Borderland Beat-Translated by Siskiyou Kid
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35 years of age, Dorian had entered the prison on September 23, 2009. He was arrested by elements of the army along with four other accomplices at a meth lab located at Estacion Rosales, in Culiacancito. They seized vehicles, weapons and 80 kilograms of crystal meth.
He left through the main door when relatives of the inmates left the prison after a weekend of visits, in the midst of the excitement of the new year and found encouragement from the change of government. But with a predetermined destination: on December 18 of that year he died when he was treated at a clinic after being injured along with his girlfriend, Claudia Ochoa Félix , when they returned from a narcofiesta.
Claudia Ochoa Félix [Above left], the notorious buchona and celebrity, was injured but recovered, and then established a relationship with Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, el Chino Ántrax.
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A tunnel 400 meters long was built from the outside inward and more than 400 tons of soil were removed that slowly disappeared without the authorities noticing anything. However, no one has said with certainty whether Adelmo Niebla González and his two bodyguards went around or through the main door, with the help of the guards.
When the guards had finished going through the inmate list at four o'clock in the afternoon, Adelmo Niebla González and his two bodyguards were already breathing clean air in a safehouse somewhere in Culiacán.
When the guards reported the absence of three inmates, they shouted an alarm and began to count cell block 8. That is where Adelmo and Ramón Ruiz Ojeda were asigned. Then they reviewed cell block 5, where Adrián Campos Hernández lived, another of the escapees.
They found nothing abnormal, except that none of the three appeared. Then they gave notice to the Federal Police. The three imates were charged with crimes against health [drugs], and organized crime.
They were usually found in the courtyard of module 8, but that evening, as it was his custom, Niebla González, nicknamed el Señor, had gone to rest in cell block 5, where he had bought a room and had arranged to bring it up to his level: A double bed, a 42 inch flat screen TV, computer, minibar, surveillance cameras, and air conditioning.
That cell has a history, because it is enabled another inmate who escaped January 3, 2011, this being the first escape of a criminal: Dorian Trinidad León Angulo.
When the guards had finished going through the inmate list at four o'clock in the afternoon, Adelmo Niebla González and his two bodyguards were already breathing clean air in a safehouse somewhere in Culiacán.
When the guards reported the absence of three inmates, they shouted an alarm and began to count cell block 8. That is where Adelmo and Ramón Ruiz Ojeda were asigned. Then they reviewed cell block 5, where Adrián Campos Hernández lived, another of the escapees.
They found nothing abnormal, except that none of the three appeared. Then they gave notice to the Federal Police. The three imates were charged with crimes against health [drugs], and organized crime.
They were usually found in the courtyard of module 8, but that evening, as it was his custom, Niebla González, nicknamed el Señor, had gone to rest in cell block 5, where he had bought a room and had arranged to bring it up to his level: A double bed, a 42 inch flat screen TV, computer, minibar, surveillance cameras, and air conditioning.
That cell has a history, because it is enabled another inmate who escaped January 3, 2011, this being the first escape of a criminal: Dorian Trinidad León Angulo.
35 years of age, Dorian had entered the prison on September 23, 2009. He was arrested by elements of the army along with four other accomplices at a meth lab located at Estacion Rosales, in Culiacancito. They seized vehicles, weapons and 80 kilograms of crystal meth.
He left through the main door when relatives of the inmates left the prison after a weekend of visits, in the midst of the excitement of the new year and found encouragement from the change of government. But with a predetermined destination: on December 18 of that year he died when he was treated at a clinic after being injured along with his girlfriend, Claudia Ochoa Félix , when they returned from a narcofiesta.
Claudia Ochoa Félix [Above left], the notorious buchona and celebrity, was injured but recovered, and then established a relationship with Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, el Chino Ántrax.
The News is followed by missteps
The news of the triple escape on Monday May, 26 ran like wildfire, because police began spreading a rumor that Inés Coronel Aispuro, one of the in-laws of Joaquin Guzmán Loera, el Chapo had escaped. Ríodoce published the wrong version and the news was taken up by local and national media until it was contradicted by the Ministry of the Interior through a Tweet: "it is false that (Coronell) has escaped from a prison in Sinaloa," the message said. And he added that Inés Coronel is prisoner in a federal facility in Hermosillo, Sonora.
After hours of soul searching, the Ministry of public security sent out a communiqué which reported that after a revision of the prison, they had confirmed the escape of three inmates, one of them, Adelmo Niebla Gonzalez, who is prosecuted for offenses of possession of firearm for the exclusive use of the army and crimes against health [drugs]; also his co-defendant Ramón Ruiz Ojeda, of the same module, for the crime of possession of firearm used exclusively by the army. Both were transferred to Culiacán from Prison number 3 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and remanded December 14, 2013.
