The Final Toast, Doolittle Raiders! ...

THE FINAL TOAST ! 

They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States .. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Americans.  Now only four survive.   After Japan 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around.   Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such bi g, heavy bombers from a carrier.     The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.   But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.  And those men went anyway.    They bombed Tokyo and then flew as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed.   Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia .           The Doolittle Raiders sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win.   Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ," starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting the story "with supreme pride."      Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson , Arizona , as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider.     Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.    Al so in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.   There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and toast their comrades who preceded them in death.   As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.   What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.   The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that was emblematic of the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:    "When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005."   So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.   The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; Florida 's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.   Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from first hand observation that they appreciate hearing that they are remembered.   The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date -- some time this year -- to get together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.   They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to those who are gone.

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Netanyahu poised for third straight term as Israel PM after chief rival concedes

NOW WATCH OBAMA "PENALIZE" ISRAEL FOR HAVING THE EFFRONTERY TO ELECT THE CANDIDATE THAT OBAMA WANTED TO LOSE. ALL OF B.O.'S SPOKESPEOPLE AND SYCOPHANTS WILL CONTINUE TO ASSERT THAT WE ARE STILL CLOSE FRIENDS WITH ISRAEL -- WHILE KERRY IS GIVING AWAY ANYTHING TO LOCK UP A NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN, WHICH HAS PROMISED TO OBLITERATE ISRAEL. 

Another regional Zeta Leader Killed

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Another regional Zeta Leader Killed Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:43 AM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article by Otis B Fly-Wheel Saltillo Coahuila Elements of the Marina took down Luis Eduardo Monsivais Gloria, regional Boss of Los Zetas in Monclova, and three of his accomplices, informed the State Security. "In an security action derived from investigative work, elements of the Marina took down four presumed criminals who moments earlier had initiated an attack with firearms against agents from SEMAR",  said an official communication. The confrontation occurred when the Marines, arrived at an apartment number 2005 Calle La Salle, between avenues Las Granjas and Segunda, in the La Salle Colonia, in the City of Monclova, with the intention to capture the Capo. After the confrontation, there were two men and two women dead, of which only one has been identified, Luis Eduardo Monsivais Gloria, who is an operator of Los Zetas in the central region of the state. In the apartment in which the criminals were hiding, the Marina found three handguns and one rifle, 22 rounds of .50 calibre ammunition, various magazines, tactical equipment, and two vehicles without registration plates, and drugs. The death of the Zeta regional leader in the centre of Coahuila occurred a day after the capture in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, of Daniel Menera Sierra, regional boss of said criminal group in Nuevo Leon. The Federal Authorities documented that the detentions occurred in Nuevo Leon and in Coahuila were possible thanks to the capture of Omar Trevino Morales "El Z 42", that occurred in a residence of San Pedro Garza Garcia. Original article in Spanish at Proceso

