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- Blood & White Gold in Tijuana
- Federal Police had "La Tuta" 3 times, and failed to arrest him
- "Junior Cortez" Rumored Killed in Internal War Within the Gulf Cartel
Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:18 PM PDT There are bodies in the street, the blood seeps onto the concrete from open wounds where high velocity bullets have torn through cheap, often imitation or knockoff clothes.
From Tijuana to Ensenada, the waves of unrest in the organizations working in Baja manifest themselves as bodies and limbs dropped in the street. State police are attacked in Tijuana, and a severed head rolls down a road near the Guadelupe Valley in Ensenada. Bodies are mutilated, burned, and dropped in the street. One burned and one strang led found in Tijuana on August 14th, three found around the city two days earlier. Two shot to death in Zona Rio, on August 17th. Yesterday a body was found in a blue plastic co ntainer, reminiscent of the days of El Teo and his murderous, taunting messages to El Inge.
The twisted alliances and paths of the cells are as mutilated as the bodies of their halcones, 'The Rs' are a cell of Jose 'El Tigre' Soto, who came up as a hand of Teodoro Simental Garcia, 'El Teo', headed by Javier Beltran E' Javi' Adrian Caberera. They have been settling scores, murdering, and kidnapping for years, as 'El Tigre' rose from enforcer to trafficker, now sitting upon the DEA's most wanted list, with Alfonso Lira, 'El Atlante', Alfredo Azarte, 'Aquiles', 'and La Rana. The latest reports state Atlante, and Aquiles have been fighting for control to Tijuana, and Rosarito, despite pleas from Sinaloa hierarchy to calm the plaza.
 Aquiles leaves banners demanding all the cells answer to him, and denouncing the cells of Tigre, claiming they extort and kidnap. Javier 'El Javi' Hernandez Beltran controls the R's, from San Diego, along with his half brother Isac Chavez Caberera, 'El Alio', who both answer to El Tigre, who remains in Mexicali. They are said to be responsible for hundreds of murders throughout the city, in their campaign to unseat their rivals.
Sources: BB Forum, Zeta Tijuana, AFN Tijuana.  | ||||||||
Federal Police had "La Tuta" 3 times, and failed to arrest him Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:00 AM PDT Borderland Beat In 2009 the Federal Police could have arrested La Tuta 3 times....but failed to do so. The revelation, in contained in police reports, including the investigation PGR/SIEDO/UEIDCS/205/2009 the cases, 22 and 27 of January andFebruary 19th. At the time, the capo was using a Jeep Compass with plates 327VES.  In 2009 the Federal police on 3 occasions, in less than a month, the opportunity to catch the leader of Los Caballeros Templarios, Servando Gomez Martinez, AKA La Tuta, but in a couple of them decided not to arrested and in one more. At the time he was still a leader with La Familia Michoacana. Here is what went down. First The first occasions was in Lazaro Cardenas, when he was with Julio Cesar Godoy, brother of the Governor Leonel Godoy, and Julio was looking for a nexus with the Cartel, the other two opportunities for capture were in Arteaga, hometown of the Capo. According with the preliminary investigation for PGR/SIEDO/UIDCS/205/2009, which was opened on January 22th, 2014 to integrate the record of La Tuta, which La Razón reports they have a copy of; six Federal agents reported to their superiors, that on March 2nd of 2009 when they were watching a home in Lazaro Cardenas, they noticed the arrival of a truck Jeep Compass, sand color, with plates of 327VES, from which descended a male person, approximately 50 years old, dark skin, short hair, mustache and silver haired goatee. It was a person identified as Servando Gomez alias La Tuta”, along with two others persons, who carried short weapons on the waist. Using the data bases to which it had access, of the Secretary of Public Security, they were able to identify the men as Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano (brother of then Michoacán governor Leonel Godoy) and Jose Manuel Luna Avalos. Godoy was driving a ford escape and Luna arrived on foot. Tuta was not stopped. Second On January 28th of that year four Federal Officers reported the details of the arrest of Luis Servando Gomez Patiño, son of La Tuta. On the document PFP/EM/SIII/006/2009 integrated to the preliminary investigation, the agents report that on January 27th on down town of Arteaga, they went to a cock fight held in the 268 Lazaro Cárdenas street, in order to capture Servando Gomez Martinez. The record revealed that night a white Hummer, without plates arrived. Descending from the truck was a male person which agents identified as Servando Gomez Martinez, who was accompanied by two male persons that were heavily armed, with long and short weapons on their waist. In a