10 people rescued at New Bus Station In Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. "CJNG" Cartel Behind Deceitful Recruitment Job Offers

 "Char" Borderland Beat 

Five underage among the victims

SATURDAY DECEMBER 7, 2024 

Román Ortega / El Occidental

The municipal president of Tlaquepaque, Laura Imelda Perez Segura, informed that since the beginning of her administration on October 1st, 10 people who had been reported missing have been located at the New Bus Station, among them five underage girls.

He indicated that all of them were detected when they were boarding the bus or waiting for the person who had supposedly contacted them to take them to work in another city.

“Found in what sense? I mean they were about to board a truck with a report both. I am talking about people who were waiting for the supposed person who came from that attractive job that was presented to them and never arrived. That is to say, not only that... it does not mean that they were taken away as such, but that we intervened and prevented the consummation of this crime”.

The mayoress accompanied the governor, Pablo Lemus Navarro on a tour of the truck terminal, where a series of actions were announced to combat the disappearance of people at this point, such as coordinated operations between the authorities of the three levels of government.

On October 24, police from Tlaquepaque rescued a 20 year-old man named Oscar, who had been tricked into taking a truck at the New Bus Station on Periferico Sur to the State of Colima, where he was supposed to work as a security guard.

On Friday, August 30, Tlaquepaque police officers rescued five men, two women and an underage boy who were being held in a hotel near the Nueva Central Camionera.

SOURCE: EL OCCDIDENTAL

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Training Camp For Hired Assassins Destroyed In Teuchitlán, Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL

In the last 7 years, at least 10 sites that have been used for criminal training of young people have been dismantled.

Elizabeth Ibal / El Occidental

Jalisco is the main stronghold of the New Generation Cartel, which is constantly recruiting mainly young people to take them to drug camps or schools to prepare them as assassins. Recently one was secured in the community of La Estanzuela, in the municipality of Teuchitlán. It was a fenced ranch where implements for the training of future gunmen of this criminal group were detected.

In the last 7 years, at least 10 criminal training camps have been detected and dismantled in Jalisco. The most recent one that was secured is located in the town of La Estanzuela, in the municipality of Teuchitlán; it is a huge fenced property. The main gate has a black gate with the legend Zacuirre Ranch, with two horses painted in the center and some cracks also painted on it.

Inside there was a small building where two silver family vehicles were located, weapons were also found and 10 people were arrested, presumably members of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation, who were in charge of taking care of the people they had under training. The body of a person was also found, wrapped, ready to be abandoned.

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Jalisco, Daniel Espinosa Licón, said: “(It was) a camp that was fully equipped to recruit people and recruit them to give them training, almost almost military training, and co-opt them or recruit them into organized crime. The 10 people were taking care of them, they were training them, and so they all have the same relationship in the issue of forced disappearance and homicide”.

Hector Flores, co-founder of the collective Luz de Esperanza AC, assures that after the disappearance of his son Hector Daniel Flores Fernandez, he began investigations on his own and realized that he was taken to a camp in the Valles region of Jalisco.

“I have been pushing for almost three years for the investigation of these camps. The last I heard about my son was that he had been recruited. There is a witness who says that he was with him for 15 days and it is most likely that he was taken to some camp. The ones they had there, and if they didn't accept to be recruited, they killed them at that moment and my son had already been there for 15 days”.

After the seizure of the narco school in La Estanzuela, he pointed out that this confirms what they have been saying to the authorities for a long time, but no one listens to them.

“We have been pointing out for some time now the existence of these recruitment camps”. The reports they have received anonymously indicate that there are other clandestine camps in the area of Los Camachos, Los Altos, Valle de Guadalupe, Ameca and Tala. These are located in the highlands, where hundreds of people could be held against their will.

“It is a situation that is proliferating thanks to the protection of impunity and corruption in the country, the control of criminal organizations under the protection of the authorities, which is the worst.”

The recent seizure of this forced recruitment school gives Hector Flores hope of finding his son Hector Daniel, who has been missing since May 18. “There is a good chance that they have them working. The bad thing is that, unfortunately, these criminal organizations operate all over the country; they can send them to Zacatecas, Colima, Michoacan, they can be anywhere.”

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After Review Of Sentence, Rosalinda Gonzalez, Wife Of 'Mencho', Is Kept In Preventive Custody

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Rosalinda González Valencia, the wife of Nemesio Oseguera, known as El Mencho, the leader of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG), must remain in custody at Cefereso 16 in Morelos, a federal judge confirmed.

At the hearing to review the measure, the judge declared his request unfounded, and he will have to remain in prison, reported Proceso.

