made his bones whacking Chapos henchmen. Inside the legendary crew of federal agents who caught them. A rift between drug gangs near the U.S. border is terrifying Mexico's richest city Monterrey, once a poster child of development, forcing a quarter of its export factories to freeze investment. Its an article of faith among the men and women who patrol our southwest flank: What happens in Mexico doesnt stay there. The narrator accuses the incoming mayor of Iguala of having connections to Guerreros Unidos, a cartel believed to be tied to the 2014 kidnapping of Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, El Pas said. Through those durable holes pour billions of dollars a year in fentanyl, methamphetamine, and the tainted pharmaceuticals that kill U.S. teens on campuses every day. The other three men are still unidentified. The Mexican drug cartels have killed more Americans than any terrorist group in historyand the death toll is rising every day. 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. Finally, that November, they caught up with Furcio, after a yearlong manhunt. Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed Leyva along six members of his organization in a two-hour gun battle. At least one of them was a minor, reports infobae. Seven of us sit there, sipping Don Julio and recalling the demons of yore. He lived in an alley behind Lincoln High School and sold meth and semi-autos to minors. It is a curious spot for federal drug cops to dine: a high-end Hooters knockoff catering to narco-juniors and the surgically souped-up women they prefer. They have wives, they have kids; someone loves them. (Vargas at the insistence of his wife and children asked that I change his name. We not only got his phone but his total cooperation. His men jumped onto task-force units with the FBI and DEA. Theyd found the elephant gun allegedly used on kidnap victims, plus his .45, false IDs, and fake-cop get-ups. One of the La Bandera mobsters is seen on camera apparently admitting Brito has a direct "line" with the mayor's office. One of Vargas neighbors was targeted by the Palillos. This story has been shared 107,512 times. Big Love in Spanish Grande Amor! CRIM Squad revoked Chans B-1 visa and pushed him through the gate at Whiskey Two. New York prosecutors have evidence against the alleged cartel leader, including YouTube videos in which Guzmn systematically harmed and then removed the heads ofrival gang members. There was El Yeyo, the sad-sack TJ cop conscripted by Teo to fetch corpses to a guy called El Pozolero, whod melt the bodies at his ranch. Chris Selley: Harper misquote shows why regime change needed in some Canadian newsrooms, Its not safe at all: Iran harassing families of plane crash victims, sources say, We put Fables ceramic dishes, glassware and flatware to the test, Shania Twain, Ed Sheeran, Blink-182 and Depeche Mode are on sale now. Rather than make Pelon stew, however, Escobar-Luna stored his remains in a freezer. Too much time, too much manpower, too much money invested. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias), A man looks at a body of an unidentified man who found dead with his arms and legs tied together by the side of a dirt road in Zapopan, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico Monday, May 24, 2010. Mexican Cartel Violence. Vargas shows me the place on Brandywine Street where the Palillos ditched a van stacked with corpses. His killer, an AFO lieutenant named Victor Escobar-Luna, had a compelling motive. The other feds moved on to fresher cases. Whatm I gonna do, bro its Teo. We caughtthe worst of the worst. Here, the American dream goes big a class of Mexican strivers who came, saw, and conquered for the right to be soccer moms. Back in the day, theyd been enforcers for the AFO, hurting anyone who crossed the brothers. We had a cop stop him for a traffic violation; we didnt want him knowing what was up, says Vargas. But Vargas brought more than a grinders grit: He was also, by nature, a connector. 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