Arrest: "El Gil" lieutenant of G.U. author of manta accusing Joan Sebastian Brother as founder of G.U.

Lucio for Borderland Beat

Principal in normalistas case.  A manta of a year ago signed by "El Gil", claimed Federico Figueroa, brother of singer Joan Sebastian, was the founder of Guerreros Unidos.

Gildardo López Astudillo “El Gil” or “El Cabo Gil” a leader for Guerreros Unidos has been detained in Taxco, Guerrero.  According to the Mexican Federal Police webpage  page, he is identified as the one responsible for collecting, transporting and incinerating the normalista group on September 26-27, 2014.

He was apprehended in a home in the Colonia Taxco, in Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero.  According to CISEN,  El Gil had changed residences on at least three occasions since the normalistas massacre.

He also has warrants for drug trafficking, organized crime, and kidnapping.

PGR claims that several of the detainees pointed to Gil as the author of the normalistas attack and disappearance.  Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, also named as a leader of Guerreros Unidos and involved in the crime, was arrested last October.

          

Manta of one year ago signed by El Gil

October 30, 2014, 34 days after the disappearance of the 43 normal school, a manta (banner) was hung in Iguala next to the  27^th Military Battalion.  It was signed by “El Gil “who is a lieutenant of Guerreros, working under Sidronio Casarrubias. The message offers to surrender when 80% of G.U. is behind bars, because detaining a few including commander Casarrubias (apprehended before the manta) would do nothing to disrupt the group. 

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Narco Manta from El Toro "Proves" CDG has infiltrated armed forces

Lucio R, Borderland Beat-material from forum Ed Oak and Bjeff,  Menytimes, VXT BB archive

A narco manta (message on banner) was hung yesterday addressed to:

President Enrique Peña Nieto, Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre and Mayor of Reynosa,  Pepe Elias. The message blames federal and state authorities specifically SEDENA, as being responsible for a crash that killed 4 civilians including an infant.

Late Tuesday night in downtown Reynosa, an armored Military vehicle was involved in a shootout/chase involving a Chevy Cheyenne.  According to Valor por Tamaulipas, during the pursuit - going against traffic (sentido contrario) - another pickup truck slammed into the military vehicle on a curve in the street, causing it to careen off the street into a taco stand, killing four civilians, including a four month old baby.

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The expansion and threats of CJNG in Tijuana

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: CJNG, Tijuana
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

The criminal families of Los Arzate and Los Uriate have united in a bid to contain the expansion of the CJNG in the East zone of Tijuana, which has resulted in a war, 443 people have been asassinated in four months. Operating with impunity, the cartels have initiated a campaign of intimidation against Police Chiefs, which they have done publicly with narco mantas.  The protagonists in this criminal struggle have no arrest warrants against them, even on the part of the PGJE of Baja California.

Reporter: Zeta Investigations
There had been an accord between the Cartels of Sinaloa, CJNG, and Arellano Felix. In Tijauana they had divided it up into various zones, but the CJNG have unilaterally changed and have started to move their marijuana and crystal meth through every zone in the City; recently the crews from he Sinaloa Cartel, the brothers Arzate Garcia "El Aquiles" and "La Rana", and Los Uriate have been operating separately confronting each other, they have temporarily combined to recoup the criminal activities, in the delegations of Los Pinos, La Presa, in East Tijuana and Sanchez Taboada. These are the thoughts of a member of the State Counsel for Public Security in order to explain the wave of executions that has shook the City, and the co locations of the Narco manta threats left on bodies.

Not being a major aside, in territorial terms, the jewel in the criminal crown in the delegation of Sanchez Taboada, where for the last three years, the CJNG established its illicit centre of criminal operations.

