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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Inside FBI Undercover Operation 'Dead Hand' Targeting Montreal Mafia & CJNG Traffickers

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From National Post by Adrian Humphreys


It took several texts and a few photos sent on Signal, an encrypted messaging app, to tell the driver where to deliver his load. It was heading to a Montreal warehouse on Park Avenue, near Autoroute 40, but it’s tricky finding where to turn into the garage.

The day before, on Dec. 1, 2022, the driver allegedly sent a text from the cab of his tractor-trailer, “Just crossed the border… see u in [the] evening.

The driver had also allegedly been sent a photograph of a Canadian $20 bill showing its serial number: FYW3742405. This is underworld two-factor authentication — he wasn’t to hand over the load unless someone at the warehouse first gave him that very same $20 bill.

He had been on the road for days, steering a big rig from Los Angeles, where he had allegedly picked up 4 kilograms of heroin and 15 kilos of cocaine. He found the warehouse at 3:18 p.m. and pulled over when a man waiting outside walked up and leaned through his window.

That’s when RCMP officers pounced. Cops had been hiding outside the warehouse for 50 minutes. They arrested the driver and the man who came to meet him. The driver was still clutching a $20 bill when he was grabbed. An officer looked at the serial number: FYW3742405, the very bill needed to unlock the transaction, according to FBI allegations in recently unsealed court documents.

Inside the vehicle, police say they found tightly wrapped bricks of heroin and cocaine. The longer the wait the more their questions ate up a group chat.

Someone sent a message to "shut up." Something was wrong.


Gente Nueva Salazar Take Out A Male

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For those of us who speak Spanish we all know what the word 'machetazo' signifies. Consequently it’s one of those single word phrases that essentially means: a machete is being used to strike something or someone down. It’s also something that you don’t give much thought to until you see the word machetazo in action. And if that word has appeared here to describe something. 

Then I think we all know that it’s not going to be a good thing to have to see. For this broadcast, three men from the Gente Nueva Salazar mob have within their grasp a handcuffed male on his knees outside in daylight hours. The enslaved male is begging for his life to be spared. What he actually did wrong we will never really know. 

His pleas not to be killed are falling on deaf ears all around him. Online chatter at this time suggests he was an innocent individual who crossed paths with the wrong people. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop the criminals from stabbing him with a knife several times or striking him across his head with those machetazos. 


San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora




Vivo en Marte

Monday, March 18, 2024

Chapter 666 On The Brutal All-Out War In Sonora, Chapiza Affiliates Drag A Dead Body Tied To A Pick-Up Truck: Sonora

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This video was posted on X by LaMasakr3 





The Sonora all-out war rages as local Sonoran powerful families (Los Salazar, Los Paredes, Los Cazadores) have claimed their independence from the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. This has caused a war to erupt across the state of Sonora, and the brutality shown between former friends is the order of the day. The Mexican federal government needs to step in and start targeting the criminal groups without regard, so they can all be dismantled. 


The following video was published on March 16, 2024, as Chapiza or Los Chapitos affiliates in Sonora dragged a dead body tied to a pickup truck. The municipality of Sonora where the incident occurred is unknown but a desert can be seen in the background. 













Grupo Sombra Disposes Of Several Human Puzzles

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A five man team of armed enforcers have driven towards the towns central park in broad daylight. It was through the bravery of an anonymous citizen who managed to record their entry into the recreational area that we get a good glimpse of who they are. 

These men are assassins for the Fuerzas Especiales Grupo Sombra (FEGS). Better known as Shadow Group Special Forces in English. They’re all working as quickly as they can in unison to drop off the dismembered bodies of their rivals. It appears that 2 males were turned into human puzzles before their arrival here. 

One of the shooters, looking a bit out of place, is wearing a funny looking white boonie hat. Is this the famous American guitarist known as Buckethead or simply a horribly dressed hitman on the job? 

They somehow were able to successfully commit their actions under a full minute. Within that time frame they managed to spread out those human body parts. Scatter their narco messages. And fire their weapons into the air for the sake of terrorizing everyone. 






Narco message reads as follows:


We’re here you fucking dogs. We’ve arrived to take you fucking rats out of your caves. 

Sincerely, Cartel Mafia Veracruzana

FEGS


Cazones de Herrera, Veracruz



Reportaje Veracruzano  Alerta Mundial

Judge Orders Reinstatement Of "El Güero" Palma's Homicide Trial

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This article was translated and reposted by RÍODOCE 



A district judge annulled the formal arrest warrant against Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Héctor Palma Salazar, alias "El Güero" Palma, for the crime of aggravated homicide, and ordered a new trial so that the judicial authority responsible complies with due process, as it failed to hear testimony, questioning and confrontation between witnesses to the facts, reported the newspaper El Universal.

Conrado Alcalá Romo, third district judge, granted an injunction to the Sinaloa native, after considering that the second criminal judge of the first judicial district of the state of Jalisco did not comply with the essential formalities of the procedure when he decided to prosecute "El Güero" Palma, in May 2023, for his alleged responsibility in the murder of the deputy director of the prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco.