It was also reported that upon reviewing cell block 5, it showed the absence of Adrián Campos Hernández, who was finishing a sentence of 15 years in prison on charges of possession of firearms, weapons hoarding and possession of cartridges, as of February 23, 2009.
The news of the triple escape on Monday May, 26 ran like wildfire, because police began spreading a rumor that Inés Coronel Aispuro, one of the in-laws of Joaquin Guzmán Loera, el Chapo had escaped. Ríodoce published the wrong version and the news was taken up by local and national media until it was contradicted by the Ministry of the Interior through a Tweet: "it is false that (Coronell) has escaped from a prison in Sinaloa," the message said. And he added that Inés Coronel is prisoner in a federal facility in Hermosillo, Sonora.
After hours of soul searching, the Ministry of public security sent out a communiqué which reported that after a revision of the prison, they had confirmed the escape of three inmates, one of them, Adelmo Niebla Gonzalez, who is prosecuted for offenses of possession of firearm for the exclusive use of the army and crimes against health [drugs]; also his co-defendant Ramón Ruiz Ojeda, of the same module, for the crime of possession of firearm used exclusively by the army. Both were transferred to Culiacán from Prison number 3 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and remanded December 14, 2013.
It was also reported that upon reviewing cell block 5, it showed the absence of Adrián Campos Hernández, who was finishing a sentence of 15 years in prison on charges of possession of firearms, weapons hoarding and possession of cartridges, as of February 23, 2009.
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The history of "El Señor"
It was at the time of his arrest, in September 2012, when the criminal history of Adelmo Niebla González became apparent. He was 51 years old when he was captured by federal police in Culiacán and was presented as one of the main operators of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He had an alias: Guillermo Nieblas Nava.
Along with Niebla Gonzalez they arrested Javier Alonso Fuentes Tostado - nephew of the legendary Pablo Tostado - and seized three AR-15 rifles, 490 grams of cocaine, two vehicles and communications equipment.
At his presentation in Mexico City, the Federal Secretariat of public security (SSP) reported that the detainee was responsible for the transfer of marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin, in the municipalities of Puerto Peñasco, General Plutarco Elías Calles and San Luis Río Colorado, and the counties of Maricopa and Casa Grande, in Phoenix, Arizona.
In a statement, police said that according to their investigation, Niebla González, originally from Tamazula, Durango, was also responsible for trafficking weapons that entered Mexican territory.
His area of operations for committing illegal acts, they said, also included the cities of Mexicali and Tijuana, Baja California, as well as having a presence in Culiacán, Sinaloa and Tamazula Durango. During his activities he maintained a close collaboration with Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, el Macho Prieto.
It was reported that for more than 20 years he was established in Sonoyta Sonora, where his criminal career began by crossing migrants illegally in the border area to United States; act for which he was arrested on several occasions and deported to Mexico.
In 2002 he was held at the Center for Social re-adaptation of Nogales Sonora, for crimes against health and organized crime; in 2006 he met Mario Aguirre Avilés El 9-9, one of the main operators of Ismael Zambada García - killed by the army on the night of May 5, 2007 — and under his command he moved drugs to the United States.
Niebla González formed his own criminal group called the Memos and settled in Sonoyta, where he sent drug shipments to the U.S., to become one of the leading operators and trusted people of 'el Chapo'.
In 2008 he was consigned to the State Center of Social rehabilitation of the State of Durango on charges of possession of a firearm, but was released on bail and newly dedicated himself to the transit of drugs.
It was at the time of his arrest, in September 2012, when the criminal history of Adelmo Niebla González became apparent. He was 51 years old when he was captured by federal police in Culiacán and was presented as one of the main operators of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He had an alias: Guillermo Nieblas Nava.
Along with Niebla Gonzalez they arrested Javier Alonso Fuentes Tostado - nephew of the legendary Pablo Tostado - and seized three AR-15 rifles, 490 grams of cocaine, two vehicles and communications equipment.
At his presentation in Mexico City, the Federal Secretariat of public security (SSP) reported that the detainee was responsible for the transfer of marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin, in the municipalities of Puerto Peñasco, General Plutarco Elías Calles and San Luis Río Colorado, and the counties of Maricopa and Casa Grande, in Phoenix, Arizona.
In a statement, police said that according to their investigation, Niebla González, originally from Tamazula, Durango, was also responsible for trafficking weapons that entered Mexican territory.