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Niece of ex Mayor of Coatzacoalcos kidnapped, narco manta left

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article and NOTIMEXPR

Subject Matter: CJNG, Coatzacoalcos, Isis Morales de Madrazo
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Jesus Azamar
This Wednesday morning, a narco manta was discovered against Memo Wong and the kidnapping of the niece of the ex Mayor Lemarroy, who is a political operator of Governor Miguel Angel Yunes Linares in the south zone of the State.

Around 08:00 am, Mrs Isis Morales de Madrazo, niece of the ex Mayor of Coatzacoalcos, Rogelio Lemarroy Gonzalez, was kidnapped when various subjects intercepted her while she was dropping off her son to the Pearson College, one of the most exclusive in the city.

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Z-40 denies challenging the Mexican government.

Through at least 10 "narco" banners hung from pedestrian overpasses throughout the city of Nuevo Laredo early Monday morning, Los Zetas distanced themselves from messages hung last week in the same city that directly challenged the power of the Mexican and U.S. governments.

(see: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/12/z-40s-challenge-to-mexico.html)

Written as a personal message from Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, a Nuevo Laredo native with a reputation for extreme violence and alleged second in command of the Zetas criminal organization, the banners reject any connection to last week's messages and state that they have no wish to govern Mexico or maintain a political regime, and deny being terrorists or guerrillas.

The messages also denied any involvement in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard plot to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. using Zeta operatives and claimed that Los Zetas are against terrorism.

An Iranian-American and a high level Revolutionary Guard official were charged last October by the U.S. Justice Department with conspiracy to assassinate the Ambassador.

The banners ended with a claim that the men who set fire to the casino in Monterrey that resulted in 52 deaths acted on their own and were not under any orders from superiors.

The messages ended with Los Zetas stressing their respect for the Mexican Government.

Original text of the banners:

A QUIEN CORRESPONDA

Respecto a la manta sobre mi persona MIGUEL ANGEL TREVIÑO MORALES, que reta al gobierno Mexicano y a todas las autoridades y agencias federales de los 2 países. Les aclaro que esa manta No la mande a poner yo, para empezar. Nosotros no gobernamos el país, tampoco tenemos un régimen, no somos terroristas ni guerrilleros. Nosotros nos dedicamos a nuestro trabajo y lo que menos queremos es tener problema con ningún gobierno, ya sea mexicano y mucho menos con el americano.

Esa manta la ha de haber puesto alguna persona sin que hacer, lo que esa persona quiere es contrapuntearme contra el gobierno y que el gobierno piense que soy de la mentalidad.

Sí, yo sé y estoy consciente de que no se puede ni se debe pelear con ningún gobierno. A mí ni por mi mente pasa ponerme con Sansón a las patadas, no tengo ningún motivo para poner esas tonterías en una manta, tampoco pienso que el gobierno crea que alguien con cerebro a aponer esas tonterías y a firmar con su nombre.

También queremos aclarar que el cartel de los Z, no somos terroristas y estamos en contra del terrorismo.

Hace poco en todos los medios decía que la DEA tenía un informante que les comento que nosotros íbamos a hacer un atentado con un embajador. Nosotros no tenemos ni ganas de tener que ver con hechos de esa índole.

Eso no es lo de nosotros ni tenemos esa mentalidad, esa manta la tuvo que haber puesto alguien que lo que quiere lograr es que volteen a verme. No sé quién la haya puesto, ni voy a decir que fue tal grupo o tal persona, porque en realidad no sé quien fue. Pero lo que si es que respeto al gobierno mexicano y americano y me deslindo de estos comentarios estúpidos que hicieron en esa manta y les recalco que no soy de esa mentalidad y el cartel de los Z ni intenta ni va a intentar nunca. Y respecto a lo que paso en el casino royal en Monterrey N. L. Eso no fue ordenado, eso fue una tontería que hicieron esas personas, Bajo su criterio, no fue algo que se haya ordenado. No creo que les haya pasado en su cerebro de pollo el daño que el iban a ocasionar a los familiares de las personas que fallecieron en esos lamentables hechos. Nuestro más sincero pésame y queremos se den cuenta que nosotros no ordenamos eso, Nosotros sabemos que esto va a ocasionar muchos comentario, esos que hicieron esos pendejos no tienen sentido ni razón, ni el problema en el que se iban a meter.