Homegrown Gourmet Pot on the rise in Mexico Posted: 17 Mar 2015 02:31 PM PDT Lucio R. Borderland Beat-Republished from AP by  Peter Orsi with Alberto Arce  AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo In this March 3, 2015 photo, Homero Fernandez warms a pipe with one hand as he holds in the other a small amount of marijuana which he'll introduce into the heated tube and cover. Once upon a time, Mexican marijuana was the gold standard for U.S. pot smokers. But in the new world of legal markets and gourmet weed, aficionados here are looking to the United States and Europe for the good stuff. Instead of Acapulco Gold, Mexican smokers want strains like Liberty Haze and Moby Dick — either importing high-potency boutique pot from the United States, or growing it here in secret gardens that use techniques perfected abroad. It's a small but growing market in a country where marijuana is largely illegal, unlike the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington that have legalized recreational use, and others where medicinal pot is available. A text message will bring a Mexico City dealer to the customer's doorstep with a menu of high-end buds for sale at the swipe of a credit card through a smartphone reader. Hydroponic shops have sprung up that supply equipment to those who want to cultivate potent strains in sophisticated home-grown operations. Some even are setting up pot cooperatives to share costs like high electrical bills and swap what they grow with each other. "I know people who are architects, executives, lawyers ... who went to the United States or Europe," said Antoine Robbe, the 35-year-old, French-born proprietor of Hydrocultivos, one of the shops. They say, "'Man, why don't we have this in my country?'" So far, reports of U.S.-grown marijuana making its way south have been only anecdotal but enough to raise concern, according to Alejandro Mohar, a Mexican physician and member of the U.N. International Narcotics Control Board. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official told NPR in December that Mexican cartel operatives were smuggling in high-end U.S. marijuana to sell to wealthy customers, though there's no sign so far of a massive southward trade. The DEA declined to comment further in response to a request from the AP. In Mexico City, several people said they have seen freezer-size bags of marijuana here labeled as being for medicinal use in Los Angeles. Mexico allows people to carry up to 5 grams of pot for personal use but bans sale and growing. Historically, there has been little social tolerance for pot use, with "marijuanos" stigmatized as slackers or supporters of the deadly drug trade. Mexico growers say their home-cultivation phenomenon is removed from the grisly narco-wars that have wracked the country. In fact, growing and swapping among themselves, they contend, allows them to avoid supporting the cartels. "I'm not a narco, dude. I just like to smoke," said Daniel, a goateed 32-year-old living in the bohemian Roma neighborhood. He spoke on condition that his last name not be used because, he said, his home-grow operation is "super-illegal" despite being for personal use only. Mexican law provides for prison sentences of up to 25 years for people convicted of producing, trafficking or selling drugs. Home growers say they are forming cooperatives to share the costs of the indoor-gardening gear and high electric bills and swap harvests with each other, many building their club model with skills first imported by foreigners. Last year, Homero Fernandez, a 29-year-old event promoter, teamed up with about a dozen people to form a pot club, each paying about $200 to buy a hydroponic grow kit now tended to by one of the members. Today the club has about 50 to 60 plants that produce enough sativa buds to satisfy the members, some of them heavy smokers, who are able to purchase an ounce of high-end pot for between $95 and $130, less than half of what they'd pay a dealer. The end result is pot with around 15 to 20 percent THC, the high-generating component of marijuana, compared to 3 to 8 percent in the Mexican "brick weed" more commonly sold here and north of the border. Some people are also producing concentrates with 60 to 99.6 percent THC, the strongest of which are too powerful to be smoked in a pipe or joint. "It comes out much cheaper than paying for even regular pot ... and the quality is much higher," said Fernandez, who wore his Ray-Ban shades indoors and sported a white T-shirt emblazoned with the letters "THC." ''What gets produced is exclusively for us. Nothing more, and it doesn't get sold outside" the club. The market for gourmet weed is still minuscule next to the multibillion-dollar marijuana export trade dominated by the cartels. According to DEA statistics, seizures along the border last year accounted for more than 2.2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of pot. The hydroponic shops don't sell seeds or pot and thus stay on the right side of the law. Like others, Daniel ordered seeds online from a company in Spain, opting for a U.K-originated strain known as Exodus Cheese. The precious cargo arrived by mail nine days later in envelopes resembling teabags inside a tiny, discreetly labeled tin. Just as seeds increasingly are crossing borders, Fernandez said, wider acceptance abroad is reshaping attitudes in Mexico. "The United States, with this boom of regularization and this boom of legal marijuana, all that arrives here and has an impact on cannabis culture."

VIPs in USA ...

AN AIRPLANE WAS ABOUT TO CRASH; THERE WERE 5 PASSENGERS ON BOARD, BUT ONLY 4 PARACHUTES.

THE FIRST PASSENGER, HOLLY MADISON SAID, "I HAVE MY OWN REALITY SHOW AND I AM THE SMARTEST 
AND PRETTIEST WOMAN AT PLAYBOY, SO AMERICANS DON'T WANT ME TO DIE."SHE TOOK THE FIRST PACK 
AND JUMPED OUT OF THE PLANE.

THE SECOND PASSENGER, JOHN MCCAIN , SAID, "I'M A SENATOR, AND A DECORATED WAR HERO FROM AN 
ELITE NAVY UNIT FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."  SO HE GRABBED THE SECOND PACK AND JUMPED.

THE THIRD PASSENGER, BARACK OBAMA SAID, "I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND I AM THE 
SMARTEST EVER IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, SOME EVEN CALL ME THE 'ANOINTED ONE'.  SO HE 
GRABBED THE PACK NEXT TO HIM AND JUMPED OUT.