His area of operations for committing illegal acts, they said, also included the cities of Mexicali and Tijuana, Baja California, as well as having a presence in Culiacán, Sinaloa and Tamazula Durango. During his activities he maintained a close collaboration with Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, el Macho Prieto.
It was reported that for more than 20 years he was established in Sonoyta Sonora, where his criminal career began by crossing migrants illegally in the border area to United States; act for which he was arrested on several occasions and deported to Mexico.
In 2002 he was held at the Center for Social re-adaptation of Nogales Sonora, for crimes against health and organized crime; in 2006 he met Mario Aguirre Avilés El 9-9, one of the main operators of Ismael Zambada García - killed by the army on the night of May 5, 2007 — and under his command he moved drugs to the United States.
Niebla González formed his own criminal group called the Memos and settled in Sonoyta, where he sent drug shipments to the U.S., to become one of the leading operators and trusted people of 'el Chapo'.
In 2008 he was consigned to the State Center of Social rehabilitation of the State of Durango on charges of possession of a firearm, but was released on bail and newly dedicated himself to the transit of drugs.
400 meters of tunnel
Spectacular escapes had occurred in Sinaloa. In 1991 more than 90 prisoners escaped from the Mazatlan jail through a tunnel 90 meters long. Among the escapees was Rigoberto Rodríguez Bañuelos, one of those accused of murdering the journalist Manuel Burgueno Orduño, on February 22, 1988.
But no less dramatic was the escape of nine prisoners on May 5, 2005, when, taking advantage of a "routine" revision, inmates left through the main door dresses as police officers in ski masks. All of the escaped prisoners were tied to the Sinaloa cartel, and among them was Francisco Javier Flores Villarreal, who had participated in the assassination of Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, on September 11, 2004.
But the escape el Señor and his two bodyguards will make history for the length of the tunnel, more than 400 meters built in just two months, a stretch of which passes under a canal, at a depth of 14 meters.
It was the day after the escape that the PGR investigators found the entrance to the tunnel, in cell block 5 of the prison just in back of the suite of Adelmo Niebla, where he had built a small palapa.
The most dangerous inmate are concentrated in cell blocks 5, 8 and 10, most of them sentenced for crimes against health [drugs] and organized crime, and all linked to the Sinaloa cartel, whether they are part of the Joaquín Guzmán, or Mayo Zambada organization.
According to sources from the interior of the prison, Adelmo Niebla Gonzalez controlled cell block 8, and no doubt cell block 5 us still controlled by René Velázquez, el Finix, which belongs to the Group of the anthrax.
The experts of the Federal Public Ministry went in the tunnel and the first thing that surprised them was the depth reaching to the extent that they were advancing. The fence perimeter is eight meters high and the foundations extend seven meters under the ground. The tunnel passed underneath the wall, which is realized through the ditch that opened with a front-loader on the outside of the prison, at the peak of
tower 5.
To go under the fence, the tunnel has a height of 70 centimeters wide and a maximum height of one meter, but experts of the PGR and the firefighters who participated in the research claim that later the height reaches almost 1.70, enough so that a person of average height walk without problems.
The tunnel exited out of the northern side of the prison. Twenty meters ahead of the fence perimeter it tursn to the left and then, in diagonal, it goes to the Luis Donaldo Colosio neighborhood of Aguaruto, until it reaches the ground from where it was built, passing through a vacant lot, crossing a miserable hamlet of agricultural day laborers, and crossing below the a canal as is heads toward the town.
It is presumed that the turn in the tunnel leaving the prison was made in order to avoid a public security state complex recently built in the area.
At a glance one can see for electric power cables, with which its builders used in the digging for tools and fans.
The rush to Colonia Colosio
The Colonia Luis Donaldo Colosio was founded more than 20 years ago, with plots of land that were developed little by little. "Ramiro" = has his house down the street in Luis Donaldo Colosioand, and had an area of 8 by 18 meters, nearly opposite where he lives. Last March a man of 50 years came by to buy the property. He told him that he wanted to build a house for himslef. He offered a hundred thousand pesos [about $8,000] and accepted "Ramiro" accepted the offer. "I'll sign [with the notary]", promised the buyer, whose name he doesn't want to remember.
Immediately the new owner hooked up the power and threw a cinder block fence around the perimeter. The front was covered with used plywood. And he began to work in what they said would be a swimming pool. Residents believed it was or at least so they say. Nobody gives data, nothing, only that they were around ten young people to work and "thrown to the dogs" to girls who passed by there. They arrived in pickup trucks at dawn and went at night. Some say they saw gondolas and others that do not. But extracted land, on the ground there are if anything a ton.
