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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Federal Judge Orders Release of “ El Contador “ Two Days After his Arrest

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Vanguardia


A federal judge ruled the detention of José Alfredo Cárdenas Martínez was illegal after his legal defense showed that his capture did not occur as described by the Secretary of the Navy.

Feb 22, 2018
See Otis's BB Post from Tues Feb 20
Extra Material from: El Financiero

Mexico City .- A federal judge ordered the release of José Alfredo Cárdenas Martínez, alias "El Contador", on grounds that his detention last Monday in Matamoros, Tamaulipas was illegal and the Marines lied about his capture.

According to sources from the federal government, his wife and legal defense team of the nephew of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the Gulf Cartel, presented videos showing that he was arrested inside his own house and not on the street, as was stated by the Marines.



Last Monday, the agency reported in a statement that the detention of Cardenas Martínez was achieved in an operation, after getting knowledge of the location of a home where a group of armed persons was located.

"Naval personnel went to the area and when arriving near the home, the group of armed people, became aware of  the presence of naval elements and fled in different directions.  It should be noted that in this action they arrested  José Alfredo 'N' , ie Cardenas Martinez "El Contador" who allegedly is the leader of a criminal organization in that region, " the official explained.

The predawn raid and subsequent arrest was carried out with out a bullet being fired. Confiscated from "El Contador's" property were two military grade weapons, ammunition , a vehicle and some marijuana and cocaine.

"El Contador," alleged cartel head of the cartel in Matamoros, was transferred to the El Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, which he could now leave at any time.

According to information from the US DEA, the capo, also known as "El Sobrino", became one of the leaders of the Gulf Cartel after the arrest of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén which occurred on March 14, 2003, also in Matamoros, by elements of the Mexican Army and the Attorney General's Office , the PGR. Antonio Cardenas Guillen was killed by Mexican security forces in 2010.

                                  Osiel Cardenas Guillen on his Extradition Flight to the US

"El Contador" headed a fraction of the Gulf Cartel in dispute against the group of Luis Alberto Blanco Flores, alias "El M28" or "Comandante Pelochas", from Rio Bravo.

On March 7, 2005, the Mexican Government granted the extradition of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, however, his delivery was not immediate. He was finally extradited to the United States on January 19, 2007, where he faced 19 charges in a court in Houston, Texas.

In July 2009, during his trial, Cárdenas Guillen pleaded guilty to one drug charge, one for money laundering, and three for extortion and attempted murder of US federal agents.

In exchange for pleading guilty, the former leader of the Gulf Cartel had removed another 12 charges for drug trafficking in 2010, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, as well as a fine of $50 million dollars.

Last April, an investigation conducted by the Dallas Morning News, indicated that the guilty plea agreed between Cárdenas Guillen and the US government caused "a violent rupture" between the El Golfo and Los Zetas cartels, his former armed executioners and paramilitary forces.

Faced with this, the Zetas - already an autonomous criminal group - began to fight for the territory with the Gulf Cartel, which led to the death of thousands of people in Mexico and along the border with Texas, the newspaper said.

Remnants of the Gulf and Zetas Cartels have been pitted against the breakaway faction now called Cartel de Noreste. The thousands of resulting deaths include not only gangsters but police and civilians.

According to the DEA, the Gulf Cartel has lost steam and in recent years, in addition to the trafficking of marijuana and cocaine, it has expanded into the market for heroin and methamphetamine, whose main destinations are the US cities of Houston, Detroit and Atlanta. 

55 comments:

  1. I don't know enough about Mexico's legal system to tell if this is corruption, or a judiciary weakness. Thoughts?

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  2. Lol, only in Mexico, what a joke.

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  3. Prime example of catch and release. No catch and release,just torture for info, and put down, like their victims!

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    1. If you're saying just to torture people who are arrested cartel related or not,your just as bad as the cartel. They see there torture as part of there job. Police and military doing jobs properly with out corruption we help dramatically.

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  4. So was he not wanted for anything? If I am wanted for murder and an illegal stop and search occurs and I have dope. I can get the dope case tossed out, but I am still wanted for murder.
    Mica

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  5. I am sure the borderland beat cartel nuthuggers are very happy that this filth was released.

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  6. Joke. How much did he pay the judge and Nieto. As bad as the rgv.

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  7. Every rape, every murder, every death, the citizens of Mexico are responsible for. They have allowed for their country to be completely over run by criminals, thieves and killers, that there is now no way to fix the damage. Mexico is now forever a Narco Controlled country. You men that watch your daughters and wives being brutally raped and murdered don’t even deserve to live. You are cowards of the highest order. You even allow your sons to be nothing more than objects for the cartels to kill. All while you tap your little botas to the newest narco corridors and drink down the suds on a Corona. Some people do really get what they deserve. You are perfect examples of that.

