Juárez, Chihuahua: Human Remains Found Inside Trash Bags

Video translation is as follows:

Edgar: Fortunately, as of the close of this edition it has been a relatively quiet day. We go now with the only violent event that has been registered at this time here in Ciudad Juarez. Hugo Argumedo has the details. Good evening.

Hugo Argumedo: Edgar, good evening. The dawn of Tuesday in Colonia Felipe Ángeles a man was shot to death. And his remains were located inside a bag.

Let me explain to you. The deceased so far has not been officially identified. His remains were left inside a bag at the intersection of Calle Ignacio Mejias and Calle Arroyo de las Víboras.

"Rap Bélico" ["Rap War"] a military personnel counter to narco corridos

Chivis Martinez  Borderland Beat  Excelsior 

The authors of “Rap Bélico", have their pages active on different platforms, where they post their music, their lyrics are always exalting of the military or police spirit .

This is from "El Gorrix, el del flow blindado", a musician who identifies himself as a policeman and rapper.

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas: State Police Clash with Cartel del Noreste

Video translation is as follows:

Newscaster: Day 1 of the year and the first shooting of 2020 has already been recorded. This afternoon Tamaulipas State Police clashed with alleged members of the Cartel del Noreste in Nuevo Laredo.

At least 4 criminals died. 2 policemen were injured. These clashes occurred in various parts of the city. There were people who took shelter in shopping centers.

Zacatecas: A CDS vs CDG prison fight leaves at least 16 dead and 5 injured

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  El Pais TY BB Follower for info from LaSillaRota and Arestigui

The fight in a prison in northern Mexico occurred during a sporting event to celebrate the New Year

A year-end sporting event in a prison in northern Mexico ended in tragedy. A fight at the Center for Social Reinsertion (Cereso) of Cieneguillas in the Mexican State of Zacatecas left at least 16 dead and five injured, the State Government Public Security Department said in a statement. The tragedy in this jail in the north of the country on the last day of 2019 adds to the list of incidents of violence and riots in Mexican prisons.

According to local media, the fight originated between rival teams (Sinaloa Cartel members vs CDG members) participating in a football match to celebrate the New Year on Tuesday afternoon. 

Nuevo Laredo: Images from CDN La Furia Negra clash

Yesterday afternoon there was an aggression against elements of the well-known La Furia Negra, [Black Fury] which after repelling the aggression killed 3 hitmen of the Northeast CDN Cartel.

The group known as La Furia Negra  are Special Forces of the Tamaulipas State Police formed targeting drug traffickers.

They are very aggressive and some reports accuse them of extrajudicial executions.

Images from yesterday as published on Valor por Tamaulipas

 images are graphic 

Reynosa: Another carjacking on the Reynosa Hidalgo International Bridge

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  TY Tu Fren  From El Manana

After an oral surgeon was killed during a carjacking while in line at the Reynosa Hildalgo International Bridge, another person was stripped of his vehicle.  This time the victim did not resist, yet he suffered blows from his attackers in spite of his cooperation.

The man was going to the city of McAllen Texas to work, when two men in a Chevrolet S10 truck pulled alongside him, and one man exited the truck shouting at him to get out of his vehicle and he would not be killed.

Frighten, the man complied exiting from his sand colored Chrysler 200 with Texas License Plates.  Although he did not display any resistance the carjacker hit the victim several times in the head with a gun.

The bloodied victim asked for help from occupants of another car who called police, who never arrived.   He then ran to the customs office for help but his attackers were long gone.

Playas del Rosario, Tabasco: The Pelón de Playas Cartel

Video translation is as follows:

Newscaster: Federal and State Police arrested in Jalapa, Tabasco a leader of a criminal group known as the Cartel del Pelón in Playas del Rosario. This man was identified as Trinidad Alberto De La Cruz. He was arrested with 4 of his accomplices when they attempted to circumvent a State Police and National Guard checkpoint.

Happy New Year from The Other Side !

