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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Banner Claims The Marines Are Working for RCQ's La Plaza in Sonora

"HEARST" for Borderland Beat


A new banner appeared in Empalme, Sonora, which accuses specific units of the Marines, as well the Public Security Director, of carrying out executions on behalf of the cartel group La Plaza, which works under narco kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero.




The Empalme Marines Banner


On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, a banner was discovered to have been placed at the restaurant “Chilos Pollos”, located in the small town of José María Morelos y Pavón (which is more often called La Atravezada). This town is located to the north east of the port cities of Guaymas and Empalme in the state of Sonora. 


 

The banner read as follows, as translated by Itzli: 

“The head of Public Security in Empalme, Luis Alberto Taylor González,  


He has been spotted having links with the local criminal group called ‘La Plaza’ and he has under his command units 404056, 400083, 404093 of the Navy, [which he uses] to execute people who he thinks are enemies of La Plaza.


As an example, the acts that took place on Monday, May 30th, that they reported as a shootout and [yet] they were the ones that attacked in cold blood and planted weapons and drugs on two people. 


Pay attention to these corrupt elements of the Secretary of the Marines that are under the command of La Plaza.”


So what is this banner talking about? Rafael Caro Quintero’s Caborca Cartel has a subgroup named La Plaza which operates in the Empalme and Guaymas regions within the state of Sonora. La Plaza is thought to be led by Francisco Javier Espinoza Camacho, aliases “El Picipi” and “El Fino”.






SEMAR's Role in Mexico


The Marines (MARINA or SEMAR, Secretaría de Marina) are considered to be the best trained and most disciplined organization within the Mexican military. About 20 years ago, the general public tended to believe that the Marines were the military branch which were the least infiltrated by cartel organizations.



The MARINA were asked to participate in highly-classified operations which aimed to arrest cartel kingpins, such as El Chapo, which relied heavily on the incorruptibility of all parties involved in order to prevent word from getting out to the narcos they were targeting.


Leaks to narcos about upcoming arrest operations are a common occurrence, as an example, see all the times Francisco Arvizu Marquez, alias “El Jaguar”, was able to evade capture because he was told ahead of time by a mole within law enforcement or the military



However, over the last few decades, this reputation of the Marines being less corrupted has steadily degraded due to scandals such as this (also see this and this). President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in March 2022 that in SEMAR there were "many acts of corruption" prior to his arrival at the Presidency, which regardless of the politics, does reflect how the general public’s level of trust with the Marines has significantly lessened.



Within the state of Sonora, many municipalities have installed MARINA commanders as leaders within their municipal police departments as part of a larger attempt to clean up these departments from narco corruption. 



As an example of this movement, see Navy Frigate Captain Cándido Tarango Velázquez who became police commissioner of Cajeme in November 2020. Or Navy commander Andrés Humberto Cano Ahuir who was installed as the police commissioner of Guaymas in August 2019. Both of these men were later surrounded by scandal and accused of working for Sinaloa Cartel’s Los Salazars. 


Now specific MARINA units are being accused of working for Los Salazar’s rivals, the Caborca Cartel and La Plaza. Unit numbers 404056, 400083, 404093 all correspond to units within the Fourth Marine Infantry Battalion, stationed in Guaymas, Sonora.





The May 30th Incident


The incident they cite within the banner as an example of MARINA soldiers carrying out La Plaza’s orders likely refers to an incident which occurred within this same town of José María Morelos (La Atravezada) the week earlier. 


A unit of the Marines was allegedly on a routine patrol in an area near the town when they happened upon two suspicious SUVs with armed men inside. One of these SUVs was a Chevrolet Suburban and the other was a Ford Explorer.


The Marines allegedly signaled for the SUVs to pull over and the men inside responded by opening fire on them. The soldiers repelled the attack and returned fire, resulting in the injury of two men inside the Ford Explorer, causing the vehicle to halt. Both men inside the Explorer were arrested and brought for medical attention meanwhile the Chevrolet Suburban managed to flee the area. No photos from the incident have been released as of the writing of this story.





Empalme Marines Banner Sources: Sonora Informativo, Calvarie Locus, Opinion Sonora


May 30th Incident Sources: Radar Sonora, Aquí y Ahora Noticias, Alfredo Alvarez






Further Reading 


For more on the Navy captain Cándido Tarango, who was accused of working for Los Salazars, please see this story.


