MEXICO EXECUTES FULL MILITARY TAKEOVER OF ACAPULCO’S CARTEL-RIDDEN POLICE FORCE
Mexican military forces took over and disarmed the Acapulco city police force Tuesday, claiming drug cartels had heavily infiltrated levels of the city’s law enforcement, CNN reported.
The Guerrero Coordination Group undertook the operation using personnel from the National Secretary of Defense, the Marines, federal police, the State Prosecutors Office and state police, spokesman Roberto Álvarez Heredia told CNN. The beach resort turned drug haven now boasts two police commanders charged with murder and an entire police force 700 strong stripped of its equipment and sent in for background checks, according to The Independent.
State officials said the police force had shown “complete inaction” in fighting a crime wave in the city of 800,000 people, forcing the Guerrero group’s hand. Military officials say the group will maintain control of the city and conduct police work indefinitely, according to USA Today. (RELATED: Powerful Mexican Drug Cartel Leaves Gruesome Message Outside TV Office)
Acapulco suffered more than 2,300 murders in 2017, producing a murder rate of 103 per 100,000, and CIA reports say the level of violence is similar to that of war zones in the Middle East. Mexico as a whole has suffered 200,000 murders since the state began using the military to fight drug cartels in 2006.
Acapulco was a hotspot for beach-going tourists in the 1950s and ’60s, but surging crime has since killed the industry. The high murder rate caused clowns to march in protest in May because residents were supposedly too afraid to throw parties. The U.S. Department of State banned employees from traveling to the Guerrero region where Acapulco resides, saying in January groups there were operating “independently of the government,” according to the BBC.
“Members of these groups frequently maintain roadblocks and may use violence towards travelers,” the department warned.
Mexican Military Replaces Cartel-Connected Police in Acapulco — Chiefs Arrested
The Mexican military disarmed and replaced the entire police force in the beach resort town of Acapulco. The move comes as part of an investigation into the agency’s ties to drug cartels.
At the same time, authorities arrested two top police commanders on murder charges and the transit police chief on weapons charges. The entire police force is currently under investigation.
The surprise operation took place this week in Acapulco when more than 100 Mexican Marines and federal police officers surrounded the municipal police headquarters in Acapulco, Guerrero, and arrested two top commanders on murder charges. As part of the operation, the military forces seized all of the weapons that local police forces carried or had been issued. The move comes after a series of investigations that linked police forces to drug cartels in the area, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Mexico’s National Security Commission.
Officials identified the two top police commanders as Luis Fernando “N” aka El Fenix, and Brayan Antonio “N” aka El Brayan. Both men are listed as “operational commanders” and are currently facing murder charges. The rest of the police force is being investigated for other related charges. Breitbart Texas confirmed with Mexican law enforcement sources that authorities are also investigating transit police chief Jose Rafael Rivas Valdez, who took control of that agency in 2016. Guerrero state authorities confirmed that during the investigation, they found that the director of the transit police had illegal weapons. They later placed the chief under arrest.
The operation comes soon after the mayor-elect of Acapulco Adela Roman Ocampo became the target of cartel threats. The threats warned the politician to not take control of the police forces in Acapulco. Currently, Guerrero has become a battleground were multiple cartel factions continue to fight for control of the state’s drug production areas and shipping ports.
Soon after the large-scale action by the Mexican military forces, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a travel warning advising tourists to avoid the state of Guerrero due to high crime in the region.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.
GRAPHIC — Mexican Cartel Kills 10 Victims in 11 Hours
24 Sep 201868
Out-of-control
cartel violence throughout the Mexican coastal state of Michoacan recently
yielded 10 murders in 11 hours. Despite regular assurances by officials, the
bloodshed continues virtually unchallenged.
The murders took place on
Saturday in a rural region of Michoacan with a growing number of crime scenes
reported in the cities Nueva Italia, Apatzingan, Uruapan, and Sahuayo. While
authorities did not release any formal information, intelligence sources revealed
to Breitbart Texas that Los Viagras Cartel is the responsible group.
Los Viagras continues its
Michoacan dominance while receiving protection from top state officials. The
growing number of murder victims comes at a time when the head of Mexico’s
National Security Commission Renato Sales Heredia made statements aboutpolice being a national example to follow despite their
cartel collusion.
Breitbart Texas reported
exclusively on various instances where top cartel bosses appear to
interact amicably with police and military forces.