Nuestro respeto al gobierno mexicano”.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

With respect to the banner under my name, MIGUEL ANGEL TREVIÑO MORALES, that challenges the Mexican government and all the authorities and federal agencies
of both countries. To start with let me clarify that I did not order those banners to be hung. We do not govern this country, nor do we have a regime; we are not terrorists or guerrillas. We are dedicated to our occupation and what we least desire is to have problems with any government, neither Mexico or much less with the U.S.

That message must have been put by someone with nothing better to do; that person wants to set me up against the government and make the government believe that is my mindset.

Yes, I know and am aware that you cannot and should not fight against any government. Never in my right mind would I pick a fight against Samson, I have no motive to put such those stupidness on a message, nor do I think the government believes anybody with a brain would sign their name to such stupidness.

We also want to clarify that the Zeta cartel are not terrorists and we are against terrorism.

Not long ago the media said the DEA had an informant commented that we would make an attempt against the life of an ambassador. We would not now or ever have any such inclination.

That is not who we are or how we think. That messsage must have been put up by someone who wants to ostracize me. I don't know who put it up, nor am I going to say it was this group or that person because in reality I have no idea. But what is true is that I respect the Mexican and the American governments, and I reject those foolish comments on that messsage and I reiterate that I am not of that mindset nor is the Zeta cartel, now or ever. In regards to what happened at the casino royal in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon: those were not our orders, it was stupid what those people did. I don't think those idiost realized the damage they were doing to the families of the victims that died in that regrettable occurence. With our most sincere condolences we want it understood we did not order that. We know this will cause an outcry but what those idiots did was senseless and they did not realize the problems they were getting into.

Our respect to the Mexican government.

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Juárez, Chihuahua: Nuevo Cartel de Juarez Activate a Rat Trap

NOTE: No Graphic Images in Video

A dying man with a gun shot wound in his head along with his hands severed was found lying on the ground this morning.

The discovery was made by neighbors in Ignacio Zaragoza and Paraguay streets in the Colonia Romero neighborhood.

The severely beaten man had his hands cut off and had been shot in one eye.

This happened to him for being a thief, explained a manta left next to the individual ..

Manta reads as follows:

"This will happen to all car thieves, vehicle battery thieves and junkyards who buy them," warned the manta signed by the Juarez Cartel.

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Three Cartels battling for Tijuana

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: Tijuana, CAF, Sinaloa, CJNG
Recommendation: Read this article by BB reporter J on the manta discovery see link

As part of the struggle between criminals for the territory of  Tijuana, the Sinaloa Cartel publicly exposed the Lieutenants of the Cartel Arellano Felix and the representatives of the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion in Baja California, because of the existence of an internal fracture in the society of these mafia cells.

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Reporter: Zeta Investigations and Cortesia

We reflect of a Police analysis of the executions, confrontations and a manta with a narco message
hung this week in Tijuana. On the 23rd of February,anonymous people located on a foot bridge close to the Parque Morelos, in the Insurgents Boulevard.

He explained in an interview with Zeta:
"In reality there exist a fracture between the Cartel Arellano and the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion and their associates, provoked by Arturo Gomez Herra, we consider it not to be profound and that they are going to resolve this by eliminating the Lieutenant that provoked it. "El Gross" in whatever moment he will appear dead.