Yaqui for Borderland Beat

                                                     Desde "Las Garras de la Puma"
                              Wishing you all the best this New Year, new decade, will bring.

I will be reporting in from "Otro Lado" which will be infrequent and random depending on where and when I can get a signal in the outback from "El Otro Rancho". Hoping I can report in bearing good news, not bad, but we shall see.  

Much thanks to Chivis, Sol, and all our contributors, readers and commenters. Commenters: Please be easy on Chivis, she will be extra super busy shepherding ya'll through the next few months !

Profepa Finds 6,500 Sea Turtle Eggs Abandoned in Bags

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: ossoaxaca

Inspectors of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Environment (Profepa) found 6,500 sea turtle eggs abandoned in bags, at Morro Ayuta Beach, Oaxaca.

The environmental authorities located four nylon bags, during an inspection and surveillance tour on this beach in the Municipality of San Pedro Huamelula. 

Profepa indicated that the action was carried out in response to the seventh arrival of the Golfina sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivácea) and after the discovery, they carried out the precautionary securance of them. 

"El 14" Arrested of CIDA, Acapulco Independent Cartel

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Debate / Excelsior

"

                             The alleged leader of organized crime in Guerrero was arrested in Oaxaca 

Agents of the Attorney General of the State (FGE) of Guerrero and Oaxaca arrested Irving "N", alias "El 14", designated as the alleged leader of the Acapulco Independent Cartel.

Through a statement, the agency explained that the accused was arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant for the crime of aggravated kidnapping, as he would be responsible for having deprived a woman of liberty in the municipality of Acapulco, Guerrero.

However, Irving, "El 14" is also investigated for his probable involvement in the crimes of homicide and extortion of businesses in the Guerrero port, as well as drug transfer and arms trafficking, the FGE said.

"El Muletas" o "El Mocho" Leader of Los Rojos Captured in Morelos

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Milenio / Infobae

                                   CES arrest the alleged leader of ''Los Rojos'' in Morelos:

Francisco "N", identified as "El Muletas" , "El Chaparro" or "El Mocho" , allegedly exercised the floor and drug transfer.

An alleged regional leader of the Los Rojos crime group  was arrested after confronting police officers from the State Security Commission (CES) and attempting to flee, the agency said. In the community of  Cuautlita , in the municipality of Tetecala, members of the CES intercepted Francisco “N”, 28, identified as El Muletas , El Chaparro  or El Mocho , who was traveling aboard a sand-colored Tsuru vehicle. 

According to the official information, the policemen stopped him when he realized that he was carrying a long gun; However, the now detained decided to flee on the dirt road of Las Calaveras. 

CDMX: 3 Tons of Meth in a Wood Shipment Bound for New Zealand

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: noventadegrados

The National Guard seized approximately 2 , 800 ,800 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in a wooden shipment in Mexico City on Monday.

The operation of the corporation was carried out in parcel centers in the capital of the country in the area of ​​import and export of products that, when scanned, showed proof of being items of doubtful origin. The finding happened on an inspection of four packages of wood that contained a white granular substance and that when tested tested methamphetamine.

Almost 2000 murders in Michoacan from Jan to November in the fight for territory

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   Reforma

The control of criminal groups for the collection of floor in night establishments and the production or sale of drugs, among other crimes, increased violence in several regions of Michoacán, warned commanders of the State and Army Police.

The authorities have placed red spotlights in the area adjacent to the state of Jalisco, in Uruapan and Morelia, in the highway that runs Apatzingán to Coalcomán, and in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas.

The streak of clashes between criminal groups increased the number of victims of malicious homicide by 22.3 percent, from 1,488 to 1,820 people killed between January and November 2018 and 2019, respectively, according to figures from the National Security System Public (SNSP).

Official sources consulted indicated that one of the criminal groups that fights these places is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which began its incursion in Michoacán since 2013, with the lifting of the "self-defense groups" under the command of Juan José Farías Álvarez "Abuelo”.