They dug a pit 15 meters of depth and hence went the tunnel towards the criminal. Firefighters who assisted in the monitoring of the work after the flight, say that passing under the canal, tunnel reaches 14 meters in depth.
They made the journey from the gap opened in cell block 5 and arriving at the ground where the tunnel began, they found that it was covered with a sheet of cement. Then they returned and aided by the coordinates, began to search in the area, until they found the location. The work, all a work of engineering, was built in two months. According to comparative calculations, considering different measures in different segments, width and height, to build it has would have taken out more than 400 tons of earth that simply vanished.
Through the door or through the tunnel?
The first version of the Ministry of public security was that the escape occurred through the front door, with the support of the security staff. But the next day the version changed and were told that they could have come out through the tunnel that was discovered.
Until the close of this edition, the PGR, responsible for investigations, had not offered information and still on Friday evening a front-loader made pits and ditches in the prison.
Indeed, of the 73 guards, investigation were instigated against nine of them: Juan Carlos Nataren Ovando, Commander of the Corps of security and custody; Hernán Cruz Acosta, Deputy Commander, second in command. And keeper Ubaldo Meza Osuna, Carlos E. Gutiérrez Cosío, Claudio Simeón Sánchez Paz, Otoniel Cota Castle, José Javier Salazar Armenta, José Manuel Reyes Morales and Eduardo Navarro Contreras.
Some blame has to be a fact of historical magnitude: an operation like this cannot pass unnoticed, inside or outside.
Escape to freedom
In the last ten years at least five tunnels have been detected in the Culiacán prison to facilitate the escape of prisoners.
June 20, 2004. After detecting ground subsidence a tunnel is discovered built from one of the cell blocks.
February 10, 2006. Police discover a tunnel 70 meters long, built from the street in the direction of the prison. The passage was 200 meters from its target.
February 12, 2006. Another underground passage, which was built to prepare an prisoner escape, is located and planned excavations under a watch tower are discovered.
June 25, 2007. They find a tunnel over 40 meters long, and almost seven meters deep, presumably excavated by an inmate from his cell over the course of the previous 7 months.
October 21, 2009. A tunnel is located in the vicinity of theMazatlan jail, 30 meters from the road and 50 meters from one of the surveillance towers, with a length of 450 meters, a depth of little more than six meters, and two and half meters in diameter.
March 11, 2010. Eight inmates escaped through a tunnel built from a workshop of cell block 5 in the Aguaruto prison [Culiacan]. Supplied with electric power, the passage has a length of approximately 15 meters by six meters deep.
July 20, 2012. There is a tunnel that leads to the outside of the Mazatlan jail. It was discovered because the rain soaked the soil and land sank next to the jails cyclone fence.
Spectacular escapes had occurred in Sinaloa. In 1991 more than 90 prisoners escaped from the Mazatlan jail through a tunnel 90 meters long. Among the escapees was Rigoberto Rodríguez Bañuelos, one of those accused of murdering the journalist Manuel Burgueno Orduño, on February 22, 1988.
But no less dramatic was the escape of nine prisoners on May 5, 2005, when, taking advantage of a "routine" revision, inmates left through the main door dresses as police officers in ski masks. All of the escaped prisoners were tied to the Sinaloa cartel, and among them was Francisco Javier Flores Villarreal, who had participated in the assassination of Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, on September 11, 2004.
But the escape el Señor and his two bodyguards will make history for the length of the tunnel, more than 400 meters built in just two months, a stretch of which passes under a canal, at a depth of 14 meters.
It was the day after the escape that the PGR investigators found the entrance to the tunnel, in cell block 5 of the prison just in back of the suite of Adelmo Niebla, where he had built a small palapa.
The most dangerous inmate are concentrated in cell blocks 5, 8 and 10, most of them sentenced for crimes against health [drugs] and organized crime, and all linked to the Sinaloa cartel, whether they are part of the Joaquín Guzmán, or Mayo Zambada organization.
According to sources from the interior of the prison, Adelmo Niebla Gonzalez controlled cell block 8, and no doubt cell block 5 us still controlled by René Velázquez, el Finix, which belongs to the Group of the anthrax.
The experts of the Federal Public Ministry went in the tunnel and the first thing that surprised them was the depth reaching to the extent that they were advancing. The fence perimeter is eight meters high and the foundations extend seven meters under the ground. The tunnel passed underneath the wall, which is realized through the ditch that opened with a front-loader on the outside of the prison, at the peak of
tower 5.