In the manta, one can read, and before the security elements they reiterate:

"Communicated by the pearl for Los Arellano
we are finished with Los Aquiles and Ranas, extortioners, rats and kidnappers
we know who their friends are and members of the plaza they want a new war.
This message is for Los Pilotos
Manuel Lopez Nunez (Don Balas), Crescencio Murillo Beltran (El Chencho), Adan Rodriguez Guevara (Guero Chihuahua), Mario Rodriguez (Compa), Fausto Esteban Nides (Karateca), Arturo Cosme Espinoza (Cosme), Enrigue Jorquera Guerrero (Jorquera), Prospero Medina (Pablito), Pedro Quintero Velazquez (Jaguar 58), Luis Medina Garcia (Focu), Edgar Ruiz (Chore), Roberto Parnas (Paras), Jose Medallo (Mesien), Juan Lorenzo Vargas (Chan).
Signed El Tigre, El JP, El Gross
CTNG-Mencho-CJNG

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Acuña: Violence Erupts 5 Dead While Strange Manta Appears

by  Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
update and correction of manta text

Violence erupted in the city of Acuña, Coahuila yesterday.  People near the scene report  the shootout that began at 5:15 AM soldiers were clashing with organized crime gunmen.  Ciudad Acuña lies back to back with the Texas border city of Del Rio.

In the early morning hours a military convoy was patrolling the southern outskirt of the city, when a white Dodge Durango carrying armed gunmen was spotted by soldiers.  Attempts to pull over the Durango failed ensuing in a chase through the San Antonio Colonia and ending at Lazaro Cardenas.

The gunmen then initiated a shootout which commenced at the intersections of 20 of November and Alvaro Obregon streets and continued for 90 minutes. 

Five were killed in the shootout and one injured, four gunmen died at the scene a fifth subsequently died of his injuries at the IMSS hospital in Acuña. 

Acuña was the scene of  the  Lalo Moreira  murder in October, 2012.  Lalo is the son of former Coahuila Governor and National PRI party chairman, Humberto Moreira. 

One soldier was seriously injured in the conflict and was transferred to the larger city of Piedras Negras via helicopter.  Piedras Negras is 80 miles east and is adjacent to Eagle Pass Texas.

Los Zetas cartel are in control of the Ciudad Acuña plaza.

 

Meanwhile, also in Acuna, a perplexing and ominous manta (banner) appeared on the pedestrian bridge of Emilio Mendoza Cisneros which directed to a "Jesus" secretary of public safety.

Strange is why the manta, which address Zacatecas issues, were hanged in Acuna.  I was able to get a clear view of the text and the Jesus referred to in the manta is secretary Jesus Pinto Ortiz.

The banner includes the photographs of three unidentified people, but one I have identified as the secretary.  I have placed notes in quotation marks to try and give clarity to the confusing text.  (Pinto Ortiz is in the photo below)

The message reads:

“You took the war to Zacatecas [ I believe this refers to the City of Zacatecas].  [but]The war was against the State,[ now referring to the state].

You brag about being the one who decides the direction of  the war and took it to  Zacatecas. lying and supporting golfos of the State, because they declared it themselves and there is proof about it; we’ll see how you answer the citizens for the consequences; deputy, afterwards don’t ask about why we don’t rob or kidnap, we have rules and we work in our thing [meaning drug trafficking etc but not kidnapping or rob].

The photos are of the people guilty of stealing and kidnapping. (other mantas say the photos are managers/whores you have chosen)

Attentively, The Letter”

Click on any image to enlarge

 

Thank you to TexPat and friends in Acuña
and Texcoco for new photos

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El Babay threatens to augment the violence in BCS after the death of his lawyer

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: El Babay, Abraham Cervantes Escareaga
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Zeta BCS
On Thursday morninig the 24th of August, a narco manta appeared in the children's playground of Marcelo Rubio in the Las Arboledes colonia, in the Town of La Paz, Baja California Sur. The signature corresponds to Abraham Cervantes Escareaga, alias "El Babay".

The manta appeared just about 24 hours after the execution of the ex Deputy Attorney General of the Office of the Attorney General for Justice in the state (PGJE), in the fraccionamiento Juarez, he was the defence lawyer for El Babay, who was arrested on the 19th of June and transferred to the offices of SEIDO on the 27th of the same month.