THE FOURTH PASSENGER, BILLY GRAHAM, SAID TO THE FIFTH PASSENGER, A 10-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL , 
"I HAVE LIVED A FULL LIFE AND SERVED MY GOD THE BEST I COULD. I WILL SACRIFICE MY LIFE AND LET 
YOU HAVE THE LAST PARACHUTE. "THE LITTLE GIRL SAID, "THAT'S OKAY, MR. GRAHAM. THERE'S A PARA-
CHUTE LEFT FOR YOU.  AMERICA'S SMARTEST PRESIDENT TOOK MY SCHOOLBAG . 

Free Kittens ...

 

 

 

 

 FREE KITTENS A pretty little girl named Suzy was standing on the sidewalk in front of her home.
Next to her was a basket containing a number of tiny creatures; in her hand was a sign announcing FREE KITTENS.



Suddenly a line of big black cars pulled up beside her. Out of the lead car stepped a tall, grinning man.

"Hi there little girl, I'm President Obama. What do you have in the basket?" he asked.

"Kittens," little Suzy said.

"How old are they?" asked Obama.

Suzy replied, "They're so young, their eyes aren't even open yet."

"And what kind of kittens are they?"

"Democrats," answered Suzy with a smile.

Obama was delighted. As soon as he returned to his car, he called his PR chief and told him about the little girl and the kittens.

Recognizing the perfect photo op, the two men agreed that the president should return the next day;
and in front of the assembled media, have the girl talk about her discerning kittens.

So the next day, Suzy was again standing on the sidewalk with her basket of "FREE KITTENS," when another motorcade pulled up,
this time followed by vans from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.

Cameras and audio equipment were quickly set up, then Obama got out of his limo and walked over to little Suzy.

"Hello, again," he said, "I'd love it if you would tell all my friends out there what kind of kittens you're giving away."

"Yes sir," Suzy said. "They're Republicans."

Taken by surprise, the president stammered, "But...but...yesterday, you told me they were DEMOCRATS." Little Suzy smiled and said, "I know.But today, they have their eyes open. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Leader of Loz Zetas in Nuevo Leon Captured Officials in the midst of executions BCS Hitman accused of more than 200 murders in Chihuahua is recaptured in Sonora...

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• Leader of Loz Zetas in Nuevo Leon Captured
• Officials in the midst of executions BCS
• Hitman accused of more than 200 murders in Chihuahua is recaptured in Sonora

Leader of Loz Zetas in Nuevo Leon Captured Posted: 17 Mar 2015 01:52 AM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article by Otis B Fly-Wheel Captured in Neuvo Leon, regional bosses of Los Zetas During the weekend, Federal forces headed by the Marina captured five presumed criminals of Los Zetas cartel in two different actions in the state of Nuevo Leon The National Commissioner for security, Monte Alejandro Rubido, informed that the first operation was carried out in the Municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, where they captured Daniel Menera Sierra, 33 years of age originally from Tiqucheo, Michoacán.  This action was followed by a timely follow up to the arrests made by Federal forces on March 4th also in Nuevo Leon with which they obtained new lines of investigation towards the criminal group that operated in the state of Coahuila. This way it was possible to secure Daniel Menera identified as one of the relevant operators of the organisation in Aquella region in the north of Coahuila said the functionary. Menera Sierra, he added was considered a regional boss for this group of criminals, who maintained their centre of operations in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Presumably he was in charge of drug trafficking, and trafficking of migrants to the United States, travelling through the Piedras Negras Corridor, Coahuil-Anahuac, Nuevo Leon. He said that in 2013 after the taking down of David Alejandro Loreto, he became Boss in this region of criminal operations. He attributes him to ordering attacks on local corporations, mainly against element of GATE of the Municipalities of Villa Union and Hidalgo, in March and August of last year where an operative of GATE lost his life. Together with the criminals, three more people were detained, that respond to the names of Octavio Gomez Gomez, presumed responsible for the transit of drugs from Colombia to Mexico, also Ernesto Cervantes and Jose Javier Alonso Silva, who formed his bodyguard. The detained had vehicles ,firearms , diverse drugs and communication equipment. Deriving form these detentions, in a second action in the Municipality of Apadaca, in Neuvo Leon, they achieved the capture of Ernesto Balderas Medrano, 38 years of age, originally from Monterrey, employed as a boss of the same criminal group. In an equal manner, refers the Commissioner all the detained were captured without a shot fired. The detained together with the equipment they had were put at the disposition of agents of the Attorney General of the Federation, attached to SEIDO, and the office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana

Officials in the midst of executions BCS Posted: 16 Mar 2015 03:06 PM PDT According to official payroll of the Municipal Treasury Valerio Carrizal Jolleno and Cesar Carrizal Jeyeno were employees of the city of Los Cabos. Both Government officials from the fourth level were killed on February the 19th in El Zacatal of San Jose del Cabo. At first they were identified by the PGJE as builders. Zeta Investigations Los Cabos, BCS, the war for control of the narco trafficking plaza between criminal cells of Damaso Lopez Nunez “El Licenciado” and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, not only leaves dead bodies of narco traffickers in vacant territory, dirt breaches and Colonias within the periphery of the urban area of La Paz and Los Cabos, also bodies of the victims of “collateral damage”, and even the bodies of public servants who operate and protect criminal groups that fight to the death in the Sinaloa Cartel. ·         Felipe Eduardo Guajardo Garcia “El 28”, who according to military and federal intelligence sources fights for the south and north zone of La Paz, and San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. ·         Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro “El Pepillo” who is currently fighting for the north zone of La Paz, is considered the chief of plaza for the south zone of the state capital. ·         Luis Antonio Montoya Beltran “El Montoya”, “Don Carlos” or “El Artista”, successor of Rolando Gonzalez Moreno “El Compadron”, is giving battle for the north zone. ·         Javier Lopez Rivera alias Javier Acosta Lopez “El Javy” or “El Javier”, who currently is battling for San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. The four criminal chiefs have had logistical support of Police Commanders and PGR when carrying out kidnappings, torture and executions or when attacking rival groups in conflict. The last public servants that were killed were Valerio Carrizal Jolleno and Cesar Carrizal Jeyeno, who according to the Municipal Treasury were Government employees of Los Cabos, headed by the Mayor Jose Antonio Agundez Montano. The two public servants of the fourth level of Government were assassinated by gunfire on 19thof February in El Zacatal of San Jose del Cabo, initially identified as builders by the PGJE and after more than 15 days of investigation and revision of archives, changed their minds as to the identities of the two dead men, saying that they were employees of the Cabo administration. The version according to the partner of the Lawyer Paulino Guerrero Sanchez, the third person executed that night, that the companions of her partner were builders obviously didn’t convince the agents investigating the case, especially because of the type of clothing they were wearing, their shoes and the type of cell phones they were carrying the day of the triple homicide. Even worse when the investigative agents checked the vehicle registration, which had been used to transport the three dead men from their houses to the place of their execution, discovered that something was wrong as the car appeared to be in the name of one of the builders. The vehicle was a Volkswagen Jetta 2015 colored white, with registration plates of CZR-5628, was delivered to the Directorate of Public Security and Municipal Transit Police in Los Cabos, headed by Guillermo Marron Rosas, who had no records of the vehicle in their registration system. However the name of the owner of the vehicle appeared when the car, valued at 500,000 pesos, had its VIN number checked. This led to the name of Valerio Carrizal Jolleno whose address was registered in the system, when verified did not exist in the Colonia of San Jose Viejo. With these last two executions, raised to four the number of public servants that have been assassinated during this narco war. The first was an agent of the State Preventative Police, Carlos Miguel Calderon Hinojosa “El Virolo”, died on August 23rd 2014, and the second was the Secretary of Transport, Jorge Molina Alarcon “El Molino” or “El Guerrero”, on 31st of October of the same year. The fifth public servant attacked but survived the attack was an agent of the State Police, Tito Guadalupe Jauregui Flores, shot on 29thof December 2014,( translated by Otis B Flywheel see link ). The Triple Execution Even when in La Paz they started to see the primary results after almost seven months of war between the criminal cells, and with a body count of almost 70, for the Jewel in the crown, Los Cabos, the sides had just started fighting for the narco trafficking plaza between members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The night of 19th of February the following were assassinated: *Paulino Guerrero Sanchez, 34 years of age, Lawyer, with a house on Calle Jose M Chavez Hermosillo, Manzana 95, Lot 8, El Zacatel Colonia *Valerio Carrizal Jolleno, 31 years of age, public servant in Los Cabos, with a house in Calle Guanajuato corner of Guerrero, San Jose Viejo Colonia *Cesar Carrizal Joyeno, 21 years of age, public servant in Los Cabos, with a house in Super Manzana 14, Manzana A, Lot 9, Vista Hermosa Colonia According to a security camera the three executed men were kidnapped off the sidewalk of the central commercial zone Soriana and City Club in the El Zacatal Colonia, and later moved 200 metres to the place where they were killed with a 9mm pistol. The images captured by the camera of a supermarket show that the victims were not forced into the murderers vehicle, a gray Ford Escape year 2003. To the contrary, according to the video recording, it observed the victims and the killers saying hello, and its obvious they knew each other. The security camera captured the moment when the three victims left their vehicle, parked in front of the shoe store B-Hermanos, where they entered the supermarket. Later it observed the arrival of the criminals car, to one side of the supermarket on the opposite side of the road, where they waited for their victims to leave the supermarket. The driver of the car chatted to the three men for five minutes before inviting