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This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
MAY 31, 2024
WRITTEN BY: FIDEL HERNÁNDEZ
"Char" for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
MAY 31, 2024
WRITTEN BY: FIDEL HERNÁNDEZ
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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
MAY 31, 2024
The body of Eliseo Imperial Castro, El Cheyo Ántrax, remains in the Forensic Medical Service, as authorities are waiting for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to certify his identity.
El Cheyo Ántrax, nephew of Ismael el Mayo Zambada, had an open indictment in the Southern District of California in the United States, where a reward of 5 million dollars was offered for anyone who provided information leading to his capture.
Official sources confirmed that due to the fact that Imperial Castro had open litigation in the neighboring country, the U.S. government must validate his identity before his body is handed over to his relatives.
In 2016, the U.S. government reported Cheyo and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), froze his assets and prohibited U.S. citizens from engaging in financial or commercial transactions with him.
“The Southern District of California has charged Eliseo Imperial Castro and Alfonso Lira Sotelo with various narcotics trafficking violations involving methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and money laundering. OFAC is designating Eliseo Imperial Castro for materially assisting, supporting, providing services to, and/or acting on behalf of his uncle, Ismael Zambada Garcia, and/or the Sinaloa Cartel,” the 2016 OFAC report reads.
El Cheyo Ántrax was shot to death yesterday, Thursday, on Mexico International Highway 15, near the Jardines del Humaya cemetery, south of Culiacán.
Mayo Zambada's nephew was driving a Chervolet Colorado pickup truck when he was shot at and died at the scene.
Imperial Castro was the founder of the Anthrax cell along with José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, “El Chino Anthrax. This group served as Mayo Zambada's armed wing and provided protection to his family.
El Cheyo was a cousin and bodyguard of Ismael Zambada Imperial, El Mayito Gordo, one of Mayo Zambada's sons.
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Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts.
The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control. Gangs in Mexico depend on controlling local police chiefs, and taking a share of municipal budgets; national politics appear to interest them less.
But in the runup to Sunday’s vote, gangs have increasingly taken to spraying whole campaign rallies with gunfire, burning ballots or preventing the setting up of polling stations — even putting up banners seeking to influence voters.
Security analyst David Saucedo says it’s likely some drug gangs will try to force voters to cast ballots for their favored candidates.
“It it is reasonable to assume that the cartels will mobilize their support bases during Sunday’s elections,” Saucedo said. “They have loyal voters who they have won over through the distribution of food packages, cash, medicine and infrastructure projects. They will use them to support narco-candidates.”
In some places, it appears the gangs are encouraging people to vote while discouraging voting in areas controlled by their rivals.
On Friday, electoral authorities reported that assailants burned a house where ballots were being stored ahead of Sunday in the violence-wracked town of Chicomuselo, in the southern state of Chiapas. While they did not say who was behind the attack, the town is completely dominated by two warring drug cartels, Jalisco and Sinaloa.
On May 14, gunmen apparently linked to a cartel shot and killed 11 people in a single day in Chicomuselo. On May 17, five people were killed along with a mayoral candidate when gunmen opened fire on a crowd in the town of La Concordia, Chiapas, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) east of Chicomuselo.
Targeted assassinations of local candidates continued. On Wednesday, dramatic video images showed a mayoral candidate in the southern state of Guerrero being shot in the head at point-blank rage with a pistol.
And mass attacks on campaign rallies, once exceedingly rare in Mexico, are becoming common.
Also on Wednesday, the last official day of campaigning, unidentified gunmen opened fire a couple of blocks away from a mayoral candidate’s final campaign rally in the western state of Michoacan, sending hundreds of people scrambling for safety.
“It seemed like a normal evening, like the campaign closers of other candidates,” said Angélica Chávez, a homemaker who was at the rally in Cotija. “Then there were gunshots, several rounds of gunfire very close. And then people started running and diving to the ground, crouching.”
Chávez was hurt in the stampede and had to take refuge in a local church.
In Celaya, a city in Guanajuato, gunmen opened fire on a campaign event in April, killing a mayoral candidate and wounding three of her supporters.
Saucedo, the analyst, sees the shootings as a sign that narco gangs are no longer willing to see their handpicked candidates lose.
“Rather than allow the victory of a candidate who is not in line with their criminal interests, or allow a candidate linked to a rival drug gang to win, they use this tactic,” Saucedo said. “What we’re seeing in the final stretch is pretty desperate strategy on the part of some groups of drug traffickers.”
Saucedo said that such attempts at narco-control of local politics had been seen previously in some particularly violent states, like Tamaulipas. “What was once limited ... is now spreading to include the whole country,” he said.
