New Generation Jalisco Cartel Leader Captured In Mexico

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Some recent noteworthy captures in Guadalajara and Celaya:

Written by Claire O'Neill McCleskey, for Insightcrime, Monday, 22 July 2013
and Borderland Beat for the Celaya captures

In news overshadowed by the capture of Zetas leader Z40, Mexican officials announced the arrest of Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) leader Victor Hugo Delgado Renteria, alias “El Tornado” in Jalisco state.

Victor Delgado and 
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam 

On July 18, Mexico‘s Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, announced that federal forces had detained Delgado on July 10 in Guadalajara, reported the New York Times. Delgado is accused of killing 12 drug dealers whose decapitated bodies were found in Yucatán in 2008.

Another CJNG member, Domingo Medina Mogel, was also arrested, reported El Economista. Both Delgado and Medina were apprehended on March 21, 2010, but were released months later.

Much like with Z40′s arrest, Mexican officials were low-key about announcing Delgado’s capture: the Attorney General waited over a week to tell press that Delgado had been detained, and he declined to offer any details. Although the capture of two major drug traffickers in such a short time is a coup for Peña Nieto’s administration, the president has continued to publicly emphasize that his goal is to reduce violence rather than arrest kingpins.

In Jalisco, however, violence remains high. According to data from Mexico’s National Citizen Observatory, criminal homicides in Jalisco increased 6.2 percent in the first third of 2013 in comparison to the same period in 2012. This means that in the part of 2013, Jalisco had the third highest number of criminal homicides of Mexico’s 32 states, after Guerrero and Chihuahua.

A large part of this violence stems from the fact that multiple gangs are battling for control of Jalisco. CJNG, which is led by many of slain Sinaloa Cartel capo Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel’s former associates, is a regional gang allied with the Sinaloa Cartel, although in August state authorities announced the two groups may have split. In Jalisco and other states along Mexico’s Pacific coast, CJNG has fought against the Zetas and their allied local group the Milenio Cartel, as well as the Knights Templar (Caballeros Templarios), the remnants of the Familia Michoacana, and smaller local gang the Resistance.

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Sandra Avila Beltrán-La Reina del Pacifico Sentenced to be Deported

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Sandra Avila Beltrán-La Reina del Pacifico

Miami, Florida. - The Mexican drug trafficker Sandra Avila Beltran, known as "La Reina del Pacifico" or "Queen of the Pacific," was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Miami to 70 months in prison for advising another drug lord, but the judge counted her time already served in Mexico and she will be deported soon.

Judge Michael Moore sentenced Avila Beltran to 70 months in prison, five years and eight months in prison, but took into account the nearly five years of imprisonment which has already been served in Mexico as well as the over 11 months which she has been jailed in Florida since her extradition from Mexico last year.

Avila Beltran, 52 years old, was a prominent figure of the Sinaloa cartel, reached a plea deal so she was only convicted of a single charge: Advising a drug dealer to evade justice, referring to her former partner, Colombian Juan Diego Espinosa, aka "El Tigre", a key figure between the Sinaloa Cartel and el Norte  del Valle in Colombia.

"It's been  70 months since, September 28, 2007, the time she was imprisoned in Mexico, so starting next week  she could be released," said Stephen Ralls, Avila Beltran's lawyer.  Once she heard the statement,  "Queen of the Pacific," in a prisoner's beige uniform and leg shackles, smiled at the sentence.  She will leave under the orders from U.S. immigration services in the coming days then be deported to Mexico. "We hope this process will take about a month," said the defense attorney in spanish working in Arizona.

Source: OEM

EPN's Government Looking Towards Security in Michoacan

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Looking towards security solutions

When launching a comprehensive security strategy for Michoacan, the Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, said that there will not be any truce with organized crime.

After a meeting of the National Security Cabinet, which lasted over three hours, the federal official said the federal presence in the state in Michoacan will continue until it is guaranteed a restoration of order and security in all areas.

The head of the Ministry of the Interior Osorio Chong stressed the aim is to ensure safety for all of Michoacan.

The first change in strategy is effective coordination between different security agencies, the Army, the Navy, Defense, Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the Center for Investigation and National Security (Cisen) with State Government. "This is the big difference today.  It isn't the federal government's strategy to impose the strategies on the states but rather to work together."  The official assured that the civic police will be purged in Michoacan and police will work for Mexican society alone." 

For his part, Secretary of National Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos, said the comprehensive strategy for the state is to ensure the safety and walkability of Michoacan, and stated that they will not let anyone walk armed.

"We are among the leaders talking to communities in Michoacan and there has been good response from people," he said, and stressed, in relation to a question about the community guards, that "we will not let anyone walk armed."

At the press conference, Brigadier General Salvador Cienfuegos, the head of the Department of Defense stated that there has been some criminal groups, we have to face them and bring them to the appropriate authorities to ensure the safety of population so that they can once again resume normal activities. "They have been warned that no one is allowed armed and we're even going to start an arms exchange program which will be lead by the Army.  This situation showing criminal groups violating the law encourages the president Enrique Peña Nieto to instruct us to support local and state authorities with strong and decisive actions to protect the population and give certainty and tranquility," Cienfuegos continued, "the Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong mentioned that coordination between municipal, state and federal, in compliance with the law, will help to return peace and tranquility to the entity."