This accusation prevented the drug lord from being released from the maximum security prison of Altiplano, in the State of Mexico, after an appeals court ordered his release from prison because the Attorney General's Office did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute him for the crime of organized crime.

In his warrant ruling, Alcalá Romo determined that the criminal judge did not take the necessary steps to notify the witnesses who would testify in the proceedings in favor of the Sinaloa drug lord, even though they were offered in due time and form, thus violating the guarantee of hearing and defense of the former partner of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
"He left the burden of proof to the plaintiff regarding the addresses or telephone numbers where the witnesses could be notified, ignoring the fact that the plaintiff requested him to make arrangements for their presentation, without having done so," the judge ruled.
When giving his preparatory statement before the judge of the case, on May 19, 2023, Palma Salazar requested the extension of the constitutional term to offer testimonies and inspection evidence, among them the testimony of the people who worked as guard and custody at the time of the facts, in the Centro Federal de Readaptación Social Número Dos "Occidente", as well as the inspection in said prison to certify the distribution, access and security diamonds of modules 2, 3 and 4, which the Sinaloan referred to in his statement and which prevented him from communicating with the other prisoners.

In spite of this, Alcalá Romo pointed out, the Second Criminal Judge of the First Judicial District of the State of Jalisco issued a formal order of imprisonment against Héctor Palma Salazar for his probable responsibility in the crime of aggravated homicide, in its modality of premeditation, advantage and malice aforethought, without carrying out the corresponding legal steps for the disclosure of the referred evidence offered.

"The responsible judicial authority did not comply with the essential formalities of the procedure in the period immediately prior to the trial, which violated Article 14 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, because even though it was in the extended pre-trial stage, it failed to ensure that the testimonial and interrogation of the witnesses was carried out.
Therefore, Conrado Alcalá Romo, Third District Judge, determined to grant the amparo and the protection of federal justice to Palma Salazar so that "the order of formal imprisonment of May 24, 2023 is rendered null and void, and the proceeding is reinstated, so that during the extended constitutional term, which must be granted again to the petitioner of the warrant, he orders the hearing of the testimonies and interrogation of the witnesses".


Guzmar González: The Civil Guard Is Under Attack

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Every week the police corporation suffers up to four attacks, says Guzmar Ángel González Castillo.

Per week, elements of the State Civil Guard (GCE) are attacked between three and four times during operational activities, reported Guzmar Ángel González Castillo, head of the state Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).

Despite the attacks, mainly armed, the interviewee assured that there have been no cases of elements attacked when they’re on the way to work or home.

In recent days, Juan Diego Guadarrama, a 28-year-old state civil guard, who was commissioned in the Directorate of Investigation Methods, assigned to the municipality of Moctezuma, was shot aboard his car in the Benito Juárez neighborhood of Soledad de Graciano Sánchez.

The state official explained that attacks usually occur when the police are located in an area or region where some information will be exploited, or there are indications of the commission of criminal acts, for example, related to drug dealing or kidnapping.

"Yes, there have been attacks. We can have three or four attacks per week, which fortunately, because with the training that the elements have received, the results are favorable; we do not have injured people. Fortunately we have not had any events such as attacks against personnel on the way to work or to their homes."

Although three state guards died just over a week ago, in the case of Juan Diego this occurred through a direct armed attack, the other two died in the recent riot at the La Pila prison.


State Police Juan Diego Guadarrama shot dead in his car in the Benito Juarez neighborhood. 
Scolded de Graciano, San Luis Potosí 


Benito Juárez neighborhood 
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, San Luis Potosí 


Guzmar Ángel González Castillo, head of the state Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC)



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Authorities Arrest Jairo de Jesús, Inmate Who Escaped From Prison During Culiacanazo Fiasco In 2019

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Jairo de Jesús



It was elements of the State Police who made the arrest.The subject also had an arrest warrant against him.

The authorities notified the arrest of the subject who escaped from the Aguaruto Prison in the wave of violence derived from the first capture of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo”.

According to the report from the Ministry of Public Security, the detainee spent 5 years evading justice after escaping on October 17, 2019, when Guzmán López, also known as “El Ratón” was apprehended in the capital of Sinaloa.

The report states that elements of the State Police went to the Lomas de San Isidro subdivision to respond to a report of a fight, in the vicinity of a shopping plaza.

At the scene, the uniformed officers saw two people in the middle of a fight, who, upon realizing the police presence, took evasive action.

However, the agents pursued them. They were able to arrest one who was suspected of being under the influence of some substance.

The police took the detainee to police headquarters, where he provided a false name, but administrative personnel doing intake realized the lie. They managed to identify him as one of the escaped inmates during the Culiacanazo fiasco. 

Likewise, they saw that he had an arrest warrant against him for allegedly having participated in various bank and commercial store robberies.

The subject was left at the disposal of the corresponding authorities, who would determine the direction of the legal situation.

A motorcycle was also seized at the place of arrest, which the detainee used to get to the plaza. 




