Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article
[ Subject Matter: Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso
Recommendation: Use the main board search function for "Los 28" and "Los Pepillos"]
The execution of Fanulfo Portillo Lopez, underling of Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", in the exclusive Guadalupe Colonia of Culiacan, Sinaloa, started a new wave of violence in La Paz. August closed with 22 assassinations between drug dealers of the North Zone and the South Zone, and September started with the capture of Sicarios in the service of Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China".
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Reporter: Zeta Investigations
In the last crime map elaborated by Federal and Military Authorities, Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" appears as one of the principal members of Las Furezas Especiales de Los Damaso in Baja California Sur.
The criminal boss, 31 years of age, and originally of El Dorado, Sinaloa, was responsible for the logistics and in charge of recruitment of Sicario's and sending them via sea from Las Arenitas, Sinaloa, to La Paz, in the war that confronts the capos Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic" and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, of the Sinaloa Cartel, for control of the narco trafficking plaza.
According to Federal and Military investigations, the criminal was, at that time, the principal contact for the plaza boss of the South Zone of La Paz, Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres, alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo", who is a protagonist in the struggle between drug dealers, after the execution of the bodyguard of "El Mini Lic", Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera", and since the 31st of July of 2014, allegedly trying to take over the North Zone and take control of all of La Paz.
"La Muneca" didn't know he was being hunted until an armed group of Sicario's from "Los Antrax" found him and killed him.
The killers, from the elite group of capo Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada are the most blood thirsty of the Sinaloa Cartel, they located him around 9;05 pm on Saturday, August the 29th, on Calle Rio San Lorenzo, just 10 meters from the Seat of Government in Sinaloa, which, since the beginning of his administration, has not been used by Governor Mario Lopez Valdes.
The member of "Los Damaso" boarded his vehicle a Nissan Frontier 2016, colored red, with circulation plates UE5759.
He was not armed and just as he arrived at a crossroad of the principal Avenida of Culiacan, known as Alvaro Obregon, he was attacked by Sicario's.
At the point of arrival at the corner, where there is an automatic teller located from the bank Banorte, and the building Maria Fernanda in the exclusive colonia of Guadalupe, "La Muneca" was attacked from another car on his left side, a late model car, he died instantly shot ten times in the body and head, according the PGJE, Sinaloa.
The primary reports of the C4 of Culiacan, Sinaloa, they spoke about an armed attack against a person inside Starbucks in the Guadalupe Colonia, which is known to be habituated by business men, land owners and the rich.
However when the first patrols arrived, it was four blocks away from the address of an Office of Public Security, Preventative Police and Municipal Transit Police of Culiacan, they observed the attacked man inside a red vehicle, at the crossroads of Calles Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon. He was wearing jeans, a red shirt and a Rolex on his right hand.
Photographs obtained by ZETA confirm that "La Muneca" multiple wounds to his head and body, with Forensic staff carrying out test inside the vehicle.
There was a lot of blood, like a hemorrhage. The body was reclaimed immediately by his family from the PGJE of Sinaloa, where "El Muneca" is seen driving his car from east to west, and all of sudden is caught up by a dark colored pickup truck, when a rifle is levelled out of the window and fires more than ten shots into the driver of the red vehicle, which with its residual speed carried on until it crashed at the intersection of Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon.
At the scene of the crime, the State Prosecutor found 12 spent cartridges of 7.62 x 39 mm calibre and among the belonging of "La Muneca", a series of identifications in the name of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez, who crime, according to agents investigating this case, is an important member of Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso, and a hard hit for the plaza boss of Los Cabos, Javier Lopez Rivera or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", in virtue of them being colleagues.
The investigations
Even given the current level of violence, no functionaries of the PGJE in Sinaloa consulted by ZETA, wanted to speak publicly about the case, one of the investigating agents confirmed the identity of the criminal cell of capo Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", and according to its modus operandi, and evidence collected in the zone, all point to the attack had been carried out by the armed group "Los Antrax", whose vigil, patrol, and protect the territory under their dominion, and the Guadalupe Colonia, is one of their territories in Culiacan.
The agent practically ruled out that they would investigate the execution of "La Muneca", because he was a member of a criminal organization: and we don't investigate that as that is the work of the PGR.
The hypothesis that the agents have until the close of this edition, is that the Sicario's of "Los Antrax" were hunting "La Muneca", because they knew in which vehicle he was travelling, and when he was going to pass their way, he was allegedly travelling South to North, coming from El Dorado, nearly 70 kilometers from Culiacan, and took the coastal highway towards the Guadalupe Colonia.
