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Friday, June 25, 2021

Authorities Arrest 'El Tolteca', One of the Masterminds of the LeBarón Family Massacre

"Morogris" for Borderland Beat

Note: Several sources mistaken Freddy Calles Romero ("El Tolteca" and "Cóndor 1") with Leonel Toscano Cuevas ("El Tigre").
The Mexican Army announced yesterday that they arrested Freddy Calles Romero ("El Tolteca" and/or "Condor 1"), one of the masterminds of the 2019 massacre where nine members of the LeBaron family were killed by La Linea cartel hitmen in Bavispe, Sonora.

Adrian LeBaron, the family's spokesperson, confirmed the arrest on Twitter.

"Today I was informed of the arrest of El Tolteca, one of the main suspects in the massacre against my daughter Ronhita, my grandchildren and more relatives. This capture is very timely since it represents that a criminal, who was able to participate in the killing of innocent women and children, will leave the streets and be in prison. I hope he will pay for each of his illegal acts," Adrian LeBaron tweeted. 

In addition, he acknowledged that those in charge of handling the case were doing their job adequately and stressed that the results were "remarkable" thus far.

El Tolteca appeared before a judge yesterday for his preliminary hearing. The judge confirmed that El Tolteca's arrest in Moris, Chihuahua, was legal, and proceeded to keep him under preventative detention while the prosecution gathers more evidences.

Investigators confirmed that El Tolteca had two arrest warrants against him. The prosecution thus proceeded to charge him with homicide, organized crime involvement, and drug trafficking. He is currently imprisoned at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 ("Altiplano"), Mexico's maximum-security prison. 

Judicial archives show that El Tolteca had been in prison before. In 2008, a judge in Sonora absolved him of a bribery charged after determining that the evidences against him were insufficient. In the same indictment, El Tolteca's accomplice José Luis Báez López and/or José Luis López Cota was convicted of illegal possession of military-exclusive firearms.

Family massacre and investigation

On November 4, 2019, in an area of ​​the Sierra Madre Occidental in the municipality of Bavispe, Sonora, members of La Línea fired from a van at the 3 vehicles where three women and 14 minors were traveling.

There were 9 fatalities: Rhonita Maria Miller, 30; Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 29; Dawna Ray Langford, 43; as well as 12-year-old Howard Jacob; Trevor Harvey, 11; 10-year-old Krystal Bellaine; 2-year-old Rogan; and Titus Alvin and Tiana Gricel, both barely 8 months old. At least seven children were injured.

Initial versions of the case reported that the massacre occurred due to a confusion. However, part of that hypothesis has been ruled out because those who were traveling in the vans told the attackers that only women and children were present.

This act of brutal violence shocked Mexico and the United States, to the point that former US President Donald Trump considered the possibility of designating drug cartels as terrorist groups.

The November 2019 massacre triggered an extensive manhunt against members of La Linea. According to Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR), over 20 people have been arrested for the massacre. As reported by Borderland Beat, there are at least 20 more suspects identified and at large.

Last February, a federal judge charged Wilbert Mendoza Lopez, alias 'La Parka', for his direct participation in the massacre. The FGR already has two other main suspects in custody: Jose Alfredo Lara Ontiveros, alias 'El Coma Lara' and/or 'Pelonete'; and Roberto Gonzalez Montes, alias 'El 32' and/or 'El Mudo'.

In March, authorities also arrested Alejandro Escarcega Adame, alias 'El Tocayo', 'El Loco', and/or 'El 15'. The following month, they arrested, Candelario Santos Jiménez ('Coma Santos'), a high-ranking member of La Linea implicated in the massacre.

Sources: La Silla RotaEl FinancieroEl Sol de Mexico; Milenio; Proceso; El Bravo; Borderland Beat archives

42 comments:

  1. Probably a patsy for calming those screaming for justice.

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  2. Not really worried about the lebaron victims or family at all but a more interesting note is that this guy was working for cds

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    1. Not really worried about you or what you think.

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    2. He was La Linea not CDS.

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    3. Hey I was fkn worried big time, ya dig. This dumb butt Cartel killed ladies and kids in the van, and you much care about that, you got to be cocoo.

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    4. Lebaron were women and children. CDS, are and always have been strictly drug traffickers. Y defendores del Pueblo. Idiot

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    5. Rest in peace LeBron victims, may the devil have Mercy on those cowardly killers.

