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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Hitmen Dressed as FGE Agents Kidnap & Kill Brother of FGE Official in Mexicali, Baja California

"HEARST" for Borderland Beat 


Cell phone videos show cartel hitmen disguised as FGE agents abducting the brother of an actual FGE agent in Mexicali, in the state of Baja California. The victim was found dead the next day with injuries consistent with torture.




The Abduction Caught on Video


During the afternoon of Monday, May 30, 2022, Ramsés Heriberto Zatarain Hernández was driving his GMC Sierra white pickup truck through the Misión del Valle neighborhood of the city of Mexicali with his romantic partner in the passenger seat. 




A law-enforcement-esque white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck approached his vehicle and motioned for Ramsés to pull over for a traffic stop, which he complied with. A number of armed men exited the Silverado, wearing ballistic plate carriers with the letters FGE on them, which presumably identified them state Attorney General’s Office (FGE) agents. 


The armed men were wearing face coverings and carrying firearms. They demanded that Ramsés exit his vehicle and come with them. Ramsés, the brother of FGE agent Rigoberto Zataraín Huitrón, was suspicious of the men and refused to exit his vehicle, asking for more details about why he had to come with them. The armed men claimed they had an arrest warrant for him.


His wife also became suspicious of the armed men posing as FGE agents and she exited the vehicle, trying to talk further with some of the men about why they wanted Ramsés to come with them on the sidewalk nearby. When they did not answer, she began recording the interaction on her cellphone. The video shown below is some of the footage she recorded. The video contains no graphic content. 


In the video, Ramsés can be seen sitting in the front seat of his white pickup truck, with the driver’s side door open, while a partially masked man stands a few feet away talking to him, indicating for him to step out of the vehicle. His wife approaches asking them “What's going on? What's going on?”. 




As she gets closer, a different armed man, who is standing on the passenger side of the vehicle, starts yelling and Ramsés turns to face in his direction. 


The wife points the camera to fully view the armed man on the driver’s side and the letters “FGE” are clearly seen on the vest as she continues to ask him what is going on. The man says something quietly, then motions with his hands as if he’s deferring to what the yelling man is saying and partially turns away from the camera as Ramsés steps out of his vehicle and submits to coming with them out of frame. 




As the armed men begin to re-enter their vehicle, with Ramsés now in tow, an armed man wearing a balaclava exits the driver’s side backseat of their vehicle with a long barrel firearm clutched in his hands. He approaches the wife quickly and in an aggressive manner. The video abruptly stops.



The sound of at least two gunshots, possibly warning shots, were heard by residents in the area. According to witnesses, the armed men sped away from the area once they got Ramsés inside their vehicle.


The emergency phone line was called and officers arrived to investigate the incident, finding a radio and two spent shell casings corresponding to the shots heard. The Motorola radio that was left by the abductors is noted by Zeta Tijuana as being the same model that municipal police officers use. Whether this is a common model or not is not specified.



After interviewing the wife, the officers asked their FGE colleagues for details about their current operations. The FGE made clear to them that they had no agents executing an arrest warrant in that part of Mexicali that afternoon. 


Ramsés’s wife posted the video she recorded online and the FGE office released a press statement which stated “The State Attorney General's Office (FGE), informs that no element of the State Investigation Agency belonging to the FGE participated in the facts registered this Monday afternoon, May 30, in the streets Privada Misión de Santo Tomás Sur and Privada Misión de Guadalupe in the Misión del Valle neighborhood, where a 37 year old man was deprived of his freedom.”


They added “It should be noted that, upon verifying the name of the victim in the institutional databases, it was found that he does not have an active arrest warrant against him.” The FGE also said they were investigating the incident and looking for the men seen in the video. 


On the morning after the abduction of Ramses, human remains were discovered in the eastern outskirts of Mexicali, on the highway near the small town of Los Manantiales.


Warning: Graphic images below this point.





Officers were called to the scene and evidence was collected from the area. The body of the deceased was left half naked and had visible evidence of gunshot wounds. After family members were notified and came to the morgue to claim the body, authorities officially announced that the deceased remains belong to Ramsés Heriberto Zatarain Hernández. 


The Forensic Medical Service stated the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the skull. The medical report stated there was also evidence of dragging [possibly from a vehicle] and other injuries that suggest a process of torture in addition to the gunshot wounds. 




A Second Abduction


The day after Ramses was abducted, the emergency phone line received a report that a pick up truck was spotted abducting another person in Mexicali. This time a man named Jose Félix was kidnapped from Davo tire shop in the Xochicalli neighborhood. 



The men who kidnapped him were seen driving a white four door Dodge Ram pickup truck and officers were told to be on the lookout for the vehicle. The pick up truck was then spotted in the Ferrocarril neighborhood by officers who gave chase. Eventually, the pickup truck stopped in a Walmart parking lot and one of the gunmen got out the vehicle. 


Some officers chased after the man in the parking lot while others continued to chase the driver. Both the gunman in the car and the one in the parking lot were apprehended and the kidnapping victim was freed. One of the detainees was identified as Daniel Alfredo Ibarra Sánchez, who has a residence in Mexicali.





The Likely Motive


As noted earlier, Ramsés was a brother of FGE agent Rigoberto Zataraín Huitrón.


Recently the Sinaloa Cartel Los Rusos subgroup "Los 80s" gave the FGE and the state governor one month to release "El Goldi" from custody or else they would kidnap and kill public and government officials. For the full details on that sign, please see  this previous story.



Los 80s refers to the men who report under Rusos leader Rubén Benítez Ponce, alias “El 80”. The weekly magazine Zeta writes that it is presumed that "Goldi" is another alias for El 80.


Los 80s drew the Russian flag on the sign they left, indicating that they are self identifying as Los Rusos members. However, it is currently unclear if Los Rusos have distanced or disavowed El 80 and his followers as noted Rusos member La Plaga allegedly said Los 80s had split with the larger Rusos organization. 


 La Plaga also alleged the official photo of El 80 was not actually El 80.



The sign giving them one month was posted on April 28, 2022, so the one month period has just recently ended.


Some may interpret these back-to-back abductions as evidence that the Los 80s demands were not satisfied by government authorities and now the hitmen are in some way making good on their threat to kidnap government officials, although in this case it was a family member of one.


If the man taken from the Davo tire store was a government worker or a family member of one is not currently known at this time.






Sources: FGE Official Statement, La Voz de la Frontera, Sintesis TV, PSN in Linea, Calverie_Locus, Rodrigo Medeles Ruiz, Azucena Uresti, Semanario el Progreso, Daniel Andrade, Agencia Informativa RadarBC, The Baja Post, Semanario el Progreso


Second Abduction Sources: Punto Norte, Lindero Norte, El Imparcial, Lindero Norte, Jornada, Zeta  


49 comments:

  1. Does anyone recognize that skull arm patch? It appears to be a skull in a beret. I've seen it associated with the Russian Spetsnaz. So maybe its something Los Rusos tend to use? They really seem to lean in to the Russian symbolism.

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    1. But then again a skull in a beret is pretty generic. The CJNG's FEM uses a skull in a beret so maybe it means nothing.

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    2. Skull in Beret is very common amongst military. It's common in the airborne divisions usually with a red beret. The red is symbolic of the death and combat associated with life in the Airborne division.

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    3. Spetznas has a wide variety of skull in beret logos so your theory is probably correct

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    4. Interesting. What about this specific version of a skull in a beret? Like, has this specific line drawing ever been seen on Rusos before?

      I'll scan few some videos later to see if I can spot it but let me know if you guys recognize it from anywhere.

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    5. I am looking at narco messages we have from Tijuana to see if any skull imagery appears, but nothing yet.

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    6. Could be a false flag, as when bank robbers wear a bandaid on their faces.

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    7. La Barredora,the punisher 💀

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  2. Great a morning with SIR still in bed is good, I have the whole room to myself.

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    1. Poncho, you're contributions to this website are useless. You're an idiot.

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    2. Jaja I agree 10:33, Sir is wack...too much abuse of the jale azul.

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    3. Sir can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

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    4. 9:20 i though i was the only one who noticed SIR most likely uses meth, ive been around people who use coke, meth and pills, but the way SIR writes is a clear indicator that he abuses meth, a word of advice SIR stop using before it cooks the brain you have left, it has happened to a few of my friends and its sad, plus now a days you dont know what they put into those drugs, you can stay in the trip stuck and never come back

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    5. SIR = Useless

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    6. 10:05 you should stop getting high from kissing your drug addicted friends when they pass out, your wife may catch you raping her daddy...
      Warning to lesser men:
      "bite me beeches"

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    7. 7:00 hey SIR you are in the wrong comment, im telling you if you are not gonna stop using drugs at least buy the good shit, not the cheap meth you are using

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  3. FGE cuicos and milicos all over Mexico are getting kicked in the ass with their own secret anonymous masked tactics posing as militarized police and SWAT teams.
    Time to get citizen supervision on the spot with identifiable signed receipts,
    nobody needs to stop for cuicos where there are no witnesses or other squad cars and officers, run away and call Saul, fuck the tickets and the balazos, say Nyet to los rusos and make sure el 80 pays for this crime.
    Waiting eagerly for the identification of these kidnappers, I know a report is coming soon to these theater screens.

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    1. Hey sir stop smoking meth, maybe smoke some weed and clear your mind, you are going from north to south and east to west, nobody can keep up with what you are trying to say

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    2. Sir is my buddy, I love his Nalga masussue. I also love Obrador he is the number one president in the world, anyone that call him old grampa has to deal with me. And anyone that says Sir is fat is an asshole.

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    3. 10:05 read the easy stuff only, like ABC, aeiou, then you get to sylabes and progress to syllabuses.

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    4. Pinchie sir he Lopez nutts hugger love Meth.

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    5. 7:05 kickbacks OK.
      Meth is no good.

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    6. 3:56 if you know its no good why do you keep using meth?

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  4. Chapitos always seem to use the fake clothing and card.

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    1. Rusos are El Mayo aligned, not Chapitos. :)

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    2. I was gonna say flakiza maybe but you keep insisting russia in the post and then in the comments you look like a 🍕 fanboy if u know what i mean

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    3. Flaquito has no presence in Mexicali.

      I'm confident that my work demonstrates that I'm a fangirl of no one.

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  5. Can we get a Sol translation for the exchange in the video between the victim and the hitmen?

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  6. Hearst - I must say your posts are always high quality

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    1. Thanks! I love writing about cartel news.

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    2. Yes, very good job Hearst. Grillonautas created a video of the work you did for the Chapos sons top Lieutenant Lieutenant. Have you ever reached out to Grillonautas or worked with them?

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    3. Oh no. I couldn't reach out to them. They are big time, you know? Very popular and culturally important.

      I'm small time. I just write articles in my free time before or after work.

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    4. Órale Hearts arriba la Chapizza hasta nunca Amiga 🗣

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  7. She's fortunate to be alive after recording the incident with very good images and still have her phone.

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  8. We must agree, CDS are "trend" setters in the narco world, from clothing, music, slang, appearance... now all groups want "iza" in their names----- flakiza,mayiza,chapiza,metriza,fresisa,galliza, ridiculous. 💐⚘🐓®️®️👤Ⓜ️2️⃣🆖️🆚️🐸🐄🍕5️⃣🇷🇺


    ¡😈👿¡

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  9. Y la narco manta ke le dejaron?

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  10. There’s a video circulating right now of the guy being interrogated about his brother

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    1. Thanks for the tip. Sol Prendido is working on translating that video right now. I'm quite interested to see what is said.

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  11. He kidnapped two guys in mexicali that's why they kill him

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    1. They set up Chito Aguilera pa quitarle la plaza asi son los del minister ven que la Plaza tras mucho Dinero y lo quieren pa ellos. Saludos Russia

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  12. You wanna hear a funny story?
    So, uh, five years ago, I quit performing live comedy
    Because I was beginning to have, uh, severe panic attacks while on stage
    Which is not a great place to have them
    So I, I quit, and I didn't perform for five years and I spent that time
    Trying to improve myself mentally
    And you know what?
    I did
    I got better
    I got so much better, in fact
    That in January of 2020
    I thought, "You know what? I should start performing again"
    "I've been hiding from the world and I need to re-enter"
    And then, the funniest thing happened

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