For more on the Navy commander Cano Ahuir, who was accused of working for Los Salazars, please see this story


47 comments:

  1. So salazares took back Navojoa from los Olivas? I'm referring to the map of this region last year. From my understanding Navojoa has always been a Salazar bastion but last year it was marked orange under Olivas control

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    1. I believe I marked it as Olivas because Buggs described it as one of the territories dispute between Salazars and Olivas in this 2020 article.
      http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2020/05/los-salazar.html

      I should have marked it as contested on the map, in retrospect. And with further reading it has become clear to me that Salazars have always controlled it and the Olivas disputes were temporary.

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    2. Thanks for your reply love your work Hearst!

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    3. Hearst keep up the Good work, I love your Smile.

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    4. I love the twinkle in your eyes, love the smell of your hair.

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    5. Thank you v much for linking up the backstory via footnotes/links of previous articles. Helps immensely to put it all into context, especially for those of us who don't know the back stories on these hundreds of individuals discussed. I would imagine you may spend great deal of time on these pieces plus your inmate talent is quite a formidable combination. Thank you

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  2. Peñasco is MZ plz and has been for many years not sure why your always showing it as Chapitos? https://youtu.be/vFn9QNsBvZ0

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    1. Roger that El 11 Macho Prieto and El Cheko pura MZ

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    2. I was just there in March Todo tranquilon who runs it for Mayo??

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    3. I know about the Mayo/Macho Prieto history in Penasco. But in a September 2021 article, Zeta Tijuana wrote about Los Salazar's El Zabe, saying “For several years now, he has been in charge of directing the executions and kidnappings from Puerto Peñasco to SLRC, where he is also dedicated to the collection and distribution of drugs.”

      https://zetatijuana.com/2021/09/la-justicia-del-narco-en-la-pelea-por-slrc-y-mexicali/

      I'm more than open to hearing that Mayo aligned factions still own it but I’m going to need more than a corrido to be convinced. 

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    4. Penasco is run by Chavo Feliz-MZ.

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    5. I was curious about this and did some looking myself and didn't come up with much outside of corridos which always should be taken with a grain of salt considering they are often paid to praise and inflate the power of the person being sung about.

      But even so, operating in a plaza and running a plaza are two different things. Has Chavo Felix operated in Peñasco? Yes. Does he control the plaza? I would love to read something outside of a corrido that says that.

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    6. Everyone in town knows Penasco belongs to Chavo Felix. Majority of the resorts are own by Mayos and Chapos families. Agreement between Cartels not to heat up Penasco since it's a money maker for them with so many Gringos retired in Penasco. If RCQ wanted to head up Penasco it would have been done long ago. Caborca is only 45 minutes away

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    7. Chavo Felix had his wedding in Penasco. Serafin was in the area time of his accident a few weeks ago. Like people in town say "aquí no pasa nada, pasa me otra cheve"

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    8. 💯 % Mayo & Chavo it’s probably the safest city in MX they don’t mess with the tourists. Place is on Lock Down! Very peaceful city and great location to invest for the Gringos

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    9. El Señor Chavo Felix has a Special Mission Unit of highly trained operators known as Los Demonios . They keep Peñasco peaceful .pura gente del sombrero.
      Shout out to el Sic006

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    10. 1:02 doubtful

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    11. Puerto Penasco, Sonora is run by El Charlie, El Rojo, Comanche, Julio Madueno, the Gustavo Silvestre Brown family, the Mayor's family, Francisco Cabrales, Larry Large, Kenneth Wallace, Sergio Porchas, Leonel Leon Ochoa, alias, "El Leon,", Joe Gelardi, "El Joe", and Curtis Allen Olson, "El Burro", More child sex trafficking there to horny old gringos, and real estate fraud, than drug trafficking. Prostitution is big. Drugs only a side business.

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    12. How about the 56 dead bodies they found in the desert outside of Rocky Point.? Aka Puerto Penasco? You call that safe or peaceful? Most americanas who live there are child molesters or other criminales running away from the law in the usa or mexicans who have have been deported from usa for drug trafficking.

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    13. 1:44pm - You are correct! All of them report to Chavo Felix. Weird that drugs is a side business and more into clubs, bars, prostitution and alcohol. People drinking in the street at 3am with no worries

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    14. 1:44 and thats exactly why cds is also known as the child molestor cartel, Mayo Zambada style

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    15. Carlitos-56 dead bodies ain't bad over years of snitches and chapulines. No city anywhere in the world is safe. Don't know where you get child molestation since it's full of drunks, retirees, spring breakers and weekend families.

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    16. 6:43 - and you really think all the other cartel are angels???? ALL i repeat ALL are in the same game.