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    6. He switched to La Linea along with El G3

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    7. They were gente nueva in el charcoal. They separated when el tintin order the hit on El Fox on August 2019. G3 missa tolteca left it was several people

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    8. Yes. Pero lo raro es que no se ve la detención del tolteca. No hay imágenes.

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    9. @12:28 LIES. If they only allow their alcohol to be sold after certain hour in CLN than they're not strictly narcotraficantes.

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    10. 12:28 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 no mames you have to be trolling

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  3. El pinchi sissy, shot up the van, that was carrying defenseless women and children. Then tourches the van to hide evidence. Sissy Cartel.

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  4. Did you even read the article. Clearly you don’t know what going on lol

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  5. Again it was the Paredes that killed those Mormons everyone in Chihuahua knows this already

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    1. Go ask the ppl of northern Chihuahua

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    2. I'm not saying it wasn't linea but at first they blamed los jaguares and switched it up too salazares.once they realized they are both on the same team they quickly switched it up too la linea with no evidence and for every liniero they capture they say it was the masterming

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    3. @Billy Jean - burden of proof is on you bro. sorry that you don't understand that...

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    4. 2:35 thats true for like two weeks they said it was cds but then they caught some older dude like in his 50's and they said he was the mastermind and that he was linea, than kept arresting people who had nothing to do with it and all of the sudden it was la linea, its really weird how la lonea got in a town fully controled by cds and they also control all the sorrounding areas

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  6. Animo Sicarios !
    I said it from day one. La Linea and the extint Juarez Cartel was responsible for the massacre of innocent women and children of the Lebron family.

    Many tried to blame La Gente Nueva. But CDS sicarios always obey rule number #1
    Los Patrones orders are never to hurt innocent 3rd parties !

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    1. What about that journalist in chihuahua city or those kids in Tijuana??

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    2. What happened in maicoba sonora about a decade ago? Where cds comando rolled in the town and took out like 70 people mostly all innocents? But no they made sure the media only says it was 4 people

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    3. https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/estados/2021/6/6/en-sinaloa-robo-de-paquetes-electorales-ante-la-ausencia-de-la-seguridad-federal-265417.html

      Or what happened here? Some candidates were even kidnapped.

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  7. Lebaron are a CARTEL acting LIKE they are NOT.. They are also thieves who stole the water supply from the mexican people.
    They may claim like they are mexican but they KNOW they are NOT and that's the reason they separate themselves from the mexican population..

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    1. All part of the false flag to invade sonora for their lithium mines

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  8. Wait? Mastermind? How. ? They hit the wrong vehicles. How can you be called a mastermind if you completely and utterly failed.

    Seems like white lives matter more in Mexico too.

    And I’m still convinced it wasn’t La Linea

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  9. Juarez cartel dude. They hated this family for 16 years. They killed there uncles in 07. Trust me it's Juarez cartel

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    1. Labarons didn't wanna pay for crossing thru el valle de Juarez el Rikin could of wiped em out bt didn't los jaguares couldn't stand la vara so they killed that mormon family to heat up la plaza pinchees culones

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    2. LeBaron still live in Chihuahua if juarez always hated then they would've wiped out the whole LeBaron family along time ago way before 2019. What happened back then had nothing to do with November 2019

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    3. Oh Billy Jean ... you never get tired of spreading your lies !

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  10. Wouldn't sueprise me if CIA or DEA gave info to these Linea members to kill the Le Barons who are American citizens in order to pressure Mexican authorities to crack down on this cartels leadership.
    I mean La Linea does not go around Juarez which is the city they are headquartered in randomly. Why the hell should La Linea be expected to committ such crimes in other places as well.
    Simply because they are criminals?
    Get real!!!
    So is every other cartel including Sinaloa cartel which has dominance in the area where the Le Baron family was killed!

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    1. Actually the Chihuahua sierras a no-man’s land

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  11. Aquí lo extraño es que no hay imágenes del tolteca o Veracruz o cabezón, así le decían en Nacori Chico, dónde tenía su brazo armado, en la realidad ni cuando lo detuvieron. Que raro.

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    1. There's a picture already where he's detained. Wearing a gray muscle shirt and it is him, I knew him here in Agua Prieta

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  12. What a misuse of the word Mastermind!! How many people have been arrested in this case it seems like every other month a new person is arrested but no one will end up paying!!

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  13. Killing kids for no reason at all. Utterly disgusting. Hopefully they shank him to death. No mercy for people like this.

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    1. Agree here here
      above comment Correcto !

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