Even though they don't yet know for certain to which address he was headed, research agents, were collecting data to see if there are people linked to the wave of violence in La Paz, from "Los Damaso" are living in this Colonia, which according to the latest crime map drawn up by Military and Federal Authorities are:
The wave of violence
The assassination of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" in Culiacan, Sinaloa, caused almost immediately a new wave of violence in La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Only a few hours after his execution, Sicario's of Las Fuezas Especiales de "Los Damaso" attacked the drug dealer Guillermo Eduardo Armenta Morales "El Toro", when they saw him on the Calle Mar Caribe corner with Miramar in the Miramar Colonia of the South Californian capital.
According to witnesses, the drug dealer was accompanied by Jose Maria Valdez, they had left to go to a OXXO convenience store, then a white Toyota Corolla repeatedly appeared, and from which someone fired at him with a 9mm pistol. He received two bullets in the head and one in the chest, meanwhile Jose Valdez had a bullet fragment graze his arm.
Because of the gravity of his wounds, "El Toro" was transported to "Juan Maria de Salvatierra", but he died while receiving attention in the emergency room.
One day after, a new armed attack shook the inhabitants of the Los Olivos Colonia of La Paz, when sicarios attacked a couple driving on Avenida Padre Kino and Calle Nicolas Bravo.
The two victims, identified as Juan Manuel Amezcua Lara "El Chilango" and his wife, Nayla Daniela Placencia Rodriguez, driving aboard their van when they were attacked by an AK47 assault rifle, receiving multiple shots to the head and body, dying instantly inside their vehicle.
According to the PGJE, two more people were injured in the attack, they were exiting the Vetenary Surgery Mundi Mascotas and were trapped in the cross fire.
The injured are Fernando Leonel Mucino Juarez, 32 years old, and Maria Goria Salgados Monroy, 65 years of age who received a bullet wound in the left thigh and another in the right thigh. They are categorised as collateral damage in this narco war.
According to the primary investigations, the armed attack was perpetrated in the North Zone by Sicario's of Las Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso".
But most of these Sicarios soon flee and hide, rather than receive the response in kind by assassins of the armed group "Los Antrax", who, according to the primary investigations, made their debut by attacking one of the supposed thugs of "Los Damaso".
The hitmen had recently arrived from Sinaloa said a member of the Group for Coordination, who arrived in the South Zone and shot at a supposed sicario who at that moment was in the service of the killer Simon Guillermo Hernandez Pena "El Simon" or "El Sepulturero" or "The Gravedigger".
Because of the secrecy surrounding the investigation, the name of the thug was not revealed, according to the PGJE, they are investigating Lozano Vargas for the execution of the drug dealer "La Gely", which occurred on the 12th of August in Calle Degollado and Bonifacio Salinas Leal, in the Guerrero Colonia of La Paz.
The physical characteristics of the Sicario and the characteristics of the vehicle he was in that gave out the shots, coincides plainly with the witness testimony taken during the investigation, whose data, at the close of this edition, corresponds to that given by the PGJE.
The night of the attack, witnesses said they had seen the Sicario of "El Simon" aboard a vehicle with three other men and a woman, when their vehicle was hit by a Toyota Tacoma, gray colored, whose occupants opened fire on the driver killing him instantly and wounding the others.
The women who had been in the front passenger seat, was gravely injured and remained in the vehicle, the other men all injured crawled out of the car apparently injured and fled the zone as best they could, one of them hopping away.
The woman who was apparently the partner of the Sicario driving, and whose name has not been revealed by the case investigators, by virtue that they were not carrying any identity, and nobody had reclaimed the body of the Sicario, died in the Hospital she was taken to while receiving treatment.
One day after, when the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, rendered his third Governmental report, spoke of the presumed reduction in violence by 22% in some regions, where all was returning to tranquility, the Sicarios of the FEDD returned and killed another drug dealer inside his house on Calle De Justicia, in the Diana Laura Colonia of La Paz.
At the close of this edition, three Sicario's from the criminal cell of the Chief of Sicarios for FEDD, Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China", were captured after they killed a 46 year old drug dealer, originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and left gravely hurt another in Calle Colima and Avenida Forjadores in the Bellavista Colonia of La Paz.
The attack was carried out with AK47's, AR15's and 9mm pistols which were analysed and tested positive in ten recent murders carried out in the last few weeks.