González Valencia was sentenced in December 2023 to five years in prison for her alleged responsibility in organized crime, with the purpose of committing crimes against health and operations with resources of illicit origin (money laundering).

But in April 2024, a control judge in a hearing held at the Federal Criminal Justice Center, with residence in Xochitepec, Morelos, determined that the Attorney General's Office (FGR), did not present sufficient evidence in criminal case 254/2023 to prosecute González Valencia, for such crimes.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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FGR Must Return Residences And Lamborghini And Porsche Cars To CJNG After Recapture Of “El Mencho's” Wife Rosalinda Gonzalez Valencia

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL UNIVERSAL 

The two properties were used as safe houses and one of them was in the name of Laisha Oseguera González, daughter of “El Mencho”.

WRITTEN BY: MANUEL ESPINO

AUGUST 28, 2024

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CJNG Announces Its Arrival In Buenavista And Apatzingán, And Confirms Alliance With Three Michoacán Cartels: “Very Good Things Are Coming”. Official Alliance CJNG-Los Viagras-Los Blancos De Troya-Los De La Virgen

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This article was translated and reposted from NOVENTAGRADOS 

Apatzingán, Mich., September 3, 2024 - The Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG) announced with banners in the municipalities of Apatzingán and Buenavista, its arrival in those municipalities hand in hand with three local criminal groups, thus confirming the alliance of cartels seeking control of the state.

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Disappearances And Graves 2.0 In Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from INFORMADOR.MX

WRITTEN BY: JAIME BARRERA

AUGUST 8, 2024

The first thing to say is that within the daily drama of disappearances in Jalisco, the last two weeks we have been able to witness positive outcomes, which at least have not increased the number of mourning families, and that contrary to thousands of other cases, have escaped the unspeakable pain of the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of a loved one.

Yesterday we had the good news of the safe and sound appearance of Kevin Ulises, this 18 year old young man, who along with his cousin Elena Janetzy, of the same age and both students at the University of Guadalajara, had disappeared since Monday of last week. Janetzy had been released since Monday of this week.

Early Tuesday morning, Juan Alberto was also released and found alive, who was illegally deprived of his freedom when he left the money exchange office where he worked on August 1st. He became the sixth victim of this type of business to be kidnapped and released by his captors after days of captivity, as happened last week to María Alejandrina "NN" and Gilberto "N" who had been taken from their freedom when leaving their business in Plaza Guadalupe, and also to Ramona "N", Rosa María "N" and Rocío Berenice "N", who had been taken from another similar establishment in Plaza Universidad.

What is relevant to note is that we are at a turning point in the modalities of disappearances. On the one hand, those that cascaded from the murder of a user of these exchange houses who had withdrawn a large sum of money. On the other hand, the particular case of Janetzy and Kevin who were released and communicated with their parents, just when they were carrying out one of the several public demonstrations to demand the authorities to locate their children. 

Where there is also a breaking point is in the other burden of clandestine graves in the state. Yesterday, organizations of searching mothers announced that they will not only search and dig in solid ground, but will also explore canals and rivers in search of their disappeared. This after they located remains in the San Juan de Dios River, in the Santa Elena de la Cruz neighborhood, through an anonymous phone call. And surely also, because it is highly frequent the appearance of corpses thrown by criminals in these bodies of water.

These are, then, the disappearances and clandestine graves 2.0 produced by the unpunished and unstoppable criminal axis (which makes up the problem of the disappeared-the houses of terror-the unstoppable "dumping of bodies"-and the clandestine cemeteries) that continues to operate virtually unchecked in Jalisco.

SOURCE: INFORMADOR.MX

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Breaking News: Treasury Sanctions Cartel Accountants, Announces Joint Notice On Timeshare Fraud In Mexico: CJNG Cartel Operators In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Targeted.

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

PRESS RELEASES

CJNG TIMESHARE FRAUD NETWORK

July 16, 2024

Treasury Takes Coordinated Action Against Cartel Fraudsters Targeting U.S. Owners of Timeshares in Mexico, Including the Elderly

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three Mexican accountants and four Mexican companies linked, directly or indirectly, to timeshare fraud led by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). Concurrently, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice, jointly with OFAC and FBI, to financial institutions that provides an overview of timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico associated with CJNG and other Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations.

“Cartel fraudsters run sophisticated teams of professionals who seem perfectly normal on paper or on the phone – but in reality, they’re money launderers expertly trained in scamming U.S. citizens,” said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. “Unsolicited calls and emails may seem legitimate, but they're actually made by cartel-supported criminals. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Treasury and our partners are deploying all tools available to disrupt this nefarious activity, which funds things like deadly drug trafficking and human smuggling, and we encourage the public to use our resources to stay vigilant against these threats.”