Lomas de San Isidro neighborhood 
Culiacán, Sinaloa

The Golfo de Santa Clara Falls, Bastion of Los Chapitos

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This Sunday morning a convoy of 80 armored trucks and dozens of armed men entered the town of El Golfo de Santa Clara, causing several confrontations to break out, the gunmen who arrived were commanded by Los Rusos who had confrontations for more than 3 hours with members of La Chapiza, from three to six in the morning.

The Rusos had the support of Los Charlis from Peñasco, their allies, since cells were created by the extinct “Macho Prieto” mob, their objective was to eliminate Samuel Ibarra Peralta, alias “El Pía” and his lieutenant nicknamed “El Gorila” , both criminal leaders at the service of the Los Chapitos cartel, who keep fishermen and merchants trapped, causing a strong economic loss due to the collection of fees and extortion, to the extent that the men of the sea have resorted to exchanging their products for food.

Through a letter circulated on social networks, the residents of the Gulf hope that things will now change and they hope that with the arrival of this new group to the Gulf there will be a change, for years they have been oppressed and unable to say anything, for fear of being killed or disappeared. Operatives from La Chapiza had a “tax” for each kilo of fish, this area went from being a productive region to almost a ghost town, thanks to Samuel Ibarra Peralta aka Pía and Jesús Aurelio Ibarra Ramiro aka Commander Aurelio.

The statement says “the doors are open, they only ask that the new group doesn’t abuse like the others.”



Golfo de Santa Clara
Sonora




Radio Patrulla  Michelle Rivera

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Gilberto Martínez Rentería aka El 50 Is Captured

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Video translation is as follows:



Gilberto Martínez Rentería aka El 50 is designated by the department of foreign assets control office of the United States as a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel of the Mayo Zambada faction in the state of Sonora. He was captured last night by army special forces in the municipality of Nogales as reported from Facebook by the Sonora Informativo webpage.  

The account indicated that the capture was carried out at 8 p.m. in a strong operation supported by an air force helicopter in a subdivision in the El Conquistador neighborhood. The detainee was wearing white tennis shoes, blue pants, a red jacket, and a red shirt. In 2021, the United States Department of the Treasury and the DEA designated Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela aka Gigio and other subordinates as specially designated drug traffickers for the United States government. 

Valenzuela is the head of a faction of the Cartel de Sinaloa for Mayo Zambada in Nogales. From where he oversees the shipment of tons of fentanyl and other drugs to the United States. He was poviding financial and technological support to Mayo Zambada who has been on this same list since 2002. According to the US government El Gigio reports directly to Mayo Zambada. Gilberto Martínez Rentería aka El 50 was the leader of the criminal group Los Demonios of the Sinaloa Cartel.



El Conquistador neighborhood 
Nogales, Sonora


Just days ago one of these turds from Los Demonios threatened to kill me. How about you try saving your piece of shit leader first you dumb ass. 





Saturday, March 16, 2024

The Equipo 5.7 Interrogate A Captured Female

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Gunmen for the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, led by José Antonio Yépez Ortiz aka El Marro, have captured a female suspected of working for the opposition. In this case that specific rival would be the Fedepales (Federal Municipal Policemen) in the city of Celaya, Guanajuato. 

Reports of the Fedepales appearing in Celaya initially began to surface here at Borderland Beat back in June of 2020. Since then they’ve had a known history of working in conjunction with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) for a number of years now. Numerous videos and communiques have surfaced of captured enemies specifically mentioning the Fedepales by name here, here, and here.

The peculiar thing about this broadcast isn’t just that they’re being cited once more. It’s the fact that the Valle Hermoso neighborhood is spoken about in a video for the second time this year. For unknown reasons the armed criminal cell known as Equipo 5.7 is contesting this specific community.

At this time it is believed that the nude female was killed off camera afterwards. The over sized machete next to her throat sure as fuck wasn’t placed there for decorative purposes.


Video translation is as follows:



Interrogator: What do you do for a living?

Captive: I’m a club promoter. 

Interrogator: Why are you here, why did we bring you to this location?

Captive: Because the Fedepales ((Federal Municipal Policemen) have to go through there. 

Interrogator: What are you to the Fedepales and why are they going to your house?

Captive: One of those guys wanted for me to be with him. I don’t say this just to talk shit. But I honestly didn’t want to be with him. 

Interrogator: What is that fools name?

Captive: Martin Martinez. 

Interrogator: Why did the Fedepales take you to the Delegación Norte police station?

Captive: Because of a firearm that I had in my possession. 

Interrogator: Where did those faggots place you?

Captive: They covered my head and placed me in a cell. 

Interrogator: Who all was there and what exactly was said in your presence?

Captive:  Everyone was wearing balaclavas. And they’re the one who hold control of the plaza. 

Interrogator: They hit someone earlier. Who exactly was this person?

Captive: It was a young man who was wearing a maroon jacket. He tried to run towards the local community college. But there were already some vehicles waiting there for him. 