determinate time, the cockfight (Palenque) attendants said “people began to run out of the Place“ realizing that Servando Gomez Martinez and his companions hurriedly boarded the white Hummer” fleeing along with the agents vehicle following it toward the road that leads to the Municipality of Nueva Italia, and a pursuit began. At a certain point in the road, the truck that la Tuta in was in , stopped so his occupants could ditch the vehicle, and board three different vehicles ( one of them the Jeep Compass plates 327 VES, referred on the first report) at the end Tuta was able to lose the agents behind. However the agents were able to reach one of the vehicles and caught the son of La Tuta. The record it refers to February 19th of 2009, two Federal Police, at the municipality of Arteaga, were guarding the Municipal Presidency, to obtain information in relation to the activities of the Mayor Jairo Rivas Paramo and his directors of public security and works. Tuta successfully fled from federal agents Third On his report PFP/JEM/SIII/DG/302/2009 the elements state that about 15:00 hours the Mayor departed and boarded a truck that drove to the Glorieta ( roundabout) located on Lazaro Cardenas Avenue and parked on the edge of the roundabout. The Agents report that then arrived two vehicles( a Grey Jetta and a Black jeep) from which descended three people, with short weapons on their waist, only one of them approached the Mayor's vehicle. The person who approached was identified as Servando Gomez Martinez alias La Tuta, who was carrying with him an envelope and a suitcase, he gave the two items to Jairo Rivas ( The Mayor) and with a handshake said goodbye, leaving the place traveling towards the exit of the road Arteaga-Las Cañas, while the Black Jeep Cherokee of which Servando Gomez Martinez was traveling, entered the San Martin Colonia. That is when agents lost sight of Tuta
 Subsequent to 2009 Today, five Years later, La Tuta continues to be fugitive, and is now the premier leader of the Caballeros Templarios, a group formed in 2011 after infighting within La Familia Michoacana. He is considered as the main generator of killings, kidnappings, corruption and extortion in the state. Through death threats and intimidation, he maintains a financial network, for "routes", piso, (or tax) payment from drivers, dealers and even Municipal Governments. (continues next page) It would appear that the government of Mexico has had who knows how many opportunities to catch La Tuta. The Calderon administration had much greater transparency than is present in the Peña Nieto administration. One wonders how many lives would have been saved, if only he was apprehended in one of these opportunities. Perhaps there would not have been a Caballeros Templarios. We will never know. Epic Fail! UPDATE: PRI wants former Michoacán Governor Godoy investigated…. And PRI weighs in, and is demanding to know the reasons Federal police did not arrest Tuta in 2009. The pretense is absurd, why did it take the media to discover these “missed opportunities”? And why has the PRI party also missed opportunities? Seems they have missed a whole lot more, with all those Tuta Tapes, seems just one of the corrupt PRI mayors and government heads, the PRI governor, the governors son, or the interim governor, could have given PGR a heads up to just one of those meetings………just saying. And if Castillo would have not been sent to Michoacán, to disrupt the progress of autodefensas, perhaps Tuta would have been captured, and crime would not be breaking long held records. From Quadratin The parliamentary group of the PRI in the Senate before the Permanent Commission that a resolution to urge the Attorney General's Office (PGR) to make known the reasons why which the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) drug trafficker Servando Gomez was not apprehended Martinez in 2009. The proposal, turned over to the Public Safety Commission of the Senate, lawmakers described as "shameful" the information derived from the investigation PGR / OFDI / UEIDCS / 205/2009, recently released by national media, in which he recognizes that the Federal Police in 2009, three times failed its responsibility to stop the drug trafficker Servando Gomez Martinez, alias La Tuta. They call on the PGR, and the Attorney General of the State of Michoacán to conduct a “professional investigation”,transparent,timely and in accordance with law to clarify these criminal acts, where allegedly involved officials of the then Federal Police and former public servants of the state. Senators demanded an investigation to its conclusion and if found responsible and networks, are to be punished to the full extent of the law. updateHuge thanks to Yahweh for the heads up and for an anonymous reader sending the Quadratin story Sources: La Razón and Meny Times-Reforma-Provincia  | ||||||||