After perpetrating the attack, around 11.07 am, the killers fled aboard a white Chevrolet car, which the PGJE found when it passed the Burger King in Avenida Forjadores.
According to a video captured by a video aficionado, Police blocked the way after recognising the vehicle, and the occupants of the vehicle opened fire on the Police, shooting low the rounds bouncing of the tarmac, the occupants passed the Police who gave chase.
At the time the PGJE called for reinforcements from the Municipal Police, Preventative Police, Federal Police, Mexican Army and Marines: the chase finished at a safe house in Calle Alga Marina and Opalina in the Las Americas Fraccionamiento of La Paz.
After arriving at the safe house, the Sicarios left their vehicle and ran, then turned and again started firing at the Security Forces of the three levels of Government. They fired nine shots at special investigators of the Attorney Generals Office.
The Sicario's of "La China" entered the safe house and barricaded themselves inside, Security Officers surrounded the house and asked the Sicario's to surrender, otherwise they would be killed.
After half an hour, two of the three Sicario's gave themselves up voluntarily, the man left in the house moved to the roof and commenced firing on the Security Forces with an AK47, they immediately returned fire and wounded him, they then exploited the situation and captured him, he was then taken to the cells of the PGJE.
The detained are:
After their capture, the detainees complained that "La China" had brought them there on false pretenses, they had been promised a good salary but had not received anything, they stated that "La China" was hidden in a department of Bahia Conception and Bahia de los Muertos, in the Fovissste Colonia of La Paz.
However, and for the umpteenth time, "La China" was warned and fled, leaving the vehicle she had been using to travel around La Paz, a gray colored Toyota Sedan with tinted windows.
After a meeting of the Group for Coordination of Public Security of Baja California Sur, the authorities determined to initiate a new pursuit of "La China", and for who they are offering a reward for information leading to her capture.
The operations of the four cells of the FEDD, and the alleged arrival of an armed group of "Los Antrax" to Baja California Sur, worsened the violence during the month of August, which ended with 22 killings, of the 157 reported in this drug war, which began on July 31st of 2014 with the death of "Pantera".
Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana
[ Subject Matter: Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso
Recommendation: Use the main board search function for "Los 28" and "Los Pepillos"]
The execution of Fanulfo Portillo Lopez, underling of Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", in the exclusive Guadalupe Colonia of Culiacan, Sinaloa, started a new wave of violence in La Paz. August closed with 22 assassinations between drug dealers of the North Zone and the South Zone, and September started with the capture of Sicarios in the service of Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China".
Reporter: Zeta Investigations
In the last crime map elaborated by Federal and Military Authorities, Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" appears as one of the principal members of Las Furezas Especiales de Los Damaso in Baja California Sur.
The criminal boss, 31 years of age, and originally of El Dorado, Sinaloa, was responsible for the logistics and in charge of recruitment of Sicario's and sending them via sea from Las Arenitas, Sinaloa, to La Paz, in the war that confronts the capos Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic" and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, of the Sinaloa Cartel, for control of the narco trafficking plaza.
According to Federal and Military investigations, the criminal was, at that time, the principal contact for the plaza boss of the South Zone of La Paz, Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres, alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo", who is a protagonist in the struggle between drug dealers, after the execution of the bodyguard of "El Mini Lic", Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera", and since the 31st of July of 2014, allegedly trying to take over the North Zone and take control of all of La Paz.
"La Muneca" didn't know he was being hunted until an armed group of Sicario's from "Los Antrax" found him and killed him.
The killers, from the elite group of capo Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada are the most blood thirsty of the Sinaloa Cartel, they located him around 9;05 pm on Saturday, August the 29th, on Calle Rio San Lorenzo, just 10 meters from the Seat of Government in Sinaloa, which, since the beginning of his administration, has not been used by Governor Mario Lopez Valdes.
The member of "Los Damaso" boarded his vehicle a Nissan Frontier 2016, colored red, with circulation plates UE5759.
He was not armed and just as he arrived at a crossroad of the principal Avenida of Culiacan, known as Alvaro Obregon, he was attacked by Sicario's.
At the point of arrival at the corner, where there is an automatic teller located from the bank Banorte, and the building Maria Fernanda in the exclusive colonia of Guadalupe, "La Muneca" was attacked from another car on his left side, a late model car, he died instantly shot ten times in the body and head, according the PGJE, Sinaloa.
The primary reports of the C4 of Culiacan, Sinaloa, they spoke about an armed attack against a person inside Starbucks in the Guadalupe Colonia, which is known to be habituated by business men, land owners and the rich.