The manta appeared hanging on the school site located in the streets of Marcelo Rubio and Colima, it was around 08:00 am that it was discovered by members of joint command, who attended the scene.

The narco manta makes reference to "I am locked up but not dead", in addition it makes a direct threat against security elements of the PGJE that operated with him, making clear his anger though he remains behind bars.

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Playa del Carmen: Narco Manta Claims Responsibility for Barco Caribe Tour Boat Explosion

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Notecaribe

Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo
Feb 27, 2018

There is a new twist to the investigation into the explosion that took place in Barcos Caribe on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, where 21 people were injured .Today "Pumbaa" and "Tata" are allegedly responsible for said attack, claiming responsibility in a narco manta posted at the church of San Jose Del Mar in the San Miguel #2 neighborhood at the corner of Calles 31 and 50.

The manta  threatens the mayor , Perla Tun Pech, and they detail, among other things : "The attack of the boats were us and we are going to do the same in your house". The manta was removed by municipal public security elements early this Tuesday morning, after it had been reported being hung by three armed men.

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CSRL Kills 9 at Lexuz Bar in Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

At least nine are dead and two were injured during a bar massacre in the Manuel Ávila Camacho neighborhood. 

At least 9 people (5 men and 4 women) were killed, and several more seriously injured in an armed attack on the Lexuz Bar, located on the Apaseo el Alto-Querétaro Pan-American highway in front of the Mary spa. The incident occurred minutes after 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.

According to reports a convoy of at least 7 heavily armed men approached in two trucks and fired from outside of the bar. The hitmen then entered the bar, in the Manuel Ávila Camacho neighborhood, and opened fire over 100 times on the people who were inside. One elderly man was left dead outside of the bar, and others including the four women and a man lay dead inside the bar. At least two seriously injured women were taken to receive medical attention. Security elements from the three levels of government guarded the scene and others carried out patrols in search of those responsible.

Two men were found dead in a vehicle outside of the bar, while a separate car was covered in bullet holes.

A few meters from the door of the bar, on the side road, was a black car that had crashed into the wall of the road, as well as a white vehicle parked outside the bar that was peppered with gunshots. In the black car, the bodies of two more men were found. They were possibly passing through the area at the time of the attack and were killed by stray bullets, another version suggests that they had tried to escape but were hit by the attackers.

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Inside Lexuz Bar

Lexuz Bar is a small men's club featuring a stripper pole in the middle of the room that has often advertised this type of entertainment. Less frequently, advertisements for live music and sports games have been seen.  Based on the narco manta left on the floor near the bodies, Cartel Santa Rosa Lima targeted the strip club as it was under the control of rival CJNG figure "Zermeño." The business page for the bar now lists it as Permanently Closed.

Thanks to a BB reader for the translation of the narco manta left at the bar scene.

"This is going to happen to all the bunch of fags that are with that bullshit. Here we are doing what you couldn't do for so long, 'Zermeño', just like all the skinny bitches of the Jaliscas. Come out for that confrontation, sons of fucking bitches. Att. CSRL Shadow Group (Grupo Operativo Sombra). Marro. MV (Mera Verga).” reads the narco manta left near the bodies.

Sol Prendido translated the second manta left at the crime scene.

For all the businesses who are supporting that crooked dude Zermeño. Including those skinny Jalisca bitches. Beginning with the junk yards, bars, or any other types of establishments. The same fate awaits all you fags who are involved in bullshit. We're in position here you sons of bitches. You're all scared of the dick and yet you're hugging those nuts. Come on out to that armed confrontation cowards.
Grupo Operativa Sombra. We are Marro's mob. MV (Mera Verga).

CJNG plaza boss Santiago Quiroz Zermeño, El Chago, whom the mantas are directed to, was arrested in April 2022 but may have been released.

