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Vanessa Gurrola Peraza, a former Sinaloan beauty queen and model/influencer, now faces charges of first-degree murder following her arrest on October 9 in San Diego, California.
She was previously romantically linked to Ivan Archivaldo Guzman but more recently she was the fiance of the late "El Chato," Christian Espinoza Silver. "El Chato" was gunned down last year in San Diego, California.
Vanessa is now facing charges of being involved in his murder.
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| Recent posts on @vanessagurrola_ Instagram show her time in Bali. |
Back from Bali
According to information from San Diego authorities, the 32-year-old was arrested by San Diego PD when arriving back in the US after a trip to Bali, Indonesia, a trendy hotspot for influencers.
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San Diego Sheriff's Office records revealed that Vanessa Gurrola is being held at Las Colinas Jail in San Diego.
Gurrola had an arrest warrant for her in connection with the murder of Christian "El Chato" Espinoza Silver which took place over a year ago in University City, San Diego. He was gunned down outside of their apartment complex. The San Diego charges of first-degree murder place her as one of the key players in the planning of her ex-partner's death.
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Chato's Killing
On February 17, 2024, "El Chato" was pulling into the parking garage of their Palisade apartment complex in University City in San Diego, just across the street from the busy Westfield Mall. The BMW SUV that Chato was driving was shot into by a still unknown gunman at the entrance. A unnamed 39-year old man was wounded in the passenger seat, while Christian Espinoza Silver died from his wounds later that night at the hospital.![]() |
| A full breakdown of the killing, and relationship between Chato and Vanessa can be read here on Borderland Beat. |
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Vanessa shared numerous stories following his death, no posts featuring him were on her account feed. It is possible the main posts were deleted from her feed, or she had never posted clear images of him on her Instagram prior to these stories.
It is believed that two shootings months later in nearby Chula Vista were related to the same trafficking network and one of the wounded men was "El Apache," James Bryant Corona. Those two shootings became part of a federal investigation according to the Chula Vista police department.
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Propaganda Flyers
Lidia Vanessa Gurrola Peraza, alias "La Sapa," is an influencer mentioned in a flyer against the "Los Menores" or "Los Chapitos" faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, alongside politicians, drug lords, and other the influencers including "Markitos Toys."
Her photo appeared recently on propaganda flyers dropped from the air across Sinaloa during the current internal war between the two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Chapitos and Mayito Flaco's Faction.
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She was named as "La Sapa" on the flyers, which usually translates in Spanish slang to "Snitch/Informant" but also can mean "Gossiper." The Chapitos are referred to as "Los Sapitos" on the flyer.
Gurrola is a prominent social media influencer and model, boasting trips to various locations including the United Arab Emirates, Paris, France, Türkiye, and Miami, Florida, in the United States. In 2011, she was crowned queen of the Mazatlán Floral Games Festival, and later ventured into businesses related to weight-loss products.
Mexican news articles in 2018 said that Vanessa looked similar to "El Chapo’s" wife, Emma Coronel.
Gurrola acknowledged that the confusion with "El Chapo's" wife gave her greater exposure. "It doesn't bother me, my followers have even increased," she declared in a television interview in 2019.




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I hope shell get beaten un jail every day over and over.then after in prison stabbed.Thats Justice
ReplyDeleteAnd here come the illiterate clowns in their big shoes piling out of their small cars with fukn Lazca as their hero. She's been arrested, not convicted.
DeleteUggg. Me Like Lazca, cos 40s photo dint downlod.
Delete3:45. La van a poner a comer ceviche en la cárcel, lo que le va a pasar es que va a salir bien barbuda, como El Chato.
DeleteYear after year, day by day, America is being turned into a 3rd world crime-ridden sheethole like Mexico.
Delete3:22
DeleteBecause Mexicans always win.
3:22 American US is about 75% Mexican these days...
DeleteThank your mom and her various several gardeners.
3:22 thank your Republican drug traffickers in and out of government, they also steal all they can from the US treasury.
Delete''Because Mexicans always win''
DeleteYeya man thats why they all fuck off to the U.S, keep winning
@9.31. LOL.
Delete"About" 75% of America is Mexicans?
"About" 84.6% of your brain is sludge, mulch and toxic slurry. Why do you write stuff like that when you must know it's instantly disprovable? Even Southern border counties don't get close to that figure.
@9.31. Your definition of Mexican is
Delete"Brown, thirsty, and heading North"? Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, even if you counted them and another half dozen countries you wouldn't reach 75% in the most Spanish speaking states. Your ignorance is frightening.
Bitch thought she was invincible. She will think differently after spending a few decades in a U.S. prison.
ReplyDeleteLas buchonas are just money-hungry whores with little to no conscience and even less morals. I’d literally kill myself if my daughter ever turned out to be one and I’m doing my best to educate her in the proper way, both me and my wife.