The call of the Secretary of National Defense comes just days before the federal government announced the rescue of the state of Michoacán. In the announcement, the government said that, as a first step , Brigadier General Alberto Reyes Vaca was appointed as secretary of Public Security of the State.

Protection for the Guanajuato/Michoacan border

Irapuato, Mexico (May 21, 2013) - The Governor of Guanajuato, Miguel Marquez Marquez, announced a special shielding of the Guanajuato border with Michoacán with participation of the Army, Federal Police and state, municipal police officers to the military. The aim being to recover regions occupied by vigilante groups. Coming directly from a meeting with the group of coordinated security, which involved the Army, PGR, Cisen, the Federal Police, the Attorney General of the State, the Ministry of Public Security of the State. "We are working on a draft, a new protection security plan for of the border," he announced Tuesday during a working trip."We are doing this work, devising a plan on paper. We have 15 days, and are following the border of the state, the whole south of the state will be reinforced with details, to care for the possible effect that there are repercussions by the strengthening of the surveillance in Michoacan. Marquez Marquez said that in at least seven municipalities in the south of the state, they will have an added presence of military details due to the necessity of strengthening by federal, state and municipal policies. "We're talking about all municipalities south of Coroneo, Acambaro, Moroleón, Uriangato, Pénjamo, Manuel Doblado, Cuerámaro, which are the areas adjacent to Michoacan," he said. -When asked if authorities fear "the cockroach effect" by the fortifying areas with armed forces in Michoacan? He replied, "There's always this phenomenon which results more strongly in some entities, undoubtedly this phenomenon can occur, but we have to do our homework," Pertaining to the question of adding special security for the Japanese families who have settled in the state to launch the Honda and Mazda auto plants he said,  "We have been watching this issue of security closely, we have talked with them, there is a very close relationship between them and municipal, and state authorities. We're very mindful that security covers, not only the Japanese plant workers and families, but that there is ample protection for all the people throughout all Guanajuato. Miguel Marquez Marquez launched an appeal to Guanajuato to be careful when traveling to the State of Michoacan."Always take precautions, be careful because we know  the issue of security in Michoacan, it is not easy and you have to take care, that is the call to  Guanajuato." he said.

Sources:reforma,Informador,  ferriz, Honda, Mazda

Boxes of Cash Found in Tabasco Corruption Probe

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities on Wednesday seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state, in what could become the latest test for President Enrique Pena Nieto to act against corruption.

Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela said bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found in an office of Jose Saiz, who was finance secretary under former Gov. Andres Granier of Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI. 

Investigators are still counting the money, but a witness told them the cache contains from 90 million to 100 million pesos, Valenzuela said. That would between $7 million and $8 million.

Current Gov. Arturo Nunez, of the opposition Democratic Revolution Party, has repeatedly accused his predecessor of having left a public debt of millions of dollars and of representing Mexico's corrupt, old-style politics.

Local media recently made public an audio in which Granier boasted about owning hundreds of suits and pairs of shoes and of only shopping at the best stores in Beverly Hills.

Granier later said he was boasting about things he doesn't have because he was drunk. He hasn't been charged with any crime.

The federal Attorney General's Office has also opened an investigation into the handling of public funds by Granier, Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told Radio Formula on Wednesday.

"We will investigate and get to the bottom of this," Osorio Chong said.

He denied Granier is getting preferential treatment for being a member of the PRI.

"The investigation is going at the speed it needs to go," he said. "There are things being made public by the media but that doesn't mean they are evidence."

The PRI governed Mexico for 71 years and was seen as a party that encouraged corruption and authoritarianism. It lost the presidency for the first time in 2000 but it returned to power on Dec. 1 with Pena Nieto, who has said that his party has changed and that he will not stand for illegality.

Politicians and union leaders have not been shy about showing their extravagant homes and brand name clothes and jewelry despite their low salaries, leading many to suspect they were funding their flamboyant taste with public funds.

One recent case was that of Elba Esther Gordillo, a former leader of the powerful teachers union who was arrested in February on charges of diverting millions of dollars of funds belonging to teachers.

"The Teacher," as she was known, was famous for wearing designer clothes and handbags. She built her political career with the PRI, but the party expelled her a few years ago after she supported an opposition presidential candidate.

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

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Captured 13 Knights Templar in Tepeji del Río, Hidalgo

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Early Friday morning on Highway Atitalaquia Apaxco, Texas community in Tepeji del Río, Hidalgo, State Police detained 13 people suspected of belonging to the criminal group 'The Knights Templar.' 

According to the secretary of Public Security, Alfredo Ahedo, the arrest was achieved after a chasing the suspects who were traveling in three vans. Soon supported by the municipal police Tepeji River, criminals were rounded up and subsequently detained before being transferred to the city of Pachuca, while being closely monitored by the Mexican Army. 