To go under the fence, the tunnel has a height of 70 centimeters wide and a maximum height of one meter, but experts of the PGR and the firefighters who participated in the research claim that later the height reaches almost 1.70, enough so that a person of average height walk without problems.
The tunnel exited out of the northern side of the prison. Twenty meters ahead of the fence perimeter it tursn to the left and then, in diagonal, it goes to the Luis Donaldo Colosio neighborhood of Aguaruto, until it reaches the ground from where it was built, passing through a vacant lot, crossing a miserable hamlet of agricultural day laborers, and crossing below the a canal as is heads toward the town.
It is presumed that the turn in the tunnel leaving the prison was made in order to avoid a public security state complex recently built in the area.
At a glance one can see for electric power cables, with which its builders used in the digging for tools and fans.
The rush to Colonia Colosio
The Colonia Luis Donaldo Colosio was founded more than 20 years ago, with plots of land that were developed little by little. "Ramiro" = has his house down the street in Luis Donaldo Colosioand, and had an area of 8 by 18 meters, nearly opposite where he lives. Last March a man of 50 years came by to buy the property. He told him that he wanted to build a house for himslef. He offered a hundred thousand pesos [about $8,000] and accepted "Ramiro" accepted the offer. "I'll sign [with the notary]", promised the buyer, whose name he doesn't want to remember.
Immediately the new owner hooked up the power and threw a cinder block fence around the perimeter. The front was covered with used plywood. And he began to work in what they said would be a swimming pool. Residents believed it was or at least so they say. Nobody gives data, nothing, only that they were around ten young people to work and "thrown to the dogs" to girls who passed by there. They arrived in pickup trucks at dawn and went at night. Some say they saw gondolas and others that do not. But extracted land, on the ground there are if anything a ton.
They dug a pit 15 meters of depth and hence went the tunnel towards the criminal. Firefighters who assisted in the monitoring of the work after the flight, say that passing under the canal, tunnel reaches 14 meters in depth.
They made the journey from the gap opened in cell block 5 and arriving at the ground where the tunnel began, they found that it was covered with a sheet of cement. Then they returned and aided by the coordinates, began to search in the area, until they found the location. The work, all a work of engineering, was built in two months. According to comparative calculations, considering different measures in different segments, width and height, to build it has would have taken out more than 400 tons of earth that simply vanished.
Through the door or through the tunnel?
The first version of the Ministry of public security was that the escape occurred through the front door, with the support of the security staff. But the next day the version changed and were told that they could have come out through the tunnel that was discovered.
Until the close of this edition, the PGR, responsible for investigations, had not offered information and still on Friday evening a front-loader made pits and ditches in the prison.
Indeed, of the 73 guards, investigation were instigated against nine of them: Juan Carlos Nataren Ovando, Commander of the Corps of security and custody; Hernán Cruz Acosta, Deputy Commander, second in command. And keeper Ubaldo Meza Osuna, Carlos E. Gutiérrez Cosío, Claudio Simeón Sánchez Paz, Otoniel Cota Castle, José Javier Salazar Armenta, José Manuel Reyes Morales and Eduardo Navarro Contreras.
Some blame has to be a fact of historical magnitude: an operation like this cannot pass unnoticed, inside or outside.
Escape to freedom
In the last ten years at least five tunnels have been detected in the Culiacán prison to facilitate the escape of prisoners.
June 20, 2004. After detecting ground subsidence a tunnel is discovered built from one of the cell blocks.
February 10, 2006. Police discover a tunnel 70 meters long, built from the street in the direction of the prison. The passage was 200 meters from its target.
February 12, 2006. Another underground passage, which was built to prepare an prisoner escape, is located and planned excavations under a watch tower are discovered.
June 25, 2007. They find a tunnel over 40 meters long, and almost seven meters deep, presumably excavated by an inmate from his cell over the course of the previous 7 months.
October 21, 2009. A tunnel is located in the vicinity of theMazatlan jail, 30 meters from the road and 50 meters from one of the surveillance towers, with a length of 450 meters, a depth of little more than six meters, and two and half meters in diameter.
March 11, 2010. Eight inmates escaped through a tunnel built from a workshop of cell block 5 in the Aguaruto prison [Culiacan]. Supplied with electric power, the passage has a length of approximately 15 meters by six meters deep.
July 20, 2012. There is a tunnel that leads to the outside of the Mazatlan jail. It was discovered because the rain soaked the soil and land sank next to the jails cyclone fence.