Interrogator: Tell me about the events that happened earlier. 

Captive: Ok. 

Interrogator: What did those men look like who attacked that individual?

Captive: It was a guy wearing a maroon sweater. 

Interrogator: And in what direction did those faggots run towards?

Captive: The ran towards the community college. 

Interrogator: Which patrol vehicle recruited you? You mentioned that they could go fuck themselves because of the bullshit they pulled. 

Captive: It’s patrol vehicle # 3903.  

Interrogator: Ok. What else can you tell me?

Captive: And patrol vehicle # 39011. 

Interrogator: And what else…



Valle Hermoso neighborhood 
Celaya, Guanajuato


Local community college Instituto Tecnológico next to Valley Hermoso neighborhood 
Celaya, Guanajuato


Calle Azalea is the street that the captured female lives on. Coincidentally it’s also in the Valle Hermoso neighborhood.
Celaya, Guanajuato 


Celaya, Guanajuato



WhatsApp message making the rounds online of Esme Garcia asking for help in locating her missing sister. Her sibling is the woman who appears in the video above being interrogated by Equipo 5.7




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12 CJNG Members Who Attacked García Harfuch In 2020 Receive A Total of 316 Years

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The 12 subjects who on June 26, 2020 attacked Omar Hamid García Harfuch -Morena's candidate for the Senate, in the capital of the Republic-, when he was head of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC-CDMX), were convicted on March 15, 2024 to 316 years in prison.

Ulises Lara López, office manager of the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CDMX) reported that "he obtained a conviction against 12 men who participated in the armed attack against the former Secretary of Citizen Security, Omar Hamid García Harfuch, which left three people dead and five more injured.”

Through a message to the media, broadcast through an account on the YouTube platform of the law enforcement institution, the capital official explained that the full participation of the 12 involved in the crimes of homicide, to the detriment of three people, and attempted homicide, to the detriment of five more.

For this reason, as explained by Lara López, the maximum penalty for these crimes was obtained from a trial court: 50 years in prison for each of the three people who died and 33 years and four months for the crime of attempted homicide in grievance of five people, including García Harfuch.

“That is, when adding all the sentences, each of the accused was sentenced to 316 years, eight months in prison. However, the defendants will only serve 70 years in prison, as established by the Penal Code,” emphasized the FGJ-CDMX office manager.

According to Lara López, regarding the crime of attempted homicide, those convicted must prove full payment of reparation for the damage. In addition, indirect victims must be paid to repair the emotional damage, as well as the damage caused to vehicles related to the attack.

The FGJ-CDMX verified that the 12 men had active participation in the attack that occurred on June 26, 2020, when they shot at the convoy in which García Harfuch was traveling, at the intersection of Avenida Paseo de la Reforma and Monte Blanco, in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood, Miguel Hidalgo district, in the capital of the Republic.

Those sentenced, “from Mexico City, Guadalajara, Guerrero, Nayarit, Chihuahua, Michoacán, and one more of Colombian nationality, tried to flee, but were captured by elements of the capital's Citizen Security Secretariat.”

Likewise, the FGJ-CDMX determined that the attackers were hired three weeks before the attack and that they would receive money in exchange for attacking the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City.

According to the person in charge of the capital's Prosecutor's Office, the men were organized into cells and later concentrated in Mexico City. On the day of the attack, they were taken to the site, however, the night before they collected weapons in different places.

“Later, they were taken to three different points, specifically to the places where they would intercept the truck in which the Secretary of Citizen Security was traveling. As a result of these unfortunate events, a woman who was at the scene, unrelated to this situation, died,” said Lara López.

GARCÍA HARFUCH STATES IN INVESTIGATION FOR ATTACK AGAINST HIM IN 2020

Omar Hamid García Harfuch - then a candidate for the title of the "Coordination of the Defense of Transformation in Mexico City", that is, the virtual candidate for the Head of Government of the capital of the Republic - attended, on October 2023, to testify as a victim in the investigation process of the attack he suffered on June 26, 2020, when he was head of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC-CDMX).

The former capital official responded, at the headquarters of the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CDMX), to questions from the defense of 12 people allegedly responsible for the armed attack with long weapons that he suffered under. 

Within the process carried out in judicial file 009/1085/2020 and its accumulated file 006/0969/2020, the accused party sought to dismiss García Harfuch's testimony, as it had been collected while he was hospitalized.

THE ATTACK AGAINST GARCÍA HARFUCH IN CDMX

At around 06:38 on June 26, 2020, the head of the SSC-CDMX suffered an attack against him, at the intersection of Avenida Paseo de la Reforma and Monte Blanco, in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood, in which three people died and five more were injured. The attack was arrived out with five Barret .50 caliber rifles, a grenade launcher, seven fragmentation grenades, 24 long weapons and eight short weapons.

The head of the SSC-CDMX asked for help from two commanders of the corporation: Jorge Hirschberg Salazar, General Coordinator of the Metropolitan Police (“Sérpico”) and Rogelio Ramón Hipólito, General Coordinator of Technical Operational Areas of the Undersecretary of Police Operation (“Ocelotl").