The suspects, 12 men and one woman, mostly originating in the Federal District and the State of Mexico were made ​​available to the Federal Public Ministry. Additionally they seized three trucks and rifles.

Another version:

The Secretary of Public Safety Hidalgo, Alfredo Mayorga Ahedo confirmed the arrest of 13 alleged members of the criminal group "The Knights Templar", who had been operating in Tepeji del Rio, Hildago. Thursday night elements of the Security and Investigation Agency Group of Tepeji del Rio, managed the arrest of 13 people on  Atitalaquia - Apaxco,  crossing to the town of Texas. Detainees were traveling in three vehicles, a white Camaro and two trucks-a light green pick-up and black pick-up. Both trucks were speeding. They ignored the official warning lights by authorities and continued accelerating. More units from the state of Mexico joined the chase. Two kilometers further on, police forced them to stop but they were subjected to verbal threats and intimidation from the criminals. They said, "we're "Knights Templar", threatened to kill them. Then the police proceeded to arrest them.

They are identified as:


Gabriel Ruiz Vazquez 31, con domicilio en calle cerrada 5 de Mayo, colonia centro Chalco Estado de México

Leopoldo Sánchez Torres 45  calle niños héroes numero 5, colonia Juárez,  Apaxco Estado de México,

Marcelino Anaya Luna 36 , calle 1, numero 36,Estado de México,  Netzahualcóyotl Estado de México,

Juan Pablo Rojo Orozco 34, con domicilio en calle Bugambilias número 9, manzana 173,  Chalco Estado de México

Enrique López Ibarra 41, calle pino numero 21, Lomas de Zaragoza, delegación Iztapalapa, Distrito Federal

Gustavo Delgado Alvarado 32, avenida Industrial s/n, colonia la Estación municipio de Apaxco Estado de México

German Morales Ortiz 37 años  calle Acapulco s/n, el tablón, municipio de Atitalaquia Estado de Hidalgo

Luis Enrique Cruz Rodríguez,19, calle Emiliano Zapata numero 6, colonia centro, municipio de Apaxco Estado de México

Fermín Ángeles Ramírez,48,  calle articulo Miguel Hidalgo numero 2, colonia el Refugio, Atitalaquia Estado de Hidalgo

Gil Alfredo Martínez Salvador 45, avenida Cuauhtémoc s/n, colonia Pueblo Nuevo, Tequixquiac Estado de México

Víctor Elizalde Márquez 23, Avenida Juárez sin número, colonia Loma Bonita, Apaxco Estado de México

Nicolás Cano Álvarez 45,  calle Aquiles Serdán numero 34, colonia Loma Bonita, Apaxco Estado de Mexica

Natalia Mendoza González, 27  calle Francisco I. Madero numero 30, colonia centro Apaxco Estado de México.

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Narcomantas From CDG to Los Zetas Line Nuevo Leon Streets

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A series of "narcobanners" was displayed yesterday morning in various points throughout Monterrey, where supposedly the "Gulf Cartel threatened Los Zetas."

Also, unofficially, it was mentioned that a person was caught red handed while spreading one of the blankets. An unofficial state government source said there were at least six blankets hung on various pedestrian bridges on the avenues Garza Sada, Rómulo Garza and Miguel Aleman. They were entitled them "Nuevo Leon is CDG Territory."

A photo posted on social networks showed the text that said: "We do not want kidnappers extortionists thieves, murderers of innocent people. All equals Zetas ".

The message indicates that the problem is solely between the cartels and not the government or the people.The blanket says CDG is looking for tranquility in the state and  they will finish up with rivals.

The state government did not provide information, in accordance with its new policy of preventing the spread of cartel activity.The report placing several blankets in different parts of the metropolitan area, mobilized police forces in the municipalities of San Nicolas, Guadalupe, and South of the city of Monterrey, where uniformed Civil Force and elements from the State Investigation Agency arrested a man, when he was caught red-handed trying to place a blanket over the footbridge of Eugenio Garza Sada Boulevard and Acapulco.

The man, aged 20 to 25 years, with another accomplice, was pursued but eventually fled.  Dozens of police officers mobilized and immediately withdrew place.The rest  were located Miguel Aleman Avenue and Romulo Garza, Ruiz Cortines, and Los Américas, as well as Eugenio Garza Sada and Alfonso Reyes.

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Seven Gulf Cartel members arrested in Houston Drug Bust-3 are "Leaders"

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(April 11) In Houston DEA detained seven members of the Gulf cartel.

Three of those were alleged leaders of the Gulf Cartel. César Álvarez Barrera, Juan Javier Correa y Gerardo Treviño.

the detainees distribute drugs from Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.

The operation coordinated by the DEA secured some 5,000 kilos of drugs from two residences Javier Peña spoke as special agent in charge of the DEA Houston Division in Texas

"Those they arrested today are heads that give the drugs coming from  the Mexican drug cartel, Cartel del Golfo, McAllen to the area of Beaumont Houston and from here they're sending it to cities as Atlanta and Chicago.  They arrested seven and they're looking, I believe three of 4 more persons"
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