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This For Official Use Only report is a compilation of extracted translations of Mexican and U.S. open source information and not evaluated intelligence. Use of these news articles/extractions in no way represent the views of the DEA Phoenix Field Division or the Phoenix Strategic Intelligence Group. Open source news articles and titles are sometimes re-captioned and may be shortened during editing to remove unnecessary information.
U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION SEIZURES Calexico, CA – seize 27 lbs cocaine from vehicle. Courier: 33 YO male from Mexico Yuma, AZ – seize 550 lbs marijuana and arrest nine smugglers in two incidents Nogales, AZ – Another NARCO TUNNEL discovered. Second tunnel discovered in less than a week. Tunnel entrance found inside a residence containing 430 lbs marijuana. Tunnel was 60 inches tall and 90 inches wide. Tunnel has electricity, ventilation by fans and a water pump
Tumacacori Mountains, AZ - Border Patrol agents discover three murdered bodies in the Devil’s Canyon area. All were shot with the “coup de grace”
Highway 86 Checkpoint (Salton Sea), CA – seize 25 lbs meth from vehicle. Courier: 43 YO U.S. citizen
Highway 86 Checkpoint (Salton Sea), CA – seize 4 lbs meth from vehicle. Las Cruces, NM – Texas couple jailed on charges they tried to bribe a Border Patrol agent into letting them smuggle a family member and 10 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. Arrested: Debbie Ayala, (25) of San Elizario, Texas David Rogelio Leyva, (27) of Socorro, Texas
COLOMBIA Bogota – (CORRECTION FROM YESTERDAY’S KNR) – Drug Kingpin, Daniel “El Loco” Barrera was not captured with the 14 others. Daniel Barrera still remains a fugitive
Daniel “El Loco” Barrera NUEVO LEON Guadalupe - Reyna Angélica Ortiz Dimas, (18) found tortured/murdered
Santa Catarina – Two unidentified males found murdered inside the trunk of a vehicle. Narco message with bodies not revealed
Escobedo – Unidentified female murdered on street by gunmen Apodaca – Federal Police arrest 23 security guards at the prison for their involvement in the escape of three prisoners. COAHUILA Torreon – MX military arrest, Renato Patiño Martínez, “El comandante Borrado”, LOS ZETAS PLAZA BOSS in Matamoros. Renato is responsible for executions, kidnappings and extortions in the Laguna region. Also arrested was, Jorge Alejandro Cortés Aguilera, “Comandante Cástulo” and Santiago Maciel Rodríguez Velázquez, “El Maciel,” both LOS ZETA members in the Laguna region. CHIHUAHUA Valle de Allende – Police Chief, César Baylón Hernández (40) murdered inside his residence by gunmen
Gran Morelos – MX Army arrest, RAÚL HERNÁNDEZ ORTEGA “EL BOLAS”, LA LINEA plaza boss in the communities of Gran Morelos, Vicente Guerrero, Cuauhtémoc, Tutuaca, Belisario Dominguez and Bachiniva, Chih. Fiver other members of LA LINEA also arrested La Cruz – Police arrest three LOS ZETAS gunmen after gun battle. Arrested: Benigno Alvarado Manríquez (21); José Gabriel Torres Rosales, (26); Jesús Iván Anaya Valenzuela (18) Ciudad Juarez – Group of gunmen traveling in vehicle murder a male at a traffic intersection Ciudad Juarez (Sun Prairie) – Police locate three murdered males in one location
Ciudad Chihuahua – Another male is murdered and set on fire next to city hall Meoqui – Policeman chased down and murdered by gunmen
Ciudad Juarez – Gunmen attack a couple inside a vehicle. Male murdered and female wounded
SONORA Navojoa – Unidentified body found murdered along access road, south of town Navojoa (Checkpoint) – Federal police seize 1.4 kilos heroin from vehicle. Courier traveling from Culiacan to Mexicali BAJA CALIFORNIA Tijuana – MX military seize
$15,350,000 U.S. from abandoned vehicle at residence utilized by SINALOA CARTEL. Money reported as belonging to JOAQUIN “EL CHAPO” GUZMAN. Six kilos cocaine and four weapons seized from residence. Last large money seizure occurred in September 2008, in Culiacan where $26 million was seized from residence
Seizures from Operation “Zorro,” comprising the states of Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur (July 2011 to date) $17,161,229 U.S.