However when the first patrols arrived, it was four blocks away from the address of an Office of Public Security, Preventative Police and Municipal Transit Police of Culiacan, they observed the attacked man inside a red vehicle, at the crossroads of Calles Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon. He was wearing jeans, a red shirt and a Rolex on his right hand.
Photographs obtained by ZETA confirm that "La Muneca" multiple wounds to his head and body, with Forensic staff carrying out test inside the vehicle.
There was a lot of blood, like a hemorrhage. The body was reclaimed immediately by his family from the PGJE of Sinaloa, where "El Muneca" is seen driving his car from east to west, and all of sudden is caught up by a dark colored pickup truck, when a rifle is levelled out of the window and fires more than ten shots into the driver of the red vehicle, which with its residual speed carried on until it crashed at the intersection of Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon.
At the scene of the crime, the State Prosecutor found 12 spent cartridges of 7.62 x 39 mm calibre and among the belonging of "La Muneca", a series of identifications in the name of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez, who crime, according to agents investigating this case, is an important member of Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso, and a hard hit for the plaza boss of Los Cabos, Javier Lopez Rivera or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", in virtue of them being colleagues.
The investigations
Even given the current level of violence, no functionaries of the PGJE in Sinaloa consulted by ZETA, wanted to speak publicly about the case, one of the investigating agents confirmed the identity of the criminal cell of capo Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", and according to its modus operandi, and evidence collected in the zone, all point to the attack had been carried out by the armed group "Los Antrax", whose vigil, patrol, and protect the territory under their dominion, and the Guadalupe Colonia, is one of their territories in Culiacan.
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The agent practically ruled out that they would investigate the execution of "La Muneca", because he was a member of a criminal organization: and we don't investigate that as that is the work of the PGR.
The hypothesis that the agents have until the close of this edition, is that the Sicario's of "Los Antrax" were hunting "La Muneca", because they knew in which vehicle he was travelling, and when he was going to pass their way, he was allegedly travelling South to North, coming from El Dorado, nearly 70 kilometers from Culiacan, and took the coastal highway towards the Guadalupe Colonia.
Even though they don't yet know for certain to which address he was headed, research agents, were collecting data to see if there are people linked to the wave of violence in La Paz, from "Los Damaso" are living in this Colonia, which according to the latest crime map drawn up by Military and Federal Authorities are:
- Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo", drug trafficking plaza boss in the South Zone of La Paz.
- Alejandro Sanchez Trejo "El Frane" or "El Frank" or El Peinado", responsible for the finances of the operation in La Paz.
- Edgar Amilcar Acosta Reyes "El Rayo", armed wing of "Los Damaso" in La Paz.
- Wenceslao and Valerio Portillo Lopez, and Luis Gonzalez Portillo "El Barbas", brother and cousins of "La Muneca", and part of the logistical planning for the organization of "El Mini Lic".
The investigating agent consulted by ZETA considered that "the violence caused by the narcos that live in La Paz could arrive in Culiacan", above all, because, with the case of "La Muneca", it is being found that the main guys responsible for the armed conflict in La Paz, are hiding out in Sinaloa, and via cell phones, have ordered kidnappings, executions, dismembering and burial of their victims, believing they are safe in that state, when they are fully exposed to assassination.
"We see it with Ranulfo Portillo Lopez and even though in Culiacan its only one more of many criminal cells of "Los Damaso", its a visible head for their opponents, in this case, those of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and everyone knows that Culiacan is the dominion of "Los Antrax", they have hunted out one, they will continue to go for the others", said an element to ZETA.
The same version of events is coincidentally given by a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security in Baja California Sur, in respect of that " after the execution of Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera" in La Paz, on the 31st of July 2014, the principle heads of Los Damaso ran from La Paz to Sinaloa, and they hid there, and via cell phone, ordered criminal operations in the war for control of the drug trafficking against the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
A member of the Institutional Group, with wide experience said "its evident that with the execution of "La Muneca", apparently a new strategy is appearing with the criminal cells of "El Mayo", who are hunting the heads of the cells who are causing the violence in La Paz, in Culiacan, also preventing them sending weapons, dealers, and sicarios, and nipping in the bud any logistical support, and create a climate favourable to their side, and stop the war that has being going on for more than a year now.