"Junior Cortez" Rumored Killed in Internal War Within the Gulf Cartel Posted: 21 Aug 2014 05:32 PM PDT  As reported by Chivis, the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas is experiencing a number of shootouts and blockades. While the full situation is still developing, it appears that recent tensions within Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel has reached a breaking point and a state of all out warfare has started anew. Reports are emerging that Sergio "Junior Cortez" Ortegón and three bodyguards were killed by the forces of "El Gafe", specifically, those under the command of Alberto "Guero Cleofas" Martinez Gutierrez. This is said to have happened around the colonias of Vista Hermosa and Portillo, near Pavón park behind the Soriana Morelos, where "Junior Cortez" was struck twice in the chest by an AR-15. Background Information "Junior Cortez", also known as "C2", is often confused in reports with his father who also uses the alias "Cortez". The senior "Cortez", Sergio Ortegón Silva, is also known as "C1" and "El Loco" and is leader of the group "Los Ceros". He is a long time member of the Gulf Cartel, going back to possibly twenty years. Past rumors indicated that senior "Cortez" had a falling out with Héctor "El Metro 4" Delgado Santiago, which led to "El Metro 4" being killed on January 15, 2013. "Junior Cortez" was said to have been an ally of Miguel "El Gringo" Villarreal and Jesús "El Puma" García Román, who were both killed on March 10, 2013 in a purge ordered by Mario Armando "X20" Ramírez Treviño and said to have been carried out by the senior "Cortez". It was further said the senior "Cortez" was able to convince "X20" to spare the life of his son, as "Junior Cortez" did not provide aid to "El Gringo" once the fighting started. In April of this year, Juan Manuel "Juan Perro" Rodríguez García led a purge of forces loyal to Juan Fransisco "El Paquito" Martinez, who was plaza head of Reynosa. It was rumored that "El Paquito" then went into hiding in southern Texas to escape death, though his lieutenant, "El Gafe", stayed, and took control of the Reynosa plaza. "El Gafe" is a mysterious individual, with little said about him besides the rumor that he was once a bodyguard for "El Metro 4". Following the purge of "El Paquito", "Junior Cortez" was mentioned as plaza head of Diaz Ordaz and the senior "Cortez" as a possible sector commander in Reynosa, though other information placed "Junior Cortez" as in charge of the Pharr bridge area in Reynosa. Things seemed calm for a while, though it was unclear if it was due to a truce between "Juan Perro" and "El Gafe", or if both forces were merely regrouping. Regardless, on June 26, Federal Police were ambushed in Ejido Periquitos. It was said that the area was under the control of "Junior Cortez" and that his people were behind the attack, along with kidnappings and killings of innocent people. The forces of "El Gafe" warned that such action would not be tolerated and suspected that "Junior Cortez" and his father were attempting to seize power by destabilizing "El Gafe". In the following days, it became clear that an alliance of father and son "Cortez", Guadalupe "El Tachas" Leal Flores, and Jesús Alejandro "El Simple" Leal Flores, had been formed to overthrow "El Gafe". It was further reported that "Junior Cortez" controlled the colonias of Delicias, Unidad Obrera, Laguna, Lazaro Cardenas, and Loma Blanca. At the time it was also said that "El Guero Cleofas" was part of this alliance, as he had been arrested and thought "El Gafe" had betrayed him, but in light of recent news it is uncertain if this report was a mistake or if he later changed sides, possibly convinced that "El Gafe" was not behind his arrest. On June 29, "El Gafe" was said to have been shot in a failed assignation attempt. It is unclear what happened to "El Gafe" thereafter, though recent information implies that the power of "El Gafe" over Reynosa would become somewhat diminished. It is possible that "El Gafe" retreated from Reynosa and/or had to recover from his injuries. On the morning of August 8 there was a number of blockades in Reynosa as federal forces made an unsuccessful attempt at arrest the senior "Cortez". A letter appeared online on August 17 denouncing recent actions by "Junior Cortez" to increase his power in Reynosa and asking for the return of "El Paquito" and "El Gafe". In light of the killing of "Junior Cortez", it seems that this was all a pretext. Conclusion It is very likely that the senior "Cortez" will seek vengeance for the death of his son and his allies will counterattack the forces of "El Gafe", who, quite possibly, is welcoming the return of "El Paquito". The entire area under the control of Los Metros is currently under high alert as cartel vehicles are being mobilized for attacks and counterattacks.  |
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