In a 48-second audio, presented by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva on Imagen Noticias' nightly newscast, the head of the SSC-CDMX was heard when he was transferred in an ambulance to be taken to a heliport in the Vicereyes neighborhood, located on Montes Urales Street, approximately one kilometer away from where the attack occurred.

On the way, García Harfuch reported that he had suffered a “serious attack”, he asked “Ocelotl” to deploy patrols in the area and “Sérpico” to arrive at the heliport while he coordinated the transfer of the Cóndores group helicopter, the head of the SSC-CDMX was transferred to a hospital in the southern area of ​​the capital of the Republic.

After receiving three gunshot wounds to the arm, shoulder and knee, in addition to having several injuries from shrapnel during the attack, García Harfuch was admitted to a hospital. That same day they operated on him and four days later he had to return to the operating room, in continuation of one of the injuries he suffered, as reported at the time.

“This morning we were cowardly attacked by the CJNG, two colleagues and friends of mine lost their lives, I have three bullet wounds and several splinters. Our Nation must continue to confront cowardly organized crime. We will continue working,” the capital official wrote on his Twitter social network account that same day.

“I inform that at approximately 06:38 in the morning the Secretary of Citizen Security of the City suffered an attack, he is out of danger being treated in a hospital, there were deaths and several detainees; The corresponding investigations are being carried out,” said Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, then head of the Head of Government of the capital of the Republic, minutes later.

The more than 400 bullet impacts against the vehicle in which the former director of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), of the then Attorney General's Office (PGR), was traveling, caused the death of his two bodyguards and friends, Rafael “O” and Edgar “G”. In the fray, Gabriela “G” also died, who was shot in the head while traveling with her husband, sister and sister-in-law in her car, heading to her quesadilla stand, located outside the Metro Auditorium.

Two weeks later, on July 6, 2020, the head of the SSC-CDMX announced in a tweet: “I was discharged from the hospital, I deeply appreciate the expressions of solidarity and support received. In a few days I will return to work with the greatest determination to continue building the best Police in Mexico and combat the crime that does so much damage to us.”

The head of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of the Government of Mexico City reiterated on July 28, 2020, that those responsible for the attack against him, registered on June 26, was organized by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho.”

When participating in the videoconference headed by the head of Government of Mexico City, the capital official indicated that this assertion is based on previous investigations that have been carried out in the SSC-CDMX since August 2019.

García Harfuch commented that the CJNG was not the only threat of an attack against him that he has received, and that there have been threats since he was director of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) in the now defunct Attorney General's Office of the Republic ( PGR), and, also, since he belonged to the Federal Police (PF).

For this attack, at least 25 people were arrested, although according to a report from the FGJ-CDMX, obtained and cited by the newspaper Milenio, currently only 14 were being prosecuted for homicide and attempted homicide.

WHO IS OMAR HAMID GARCÍA HARFUCH?

Omar Hamid García Harfuch, 42 years old, was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on February 25, 1982. He has a Law Degree from the Intercontinental University and a Degree in Public Security from the University of the Valley of Mexico (UVM).

He has specialized studies in Security at Harvard University, as well as from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States.

He was director - from November 9, 2016 to June 1, 2019 - of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), of the now defunct Attorney General's Office (PGR), and previously served as general commissioner and head of the Investigation Division of the Federal Police (PF).

On June 15, 2019, he was appointed general chief of the Investigative Police (PDI), of the then Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (PGJ-CDMX) and Intelligence coordinator of the Security Cabinet of the capital of the city. Republic.

From October 4, 2019 until his resignation on September 9, 2023, he held the position of head of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (SSC-CDMX), during the heads of Government of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo y Martí Batres Guadarrama.

He is the son of the actress María Harfuch Hidalgo (better known as María Sorté), whom he transported on a private plane from the PF, during the floods that occurred in Acapulco, Guerrero, after the meteorological phenomena “Ingrid” and “ Manuel”, in September 2013, as reported by various media at that time.

In January of that same year, the PF had to clarify that García Harfuch, son of the former head of the defunct Federal Directorate of Security (DFS), Javier García Paniagua, was investigated, along with eleven other federal agents, by the US government as part of a protocol procedure to be able to attend “an advanced course to combat gangs” in El Salvador.

The weekly Proceso had announced that through cable 142144Z, dated December 9, 2009, issued by the United States Embassy in Mexico and addressed to the head of the US Secretary of State, an investigation was requested of the background of the 12 Mexican federal agents, which was carried out by the Narcotics Affair Section (NAS), according to a cable revealed by the international non-governmental organization Wikileaks.

Likewise, the digital media La Silla Rota assured that García Harfuch had “accelerated growth” within the federal public administration, since in just eight years and without previous experience in security issues, he went from management in a construction company to becoming the head of the Investigation Directorate of the Federal Police, one of the highest positions within the National Security Commission (CNS).