Son of 'El Chapo' asked FGR to be informed if he is being investigated

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   TY GUS  Jornada

Brother requested files

In the last six months, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) received more than 50 applications through the transparency portal in which various citizens asked to be informed if there are any investigation files against them, or preliminary inquiries, arrest warrants or appearance by the alleged commission of federal crimes.

Among them are Joaquín Guzmán López (son of Joaquín  El Chapo  Guzmán and brother of Ovidio Guzmán); Francisco Álvarez Murphy Alarcón, owner of Grupo Laboratorios Imperiales Pharma, a company that was disabled last August for failing to deliver triple viral vaccines, and a person allegedly related to the late former governor of Puebla Rafael Moreno Valle and who is investigated for operations with resources of illicit origin.

In February of this year, the Deputy Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, Brian A. Benczkowski, and the Special Agent in Charge, Scott Brown, of the Office of Immigration and Customs National Security Investigations at Arizona, announced that Ovid Guzman and his brother Joaquin Guzman were being accused of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana between 2008 and 2018.

Dropping leaflets from a plane, CJNG offers 5M pesos for Don Jose "Dead or Alive"

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  Source

From a plane, on the municipality of San Lucas,  flyers were dropped of which the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) announces a reward of five million pesos, for information of the location of Francisco Maldonado Bustos “Don José”, denounced as leader of the Michoacán Family in the state of Guerrero and its limits with Michoacán.

CJNG offers a reward for “Don José” (“dead or alive”) and 500 thousand pesos for “Charo” “Cirilo "And" Chico ", or as they put it, " brothers of this rat ".

The leaflets have the photo of the alleged criminal leader and at the bottom are the acronyms of the Jalisco Cartel, as well as the National Shield and the acronym of the Attorney General's Office.

In the leaflets it is accused that "Don José" having  betrayed Guillermo Abeja "El Güero" and Francisco Vargas "Paquito", in addition to breaking agreements with the Jalisco Cartel.

Guillermo and / or Gregorio “El Güero” Abeja was an operator in the region between Guerrero and Michoacán, of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, leader of the Gulf Cartel who was extradited to the United States in 2007. He settled in Huetamo and San Lucas and was close Servando Gómez Martínez, "La Tuta", leader of the Knights Templar. Güero Abeja was arrested in August 2013 and sentenced to 32 years in prison.

Timeline: A decade of deadly Mob instability, Hells arrests, corruption

The past decade has not been easy for organized crime groups in Montreal.

There has been deadly instability in the Montreal Mafia, the Hells Angels were arrested en masse and a provincial inquiry showed how organized crime had infiltrated Quebec’s construction industry.

Here’s a brief timeline of the biggest news events since 2010 that involved organized crime in Montreal.

2010

Paolo Renda, brother-in-law of former Montreal Mob boss Vito Rizzuto, is kidnapped. He has not been seen since.

The Señor de los Cielos actor dies

The star, who gave life to the character Juan Antonio 'Marcado' in the third season of the series, died at 41 years of age.

Sebastián Ferrat, recognized for his work in The Lord of the Skies, died at 41 years of age after contracting a bacterium after eating undercooked pork, TVNotas said.

"A big hug all the way to heaven for my dear friend Sebastian Ferrat forever," wrote his colleague Alejandro Sandí.

The actor, who gives life to Juan Antonio Marcado in the third season of the series, had been hospitalized in Mexicali, Baja California, for several months and his family preferred to keep everything secret.

Texas man refuses carjackers demand and loses his life on Reynosa International Bridge

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat material from La Prensa and CBS Austin

An American who was in line to cross the international bridge Reynosa - Hidalgo was murdered by criminals trying to carjack him.

At 5:50 p.m. the report was received by the Red Cross about person shot on the Luis Echeverría boulevard at the height of the Riviera Eventos, about two kilometers from the access to Hidalgo, Texas.

When the ambulance arrived, paramedics pronounced the man dead.

Óscar Manuel Reséndez, a married father-of-two, was returning to his home in Texas, after traveling to the border city of Reynosa where he was visiting his family ahead of the holidays.