The National Electoral Institute says it has had to cancel plans for 170 polling places, mostly in Chiapas and Michoacan and mostly because of security problems. In Chiapas, electoral authorities say there are places they can’t even go to.
In the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, a shadowy group that local media reports link to the dominant Northeast drug cartel has put up posters claiming one mayoral candidate is linked to the rival Gulf drug cartel.
Authorities have not confirmed the origin of the crude poster, which includes a photoshopped image of the candidate waving an assault rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest with the Gulf cartel’s insignia.
In the state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, residents awoke this week to find a banner strung over a road claiming a gubernatorial candidate was tied to rival drug gangs. The banner was signed by a local drug boss whose name is unknown, “the Commander of the Three Letters.”
Another apparently gang-related banner threatened that anyone trying to buy votes would be “punished severely.” That banner was signed by “Those who have always called the shots here.”
Such events appear to indicate that past calculations by the cartels — take out the strongest candidate you don’t like, and the remaining major-party candidate will win by default — have become more complicated.
In one town in Michoacan, Maravatio, the gangs apparently tried to eliminate any doubts as to who will win this year and killed off three candidates for town mayor who were not to their liking.
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Good afternoon. My name is Jesús García. Thank you for joining us for this special report from lower Manhattan here in New York. Just behind me is the federal court for the southern district of New York. Where there was a very interesting decision made today.
Before starting I want to remind you that we are doing this double broadcast for our sister newspapers La Opinión and El Diario in New York. Today was the hearing where the accusations were made known to Néstor Pérez, who is accused of being the leader of the Los Chapitos hitmen, the sons of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.
This character known as El Nini was arrested last November in Mexico and was extradited to the United States last Saturday. He was presented in court this week. However, the charges were not read at that time and a hearing was scheduled.
This Thursday's hearing occurred as I indicated, here at the court that you are seeing behind me. He asked that the charges not be read because his lawyer had already presented him with the document containing the accusations. The defendant was handed the paperwork to be read in Spanish because he was asking for a translator and it was read to him in Spanish.
The judge asked him if she wanted all of the charges read to him and he said no. When the judge asked him how he pleaded, he answered not guilty. He faces several criminal charges. Among them are murder of or the alleged murder of a DEA agent. In addition to the murder of several DEA informants who helped US authorities capture Ovidio Guzmán.
That is what is related to it as part of the investigations that have been carried out. And part of what we have published on our news portals. If we remember the context, Nini is considered a bloodthirsty hitman, quite harsh in his actions. We didn’t expect anything less from him being a hitman because of his position.
But I mentioned this for context because at the start of the court hearing he showed himself as an extremely vulnerable person. There were 3 people present who didn’t want to speak even though they were asked for information about who they were. We’re under the understanding that they are family members.
They were two women and a man. One of the women told him directly, my mom and dad love you. He responded before leaving the court in shackles, I too and he began to cry. That moment of vulnerability due to his position contrasts with how he presented himself or how he acted, as the leader of the Los Chapitos hitmen…
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Journalist Luis Alberto Diaz Y Los Noticieristas confirms the following news,
"Last Hour🚨| It is “Cheyo” Ántrax, nephew of 'Mayo' Zambada, who was killed in the white Colorado truck in Culiacán.
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He was also ordered to be remanded in custody after he was captured last week while driving a stolen vehicle.
Another person has been arrested involved in the murder of Hipólito Mora, the leader of the Michoacán self-defense groups.
Rogelio del Ángel N, alias “El Rojo”, alleged murderer of the founder of the self-defense groups, Hipólito Mora, and his four bodyguards were linked to trial and informal preventive detention.
“El Rojo” was arrested last week when he was traveling aboard a vehicle reported stolen.
According to the Investigation Folder, on June 29, 2023, an armed group perpetrated an attack against the former leader of the self-defense groups, who died at the scene, as well as his bodyguards: Saulo Gamaliel A., Roberto N., Manuel G., and Calixto A.
The State Attorney General's Office announced that as a result of the investigation tasks, evidence was obtained that links Bryan “N” and Rogelio del Ángel “N” "El Rojo" in the events, therefore, at the time , the respective arrest warrant was requested.
Bryan “N” was arrested last December and is already linked to the process, while Rogelio del Ángel “N” was arrested during an inter-institutional action in which personnel from the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), National Guard (GN) and Civil Guard (GC) also participated.
Rogelio del Ángel "N" was handed over to the court, which ordered him to stand trial, remanded him in custody and set a three-month deadline for the completion of the complementary investigation.