In another manta, those responsible for these murders issued a threat to the businesses “of the crooked 'Zermeño", presumably involved with organized crime. "Zermeño", the members of the CSRL refer to Santiago Quiroz Zermeño, El Chago, who is designated as the plaza boss in San Francisco del Rincón and was recaptured in April of this year. At some point, Zermeño left (or betrayed, depending on your source) the CSRL and joined up with the CJNG. He is believed to be working under CJNG Guanajuato leaders such as Ricardo Luis Ruiz Velazco, alias “El RR”, and Nabor Cárdenas, alias “El Navo”.

With this violent massacre, there are already more than 30 victims of attacks in bars in Guanajuato in the last three months due to disputes between the CJNG and the CSRL. In a similar incident, which occurred on October 15, CSRL shot dead a total of 12 people (6 men and 6 women) in the El Pantano bar, presumably while they were looking for three CJNG drug dealers.

Source El Universal, Noticias, AM, Infobae, Borderland Beat

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Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes: Carteles Unidos and Cartel de Sinaloa Executions and A Manta

Six people were killed in events related to organized crime in the last 15 hours in this city.

The first was around 9:00 am on Sunday where the body of a man between 20 and 25 years of age was found with traces of violence and the coup de grace on the side of State Highway 13 close to 750 meters of the entrance of El Hotelito community in the east side of this capital. This person was found with a manta signed by the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación.

The second….

Apparently this unleashed a response from antagonistic groups, such as Carteles Unidos and the Sinaloa Cartel. Sometime after 10:30 pm on Sunday a 21-year-old man, known as El Robertillo, committed to the sale of drugs was killed by at least 8 bullet impacts from an AR-15 rifle by two hooded subjects when they were at the corner of Calle Andalusia and Calle España, in the southern end of the city.

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Manta threats of Vengance for the 4 zetas killed in Veracruz

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

[ Article Subject: Narco Manta threats, Los Zetas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required]

In a narco manta around which were three heads of pigs with death crowns, the Los Zetas Cartel pronounced that it would take vengeance for the death of 4 presumed sicarios killed this past Tuesday the 21st in the Town of Angel R Cabada, and the hands of elements of the Civil Forces

"What you did is not to be applauded, if you want a real meet, you can have it, but you have to leave your cave", said the mantas that were collocated at visible points of Lerdo de Tejada and Boca del Rio.

The warning of Los Zetas against elements of the Secretary of Public Security, the Civil Forces and Police Delegate in the region, Paulino Cortes, occurs a day after he concluded the first meeting of attorneys and prosecutors from the South, South-East zone of the country, for acts of protocol where state and federal forces shielded various Municipalities in the region.

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Narco message appears showing the person responsible for the murder of six people in Iztapalapa

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat from Noventagrados

For backstory read Oaxaqueño's post using this hyperlink 

Mexico City, February 19, 2019.- 

Last weekend there were 5 men and a woman killed in the streets of the Los Reyes Culhuacán neighborhood. In the city hall of Iztapalapa, a manta appeared in which the alleged perpetrator is shown, who is assured that he is protected by federal and capital agents.

According to the manta, Gerardo M., "El Yayo", leader of the criminal group "Los Rodolfos", is responsible for the crime at dawn on Sunday.Mexico City, February 19, 2019.- 

The manta is signed by "Pueblos Unidos" and in it they accuse that "El Yayo" is protected by federal agents, from the SSP (Delegation of the Public Security Secretariat) of Coyoacán, and the Public Prosecutor's Office of the sale of illegal drugs.

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Manta for Jesus Alberto Capella Ibarra SSP in Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo, Mexico - A dismembered body was located on Tuesday night along with a narco-message addressed to the Secretary of Public Security, Jesús Alberto Capella Ibarra, on Acanceh Street, corner of Chichén Itzá Avenue, in Supermanzana 59.

