Vargas first heard of Furcio in the fall of 2007. 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. Breitbart News obtained access to the criminal investigation into Poblete Ramos 2011 arrest on the charge of kidnapping. The killings make the month the states most violent of 2018. REUTERS/Margarito Perez. The kidnap wasnt the story, but its punchline was: The victim wound up captive in Tijuana. That botched abduction ended in a firefight between their hit squad and a Chula Vista cop. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso), Police examine the body of a police officer that was slain after unknown gunmen opened fire in the city of Puebla, Mexico Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. ________________________________________ That enraged Herrod and his Group One agents but it didnt surprise them at all. We encountered an issue signing you up. That stonewall was standard procedure, says Herrod. 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. They arrested 21 suspects and seized 14 guns that day, and confiscated 60 keys of coke and methamphetamine over the course of the operation. El Teo after the CRIM Squads work led to the cartel leaders arrest in 2010. The only thing he could do was sign the proffer. In 2021, 107,000 Americans died of overdoses, two-thirds of which were caused by synthetics, according to a high-ranking official with the DEA, who, for political reasons, asked that I not name him. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), A soldier stands guard inside an apartment complex in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. By the time he hung up, Tigre had changed his mind; he wasnt going out in someones crockpot. Authorities identified one of the four victims as Rey Jose Poblete Ramos, a man with a lengthy criminal history. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra), A wall with bullet holes is seen next to photos and other things sitting on a bed in an apartment in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. A month later, his top lieutenants were caught in Baja. We were lucky enough to say, We caught the worst of the worst, says Sito. Harrison Tenpas. They were miners with their heads down, sifting through the dirt. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso), A soldier stands behind a body identified by navy officials as that of alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Murders came down big- time, says one agent. We wiped em off the face of the Earth, says Sito. Now, surveillance is not what youve seen onscreen: two cops hunkered in an unmarked car, chatting and wolfing fast food to fend off boredom. Cinder blocks crashed through the windshields of their trucks as they prowled the frontage roads looking for smugglers. 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. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File), Police officers surround the body of a coworker killed during a shooting with alleged drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico, late Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. He crumpled, agreeing to spill his guts. In exchange, Timmy got the Sammy the Bull [Gravano] deal, as Vargas calls it, sneering. According to the police a message to an alleged rival gang was found next to the body. Evelyne Nyairo was inspired to create her skincare line Ellie Bianca following an experience with the wild mango trees of Chad. Another was Pariente, an older gangster who ran guns to the AFO. The wedding atrocity comes just days after another scene that shocked the nation the murder of Mara Guadalupe Lpez Esquivel, known as La Catrina or The Dame of Death. The 21-year-old cartel leader, one of El Menchos main underlings in Michoacn state, was killed when her heavily armed group launched a firefight with police. 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. (AP Photo), The bodies of two unidentified men hang from a road bridge in Cuernavaca, some 90 kms, 60 miles, south of Mexico City, early Friday, April 9, 2010. 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. Cartel violence in the Mexican border state of Sonora continues to escalate. To prove it, Vargas showed him Teos org chart. 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. 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. He wound up doing fed time for the guns and fake IDs, then was handed to the Mexican military for sweating. Mexican federal police say 10 of their officers were killed in the attack and several others were wounded. There hasnt been a peep from him in, what, 12 years? says Vargas. 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.. The murder rate has soared to peak-Teo levels. For the next five years, he and his men slept in their cars, rarely getting home to hug their wives and kids. The AFO didnt invent those horrors, but it certainly seemed to take more relish than most in its merry disembowelment of the dead. Teo dumped them in the street with their fingers off, and bruises all over their body, says Seven. No suspects were named. So it goes for the best part of three hours. Vargas got there just as the backup roared up. Weeks later, he got a call from Customs agents; they had Timmy in holding. The police there play by different rules, says Vargas. Este artculo fue escrito por Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon. One body was identified as Luis ngel, who was being investigatedfor double murder. That isnt, strictly speaking, the official view. Local press reported the victims as being in their 20s and 30s. For the next four years, the Palillos terrorized that town, snatching AFO associates, holding them hostage, and, when they felt like it, returning them alive. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux provides the latest on a drug cartel or gang-related killing of six people, including a 16-year-old mother and her baby. CRIM Squad sifted through their intel cross-checks, searched every alias linked to Tigre, and found a car connected to a name. 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. When the beer ran low, he sent the friends for more, tossing them the keys to his Cadillac. Seven, a former police chief of Tijuana, worked closely with Vargas for most of a decade. He parked behind the building and met a second car. Sitting on that house, they spotted Tigre in a car. He expected to track him down in weeks, if not days, because that was how it went with his bloodhound crew. 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. One of the La Bandera mobsters is seen on camera apparently admitting Brito has a direct "line" with the mayor's office. The state prosecutor said the three men had escaped from a Morelos state prison last month. It was lonely, joyless labor, as Vargas learned. Ranked among Americas safest, cleanest towns, its praised for fiscal health by good-governance groups, and exalted for both its beaches and civic stability. Hed later tell the cops what the gunmen told him: Furcio was their target, and theyd botched the hit. Nowhere is that riddle harder to solve than in greater San Diego. On this side, the ones who worked their tails off after school; on that side, the ones who flaked in 10th grade and wound up on the yard. (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. Still, Vargas turned over every rock: kidnaps were a menace in San Diego. NBCDFW.com. At the height of Mexicos drug war, cartel assassins roamed our streets. 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. Reportedly, US officials seized a shipment of narcotics, and Chano sought retribution against the man for failure to pay for the lost goods. Then his cellphone rang: It was Teo. Terry Glavin: Theres a revolution going on in the Mideast. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. I guess thats what [sicarios] do for therapy.. For six weeks, they surveilled gang addresses and caught them out with one thing or another. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and the Only Child of Elvis, Dead at 54 The men also had their hands severed and appeared to tortured to death. He had a story for everything. Those soldiers would eventually go rogue and form a rival cartel of their own (more on this later). In a 2010 video, Guzmn used a chainsaw against Hugo Hernandez, reportedly to send a message indicating he would use aggression against anyone who involves law enforcement with the cartel's enterprises. Police say they found He announced his intention to seize the plaza with a shootout that left 13 people dead. Another says Brito has has profited from construction projects that were awarded to him. Duncan was assigned to the Group One Task Force, a legendary squad of state and federal agents who broke the AFO after 20 years. #OJO #Tepalcatepec #MichoacnAs qued Mara Guadalupe Lpez Esquivel La Catrina" Ex Integrante del Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin #CJNG ,la catrina junto a otros sicarios son los responsables de la emboscada a 14 policas de Michoacn (14/10/2019) pic.twitter.com/QvmPiDoB3X. Please try again. 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. Hours later, Chan was attacked by his rivals in Tijuana, touching off a two-day shootout. The border city of Juarez, Mexico has been racked by violent drug related crime recently and has quickly become one of the most dangerous cities in the world to live. Pete then dissolved the corpses into chunks of stew and poured the liquid remains down a drain. Anyone can tell a lie start to finish, he says. The leader says: People from Iguala, here are all those who extorted money and who were killing innocent people and women. At least one of them was a minor, reports infobae. From those patterns and a set of underutilized laws Vargas built a web to catch cartel killers before they killed again, in the U.S. CRIM Squad would find the perp, surveil him for weeks, then sack him up as he left to do his dirt. Lazcanowas reportedly felled in a 2012 shootout with Mexican military officials. The footage of the massacre was released Wednesday and is part of the increasing violence in the southern Mexican state of Geurrero, reports said. Kingpins like Chapo are now imprisoned or dead, their empires a jumble of chockablock shards that their successors kill to reclaim. When the stench summoned the cops, they found the van full of cash; there were toothpicks strewn across the victims corpses. Vargas wasnt told what crimes the brothers copped to, but he does know a couple of salient facts. Murders came down big-time; we set a record low that year, says Seven, the former police chief of the town. But Vargas brought more than a grinders grit: He was also, by nature, a connector. Chilling footage of cartel interrogating cop before body found chopped up in bags. Back then, DHS was the only outfit that could file certain charges against narcos: illegal entry after deportation; illegal alien with a gun; human smuggling, etc. Her husband-to-be was then kidnapped by cartel hitmen who sped away in vans. 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. For five years, these men had been part of something rare: an elite unit led by a brilliant cop who got complete buy-in from his squad. In 2013, Mexican Marines apprehended Miguel ngel Trevio Morales, the alleged cartel leader of Los Zetas. They called it walling off: bringing pretext charges while the long-term operation carried on, says Duncan. Cartel leader massacres eight people because rival made him look 'like a dumb*ss' Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartel has more than 150 dirty cops on the payroll. 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