On September 1, 2008, García Harfuch joined the PF as head of the Department of Intelligence Coordination for Crime Prevention. His only work history was the position of manager at Red Inmobiliaria del Ángel S.A. of C.V. with “construction supervision” functions, from June 2003 to June 2008, as indicated in its 2007 asset declaration.

At that time, the head of the AIC reported that he had limited studies in the Business Administration Degree at the Universidad Anáhuac México Sur, with a record of only four semesters.

He was appointed non-commissioned officer in Cuernavaca, Morelos, and in January 2013 inspector general of the Federal Police in Guerrero. Later they appointed him head of the Intelligence Division of the PF, with a monthly salary of 130,992 pesos, according to the same digital media.



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85 Arrested to Dismantle Sinaloa Cartel Meth Trafficking Cell in Central California

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat


On March 14, 2024, 21 teams from state, local, and federal agencies served 31 simultaneous search warrants at various homes throughout Tulare, Kings, and Fresno counties in Central California as part of Operation SLO Ride.

These warrants were the result of a 9-month investigation into information the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office received about a large amount of meth that was being transported between Kings and Tulare County.

The drug trafficking networks sourced their meth from a figure in Mexico connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Friday, March 15, 2024

National Guard And Fuerza Civil Detain 'Edgar Enrique Medina Adame', "Kike" In Escobedo, Nuevo Leon. Kike Is The Operational Chief For C.D.N. In Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by Santiago Delta on X




" The Guardia Nacional and Fuerza Civil detain in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, Edgar Enrique Medina Adame (a) "Kike", Operational Chief of the CDN in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with 2 more people, securing 1 vehicle, 1 long gun, magazines, cartridges and drugs. 
Sedena or Ejercito Mexicano." 

"KIKE"




"This criminal is responsible for several aggressions against military personnel in Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. in 2023, where 1 military personnel lost his life and 5 more were injured."


"KIKE" OPERATIONAL CHIEF OF CARTEL NORESTE OR C.D.N. IN NUEVO LAREDO, TAMAULIPAS. 





FlashBack Friday: Comando Zeta Responsible For The Disappearance Of Women

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This article was translated and reposted from Vanguardia | MX 

30 AUGUST 2016



They were invited to a dance and from there they disappeared.

Piedras Negras. At the time of the disappearances, whoever was in charge here wiped out dozens of young girls between 17 and 22 years of age out of pure hatred, without anyone seeing anything, without anyone hearing anything. And worst of all: without anyone denouncing anything. It was during the second week of October 2012, when Comandante Enano, head of the criminal group Los Zetas, feeling betrayed by a group of girls who accompanied him to the most intimate parties, invited them to a meeting in the municipality of Allende, considered the "kitchen" of the Cinco Manantiales region, an area mourned by the disappearance of hundreds of people.

Nobody knew anything about it, because nothing happens in Coahuila. In this border, events took place that are difficult to explain, if violent death and kidnapping have any coherent explanation.


Lorena, a girl now 25 years old, remembers well the footsteps of David Alejandro Loreto Mejorado, Comandante Enano, or El Diablo. A handsome and wild little man; cool with his friends and a devil with his enemies.

He knew him since he was a teenager in the Mundo Nuevo neighborhood, better known as San Judas, because of the church of the Saint that fills the inhabitants with faith, accustomed to living with the narco in their streets, in their homes.

David Alejandro was thirteen years old when he studied at the Francisco I. Madero high school, by then he was already nicknamed El Enano (The Dwarf). He was respected among the youths because he washed the cars of Celso Martínez, El Celso, a neighborhood capo who later belonged to Los Zetas, becoming, together with Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Díaz, Alfa Metro, the leaders of the border strip of Coahuila.

This boy, who dressed well and combed his hair with a lot of elastic, rose high in the criminal structure left vacant by El Celso after his capture in 2012.

  

- He was very quiet, or discreet. I don't know how he rose so high. He got everyone in the San Judas gang to work with the gang: as hawks, collectors or hitmen.

El Enano was two years older. It was a long time before their paths crossed because Lorena moved to live in another city.

When she returned to Piedras, walked and walked the streets of her dusty San Judas, she found the boy who washed other people's cars driving a new car, not at all opulent. He had three escorts with him: He looked a lot more cocky, he confided. The Dwarf asked: "Don't you remember me anymore?

- He asked me to work with him, who was with La Gente. He gave me 5000 pesos in cash. He told me that he gained strength because Celso recommended him to El 42 (Omar Treviño Morales).

Lorena refused. On several occasions she was invited to parties that Comandante Enano organized in a house in Colonia Cumbres, the last one, of which several young girls disappeared, was apparently at a ranch in Allende.

- There was a lot of pot, soda, whiskey. That little group were the most popular in Piedras. There were three from Rosita.

She may have gone to one or two parties, although she doesn't say for sure. She has straight hair and brown skin; she is as skinny as a bird, flirtatious and seductive when she talks and smiles.

- They started dating at the same time with soldiers and GATE'S (elite State Police). Already drunk, they threatened each other. It was the power that blinded them. Once El Enano found messages on the cell phone of one of them where she was talking with soldiers, that's why they disappeared.