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The vitality of a man’s existence is no more. Assassins from the Grupo Escorpiones, armed wing of the Cartel del Golfo, have successfully removed him from the land of the living.
It appears that a high velocity round to the front of his head is what took him out of the fight all at once.
For the dead gunman from the Los Metros organization. This is how he will be remembered by his criminal counterparts.
As a fallen operative with blood and brain matter spilled onto the ground under a pitch black Mexican sky.
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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
MAY 28, 2024
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize more than $233,000 in meth at the World Trade Bridge.
On May 24, a CBP officer referred an express consignment truck hauling various boxes of commercial merchandise for secondary inspection.
Further physical examination of an electric boiler resulted in the discovery of 22 packages containing a total of 26 pounds of meth within the commodity.
The narcotics had an estimated street value of $233,342. authorities said.
“Our frontline officers continue to maintain their vigilance while examining express consignment goods and uncovered a significant methamphetamine load,” said Port Director Albert Flores, Laredo Port of Entry.
“The use of non-intrusive inspection technology coupled with officer experience contributed to this seizure.”
CBP seized the meth. Homeland Security Investigations special agents took over the investigation.
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This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL
Two dispensing pumps with two hoses and a metal tank were seized at the site.
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May 28, 2024
The alleged perpetrator of the murder of two women and a man in the San Fermin subdivision in the city of Culiacan was arrested early Tuesday morning.
“Today in the early hours of this morning the Apprehension Order was executed against a subject allegedly related to the deprivation of life of two women and a man in the Fraccionamiento San Fermin,” reported the Attorney General's Office of the State of Sinaloa.
Today in the early morning the arrest warrant was executed against a subject allegedly related to the deprivation of life of two women and a man in the Fraccionamiento San Fermin. Pending time for the initial hearing of criminal case 520/2024.#fiscaliaSinaloa
- Fiscalía Sinaloa (@FiscaliaSinaloa) May 28, 2024
The authorities found Nohemí, 23, Dulce, 18, and Alejandro, 23, dead and shot.
The detainee will be brought before a control judge in the next few hours.
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My name is Carlos Ivan Luna aka El Tocino. I’m a worker for El Toro or El Cachis. It was El Cachis who sent for pastor Octavio Valdez to be killed off. Mrs. Minerva Perez Orozco is the wife of Victor, brother of El Toro.
She is the owner of Atenea En El Mar. She’s also the president of Canainpesca. And with the support of her brother in law wants to control all the seafood in Baja California.
In addition, she in turn went to the weekly Zeta news portal to throw dirt on the Sinaloa Cartel because of the relationships that she has. El Toro sent us to kill Mr. Muro even though that was his business partner.
* At the conclusion of this video El Tocino was turned into a human package. His corpse was disposed of on a street in Ensenada.
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The events in the municipal command; A BOI (Interinstitutional Operating Base) has been deployed in the municipality to provide security and search for the attackers
The director of Municipal Public Security of Valle de Zaragoza, whose identity and several elements of the corporation are currently unknown, suffered an armed attack in the municipal command, presenting injuries, as confirmed by Mayor Homero Márquez and the Secretariat of Public Security State, events due to which an element lost their life; An Interinstitutional Operations Base has been deployed to the town to provide security and begin the search for the aggressors.
During the night of this Monday, a violent incident was reported to the emergency system in the municipality of Valle de Zaragoza, the director of the police corporation and several elements were targets of an attack by heavily armed individuals who unloaded their weapons against them. .
As a result of the events, an agent lost his life in the municipal facilities, the director and other agents were left with serious injuries. However, they themselves were the ones who requested the help.
The municipal president Homero Márquez confirmed the event that occurred during the night of this Monday in the town, he said that at the moment this was all he could say as the first authority of the municipality of Valle de Zaragoza.
For its part, the State Public Security Secretariat, through its spokesperson Jorge Armendáriz, said that the events occurred around 8:50 p.m., when the call to the emergency system was generated, elements of the SSPE moved to the command, in addition to the BOI Cell.
He reported that it was initially known that there are several injured, including all the elements of the Municipal Public Security Directorate, and investigations are continuing to find out the escape route of the aggressors. Above all, to attend to the integrity and life of the police officers who were victims of the event.
An Interinstitutional Operations Base has been deployed to the municipal capital to provide security, as well as to begin the search for those responsible for perpetrating the act against the police command and one of the agents.
An Inter-institutional Operations Base has been deployed to the municipal capital to provide security, as well as to begin the search for the perpetrators of the crime against the police commander and one of the officers.
Personnel from the National Guard, the State Public Security Secretariat and the State Attorney General's Office from the Chihuahua, Satevó and Parral detachments are responding to the call for help.