DeleteEl Cabrón de Tamaulipas
Damn, the misogyny is fukn hilarious. I thought you were supposed to be a lawyer? Where does it say anything about what she did, whether it's been proven, or more importantly the coercion involved. You must know this Detroit, that when a man is being hunted they go after the weakest link- family and exes. We will let your children live if you give us a time and place. If you don't know that why are you still commenting?
DeleteWith a name like that I wish you luck.
Delete''Damn, the misogyny is fukn hilarious''
DeleteBlow it your arse you pussy we dont want that woke shite around here.
@2.41. Nah dude, you and these children who desperately need to get laid are the pussies. Grown men who know Mexico don't need to punch down by talkin about greedy bitches and hoes, while weak little US boys honk about shit they saw on social media. Grow a pair of bollocks before coming back with that tired "woke" shit.
Delete4:56 let the unwoke sleep on their ignorance with their dear leaders in the GOP Pink Mafia, they wake the fack up to crash craiglist for "conventions".
DeleteThe republican Pink Mafia males GRINDER CRASH, not craiglist.
DeleteThe Pink Mafia is a Cracker Barrel full of Log Cabin Republicans
DeleteS
DeleteSocial media ? The shit you cranks talk ?
I wouldn't touch this bitch with yours I like fit bitches not sloppy hoes full of arse plastic..Fuckin P Diddy over here ?
@12.29. You're anonymous, not S.
DeleteOr did you stutter? Are you the "Blo out yo ass" from the other comments? Give yourself a name or initial, then you won't need to be a coward.
The enemy got to her and proposed to have her man killed. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, nuffy, thanks for pointing out the obvious!
DeleteI bet the narcoleros would love to have Nuff on their side.
DeleteDude looked like a Squirrel..
ReplyDeleteRed lipstick and bowels full of shit.
ReplyDelete4:56 AM
DeleteHeard that,they are always overweight sloppy bitches with plastic surgery,what kind of dudes are into these types ?
@3.48. You heard that women wear red lipstick, and shit? Keep up the research kid.
DeleteIt sounds like that bitch Backdoored his ass. you just can not trust a hoe now days.
ReplyDeleteYou trusted them years back, say 15 years, when you were suckling on your mamas teets with blissful abandon. But now the "hoes" (LOL, reminds me of that classic episode of The Shield where the dumbass who looks like Sean Porter spells it wrong across an entire building) just can't be trusted.
DeleteMORE cheap foreign trash in our country!
ReplyDeleteShe oozes vulgarity, immorality and arrogance.
We’re becoming like THEM because of THEM.
No youve always been like that
DeleteBorders don't separate stupid people. They're everywhere.
DeleteBetter question, have “THEY” always been like that?
DeleteTwo countries, similar historical backgrounds, two very different outcomes.
Many have proven they’re incapable of evolving.
'We’re becoming like THEM because of THEM'
DeleteThem could mean anyone but i imagine your talking white gringos or blacks either way take responsibility for your own actions i dont like it either but stop being a loser hater.
''She oozes vulgarity, immorality and arrogance''
DeleteYou mean like narco couture in mexico ?
5:48
DeleteThey're becoming you because of you, she assimilated American culture. Everything for money, good ol' capitalism. You should be proud.
STFU!!!
Delete5:48 y tu mamá también
DeleteMexicans have a lower IQ than blacks. Fact!
DeleteHave you seen Kristi Noem?
Delete7:38 la lombriz pantionera?
DeleteKilled her dog becuàs he was having her babies, hundreds of lombrices pantioneras
@3.42. You're too slow to understand the statistical bullshit used to justify claims like that. You wouldn't know where to begin justifying it. The problem will always be that the tricks can be turned against you till it's proven as fact that you are dumber, poorer, and sadder than your counterpart in Uganda.
DeleteThe kardashians are not mexican, but will do their best to get to the money, even got to the OJ before it was a trend, and, and, and that former swimmin' champion bruce whatsisname, could not escape their witchery, but he tried to become one of them lard asses
DeleteDon't blame mexican...
This black widow is being held at the San Diego County women's jail, colloquially known as "No Penis Colinas"..
ReplyDelete🦎
Welcome back 2 balls 🦎 Lizard.
DeleteThe lagarto 🦎 is King!
Delete👑
I APPROVE THIS MASSSAGE!
ReplyDeleteThat's Koo foo
DeleteWhy date cartel members when you can have any guy. Sol, your to smart to come back to BB for a non paying job, which leads me to believe your getting paid and this platform is nothing but to gather intel for law enforcement.
ReplyDelete@8.28. So these women could be dating anybody? Because you saw a selfie? No. They're usually children when they're groomed, and disposable at every step.
Delete8:28
DeleteYep, law enforcement is hanging on nuffy's every word... 😉
Word on the street is that Sol is now dating Luna LA Toxica aka LLT.