CJNG, a violent Mexico-based transnational criminal organization, traffics a significant proportion of the illicit fentanyl and other deadly drugs that enter the United States. OFAC coordinated this action with the Government of Mexico, including its financial intelligence unit, Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF), as well as U.S. Government partners—FinCEN, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

These transnational criminal organizations operate call centers in Mexico with scammers impersonating U.S.-based third-party timeshare brokers, attorneys, or sales representatives. The scammers target and defraud U.S. owners of timeshares in Mexico through complex and often yearslong telemarketing, impersonation, and advance fee schemes, including timeshare exit, re-rent, and investment scams. Victims of timeshare fraud in Mexico are often targeted again after these scams in re-victimization schemes where perpetrators impersonate U.S.-based law firms and U.S., Mexican, and international authorities. The victims often send payments to the scammers through wire transfers via U.S. correspondent banks to Mexican shell companies with accounts at Mexican banks or brokerage houses (casas de bolsa) before the ill-gotten funds are further laundered in Mexico through additional shell companies and trusts (fideicomisos) controlled by cartel members, their family members, or third-party money launderers, such as complicit accountants and other professionals. 

The joint Notice provides the methodologies, financial typologies, and red flag indicators associated with timeshare fraud in Mexico to help financial institutions identify and report suspicious activity to FinCEN and law enforcement. Financial institutions with customers who are victims of timeshare fraud in Mexico are encouraged to file a complaint with federal law enforcement to activate FinCEN’s Rapid Response Program to potentially interdict and recover the fraudulently stolen funds in partnership with Mexico’s UIF. 

ORIGINS OF CJNG TIMESHARE FRAUD

Over a decade ago, Mexican attorney and businessman Omar Aguirre Barragan (Aguirre)—now deceased—learned how to conduct timeshare fraud from Puerto Vallarta-based fraudsters, including Americans. In about 2012, Aguirre educated CJNG about timeshare fraud and sought its support in taking over this highly lucrative scheme from rivals in Puerto Vallarta and elsewhere. Eventually, CJNG took more direct control and cut out Aguirre as an unnecessary middleman.

EXPOSING AND DISRUPTING CJNG TIMESHARE FRAUD

In 2023, OFAC announced three actions sanctioning a total of 50 individuals and entities linked, directly or indirectly, to CJNG’s timeshare fraud activities. On March 2, 2023, OFAC sanctioned eight Mexican companies pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14059. On April 27, 2023, OFAC sanctioned seven Mexican individuals and 19 Mexican companies pursuant to E.O. 14059. On November 30, 2023, OFAC sanctioned three Mexican individuals and 13 Mexican companies pursuant to E.O. 14059.

Building on the three actions taken in 2023, today OFAC sanctioned additional Mexican individuals and companies pursuant to E.O. 14059 that are linked, directly or indirectly, to CJNG’s timeshare activities. These individuals and entities are located in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, which is a CJNG strategic stronghold for drug trafficking and various other illicit activities.  

Today, OFAC sanctioned Mexican accountants Griselda Margarita Arredondo Pinzon (Arredondo), Xeyda Del Refugio Foubert Cadena (Foubert), and Emiliano Sanchez Martinez (Sanchez) pursuant to E.O. 14059 for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG, a person sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059. These Puerto Vallarta-based accountants assist CJNG’s timeshare fraud activities and have familial relationships with previously designated persons. Arredondo is the half-sister of senior CJNG member Julio Cesar Montero Pinzon (a.k.a. “El Tarjetas”), whom OFAC designated pursuant to E.O. 14059 on June 2, 2022. Foubert is Sanchez’s spouse and is the sister of Manuel Alejandro Foubert Cadena, a Mexican attorney linked to CJNG’s timeshare activities whom OFAC designated on November 30, 2023. 

 Also today, OFAC sanctioned four Mexican companies pursuant to E.O. 14059: Constructora Sandgris, S. de R.L. de C.V.—purported to be engaged in wholesale trade—for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Arredondo, a person sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059. Additionally, OFAC sanctioned Pacific Axis Real Estate, S.A. de C.V. and Realty & Maintenance BJ, S.A. de C.V.—purported to be engaged in real estate activities—for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Foubert, a person sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059. Finally, OFAC sanctioned Bona Fide Consultores FS S.A.S., an accounting firm, for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Sanchez, a person sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059. 

