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Friday, October 24, 2014

Zonta Norte Tijuana boss 'El Mono' detained

                                                                  'El Mono' detained in Tijuana

Luis Rodriguez Toscano, longtime boss of retail sales in Zona Norte, was arrested last night for the third time in 30 months.  State Police, (PEP) made the arrest in colonia La Mesa.  Toscano, was traveling in a 2009 Nissan Murano, with a female passenger, Adelia Varella, 35 years old. 

Police searching Zona Norte
Zona Norte is Tijuana's Red Light District, where locals and tourists travel for drugs, sex, and strip clubs, among other indulgences.  Many of the women are trafficked from southern Mexico, and forced to strip, prostitute themselves, while paying fees to organized crime.  Women come from San Diego to dance in bars like Hong Kong, men come to Adeltias, and Purple Rain, unknowingly or perhaps without care, supporting sex and human trafficking.  In a city where the elite dine in Baja/Med fusion restaurants, men and women sell crystal and themselves in Zona Norte.  Its the way of the city.  

Toscano has a longstanding feud with Los Litos, a rival retail drug operation in Zona Norte, and has survived assassination attempts, surviving through bloodiest times in Tijuana history.  Recent reports designate him as former CAF, but make no mention of his current loyalties.  Toscano, nearly identical to previous arrests was carrying a wrap of cocaine, a .38 caliber pistol, and chargers and ammunition for the weapon.  His brother were arrested in July of this year, Roberto Toscano, and Antonio Toscano, with weapons and drugs. 

Brothers of El Mono, July 2014
He was first arrested in July 2012, on charges of organized crime, shortly after the arrest of 'El M4', Julio Salas, another longtime CAF operator.  He was quietly released sometime thereafter, and rearrested in October 2013, for firing a weapon in public.  Again, Toscano walked, and presumably has been continuing his enterprise in Zona Norte.  Although, based on recent events in Tijuana, and the facts of his arrest, it is debatable whether Toscano is still in a position of power, in relation to retail drug sales. 

El Mono, October 2014
Toscano is 37 years old, and a native of Manzanillo, Colima.  He has been involved with organized crime and Arellano Felix specifically for at least 5 years, and likely dating back to the mid 2000's.  Upper mid level guys like 'El Mono' often find themselves displaced, and while free, reduced to making drug sales and kidnappings, on their own, without the backing of more connected and powerful traffickers.  

They are free, but without alliances, usually are arrested and killed.  As the CAF continues to loose influence in the city, and chaos reins, as Sinaloa affiliated traffickers contest the plaza, many will not survive the latest rearranging of loyalties.  It's the ever continuing cycle of blood, crystal, and the dynamics of poverty and income inequality, which leaves a trail of corpses and arrests in it's wake.  'El Mono' and the valuable commodity of Zona Norte isn't going anywhere, not really. 


Sources: AFN Tijuana

23 comments:

  1. PEOPLE
    LISTEN! Your suggestions are appreciated but you are not paying attention, YES you have no problems with hand held devices and you should use that for now if possible. It is when using a computer which 75% of readers use, there is no place to type code.

    It is blogger not us. Buggs is working on it.

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  2. J
    I lost your email, please email me I need to share something with you about mono

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    1. Hey dicen que ya lo dejaron salir, chequen el dato ....K

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    2. Hey chivis, how is it that the AFO is loosing influence in TJ but supposedly that CDS pays plaza to them post my comment this time and answer my question?

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    3. i am not chivis, but to answer your question, even if you will not understand, some things are not to be known by the nobodies...

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    4. It lost influence because a few years back, every part of Tj paid plaza to the AFO, but now only some areas are under their control, and other people lost respect for them so they dont pay at all and they dont pay neither to cds or afo, actually CDS is fighting between them in TJ (guero chompas vs. chapito (cousins))
      (aquiles vs pelones) basically everyone against everyone. The more low-key ones are AFO cells and T3/Tetris, which also works for CDS, ''El Tigre'' Soto Gastelum and Los Pelones(R4) work for him.

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  3. Just wondering bb wats going with afo are they completely done and wats going on with inges faction and who is running the show after the capture of el inge?

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  4. Of course we can't predict the future but we're does arellano felix and fernando sanchez organization have for the future of tijuana they got to be some how involved or just lost power completely?

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  5. Mono or no mono il be in Adelitas next friday for Halloween, Ajjjjuaaaaa. .....saludos deLos Angeles, Ca....

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    1. Cómo qúe aajjjuuuaa?.ahh paisa chinga..

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  6. ...Hong Kong Is On Tonight... If You Are Hearing Coworkers Say That They Are Going For Comida China And Live In San Diego, They Are Going Down South For Strippers... FYI...

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  7. Is this the same Mono that is known as El Mono Verde who is with El Aquiles?

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    1. EL MONO VERDE ES DE TIJUAS I ES COMPADRE DEL AQUILES COMPA AL SERVICIO DEL MAYO ZAMBADA VIEJON

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    2. EL MONO VERDE ES DE TIJUAS I ES COMPADRE DEL AQUILES AL SERVICIO DEL MAYO ZAMBADA COMPA

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    3. No, mono verde is la raba , aquiles brother
      This mono is from zona norte , he's brothers are the cuates or "los igualitos"

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    4. Se ve que no sabes nada Juan Perros, la rana es su hermano wey no mames que compadre ni que nada, informate cabron para que manguerees con cosas ciertas

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  8. Jajaja el mono verde is Aquiles

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    1. no mames pendejo, el mono verde es la rana, su hermano de el aquiles

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  9. Oh thanks for the info. Rana=Mono Verde, makes sense now. Cause Ive heard el mono nickname here and their over at the revolucion night scene, but I was curious to see if they where the same ones.

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    1. Yeah, thats because he's form ZonaNorte so hes well known down there

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  10. Tijuana is nasty but you find all types of fun as long as you dont run into crooked cops that take your cash lol

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  11. I was at hong kong wed oct 22 when about 20-
    30 federales raided the place asking everyone for id its been hot down ther lately... JRLB81

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  12. Carlos jared rodriguez aka charel earlier in the year suffered an attack and was gunned down earlier in the year..and brived his way out of custody payed mexican officials 70thousand dlls and was left free knowing he was FBI most wanted and also at time had false identifications.. is the sucesor of fernando arellano aka el ingrniero ..and now the leader of whats left of the AFO cell .His brother Eric rodriguez aka Pewee or Pubic former FH PALM CITY gang member (san diego gang) is incharge of reciving and dealing large sums of mariguana and cocaine in the san diego, riverside, and los angeles countys and to other states in the us.He is also in charged of reclutin drivers to smuggle in to the us and gang members of local san diego gangs to do thei dirty work us/mx.ERic rodriguez roams around the san diego eastlake commmunity and south bay area also attends LA fitness on a regular basis.Noe tirado aka el pitufo deported from us and now back in san diego ilegally is also one of Carlos jared rodriguez aka sharel hitman .Manuel zazueta aka Gory also san diego county resident is also one of the many people of sharel AFO leader.

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