TIJUANA — The first attack came at 7 p.m. Monday. Gerónimo Calderón Jiménez was getting off guard duty in southern Tijuana when heavily armed men shot him repeatedly and left behind a handwritten sign: Five officers will die each week unless police chief Julián Leyzaola resigns.

Gerónimo Calderón

The next 15 hours saw four more assaults in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach that left two officers dead, one wounded and one unhurt but badly shaken. In the brutal showdown between drug cartels and Mexican law enforcement, these victims were shot at random, authorities said – officers who found themselves in harm's way as a brutal drug lord named Teodoro García Simental sent a deadly message.

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Jaime González Durán (a.k.a: El Hummer) is one of the 31 original founding members and he ranked third in the chain of command of the criminal organization known as Los Zetas.

A former Mexican Army elite soldier of the Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE), he was trained in counter-insurgency and locating and apprehending drug cartel members. He deserted in the late 1990s and was hired along other 30 ex-soldiers by the Gulf Cartel leader, Osiel Cárdenas Guillen as his private enforcement army.

After Osiel's arrest, González controlled a large-scale illegal drug distribution and transfer to the United States, mostly of cocaine and marijuana.

He also controlled much of the illegal drug trade in the Mexican states of Nuevo León, Michoacán, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Mexico City. The Attorney General has cataloged him as one of the most dangerous and violent of organized crime members, and was one of the most wanted by Mexican and U.S. justice.

Jaime González Durán is believed to have been responsible for the murder of narcocorridos singer Valentín Elizalde

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