OTHER ACTIONS AGAINST CJNG

On April 8, 2015, OFAC sanctioned CJNG pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. On December 15, 2021, OFAC also designated CJNG pursuant to E.O. 14059. In other actions, OFAC has sanctioned numerous CJNG-linked individuals and companies pursuant to both the Kingpin Act and E.O. 14059 that were engaged in various commercial activities and multiple individuals who played critical roles in CJNG’s drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption. Many recent actions have focused on CJNG’s strategic stronghold of Puerto Vallarta. OFAC has sanctioned the following senior CJNG members based in Puerto Vallarta: Carlos Andres Rivera Varela (a.k.a. “La Firma”), Francisco Javier Gudino Haro (a.k.a. “La Gallina”), and the aforementioned Julio Cesar Montero Pinzon (a.k.a. “El Tarjetas”). These three individuals are part of a CJNG enforcement group based in Puerto Vallarta that orchestrates assassinations of rivals and politicians using high-powered weaponry. 

FBI INFORMATION ON TIMESHARE FRAUD

According to FBI, approximately 6,000 U.S. victims reported losing nearly $300 million between 2019 and 2023 to timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico; however, this figure likely underestimates total losses, as FBI believes the vast majority of victims do not report the scam due to embarrassment and other reasons. Timeshare fraud scammers may impersonate U.S. or Mexican government authorities, including OFAC. 

For more information, please visit FBI’s timeshare fraud resource page or view FBI New York’s public service announcement video featuring a victim of timeshare fraud. 

Victims of timeshare fraud are encouraged to file a complaint with FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center by visiting https://www.ic3.gov. For elderly victims, financial institutions may also refer their customers to the Department of Justice’s National Elder Fraud Hotline at 833-FRAUD-11 or 833-372-8311.   

SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS

As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated persons described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons. U.S. persons may face civil or criminal penalties for violations of E.O. 14059 and the Kingpin Act. Non-U.S. persons are also prohibited from causing or conspiring to cause U.S. persons to wittingly or unwittingly violate U.S. sanctions, as well as engaging in conduct that evades U.S. sanctions. OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. sanctions, including the factors that OFAC generally considers when determining an appropriate response to an apparent violation.

Today’s action is part of a whole-of-government effort to counter the global threat posed by the trafficking of illicit drugs into the United States that is causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually, as well as countless more non-fatal overdoses. OFAC, in coordination with its U.S. government partners and foreign counterparts, and in support of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, will continue to hold accountable those individuals and businesses involved in the manufacturing and sale of illicit drugs. 

The power and integrity of OFAC sanctions derive not only from OFAC’s ability to designate and add persons to the SDN List, but also from its willingness to remove persons from the SDN List consistent with the law. The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior. For information concerning the process for seeking removal from an OFAC list, including the SDN List, please refer to OFAC’s Frequently Asked Question 897.  For detailed information on the process to submit a request for removal from an OFAC sanctions list.

More information on the individuals and entities designated today.

View a chart on the entities designated today.

 

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Jalisco Cartel - New Generation Announce Presence In Cozumel July 8, 2024: Quintana Roo

 "Char" and "Enojon" 

This video was published by All Source News on X

CJNG 

OPERATIVA YOGURT

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

" TODAY JULY 8, 2O24, THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR ALL OF COZUMEL AND THEIR POPULATION WE ARE SPECIAL FORCES MENCHO OPERATIVA YOGURT WE CAME HERE WITH COMMANDER GALLO AND GROUP R YOUR GAME HAS COME TO AN END ALL TURNCOATS AND EXTORTIONISTS

THE DEATH OF SERGIO AND THE MINOR WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED THOSE RESPONSIBLE ARE CANPE, BOSTER, MATEO, AND WITH THE HELP OF BENNY AND OTHERS ARE FUCKING STUPID YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME INSIDE THIS PLAZA, AND FOR THOSE THAT SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE YOUR DAYS ARE COUNTED WE ARE NOT PLAYING YOU BRANDON ADONAY, TROYANO, AND JOSE LUIS AKA COTORRO AND YOU FARRIL AKA RAPERO AND DARWIN AKA CHUCKY FORGET YOU ARE COZUMELEÑOS THOSE THAT ARE SUPPORTING THESE SCUMBAGS MENTIONED WILL LOSE AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE ON OUR SIDE WILL HAVE OUR SUPPORT AND WITH CHILDREN YOU DO NOT MESS AROUND YOU WILL SEE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE SCUMBAGS 

SPECIAL FORCES MENCHO!!!!  "

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