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    17. I've been researching the people that you guys mentioned in these comments and I am now convinced that Puerto Penasco should marked as CDS - Mayo on the map. Thanks everybody for sharing, it really helps me out.

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    18. Charlie is the same person as Chavo Felix. In Sonora, the families of Munro, Bours, and Beltrones are the most powerful. Polítics and drug trafficking go hand in hand. Many Americans in puerto penasco traffic drugs in usa,; canadians also. Many of the teenage prostitutes in RP are HIV positive, they are trafficked from all parts of the world by the cartels. The Americans are the criminals in Rocky Point.

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    19. The Brown family, Mormons, originally from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, are billioniares. They own most of the land in puerto penasco, it was given to their grandfather by Pancho Villa. Another billionaire in Rocky point is Larry Large, a mayor american criminal, Money launderer, Child sex trafficker, and a child molester as well.

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    20. 1:41 true! Pero dice Gsonora que ahi esta todo tranquilo 🤣 uno de los los estados mas culeros por los pinches chomos, pero el sigue diciendo que todo esta tranquilo y que es el mejor estado, si el mejor estado para los child molesters! Pinche basura de mexico!

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    21. 12:24 - Basura tu casa!!! Tranquilo en forma que no te levanta por pendejo como eres tu. Tranquilo en la forma que si NO estás en el desmadre te dejan en paz

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  3. CDS not doing well in Sonora with Caro and help from elementary mencho

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    1. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 y dice el sonora that sonora is in control and bla bla bla lo de siempre puras mermas con esos mitoteros

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    2. CDS has most of Sonora in control. No news from Nogales, Agua Prieta, Hermosillo and other smaller towns. Internal fighting in San Luis.

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    3. Nogales run by El Gigio and El 20, on Mayo's team. They are fixing to wipe out Chapitos crew, run by Marcos Ariel Valenzuela-Fonseca, alias El Guero.

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    4. Claro que el señor Rafael Caro no está agravando a los Mayos bueno eso parece el señor del Sombrero paga sus fees y da respect por el otro lado 4 letras. Como Tijuana es de los arellanos y Rafael es Cartel Jalisco alli chinga a los 2 parejos mayos y chapizza.por una x razón le encanta tumbar a la chapizza pues se alineó con la Línea por eso Chihuahua está ardiendo corrientes le faltaron el respeto Al padrino Miguel Ángel Félix y repartió a todos las Plazas

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    5. 2:13 "el Jefe" did not own his own ass to distribute around in prison, much less plasas on the Mexico-US border...
      Amado Carrillo fuentes took Cd Juarez from DFS agent Rafael Aguilar Guajardo after salinas buddy policia judicial Comandante Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni and the FBI MURDERED Pablo Acosta in Ojinaga coming in from the US in helicopters, childhood friend of calderoni juan Garcia obregon got tamaulipas for the cartel del "hombre" de Agualeguas NL, carlos Salinas de gortari, (el chamuco mayor) and the arellanuses in Tijuas, the former cartel de guadalajara split and begat CDS, with RCQ in a secret partnership, with no money for RCQ, ever, that why rafa wants his shares now, and he ain't getting shit because he is now an old mustache Pete without mustache, pinchi viejillo chavorruco cabeza llena de cagada.

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  4. Pues anda recio la Barredora (la rueda de la fortuna) Alfredo Olivas. Le dice a todos igualados les voy enseñar a respetar Rafael Caro Quintero

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    1. Then his next song is about Mayo followed by a song of how the Chapitos ruled. Remember he is a payed performer who will sing what he is told.

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    2. Eso si el Artista cobra por corridos de mentiras muncho corrido pa vendídos traicioneros y snitches 😂

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  5. Ahhhhhhh
    A morning without sir, I have the room to myself.

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  6. Im sorry to inform you but SIR has been banned until he stops using and gets clean

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    1. De Sir needs his life evaluated, priorities come first. Then when he has free time, go online someone in here, called him, because he is awake at night too...the 24 hour Junkie 😂.

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    2. Cierren las puertss!!!
      (O aunque sea el hocico)
      Porque ya llegó su mero padre

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    3. 👏 SIR for once you are not commenting at 3 am, how does it feel to be sover for 2 hours?

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    4. Sir reminds me of a neighbor, that constantly likes to talk, I have work a family, he works part-time, so he has time to shit around.

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    5. LOL 😂 The 24HOUR Internet JUNKIE.🤣😂😂😷😷😷😂

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  7. Uvo chingasos en el Taste en Penasco el domingo. La última carrera con uno de Sonoyta que su pinché caballo no quieso entrar a las puertas.

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