With a foot in both camps of the Military and Federal Authorities, a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security of Baja California Sur, revealed that there had been a recent re-arrangement of Los Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso" after the capture of "El Simon", where "La Muneca" had recruited 12 sicarios who had been sent to La Paz, distributed to four cells of killers, headed respectively by "Los 28", "La China", "El Cochi" and "Los Pepillos".
Previously "La Muneca" was working for the Los Cabos plaza boss, Javier Acosta Lopez, or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", as part of Los Damaso, who have been confronting the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
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"We see it with Ranulfo Portillo Lopez and even though in Culiacan its only one more of many criminal cells of "Los Damaso", its a visible head for their opponents, in this case, those of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and everyone knows that Culiacan is the dominion of "Los Antrax", they have hunted out one, they will continue to go for the others", said an element to ZETA.
The same version of events is coincidentally given by a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security in Baja California Sur, in respect of that " after the execution of Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera" in La Paz, on the 31st of July 2014, the principle heads of Los Damaso ran from La Paz to Sinaloa, and they hid there, and via cell phone, ordered criminal operations in the war for control of the drug trafficking against the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
A member of the Institutional Group, with wide experience said "its evident that with the execution of "La Muneca", apparently a new strategy is appearing with the criminal cells of "El Mayo", who are hunting the heads of the cells who are causing the violence in La Paz, in Culiacan, also preventing them sending weapons, dealers, and sicarios, and nipping in the bud any logistical support, and create a climate favourable to their side, and stop the war that has being going on for more than a year now.
With a foot in both camps of the Military and Federal Authorities, a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security of Baja California Sur, revealed that there had been a recent re-arrangement of Los Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso" after the capture of "El Simon", where "La Muneca" had recruited 12 sicarios who had been sent to La Paz, distributed to four cells of killers, headed respectively by "Los 28", "La China", "El Cochi" and "Los Pepillos".
Previously "La Muneca" was working for the Los Cabos plaza boss, Javier Acosta Lopez, or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", as part of Los Damaso, who have been confronting the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
The wave of violence
The assassination of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" in Culiacan, Sinaloa, caused almost immediately a new wave of violence in La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Only a few hours after his execution, Sicario's of Las Fuezas Especiales de "Los Damaso" attacked the drug dealer Guillermo Eduardo Armenta Morales "El Toro", when they saw him on the Calle Mar Caribe corner with Miramar in the Miramar Colonia of the South Californian capital.
According to witnesses, the drug dealer was accompanied by Jose Maria Valdez, they had left to go to a OXXO convenience store, then a white Toyota Corolla repeatedly appeared, and from which someone fired at him with a 9mm pistol. He received two bullets in the head and one in the chest, meanwhile Jose Valdez had a bullet fragment graze his arm.
Because of the gravity of his wounds, "El Toro" was transported to "Juan Maria de Salvatierra", but he died while receiving attention in the emergency room.
One day after, a new armed attack shook the inhabitants of the Los Olivos Colonia of La Paz, when sicarios attacked a couple driving on Avenida Padre Kino and Calle Nicolas Bravo.
The two victims, identified as Juan Manuel Amezcua Lara "El Chilango" and his wife, Nayla Daniela Placencia Rodriguez, driving aboard their van when they were attacked by an AK47 assault rifle, receiving multiple shots to the head and body, dying instantly inside their vehicle.
According to the PGJE, two more people were injured in the attack, they were exiting the Vetenary Surgery Mundi Mascotas and were trapped in the cross fire.
The injured are Fernando Leonel Mucino Juarez, 32 years old, and Maria Goria Salgados Monroy, 65 years of age who received a bullet wound in the left thigh and another in the right thigh. They are categorised as collateral damage in this narco war.
According to the primary investigations, the armed attack was perpetrated in the North Zone by Sicario's of Las Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso".
But most of these Sicarios soon flee and hide, rather than receive the response in kind by assassins of the armed group "Los Antrax", who, according to the primary investigations, made their debut by attacking one of the supposed thugs of "Los Damaso".
The hitmen had recently arrived from Sinaloa said a member of the Group for Coordination, who arrived in the South Zone and shot at a supposed sicario who at that moment was in the service of the killer Simon Guillermo Hernandez Pena "El Simon" or "El Sepulturero" or "The Gravedigger".
Because of the secrecy surrounding the investigation, the name of the thug was not revealed, according to the PGJE, they are investigating Lozano Vargas for the execution of the drug dealer "La Gely", which occurred on the 12th of August in Calle Degollado and Bonifacio Salinas Leal, in the Guerrero Colonia of La Paz.