Delete''this platform is nothing but to gather intel for law enforcement''
DeleteAre you fuckin cracked,what intel anyone going to get off nuffy,no period,buffy,or you,fuckin fluffy ? Weirdos or what ?
Wow
ReplyDeleteI knew they had to have involved someone close to give him up if it was external like Aquiles faction
But if it was internal, who knows why she was involved
And then there’s Ivan
They probably made her an offer she couldn't refuse, threatened her family or something.
DeleteHer brother and his Assistant Buffalo are messengers for Ivan. Close to him. Bottom Feeders but trusted by Ivan. Pressure her and it may jeopardize him.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful but soulless like most buchonas are, sadly.
ReplyDeleteEl Cabrón de Tamaulipas
@11.55. She isn't beautiful and she isn't soulless. The shit you project is wild.
DeleteCabron, without all that makeup, she's a 4 maybe 5. If you're drinking, she's maybe a 6 to 8, depending on amount of alchohol consumed.
DeleteYou’ve never seen a true 4 or 5, believe me. 😂😂😂
DeleteHer features are nice, it’s evident, it’s not just a matter of makeup. Anyway like I said I pity her parents.
El Cabrón de Tamaulipas
@10.06. You didn't say you pitied her parents. You said you would LITERALLY commit suicide if your own daughter ended up being arrested, and had photos like this on her feed. Cos your daughter would be a soulless bitch whore. You pretend you know about these things, but everything you post tells me you don't know anything. Have you ever spoken to any of the thousands of young women who escape that life? Those soulless little bitches?
Delete@ El Cabron de Tamaulipas. You were active in operations against Los Zetas but you're calling young women who get caught up soulless bitch whores? You must know full well the choices most young women have, but your bro- chuckling with these pricks? Maybe the pathetic investigations shut down by bribery looking to the thousands and thousands of young women in Tamaulipas kidnapped and forced into prostitution and plastic surgery every year by the people you hate fell to another agency, but it can't have passed you by completely.
Delete@5:10 Pm and 5:41
DeleteObviously I was talking about girls who willingly became buchonas, and unfortunately there are quite a few of them, there are also poor souls who got forced into it obviously.
El Cabrón de Tamaulipas
She looks totally innocent to me, US law enforcement is always trying to frame Mexicans with money.
ReplyDeleteOf course.i mean if she was broke and beautiful killing her bf who gives a shit.because she looks good and has drug money AND helped(maybe) plan the murder of her bf they gotta pick on her.theyre dicks for sure
DeleteNo Mijo, you mean the Mexican police.
Delete''She looks totally innocent to me''
DeleteAnd you like Quasimodo on acid
Thats because your dumb. That bitch will set you up to get murdered like nothing.
DeleteWe think @1204 maybe was being sarcastic.
Delete7:25 AM
DeleteDefinitely
And Flaco in US custody since August
ReplyDeleteEl que a hierro mata a hierro muere. Gracias por hacernos el favor Vane 🙏🏼 Ese wey era una escoria de persona
ReplyDeleteShe should kiss trumps ass then she’ll be free on no time. Then she’ll work as cabinet member.
ReplyDeleteMy god you can just tell how full of herself she is from the pictures. And those ridiculous sunglasses….
ReplyDeleteShe had cataract surgery…
DeleteElton John missing a pair of gafas!
DeleteWhy have these guys all got underdeveloped legs and fat bulky bodies?They have never lifted a weight or ran in their lives,its a good job they carry shooters which is fair enough your hands are not really made for fighting in the street,weapon shit all day every day
ReplyDelete“Always remember, you chase money, never chase bitches never….ever -🐬
ReplyDeleteBueno...
ReplyDeleteSe le nota como es
Yo no entiendo como dejamos a estas putas baratas entrar al pais (I can't understand how these sort of cheap skanks are allowed North of the Border).
ReplyDeleteShe a stinky-ass ho.
Delete844
DeletePlease leave the Spanish to native speakers, you're hurting my ears with your tonterias 😹
9:20 we speak inglish too:
Delete"fackiu motherfacker!!!"
9:20 your insults are just as watered down as your dirty ass euro bloodline!
Delete"putas baratas"?
DeleteIs that how Mexicans talk? 😸
No news on NogSon Mayor’s crossing Visa getting cancelled by U.S.?
ReplyDeleteNope.
Delete12:25
DeleteNero said as Rome burned:
"And now the end is near"
"this is the end, my only friend the end"
Delete...The Doors
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
DeleteAnd all the children are insane
The queen is innocent 😇
ReplyDeleteThe press in Asia has been reporting that Bali is "no longer the most beautiful island in the world" this year. Notable that she's vacationing in an Aussie surfer colony favored by homeless people and cult members from the Bay Area. Bikers and Triads.
ReplyDelete@846
DeleteYep, that's right, many homeless people have the cash to vacation on Bali, numnnuts 😅