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    1. Just like you Americans that get massacred in churches and schools.

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    2. @3:50 Who is perfect examples of that?

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    3. "Us Americans". Lol. There is no comparison between what happens over here in my country and yours. You Mexicans are literally being exterminated by the Cartels. Remember that one morgue in some hellhole pueblo that had over 600 rotting corpses? LOL.

      I feel sorry for all of you, but you need to wake the fuck up first and realize the position you are in.

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    4. 8:34 there are history courses for those that were born just yesterday, specially in "your country", you could find one about the root causes of Latin American problems, specially because of the US world and LatinAmerican policies.
      Until then STFU

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    5. Why do these racist dumb comments get posted? @3:50

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    6. As long as poor Mexico blames all problems on the Yankees, shit won’t change. Keep blaming policy that most couldn’t comprehend if they read the papers it was based on. Not shooting up my place, I can shoot back. How about you? When the “insert cartel name here” fuerzas especiales come to your home, and it turns out to be mainly methed out teens used as fodder, or they couldn’t function. The jefe’s still have to pretend to be honest cops during the day.

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    7. 5:32 not all the "yankees" are a bunch of criminals, you get easier and faster to the root of the problem by finding the foreign policy architects that sentenced Mexico to the results of financing power and impunity for those involved in the militarization of police operations against other American puppeteer's narcos in mexico...very few and select those architects of foreign US Policy for Latin America or the world for that case...even American citizens don't know about them.

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  8. Wtf is going on in mexico, 2 agents just got mutilated beyond recognition by scum like this contador guy yet he is release. These lames deserve no trial at al, TAKE NO PRISONERS.

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  9. People arw saying he was arrested then realased some arw saying he still locked up and some are saying he was never arrested in the first place. The goverment hasnt showed him so truly no knows what happened or is happening.

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  10. this is the defense team that El Chapo needs.. At least this team gives him a slight hope of going back to Sinaloa,hahahahahaha...

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  11. 5:19 that's called snitching, not defense. you don't need a defense team to cooperate.

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    1. 7:52 in defense of snitcbes,
      they help put bitches in prison...
      --what do you do?

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    2. Snitches get stitches

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  12. Wow . And I thought you could end up in a Mexican prison for no reason , or little reason. Surely he cant just walk away . Bet his enemies will be lined up for his release . Where will he be turned lose from ???

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  13. Since only 2% of every Mexican that is arrested actually goes to prison this corrupt judge is typical of this third world country. Once this judge confirmed his million dollar mordida was transferred in his family member's account, he issued the release.

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  14. I Dont understand how we (the U.S.) will manipulate governments for the interests of the U.S., however wont recognize Mexican cartels as narco terrorists sanctioned by the Mexican government. At a minimum, the U.S. should stop the multi million drug war funding provided to Mexico since we know that the Mexican government is extremely corrupt.

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    1. Because the CIA will run out of money ? And i mean isnt your government the one supporting the wahabbi arab saudi (the ones behind 911) and selling billions worth of weapons to them?
      I don't know , i see the terrorists as those invading sovereign countries to steal their oil in the name of "freedom" Amazing how peaceful the world could be without american/zionist imperialism .

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    2. America has long known that Mexico’s government is corrupt. Moreover, the cartels! And yet we continue to give billions of tax payers money. Either the US is stupid and dumb? Or can care less?

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    3. 7:57 corruption is the idea, it makes money for the US government lobbyists the foreign relations ministry gets their programs done, and the richer get richer faster...

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    4. 5:55 I tend to agree with you.

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  15. Saw this coming, What a joke the mexican judicial system is turning into. Just let the criminals go if they have some cash while those brave seido agents were forgotten about...Absolutely disgusting

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    1. ... It Has Nothing To Do With The Mexican Judicial System ... The Mexican Navy " Lied " About How And Where They Capturd Him ... Caught With Their Pants Down And No Response About It ... Every Capture Of Narco Capo's / Civilians By The Mexican Military Should Be On Video ... They Have a The Funds To Do So From All The Narco/Politician Seizures ... Think Of That Thor Character That Took Humiliating Photos Of His High Level Captures ... He Is A Piece Of Sh!t That Does As He Pleases Because Nothing Will Happen To Him , Yet ... His Time Will Come And Probably Will Be Very Painfull To View As His Captures " May " Post It On Social Media ... Point Is , The Mexican Government Needs To Prosecute And Punish Those Responsible For This Very Embarassing Incident And For Other Incidents Which Military Go Untouched ... I Just Think Pendejo Nieto Is Trying To Pick Up Someone High Up From The List Of 122 Most Wanted People In Mexico Before His Failed Presidencial Departure ... If He Was Really Serious About Capturing Someone , Maybe He Should Start With His " Amigo / Compa Nemesario

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    2. Brave? The innocent SIEDO butterflies allowed themselves to be captured by the biiig baaad wolf, due perhaps to bad training, but their widows will have a hard time collecting pension and life insurance benefits, unless they fork the ass to the brass.
      You are lucky the kidnappers published the case, the government would not, ever.
      --Polesias and melitary, mejor no anden ahi de calientes...