$2,534,748 pesos 172 tons of marijuana. 903 kilos cocaine 265 kilos methamphetamine 3 laboratories to produce synthetic drugs 24 aircraft 555 vehicles 223 weapons 555 hectares of marijuana plantations destroyed Arrest of 737 individuals related to the drug trade/organized crime 3 tunnels 144 clandestine airstrips Note: July 12, 2011 – Seizure of 120 hectares of marijuana in Ensenada (Largest plantation in Mexico’s History) Tijuana - One person was killed and two others wounded by gunfire in different areas of the city on Tuesday DURANGO Santiago Papasquiaro – Gunmen fire weapons at police headquarters building. No injuries SINALOA El Gallo de Limones – Two males found murdered inside abandoned vehicle. Victims: Jesús de la Luz Castro Sauceda and Manuel de Jesús Castro Orduño
PHOTOGRAPHS OF SINALOA CARTEL FAMILY MEMBERS
vi su metro esta chingon, suva esta foto viejon muchos plebes quieren saber q rollo con el, un dia lo mire pasar en un lamborgini naranja aki x san fransisco california, "dicen q es hijo de un senor de BADIRAGUATO SINALOA q ni se conose solo se save de el q esta MUY PESADISIMO q es inversionista y que es socio en la mafia rusa y que en mexico ni se diga, que su papa lo kuida tanto que asta le traen escolta en ESTADOS UNIDOS i a diario anda bn armado q asta carga hummer blindada y que lo an visto bn enfiestado en los mejores lugares de banda en california y sinaloa (This kid drives a lamborgini and is the son of Senor of Badiraguato. He is somehow involved with Russian Mafia. His father loves him so much and sent him to the U.S. with an escort that protects him. Has been seen in California and Sinaloa)
FRIDA muñoz (widow of Edgar Guzman/son of El Chapo) and Manny Paquiao (Boxer) MICHOACAN Tiquicheo – Gun battle between MX Army and gunmen. Two gunmen killed/others fled Tuzantla – Audio tape of LA FAMILIA LEADER, Horacio Morales Baca “El Perro” with PRD supporters. El Perro warns supporters that if they vote for PRD Candidate, Javier Lopez Yanez, LA FAMILIA will kill a member of their family and burn their houses. El Perro states that everyone has to vote for Julian Rodriguez Rosales. El Perro took over operations in this area to prevent the arrival of “Knights Templar”
GUERRERO Taxco de Alarcón – Dismembered body found with narco message signed by EL FANTASMA AND EL CHIQUILIN. Message: 'Esto les va a pasar a la gente traicionera que chaquetea, ya empieza la limpia en esta plaza, no se hagan pendejos, no agarren dinero de los dos lados, ya savemos (sic) quienes (sic) lo hacen, siguen ustedes puto, nosotros no venimos a secuestrar ya robar, ustedes deciden, atte, el Fantasma y el Chiquilín, brazo armado de la empresa' (Basic translation) This is going to happen to treacherous people as we start to clean up the plaza. Do not be assholes, do not grab money from both sides, we do not come to kidnap and steal, you decide, Atte: El Fantasma and El Chiquilin, Armed wing of La Empresa Chilapa de Álvarez – Gun battle between MX military and gunmen. Four gunmen killed STATE OF MEXICO / MEXICO D.F. Federal police arrest 18 members of LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA. Arrested were, José Edgardo Lemus Bárcenas “El Culebra”. El Culebra is one of the main operators for "La Familia” and “Los Zetas" in the southern state of Mexico. Also arrested was Ausencio Nava Martinez. El Culebra stated that he has killed at least 60 people and disposed of bodies by putting them in drums of boiling oil
José Edgardo Lemus Bárcenas “El Culebra” Ecatepec – Dismembered body in plastic bags thrown from moving vehicle onto street
MORELOS Temoac – Unidentified male found murdered/bound hand and foot Cuernavaca – Court rules that “El Ponchis” 14 YO gunmen, will be sentenced to three years in prison for beheading four men. El Ponchis was a member of the South Pacific Cartel (CPS). El Ponchis was arrested in 2010 when traveling to San Diego, California to be with his mother. El Ponchis was born in San Diego, but raised in Mexico by his grandmother
QUINTANA ROO Calderon - Hilario Bastian Moctezuma found murdered/hands and feet tied
This For Official Use Only report is a compilation of extracted translations of Mexican and U.S. open source information and not evaluated intelligence. Use of these news articles/extractions in no way represent the views of the DEA Phoenix Field Division or the Phoenix Strategic Intelligence Group. Open source news articles and titles are sometimes re-captioned and may be shortened during editing to remove unnecessary information.