Monica, 20 years old

Nobody knows anything about Monica Larissa Pena Ramos, who lived downtown with a friend and had a wild beauty: cinnamon skin, black hair and bright eyes.


She and her friends were nicknamed Monica's Group, all in their twenties, beautiful and fragile as a piece of paper.

The last time they saw her, she asked her relatives to accompany her to buy a costume to celebrate Halloween.

And a nightmare became life all around.

It was October 2012.

The heat was not as cruel as it usually is for much of the year. The city was crumbling with bullets.

- We didn't see her anymore. We couldn't find her. They were taking a lot of people away then. We are afraid they will take revenge if we say anything.

 

Monica went to high school, 20 years old. She was popular at parties and discos, and when she arrived with her friends they were the center of attention. The daughter of a single mother, her father sent money from the United States. She never lacked for anything.

Where Los Zetas operate, it is necessary to be discreet, perhaps that is why no one would suspect two people talking while sitting on the stairs of a shopping mall, outside a pizzeria, drawing the cruelty of men and women who kill and disappear other men and women for revenge.

- The problem is that there are clandestine graves. One is hopeful, but it is a long time, people know a lot about what happened. There is fear, you don't know who you are talking to.

Regarding the disappearance of Monica Larissa, Familias Unidas AC, has documented her case, of which a complaint was filed with the State Attorney General's Office, but no progress has been made, because nobody, they say, has seen anything.

Atzy Adamary, 22 years old

That afternoon in Villa Union, located 19 kilometers from Allende, no one knew how to explain anything about the recent model pickup trucks that apparently were guarding the first march in that municipality of Familias Unidas AC. The third since they were formed.

Perhaps because it was a Sunday at the beginning of September with the sun covering everything, but no local media showed up to document it.

Nor did they document the families disintegrated by the forced disappearance of their members.

Because it was the time of fear, when reporters, editors and media directors were kidnapped and tortured. Last year alone, the organization Article 19 documented 14 attacks on the media in Coahuila, out of the 39 registered in Mexico.

Fear. Death. Revenge. Suffering in nothingness.

And so, with that fear, about 30 people marched, humming Christian songs like Yo te extrañaré and Vuelve a casa.

Olga Lidia Saucedo García, representative of the municipality of Allende for Familias Unidas, told that she began to know about the violence from the disappearance of her daughter Atzy Adamary, in the early morning of December 18, 2012.

She has heard little about the mass disappearance of young girls in Piedras Negras.

- People tell me that the violence was there before, I began to realize it when my daughter disappeared. I noticed that there was evil here. Many people don't want to get close to you anymore because they think you are in danger.

  

Olga Lidia smiles at her grandchildren, at everyone. She tries to hide how humid the early morning was when Atzy Adamary Reina Saucedo went to a meeting at her father's house in the company of Alfredo Ruiz, her husband, and their children: a newborn and a two-year-old girl.

Atzy was 22 years old, he was 30, working for a dairy company. If it hadn't rained so much that night, and it hadn't been so cold, the little ones would have disappeared.

- At four o'clock in the morning my son-in-law received a call, telling him to go to his mother's house because she was sick, since it was raining and cold, they didn't want to take my granddaughters out. They took 10 people from his family, plus my daughter and him.

In the morning, Olga Lidia's ex-husband dialed saying that Atzy Adamary had been "lifted", to go pick up her grandchildren.

- It was an unusual word for me. I couldn't figure out what he meant. Things were already very strong, I didn't really know what it meant. Since then I don't know anything. On October 31, my daughter would be 25 years old.

Lluvia, 21 years old

Those who knew Lluvia Marisol Rodriguez Ruiz, then 21 years old, think that there will come a day when we will have to pay for everything we do, but she, a young mother, did not have to leave Piedras Negras just like that.


Her memory now dwells in nothingness, in a pile of papers in a state agency, where her relatives recently went to report her disappearance, which occurred in October 2012.

It was a Monday when Lluvia dialed home in Colonia Bravo asking for a bottle of whiskey, she sounded upset, as if someone was forcing her to talk.

On Wednesday a call came in on the cell phone of one of her relatives. They were worried about her, without any clue.

- I'm going to tell you the truth. Lluvia was given an apartment along with 20 other girls. They were invited to a party with trickery. So they wouldn't look for them.

That's all they knew. Which is equal to nothing.

Lluvia lived with her boyfriend and her six-year-old son, in fact she was a close friend of Monica Larissa Pena. The oldest of seven siblings, she had tattoos of stars on her ankle and Santa Muerte on her back.


It is complicated that in such a colony they talk about Lluvia. It is not easy to remember.

- Many times we don't want to talk, there are many people related to them. You become aware of what happens because of the people, that's how we became aware of all the women who disappeared during those years. They said that one of them was against the (Gulf Cartel), another one had contact with the Federales. In the meetings they took away their phones.