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    3. All i hear Nieto is a dumbass. At least he is President. Not to dumb

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  16. How much money changed hands? Is it plato o plomo with the Mexican government, or just greed, or both?

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  17. Next time, hes a dead man.

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  18. Damn, one can only wish we could get away with these “technicalities” in the US...

    I think we can all agree that Senor Alfredo is an influential figure. Perhaps he really is the top dog cherry on top for the CDG?

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    1. 2:23 top dog for the CDG is the narco-governor.
      Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Cagadas de Vacas, first financed by Osiel to run for mayor of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, "El Osito" hizo good choice, but it cost him his ass in prison...and 250 million dollars fine, (now 50 by a miracle from the Lord)

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    2. Do a little research, cases in the US have been dismissed because of technicalities. The difference in the US is that 5000 pesos ain’t gonna get you shit.

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    3. These "technicalities" happen in the U.S. hundreds of times daily.

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    4. This may happen in the states court in the US.. Very rarely in the Federal courts. The majority of drug cases in the US are prosecuted without any drugs being found at all. A grand jury will hear evidence in a conspiracy, often time's its just a few people cooperating with the same story, and a conspiracy indictment is issued. you have less the 2% chance of beating the case.

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    5. Why is it that it's extremely rare that drug lords from the U.S to get busted? The so called war on drugs needs to start on U,S soil. Imagine how fast drugs would disappear... Oh I forgot, the war on drugs is a sham...

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    6. Very well written. I would only add the minimum mandatory sentence on a conspiracy charge (I believe) is 10 years. bY mE

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    7. 11:13 really good POINT, you get 5 points

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    8. 11:13 gets five more points🌟 from the Real Latin Kings

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    9. There all kinds of drug busts in the usa if care to actually read. Look for cities like new york los angeles houston chicago

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    10. 5:05 Drug busts but not the big fish

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  19. Money talks, good example here. Not just in Mexico but all over the world

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  20. Sad system. Mexico dont u ever get tired. People will be voting for Manuel

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  21. In 2008 Mexico amended its constitution and they've since adopted a prosecutorial system similar to the U
    S. system, based on probable cause, evidence, open trials, etc. They still haven't gotten the probable cause and evidence bits down: the Mexican fed prosecutors went to court claiming his car was pulled over, they found weapons, drugs, etc. The defense showed a video from his home security system of him being dragged out of his house.

    The judge suppressed the evidence and tossed the case.

    It will be hilarious if he sues and wins $$ in a civil suit for violation of his civil rights.

    C'est la Vie.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/texas/article/Mexico-judge-rules-arrest-of-alleged-cartel-boss-12631796.php

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    1. Interesting 6:09.so that's what happened.The cops better learn to play ball with the judicial system or they will be down the road!

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    2. 11:14 these "cops" were Marinas,
      the military used as polesias will never learn to be Policias, the army never learned, the marinas will never learn, they need to be released from the "due obedience" by eliminating their officers, specially those known to be corrupt, starting with their "commander in chief", at least have them pass or fail the lie detectors

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  22. It's like probable cause in the usa. The soldiers had no warrant and no probable cause . It's basic law enforcement. Everyone knows where to find this guy. The marines just jumped the gun. They should of followed procedure. Even if his body guards ran, he didn't run he was inside his house. No judge in Tamaulipas will sign an arrest warrant for this clown. By now he probably has an amparo. This guy in the map a long time use to live in Brownsville TX and American agencies never went after him either.

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    1. 8:35 People get all shot up, "probable cause" or not,
      --victims of "LEOS" wrongdoing just need to look like narcos, terroristas, "look like they may be in posession of a gun in the LEOS' imagination,
      --irregardless of IF THEY HAVE A LICENSE TO CARRY...
      --Driving a brand new SUV OR PICK UP TROQUE is reason enuff,
      --commanders give bonuses and promotions for those troques, they like to have "new car" once in a while...
      --Having extensive oil resources and reserves gives people allucinations of money to obtain them by bombing whole countries AND THEIR WHOLE MEIGHBORHOOD to destroy imaginary WOMDS...
      The moden phylosophy and efhics of WAR is plausible deniability of wrongdoing while affirmatively carrying on with wrongdoing for profit, mercenaries by the thousands jumping up and
      down for benefit of the company.
      One more or one less jaliska, delta, zeta, golfa, or chinola is not going to change a thing...

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