The discovery of the human remains was reported around 7:40 p.m. and it was preliminary indicated that there was a manta with a message addressed against Capella.

The circulation of Chichén Itza Avenue was closed to vehicular traffic in both directions, in that section of the Unidad Morelos, in Supermanzana 59.

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Oaxaca: A couple is executed in their home, CJNG returns to leave narco manta

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat

“The cleansing has begun; this morning is a warning to those who owe commander “R8”

Sincerely, CJNG

The case of a couple who was brutally executed in their home is causing a sensation on social medias because, through social networks, it was announced that moments after the crime a narco manta signed by the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) appeared at the scene.

The events occurred around 08:20 hours this Monday in an address located on Second Private St. and Ninth North in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood, in the municipality of Santa Rosa Panzacola, in Oaxaca.

The victims were identified as Soledad, 28, and Fredy, 30, who are presumed to have only lived for six months at the address where they were executed.

According to El Imparcial de Oaxaca, a group of strangers knocked on the door of the building, so Fredy, who allegedly was waiting for a delivery from a postal worker, opened and was shot several times at point-blank range.

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Narco manta left on corpse with threats against singer Miguel Comando

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: Narco manta threats in Tijuana
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Isai Lara Bermudez
A narco manta was left draped around the body of a dead man with threats made against the singer of corridos Miguel Comando, who will give  a concert on April the 28th in Las Pulgas.

During the early hours of Sunday the 2nd of April, the body of a man was reported in the car park of a Home Depot store in Tijuana.

Even though the message is not fully comprehendible, some phrases can be understood such as " do not show yourself", and other which inform that they have pictures of him, and that if he does show up he will be "rolled up", inside or outside of Las Pulgas.

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Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí: Organized Crime Dismembers Three Men

Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí - The tortured and dismembered bodies of three men were found during the early hours of Saturday in the Municipality of Villa de Reyes.

The ministerial authority identified at 6:00 the first of them on the Villa de Reyes-Bledos road, at the height of the railroad tracks.

Subsequently, another body was found on Highway 37 and Prolongación Hidalgo, and one more in Ponciano Pérez and Libramiento on Route 37, which connects with Guanajuato.

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Playa del Carmen: Zetas claim responsibility of Club Blue Parrot attack in narco message

Guest Reporter Javier

Yesterday the Facebook news page of the weekly “Playa News Aqui y Ahora”, was the first to report  the hanging of a manta, supposedly signed by Old School zetas taking responsibility of the Blue Parrot Club shooting, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.

We held back from publishing the story in hopes of verifying its authenticity.  Although blogs have gone with the story, few mainstream media  published it.  

El Debate, Proceso,  was the closest to mainstream that did.  There was some regional TV and radio coverage.  Questions were raised if the manta was authentic. However since readers have asked about it, here is what we know.

A manta was hanged in Playa del Carmen in 4 locations,  Playa News took photos of the narco message before it was taken down.  The photo above is the image the news source took and published.

"Phillip” is presumably BPM Festival co-founder Phillip Pulitano.  On the Playa News facebook page they also suggest  “Fayo Z” is  Quintana Roo Zeta leader Rafael del Ángel Velez Morales, pictured below during his 2010 arrest.

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Naucalpan, Mexico: a narco message discovered signed by Mayo Zambada

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from VXT

A narco manta was left on the pedestrian bridge, located at Av. Norteamerica,  in the colonia. Bosque de los Remedios, Municipality of Naucalpan.

Police were patrolling when a report came in about a narco manta signed by Mayo Zambada.

The narco manta contains the following message

The cleaning begins in the country; we come with all the support of the federal government. The Old School Returns We welcome dialogue with all cartels. Cartels [must] align, or we will make all the conceited dogs disappear, who believe they are narcos of San Bartolo los Arcos, El Molino Valle Dorado el Molino Rio Hondo la Juárez San Juan and El CCH. 

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