Cemei Verdia, Former Autodefensa, Ambushed In Colima

 Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

The death of the former leader of the autodefensas of the Sierra-Costa of Michoacán, Cemeí Verdia Zepeda, was reported on Thursday night.  He was reportedly being transferred to a hospital in Jalisco after being ambushed in Colima by armed subjects.

Updated 11/29

Through social networks and on his official account, reports arose about the ambush in which he was seriously injured.  He was immediately transferred to a hospital to receive first aid, however, unofficial sources confirmed the death of the autodefensa, who since 2012, rose up in arms with a group of residents of the Sierra-Costa of Michoacán to defend their territory from organized crime groups.

Other close sources have reported that he is still alive but in serious condition.

Subsequently, the autodefensa movements of José Manuel Mireles Valverde and Hipólito Mora in the Tierra Caliente region began.

A month ago, Verdia Zepeda denounced on national media that there is still an insecurity crisis in the coastal zone and the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán and that violent acts such as murders and clashes between cartels have increased in recent months.

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Narcos Welcome National Guard: "Let's See How Many Come Out Of Here Alive"

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat
 

Organized crime in Tabasco responded with a highway blockade, 5 incinerated vehicles blocking lanes, and a narcomanta in which they reject the arrival of the National Guard in the area.

“Welcome #GuardiaNacional(.) We know that you’re coming with everything but let’s see how many come out of here alive, align yourselves or we’ll do it for you. Atte: Pelón de Playa…Rosa (Illegible)” was what could be read on the narcomanta that was found by authorities at the blockade.

The blockade was located on the federal highway Villahermosa-Teapa.

On both lanes of the highway, cars were left blocking the lanes.  They were doused with gasoline and burned.

Through videos on social media, the flames of the vehicles can be seen near the bridges known as “Majahua”, located at the entrance and exit of the city that goes towards the areas of Villa Parrilla and Playas del Rosario.

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CDMX Operation: 32 Missing People Found; 89 Detained

Operation Rastrillo was carried out in the municipalities of Chalco, Chicoloapan, Chimalhuacán, and Valle de Chalco.  It had the participation of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico (SSE), and the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM), and the Mobility Secretariat of Mexico City.

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Mexico City, June 30 (SinEmbargo) – Federal, state, and municipal forces carried out an operation in four municipalities of the State of Mexico and rescued 32 people reported missing, arrested 89 for various crimes, and confiscated drugs and stolen cars.

During the 154 operations, the security forces arrested 89 people for their probable participation in various crimes, of which 34 of them had arrest warrants against them.

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Plaza Chief "El Escorpión" killed in CDG internal struggle

Lucio R. Borderland Beat  material from Facebook, VXT and Valor tamaulipeco,

Yesterday morning, the body of Lazaro Martinez Rodriguez. Aka "El Escorpión", was discovered outside a Madero, Tamaulipas nightclub, “Viento Rodeo”.  

With the body was found a narco cartulina with a message. Martinez-Rodriguez was once policía ministerial in Nuevo Laredo and later Tampico. After moving to Tampico, he worked alongside kidnapper, torturer enforcer, Francisco Javier Peña Ruiz "K21", allegedly using the police station for torturing  kidnapping victims, subsequently becoming plaza chief of Madero.

The killing is the result of an internal CDG conflict according to the message, which identifies the deceased as plaza chief of Madero.  Conflict has heightened in Tampico, Madero and Altamira, in an internal control struggle, after the fall of “EL Chive”.  

Rumor has it that it was El Escorpión who betrayed  Silvestre Haro Rodriguez, ( El Chive) which led to his arrest.   El Chive, was chief of the Gulf Cartel plaza in metropolitan area of Tampico, Madero and Altamira.    

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