The physical characteristics of the Sicario and the characteristics of the vehicle he was in that gave out the shots, coincides plainly with the witness testimony taken during the investigation, whose data, at the close of this edition, corresponds to that given by the PGJE.
The night of the attack, witnesses said they had seen the Sicario of "El Simon" aboard a vehicle with three other men and a woman, when their vehicle was hit by a Toyota Tacoma, gray colored, whose occupants opened fire on the driver killing him instantly and wounding the others.
The women who had been in the front passenger seat, was gravely injured and remained in the vehicle, the other men all injured crawled out of the car apparently injured and fled the zone as best they could, one of them hopping away.
The woman who was apparently the partner of the Sicario driving, and whose name has not been revealed by the case investigators, by virtue that they were not carrying any identity, and nobody had reclaimed the body of the Sicario, died in the Hospital she was taken to while receiving treatment.
One day after, when the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, rendered his third Governmental report, spoke of the presumed reduction in violence by 22% in some regions, where all was returning to tranquility, the Sicarios of the FEDD returned and killed another drug dealer inside his house on Calle De Justicia, in the Diana Laura Colonia of La Paz.
At the close of this edition, three Sicario's from the criminal cell of the Chief of Sicarios for FEDD, Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China", were captured after they killed a 46 year old drug dealer, originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and left gravely hurt another in Calle Colima and Avenida Forjadores in the Bellavista Colonia of La Paz.
The attack was carried out with AK47's, AR15's and 9mm pistols which were analysed and tested positive in ten recent murders carried out in the last few weeks.
After perpetrating the attack, around 11.07 am, the killers fled aboard a white Chevrolet car, which the PGJE found when it passed the Burger King in Avenida Forjadores.
According to a video captured by a video aficionado, Police blocked the way after recognising the vehicle, and the occupants of the vehicle opened fire on the Police, shooting low the rounds bouncing of the tarmac, the occupants passed the Police who gave chase.
At the time the PGJE called for reinforcements from the Municipal Police, Preventative Police, Federal Police, Mexican Army and Marines: the chase finished at a safe house in Calle Alga Marina and Opalina in the Las Americas Fraccionamiento of La Paz.
After arriving at the safe house, the Sicarios left their vehicle and ran, then turned and again started firing at the Security Forces of the three levels of Government. They fired nine shots at special investigators of the Attorney Generals Office.
The Sicario's of "La China" entered the safe house and barricaded themselves inside, Security Officers surrounded the house and asked the Sicario's to surrender, otherwise they would be killed.
After half an hour, two of the three Sicario's gave themselves up voluntarily, the man left in the house moved to the roof and commenced firing on the Security Forces with an AK47, they immediately returned fire and wounded him, they then exploited the situation and captured him, he was then taken to the cells of the PGJE.
The detained are:
- Hugo Omar Soto Duran "El Oso", 34 years old, originally of Sinaloa
- Jesus Armando Salazar Velazquez "El Gasparin" or "El Espartano", 19 years old, from El Dorado, Sinaloa.
- Francisco Javier Mendoza Perez "El Tontin" or "El Chivo", 30 years old and native of Culiacan, Sinaloa.
- Two AK47 assault rifles
- One AR15 assault rifle
- Three 9mm pistols, made by Glock, Beretta, and Taurus
- An assault rifle magazine for the AK with 27 rounds in.
- A tactical jacket, black in color, with six magazines with 173 rounds of .223 ammunition.
- A tactical jacket, green colored, with four magazines with 108 rounds of 7.62 x 39 mm ammunition for the AK
- A Chevrolet Cruce, colored white.
After their capture, the detainees complained that "La China" had brought them there on false pretenses, they had been promised a good salary but had not received anything, they stated that "La China" was hidden in a department of Bahia Conception and Bahia de los Muertos, in the Fovissste Colonia of La Paz.
However, and for the umpteenth time, "La China" was warned and fled, leaving the vehicle she had been using to travel around La Paz, a gray colored Toyota Sedan with tinted windows.
After a meeting of the Group for Coordination of Public Security of Baja California Sur, the authorities determined to initiate a new pursuit of "La China", and for who they are offering a reward for information leading to her capture.
The operations of the four cells of the FEDD, and the alleged arrival of an armed group of "Los Antrax" to Baja California Sur, worsened the violence during the month of August, which ended with 22 killings, of the 157 reported in this drug war, which began on July 31st of 2014 with the death of "Pantera".
Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana