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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Execution Of 'Chueco' Due To 'Business' Losses

 "Ivan" for Borderland Beat 


José Noriel Portillo Gil was allegedly murdered by his own people after a meeting between the Salazar clan and the Gente Nueva de Agua Prieta faction in Choix.


The fate of Jose Noriel Portillo Gil, "El Chueco," the alleged murderer of two Jesuit priests and a tour guide in Chihuahua, was decided in a meeting between the Salazar clan and the Gente Nueva de Agua Prieta faction, a group that controls the north of the Tarahumara mountains, loyal to the armed wing of Rafael Caro Quintero and Ismael El Mayo Zambada.


According to several sources, the meeting of zone chiefs was called to settle the differences between them, and was held at the crossroads of Camino Real, in Choix, which is a stagecoach crossing from El Fuerte to Alamos, Sonora, 2 kilometers away from the border of the latter state. There they discussed the losses of the business, finding José Noriel responsible, who was sentenced to death.


Last Thursday, March 23, the governor of Chihuahua, Maru Campos Galván, affirmed that since the murder of the two Jesuit priests, operations in the sierra were intensified, eradicating the illegal sale of beer, reducing illegal logging and extortion of mining company suppliers, so that Chueco's group's income had been reduced. "Income was impacted, which forced him to reduce his field of action until he took refuge in the neighboring state," he said.


On Saturday, March 18, El Chueco was found murdered on a dirt road that leads from the community of La Viuda to the Picachos syndicate, in the municipality of Choix. This road forks with the old Camino Real, where the conclave of crime bosses was held.



JESUIT PRIESTS. The victims of 'Chueco'.


The body of Portillo Gil, who had been promoted by the Salazar clan since 2016, had nine bullet impacts in the chest, caliber 7.62 millimeters for AK-47 and the coup de grace. Twenty-two shell casings were found at the scene. Authorities said that El Chueco had been killed at least 24 hours before he was found.


Prosecutors found nothing on the clothes of the lieutenant of the Salazar clan. Not a single trace that would give away who he was. The clothes, a pair of green pants and a gray T-shirt, black tennis shoes and an empty tactical vest, were clean. For this reason, even though he was one of the most wanted and his head had a price tag on it, nobody identified him.


The authorities transferred Portillo Gil's body to a funeral home in Los Mochis, where it remained for three days. On the fourth day, Tuesday, March 21, his two sisters arrived and recognized him. The news went national. El Chueco had been murdered in Sinaloa.


El Chueco's sisters said he was a cattle rancher and farmer. They did not talk about the accusations against him. Nothing about his alleged authorship of the crime of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar and tourist guide Pedro Palma, on June 20, 2022 in the town of Cerocahui, municipality of Urique, Chihuahua.


They said they had not heard from their brother for years, and that just a year ago he broke off all family contact and isolated himself. He was born in Batopilas, but was a resident of Bahuichivo, in Chihuahua.


They said they learned of his whereabouts when they saw a photograph in a digital media of a man's body lying on the ground. They were referring to the police photograph of the discovery of a person on Saturday, March 18 on a dirt road in the Choix mountains, at the entrance to a ranch.


Last Thursday evening, the sisters testified and claimed the body of their brother, they provided blood samples which when analyzed corroborated the affinity, but the body was not handed over to them because they lacked complementary evidence, having already complied with the documentary evidence, revealed the State Attorney General's Office.


That same day, the Prosecutor Sara Bruna Quiñonez Estrada pointed out that an investigation file for homicide is already being followed to establish who or who was responsible for depriving him of his life.


"The conventional procedure was carried out, which is, to have him declare before the Agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office, to show him the body. Elements of the Attorney General's Office of Chihuahua were also present in these proceedings. In the process the sister recognized him as her brother, of the name already mentioned, also, a second sister came and in the same terms she said that it was this person".


On the hunt for 'Chueco


After the murder of the two Jesuit priests and the tourist guide, the government of Chihuahua together with the Sedena deployed an operation in the sierra to hunt Portillo Gil. The authorities put a price on his head: 5 million pesos for those who provided "truthful, efficient and useful information" that would lead to his capture.


The authorities tightened the siege on El Chueco, and began arresting people close to him. On June 23, three days after the triple crime, drugs, weapons and a property in Urique were seized. A day later, Portillo Gil's grandfather and uncle were arrested in the municipality of Batopilas and a long gun with 70 cartridges was confiscated.


On June 26, after receiving a report of Chueco's presence in the town of Guachochi, two other people were arrested and firearms and tactical equipment were seized, and hours later, four members of Gente Nueva were arrested.



Two days later, the military intercepted a passenger bus and seized 9 kilos of drugs. And on June 29, almost 6,400 cartridges and more than 20 grenades and weapons were seized in Urique.


At the end of July, three men were arrested, among them Chueco's cousin. And the authorities had already dissected the entire Gente Nueva criminal structure under his command: 34 identified collaborators, from hawks and family members to hitmen and plaza chiefs in small towns were captured, 42 different firearms, 28 vehicles and diverse tactical equipment were seized, but there was no trace of Portillo Gil. He remained in hiding for two hundred and seventy-two days, until his body was found in Choix, more than 3,000 kilometers away from where he allegedly murdered the two Jesuit priests.


The Sedena File


The Spanish newspaper El País pointed out that documents hacked from the Sedena by the Guacamaya group reveal that the Armed Forces had been following Portillo Gil's steps since at least two years before the Jesuits' crime.


Military intelligence had identified Chueco as the head of the Gente Nueva criminal group, the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, in the Chihuahua community of Urique, the municipal capital of Cerocahui, the site of the murders.


The 96-page report presented in August 2020, to which El Pais had access, states that El Chueco and his people "maintain control of drug trafficking and sales, as well as kidnappings, extortion, extortion, extortion, illegal logging and executions, among other crimes".


The report also noted that the criminal group had infiltrated and controlled local police forces. "Criminal groups have made inroads into the public security forces, which, when they are outnumbered and/or outgunned, choose not to carry out actions against them, as well as through threats."


The Sedena believed that the drug lord controlled the planting and sale of drugs in Cerocahui and that he was involved in the "transfer of drugs to the state of Sinaloa".


RIODOCE


Article published on March 26, 2023 in issue 1052 of the weekly Ríodoce.

50 comments:

  1. They took to long to make that decision but El Chueco had it coming.

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    1. Maybe they couldn't find him?? But they should've decapitated him alive like how they do to smaller fish. I don't understand that part even with el cholo from Guadalajara. They give halcones worse death then these leaders

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    2. 7:50 cholo was tortured badly, what are you talking about?
      Cjng yanked his teeth amongst other sh!t

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    3. 750 you need Jesus in your life.

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    4. 7:50 dude Cholo wished he was beheaded alive, he got torture for a few days tong cut off, eyes gauched, fingernails ripped off, while he was still alive, he felt all the pain he caused to his enemies at one point, he got tortured big time, i bet anything he wished he was decapitated alive than what he went through

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    5. El cholo basically got bent over then bent over again and again .... Then some more

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    6. What cholo are you guys talking about?

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    7. @8:35 everyone here on borderland beat needs jesus

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    8. Its best to believe in good and evil and leave the religious stuff to yourself

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    9. 12:40 Carlos Enrique Sánchez Martínez "El Cholo". Look up the articles and pictures on here so you can see how he ended up

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    10. 2:46
      Thank you.

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    11. @9.37. El Cholo wasn't tortured for ''a few days''. There are photographs of his body. His eyes are still in his head, and he didn't have his tongue ripped out. All of that is based on a leaked ''autopsy'' that reads exactly like an excitable teenager interpreting the photos that were leaked.

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    12. @7.50. The decapitations etc you are talking about are done by those groups enemies, who lift the least powerful and least protected- small time operators, dealers, and like you say, halcones. Chuecos death was ordered by his own bosses for fucking up, so it's a very different thing.

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  2. No daba la cara desde mu ho tiempo lo andábamos buscando

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    1. Estas bien pendejo guey.
      Nadie lde Sinaloa lo estaba buscando a este guey hasta que no se perdio dinero. Si no se hubiera perdido dinero ni se lo hubiera echaro sus quesque patornes por haber matado a nadie.

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    2. 8:00 y luego te preguntas porque nadie te cree nada, estas igual que el sicario 006, pero de menos 006 es chistosillo tu ni eso

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    3. La neta loco x que tan ardido que te afecta lo que digo o lo que según no se lo que hablo este loco no llego buscando ayuda al charco se fue a sinaloa entiende bien mensito yo si ando aki en agua prieta ven a conocer culo vamos pa peñasco pinche ojete... envidia mata

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    4. @GsonoraN quien controla el charco?

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    5. 7:04 un compa abajo dice que Agua Prieta es 100% chapitos, los chapitos son tus patrones?

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    6. 6:14 El hijo del m100 gente nueva de agua prieta son chapos

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    7. 7:04 Didnt you say once that you didnt work for sinaloas? But chapitos control Agua prieta, so who do you work for? Or is your boss the achichincle for los chaputos?

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  3. That’s called street justice here in the US

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    1. @8.03 No, it isn't. In the US it's called an ''Execution-Style Gangland Slaying'', unless it's about Mexico, then its a ''Brutal Cartel Third World Aztec Sacrifice''. Two bosses who own entire units of the local police ordering the death of an underling isn't ''street justice''.

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  4. Gente nueva agua prieta are 100% chapitos not mayos or rafa caro quintero

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    1. @8:06pm your right, as well as Los Salazar both have nothing to do with RCQ & mayitos. Salazar are going at it with caborcas “rcq” in SW Sonora last time I read here

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    2. I get Salazars have nothing to do with RCQ but if they truly beefing with MZ. team CDS has a major problem its morphing into 2 cartels. Chapitos should have stayed in school and done the legit thing because CDS is crumbling just like CDG. 100% people stay legit the only thing thats forever is your family

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  5. Animo Sicarios !
    Gente Nueva does not attack civilians orden de los Patrones.
    Chueco was a bad apple therefore he was eliminated .

    By the way los Patrones have made it clear no one will record video of men kissing !
    Sicarios are to wear military tactical clothing anyone caught wearing sneakers will suffer the consequences.

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    1. You make my day 😁😁😁

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    2. Please train the sicario to kiss women not men

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  6. I wish he was found with a sign that said “ The Sinaloa cartel did not sanction the killing of the priests and for that reason we killed him ”. Or something along those lines . Kind of how CDG left the message after the Tamaulipas kidnapping/ murders of the Americans . In my book there’s nothing lower than killing Catholic Priests .

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    1. What if the priest are child molesters? I think there's nothing lower than killing kids. They're truly innocent. Unfortunately there's a group of people in here who cheer for a certain group of criminals who are known for killing kids.

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    2. Thats stupid!
      This article clearly states that Chueco was killed because of business losses not because he killed the priests.

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    3. Yeah here in the US catholic priest aren’t poster boys. A large amount like to mess with kids.

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    4. When the security forces responded to two priests getting killed they tore up labs took drugs and caused a lot of business losses. So , yeah killing the priest is what caused it all.

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    5. 7:32 it was clearly a business matter not a personal matter.
      This means had this guy only killed the guy he was after who was also innocent except for the fact he won a baseball game against Chuecos team Sinaloa leadership would have done nothing to Chueco.
      Its hard to face facts but in Chihuahua we all know the shit Sinaloa does that mess with innocents.

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    6. 4:14 mormons are no better, evry church has their pedophiles, just like mayo and chapo

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  7. M100 still very powerful in chihuas truce has held up with the norteños

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  8. He heated up the plaza and this is how he paid for it. Sounds like Chueco trusted too many people.

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  9. A****** looks like he's put on some weight since he's been dead!! He is also responsible for the murder of an American tourist a few years back!!

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  10. Goes to show that if the government had not cracked down on this guys operations CDS would have done nothing for this guy murdering two innocent priests and two other innocents as far as we all know.
    He was only killed because money was lost not because Sinaloa cares about the priests or two other people this guy killed.
    Yet CDS nuthuggers say Sinaloa does not mess with innocents.
    This guy could have gotten a promotion within the cartel w we s business not lost due to these crimes he committed.

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  11. So 22 she’ll casing and 10 gunshots…… does that mean they missed 12 times? Does these guys suck at shooting? Or did chueco make a run for it and that’s why they missed ?

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  12. He looks sleepy. Nitey nite satan!

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  13. How come no mention of his video and his story? The one where he talks about a 3rd priest being present, and the murder actually being someone else?

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    1. Listen to the video again. It really sounds like he's lying.

      https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2022/08/el-chueco-releases-video-in-which-he.html

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    2. I did watch it and here, why I brought it up so don’t think I was being disrespectful..

      The part that makes me not rule him out, is the fact he could have been set up… He was the boss of that town, and out that day, so very likely he would investigate the shots…

      I mean, there have been priests who have done worse, no?

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    3. 9:08 you see too many movies.
      NO priests have not done what you think they have done like killing someone.
      Priests are public figures that in these kind of situations would be discovered very easily if they were out committing such crimes.
      More so in small towns like we're Chueco lived and most people know each other.
      If one abuses a child in a small town it is easier for the people there to find out also.
      Abusing is not done for the same purposes as killin.
      Abuse would be for personal satisfaction while killings would be for money mostly and more so in Mexico.
      Also you are quiet wrong into thinking that many priests abuse kids.
      This is what it seems like in your posts.

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