Editor’s
Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo
León, and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their
lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense
Movement in Michoacán.
GRAPHIC – 7 Human Heads Dumped in Mexican Border State
14 Sep 2018446
Police discovered seven heads abandoned in an ice cooler Friday morning
in the rural community of Bácum, Sonora–sparking fears of an escalation in an
ongoing territorial cartel war.
Security
elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP) and investigators assigned
to the State Attorney General’s Office responded to a report of heads in a
cooler at approximately 4 am, according to local media.
Authorities determined that all victims were males between the ages of 25 and
40 and were believed kidnapped several hours earlier in the town of Francisco
Javier Mina.
According to authorities and
Breitbart Texas law enforcement contacts, the Friday morning executions and the
general escalation in violence in the region can be attributed to a territorial
dispute between “Los Salazar,” aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, and Cártel
de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This dispute began in 2017 as CJNG moved
into southern Sonora to challenge the Sinaloa Cartel’s dominance over routes to
the U.S. drug markets.
According to local media reports,
the small community of Bácum has registered 150 homicides.
Sonora Homicides per Year
2016 – 580
2017 – 693
2018 Year to July 31 – 653
Source: Mexican Secretariat of National Public Security
In
early August, Breitbart Texas reported that the United States Consulate General
in Hermosillo issued a security alert prohibiting
federal employees from traveling to the popular tourist locations of San
Carlos, Guaymas, and Empalme, Sonora, due to recent violent activity. Breitbart
Texas also reported that more than 200
federal and state police personnel supported by elements of the Mexican Army
were deployed to Guaymas amid increasing violence.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive
experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in
the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in
Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States
Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where
he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas,
Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com
GRAPHIC: Cartel Gunmen Carry Out Early Morning Hits in Mexican
Border State
15 Sep 201856
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen
escalated the number of executions in capital city of this Mexican border
state. Hitmen began a new tactic where they are now raiding homes early in the
morning. The raids are designed to surprise their sleeping victims and kill
them at point-blank range.
This
week, Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, witnessed a series of
executions where a group of assassins arrived at the houses of their victims at
dawn and used assault rifles to kill them. The first execution took place in
the Horacio Terán neighborhood in the southern part of the city where
52-year-old Hortencia “N” and an unidentified man died after being shot three
times in the head.
According
to information provided to Breitbart Texas by state authorities, neighbors
reported hearing several gunshots at 6 a.m. so they called the authorities. By
the time authorities and emergency personnel arrived, the victims were already
dead and the gunmen escaped from the scene.
The
double murder occurred at about the same time that another group of hit men
killed an ex-convict named Ricardo “El Riki” Gonzalez Villanueva. According to
information provided to Breitbart Texas by authorities, the gunmen also caught
the victim by surprise at his home when two cartel hitmen entered and shot him
multiple times in the head.
Also
this week, a group of hitmen executed two men outside a house in the Luis
Echeverria neighborhood. The gunmen shot their victims with machine guns at
close range before fleeing. According to police sources, the executions are
related to the territorial disputes between rival factions of Los Zetas cartel
called Northeastern Cartel or Cartel Del Noreste and Old School Zetas or Zetas
Vieja Escuela.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to
risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The
writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that
operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym
were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
“Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas.
DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY DEMOCRAT POLS NEVER
OPEN THEIR OTHEWISE MASSIVE MOUTHS ABOUT THE MEX CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT IS NOW
BORDER TO OPEN BORDER???
40% of all Federal Border Crimes are by
invading Mexicans!
THE MEX CARTEL
INVASION of TEXAS
25 MINUTE
VIDEO OF ACTUAL MEX INVASION. Illegals pour over Texas rancher’s property.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mexican-invasion-25-minute-video-of.html
FOR EVERY
ILLEGAL CAUGHT AT BORDER IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 8 GET THROUGH AND ARE
LOOTING US NOW!
You
truly want wider open borders with NARCOMEX?
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC!
IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/highly-graphic-la-raza-heroin-cartels.html
THE LA
RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS REMIND AMERICANS (Legals) THAT THERE IS NO (REAL)
BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!