The 41-year-old  Endodontics Oral Surgeon, who runs a practice in the state of Tamaulipas, was stuck in heavy traffic with people waiting to cross the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge when multiple gunmen approached his SUV.

"El Charal" Gunned Down in SLRC, Sonora Executed by the Police Who he Hunted

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

He fled Mexicali, Baja California because of the harassment of municipal and state police, who tied  him to the murder of the agent Ignacio Villagómez Robles, which occurred in April of this year. 

José Eduardo Pérez Jiménez, "El Charal",  only crossed the border and took refuge in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, where from June to date he is associated in at least 21 homicides. His reckless way of operating gave him fame and soon he found shelter in criminal groups linked to the Sinaloa Cartel; these behaviors changed for him on December 15, when he died at the hands of police and military who surrounded him in a house.

Despite being a fugitive from justice, Pérez did not cease his criminal activity and after multiple crimes, in addition to the murder of two Sanluisino police, in a few months he became a priority target for the Sonora authorities.

Ensenada BC: A Ton of Mota in Left in Front of Rehab Facility Plus 5 KILOS of Seeds

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta

One package made of cinnamon and transparent tape contained five kilograms  of marijuana seeds which  also secured. Who can guess which one ? I am offering a cut ! Happy New Year !

A ton of marijuana valued at 2 million 889 thousand 675 Pesos was seized by elements of the 67th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, December 22 in the vicinity of San Carlos, Maneadero delegation, in front of the Airport Addiction Treatment Center.

In a statement, the military announced that in the area they had been alerted by an anonymous call that people were deprived of liberty, so soldiers went to Francisco I. Madero Avenue, where they located two vehicles and a couple of men on board.

Mexico's Femicides Double in Four Years

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Milenio

From 2015 until the cut of November 30, 2019, femicides in the country and in the State of Mexico doubled. In addition, this will be the year with the highest number of women murdered in both cases, both for gender reasons and for malicious homicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System. 

NGOs At the national level, for example, of 411 femicides reported in 2015, 890 crimes have already been registered within a month of the end of 2019, that is, more than double. That amount also exceeds 56 the figure reached throughout 2018, which was 834. 

US Wants Top 10 of the Sinaloa Cartel

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Vanguardia / FAS.org

              Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada tops the list, for whom they offer $5 million dollars

The United States government is targeting 10 members of the Sinaloa cartel who have arrest warrants for various crimes, some of whom entered US territory to kidnap and kill citizens of the US, whose bodies of the victims were located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

The information shared with the Attorney General's Office (FGR) places these people in the state of Chihuahua as members of the criminal group Gente Nueva, armed arm of the cartel, which for 12 years has maintained a bloody war with the group of La Linea, from the Juarez cartel, to whom the control of the entity disputes.

According to documents of the Federal Court of the Western District of Texas, 14 of the 24 characters indicated by the Texas prosecutor have been arrested by federal forces or killed in clashes, while others were killed by their rivals.

Cancun: Restaurant commando attack kills 2 wounds 4

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   Reforma 

Two people died and four were injured after the attack of a command in the seafood restaurant "Aca pollo de Cancún", located in the center of that city.

Witnesses said that the armed group entered the premises, located in region 66, a few meters from the El Crucero area, and fired at the people who were there, the Quadratin Agency reported.

The injured were taken to the General Hospital of Cancun.

Three men and one woman were arrested, but it is unknown if they were involved in the incident.

400 kilos of marijuana seized in CDMX

Chivis Martinez  Borderland Beat  Reforma

Mexico City (December 29, 2019).- About 400 kilos of alleged marijuana were seized in Mexico City, capital authorities reported.

The confiscation was carried out in a courier and courier company located in the Azcapotzalco City Hall.

According to police the apparent drug was detected in a randomized review.

In addition, paper money and firearms were found.

According to the first reports, the marijuana was to be sent to Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo.

Elements of the National Guard deployed in the capital of the country, carried out the seizure.