them to enter the car and driving off to an unknown location. These images were the last captured of the three alive, the medical experts from PGJE confirmed the three men received the following wounds; *Paulino Guerrero Sanchez had three wounds from gunfire impacts two that entered and left his head, and a further impact to his right arm. *Valerio Carrizal Jolleno had one impact from a bullet in the head which lodged in his skull. *Cesar Carrizal Jeyeno had three wounds from bullet impacts, one in the skull close to the ear with entry and exit wounds, one in the sternum ( chest bone centre of ribs at the front), and another at the base of the skull. The three bodies were found by a 50 year old. When around 7:20 pm on the 19th of February, he heard gunfire, he circled the area in his white Nissan Stanza. He discovered the three bodies and immediately alerted the authorities. The first to arrive at the scene were the PGR, State Police, and Municipal Transit Police of Los Cabos, followed almost at the same time by Marina and the Army who cordoned off the crime scene with yellow tape and restricted access to the crime scene. The Investigation The primary indications after investigation of the victims, were that the investigative agents had managed to establish the identity of the Lawyer Paulino Guerrero Sanchez, who was the nephew of the ex PGR agent Paciano Guerrero Caro. According to the investigators, both had an office called Advisory and Consulting, in Los Cabos in the apartment building “Ruby” on Las Calles Playa Punta and El Pueblito, Lot 1, Block 1, in the Colonia Lomas de Rosarito, San Jose del Cabo. Based on official investigations, the main face of the law firm, Paciano Caro Guerrero has a number of previous convictions ranging from imprisonment for extortion, abuse of authority, kidnapping, and links to criminal networks with Felipe Eduardo Guajardo Garcia “El 28” and Javier Lopez Rivera or Javier Acosta Lopez “El Javy”, or “El Javier”. On the 24th of November 2004 he was captured by agents of the PGR for extortion, abuse of authority, and aggravated kidnapping of businessman Francisco Javier Cendejas Cervantes, in the case number 8/2003 in the premier district Court of the State. The victim related that the Lawyer when serving as Public Prosecutor of the Federation arrived aboard an official vehicle of his business with a delivery of beer called High Voltage ( alta tension), identifying himself as a narco trafficker, he asked for a monthly fee for selling drugs, otherwise he threatened him with violence. Back then, Paciano Guerrero was investigated and a warrant raised for his arrest, when the police tried to arrest him, he escaped from Baja California Sur in a helicopter and two days later was arrested in Guamuchil, Sinaloa. He was later transferred to Prison in La Paz. On the 9th of September 2010, Guerrero Caro was detained and arraigned for assault, kidnapping, and attempted homicide of Erick Shaw, 45 years of age, and native of Washington USA. The event took place on August 14th in the fraccionamiento Cabo Bello in Cabo San Lucas, where the Lawyer and his accomplices, identified as Oscar Antonio Ojeda Cesena “El Pompeyo”, Derian Cota Ivan Camelo “El Derian” and the brothers Juan Iram and Jaime Lamberto Lopez de la Pena. They brutally beat the foreigner after robbing him, causing a cerebral hemorrage, a fractured skull and injuries to his body where they stabbed him with a knife in the abdomen. All of them were arrested. In the third incident, on 5th of November 2014, the Lawyer Guerrero was detained in the port Pichilingue de La Paz, when he tried to get a car out of La Paz, a 2008 Dodge Cavalier which had last been seen with narco trafficker Juan Cesar Hamburgo, before he was kidnapped, tortured and executed on the way to Las Cruces near the Libramiento Santiago Oceguera. During the interrogation, Paciano Guerrero Caro said he bought the vehicle from Fernando Miranda Martinez for 80,000 pesos, who later after giving his version of events was set free by the PGJE. On the 16th of February testimony was given by Sicario Hector Roberto Medina Flores alias Omar Alonso Medina Gonzalez, about the narco trafficking crimes of Fabricio Cota Rosas and Andres Enrique Echeverria Franco, also had supported and participated in several meetings with Felipe Eduardo Guajardo Garcia “El 28” along with his assistant Claudio Miranda Amador; and Raul Castillo de la Rosa “El Cochi”, and the commander of the Municipal Police of Los Cabos Paul Fiol Contreras, according to the Sicario “ he is the link between the criminals, the Police, Commanders and Agents of the PGR, because he worked for a long time in this institution and knew almost everyone in the Federal Delegation. Even though they still have no clear cause for the execution of Paulino Guerrero Sanchez, Valerio Carrizal Holleno and Cesar Carrizal Heyeno, the investigators have two lines of investigation open. 1, The executions were a warning to the former prosecutor of the Federation of the PGR, Paciano Guerrero Caro, for serving two antagonistic groups like Eduardo Guajardo Felipe Garcia “El 28” and Javier Lopez Rivera alias Javier Acosta Lopez “El Javy” or “El Javier”. 2, The executions were committed because of some bad business between one of the aforementioned crime bosses, as the supermarket video recording shows, the victims and the killers clearly knew each other well, and there was no violence when they jumped into the killers car. However, according to the investigators in the case, the investigation will come to review all the current open legal transactions made with the law firm to open another line of investigation and maybe lead to other suspects responsible for this triple murder. List of recent executions and attempted assassinations in the narco war for BCS * 4th March, injured Joel Hernandez Verdugo, killed, Victor Hernandez Betancourt, shot with pistols in the Lazaro Cardenas Colonia *5th March injured Christian Marquez Nunez and Daniel Cruz Cruz,  in La Arenal de San Cabo Lucas. Original article in Spanish at Zetatijunana