The heir of La Roca (Piedras)

The problem in this region is that nobody saw anything. And when there is nothing, nothing happens. One of these unnamed judicial sources said that practically the entire municipal police force was involved with the narco. Between 2012 and 2013, more than 400 state and municipal police officers were dismissed in Coahuila for failing to pass the control and confidence tests applied by the Public Security Secretariat.

- They were all cooks. Here comes all the filth that goes to the United States. All the policemen were cooks. Many people were burned alive.

With experience in the security area, he said that around 40 vehicles pass through the region every day on their way to the interior of the country, which enter through gaps to avoid customs.

This was the territory inherited by David Alejandro Loreto, Comandante Enano, a territory that first belonged to Los Texas, then to the Gulf Cartel and then to Los Zetas.

  

On youtube there are gangsta rap songs dedicated to Comandante Enano, two of them tell part of his life, and act: "When he goes out on the street he always goes out entrusted to San Judas Tadeo and surrounded by hitmen... The rock is his place, the government has not been able to, he knows how to give the order, he carries goat horn. He carries a knife to slit the heads of the GATE'S, the ugly ones and the Navy... He carries a knife to slit heads.

Following the reorganization of the cartel and the expansion of its strategy, Comandante Enano took over the city of Zacatecas and was shot by soldiers in the early hours of May 3, 2013, as he was driving down Paseo del Mineral Avenue in his Cheyenne pickup truck with Tamaulipas license plates.

Titina and Claudia, 23 and 26 years old.

A month after Comandante Enano's death, sisters María Cristina and Claudia Bustos Vázquez, 23 and 26 years old, disappeared in Nueva Rosita (an hour from Piedras Negras) at about 5:00 a.m. in the morning. And nobody, for a change, saw anything.

They had left a discotheque after celebrating Father's Day with their mother María Alejandra Vázquez Maltos, Candy, a 42-year-old woman who knew the night working as a bartender, was father and mother at the same time.
Candy knew about the dangers of the dark, that's why she had warned Maria Cristina, Titina, not to trust the night: much less Los Zetas.

- We met one of the old Comandantes when I worked in the cantinas. I told him: I'm going to take you from here to somewhere else. The problem was that he talked a lot with the soldiers, he liked them. She said that just because she liked the soldiers, she wasn't going to point a finger (point them out to the authorities) at those güeyes (Zetas).

Titina responded:

- I see them all the time, they don't do anything to me.

And in her desperation as a mother, Candy explained.

- No daughter, it's just that they are just looking for you to hunt you down. They are going to hunt you. They disappear at the least expected moment.

It was the night of June 15, Father's Day, when Candy and her children María Cristina, Claudia and Omar decided to go to celebrate at the Obsesión cantina, on Reforma Street in the center of the city. It was 3:00 a.m. and they returned home.

But Claudia called a friend to continue the party at the Mangus discotheque, the friend explained that he would only take her in the car, but would not stay: it was a place where old men went, he said.

Omar was the one who interceded so that the girls would be allowed to go: "Let them go, mother. I will take care of them, he promised.

In the wee hours of the morning, Candy texted Claudia's cell phone. Maria Cristina had forgotten hers at home.

- Tell Titina to come over because the baby (newborn) wants to breastfeed. One of them answered that just a little while longer. It was 04:00 in the morning. It was the last message from that cell phone whose trace disappeared.

Four hours later Claudia's cell phone rang. A missed call, an alarm, a message. She doesn't remember, only that it was a sound.

- I jumped in fear. I said: My daughters have not arrived, where are my sons? The first thing that came to my mind was: They already killed my children.

Candy phoned Omar, Claudia, she searched in the company of a family friend for traces in hospitals, in the police; she walked through the bush, through the plain. And nothing.

Omar answered very late; he was recovering from a hangover. He said that his sisters had gone out to take a cab, then returned to the disco to call because there were no cars coming to pick them up. He had stayed at the club with a girl.

From then on, everything was nothing.

- No one knows who picked them up, no one saw anything. Nobody talks, they are afraid. I'm not looking for culprits right now. I want to know where they left them.

Sleepless, anguished. That Sunday Candy went to the judicial authorities, then to the Municipal Police, then she reported the events to the State Attorney General's Office. She put up posters; she went to the radio stations. Once, walking down the street, a woman approached him. She told him in a supportive voice: "I also have a missing daughter.

And she disappeared. He never heard from the woman again.

The partner he had at the time, with whom he had been with for four years, decided to leave for good because of a phone call he received.

- The old people threatened me, they called him and told him: You know what, tell your fucking old lady to shut the fuck up, because wherever we see her we're going to pick her up with you.

Titina left a four year old child who lives with Candy; Claudia left two children, eight and four years old, who are with their father.

  

They both worked as workers in a maquiladora, they studied up to high school. Candy only thinks about taking care of little Eliud Noé, although, she says, she will not give up the fight, despite the risks.

- I am not afraid. What more harm can they do to me if they have already taken two pieces of my life from me? The day they catch me, one of them won't go free, because first I'll take out his eyes!