SHOCKING
IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“Heroin is not produced in the United
States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal
evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was
smuggled into the United States. Indeed,
this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his
appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when
he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American
lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
JUDICIAL WATCH
THE GRUESOME MS-13 GANGS FROM LOS ANGELES: THEIR
MURDER, RAPE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
The illegal stabbed her to death with a
screwdriver and then ran her over with her car.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the
daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal
of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually
every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a
rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the
kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of
ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart
Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the
cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”
“Heroin is not produced in the United
States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal
evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was
smuggled into the United States. Indeed,
this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his
appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017
when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect
American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a
record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016,
that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated
$6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
THE ILLEGALS’ AND THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
Heather Mac Donald
of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that
in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
A NATION DIES OF OPIOID
ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA,
RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the policies
of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and Republicans. There is,
first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical companies, which
have amassed huge profits from the deceptive marketing of opioid pain
killers, which they claimed were not addictive. Prescriptions
for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Vicodin skyrocketed from
76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in 2012. What are the numbers and
profits now?
OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-war-on-america-chin
PRINCETON REPORT:
American middle-class is addicted,
poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our
borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle
America?
OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG
PHARMA
“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”
“Opioids
have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country.
Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to
quell their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”
NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS OCCUPY
TEXAS
MCALLEN, Texas --
The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the
Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from
the violence in Mexico.
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the
downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are
increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and
other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million
was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million
stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million
in duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering
with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many
businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge
of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
Tijuana Breaks All-Time Homicide Record amid Cartel War
20 Sep 20184
The cartel war raging Tijuana continues with 1,789 homicides registered
as of September 19, now breaking the 2017 record of 1,781.
The record-breaking year persists despite Mexico
City’s deployment of military assets to
the region in February to quell cartel violence. The bloodshed is generally
rated to turf wars involving Cártel Tijuana Nueva Generación (CTNG),
aligned with El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, against the Sinaloa Cartel.
In some areas, rival factions within the Sinaloa Cartel are fighting for
control of the lucrative street-level markets and smuggling routes into the
United States. Those involved in the killings are primarily low-level dealers,
lookouts, customers, and enforcers. Many of the street-level dealers are
targets of rip-crews looking for cash and drugs.
One of the
factors blamed in Tijuana is that only 8% of homicide suspects are detained,
according to the president of Fundación EduPaz, Francisco García Burgos. He
said that the number of unsolved homicides, combined with the responsible
parties still on the streets, created an environment where citizens are fearful
of reporting crimes due to reprisals. Breitbart Texas previously reported on this problem when 132 of the first homicides
registered only produced 11 suspects detained. The 11 were from only five
registered homicides, according to local media.
Cartels fighting in the city do so with almost total impunity as
demonstrated early Thursday morning when alleged gunmen opened fire from two
vehicles against buildings housing the state attorney general’s homicide and
forensics units. No injuries were reported, but the gunfire caused damage to
windows, according to local media. Ministerial police were inside the
facilities at the time of the drive-by shooting.
A
recent photo captured by
photojournalist Gustavo Suárez of Frontera has
been used among Mexican social media accounts to demonstrate the indifference
some citizens apparently feel due to the constant cartel bloodshed. The
photograph was captured at a taco stand in colonia Murúa Martínez where a
smiling family can be see dining in the foreground amid an active homicide
scene.
Robert
Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working
Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq,
Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico,
working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State,
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional
Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon,
Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
Mexican Cartel Tunnel Discovered at California Border
The Mexican military, in coordination with the Baja California Norte State Preventive Police (PEP), discovered a narco-tunnel leading into California late last week.
The tunnel was discovered on September 20 in the rural farming community of Ejido Jacume, located in the outskirts of Tecate–across the border from Jacumba Hot Springs, California. The tunnel was discovered after security forces received an anonymous report about the location. Authorities found the remote property with a residential structure containing the tunnel. The illicit infrastructure was operational for at least two years, according to local media reports. Officials said two weapons were located inside the residence: one rifle, and one handgun. No arrests were reported.
The cross-border tunnel was the fifth discovered during the current administration of Governor Francisco Arturo Vega de Lamadrid as part of the “Cruzada por la Seguridad, Tarea de Todos” (“Crusade for Security, everyone’s task”), according to the governor’s office.
Breitbart Texas reported on several incidents in the northern border region of Baja California and the United States. Police discovered a major drug lab on August 25, resulting in the seizure of four tons of methamphetamine. A fentanyl drug lab was also recently found in nearby Mexicali, where 20,000 tablets were seized along with precursor chemicals. In April 2018, a sophisticated tunnel measuring approximately 740 yards from Mexicali to Calexico, California, was discovered by the Mexican Army and Federal Police.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
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