Hitman accused of more than 200 murders in Chihuahua is recaptured in Sonora Posted: 16 Mar 2015 02:15 PM PDT Translated for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article by Otis B Fly-Wheel Hermosillo, Sonora. "El Negro" Agents of the Federal Police achieved the re-aprehension of Oscar Eduardo Vargas "El Negro", who the state Attorney General attributes more than 200 executions. According to the Attorney General, "El Negro" an important leader of a criminal network in Praxedis G Guerrero, in the Valley of Juarez is dedicated to drug trafficking, and other activities such as kidnapping and extortion. On the 27th of  February Oscar Eduardo Vargas Romero escaped from Hospital in Hermosillo state, where he was receiving treatment for wounds sustained in a gun battle in Chihuahua. Since then his location was unknown until Saturday afternoon when he was captured in the Municipality of Santa Ana, located 170 kilometres north of the Sonoran capital. The serial killer was moved immediately to Hermosillo, where personnel of the Chihuahua Attorney Generals office were waiting with an arrest warrant to move him to Ciudad Juarez. The Governor of this state, Cesar Duarte Jaquez, welcomed the capture of "El Negro" and made a formal announcement 6 hours before the Federal Authorities. Around 22:00 hours he arrived in Ciudad Juarez on board a plane, he is the presumed coordinator of criminal activites for the Sinaloa Cartel in the Valley of Juarez. Original article in Spanish at Proceso