El Teo an idiosyncratic Capo

Reporter: Luis Carlos Sainz

The image that drug trafficker Teodoro Garcia Simental once tried to give, in the sense that he is a sensitive man, because in previous years, his jailers have told his children that he is a bloodthirsty capo and complained before various authorities, is distorted by a penitentiary criminological study that ensures that the inmate is manipulative and idiosyncratic.

Teodoro, Diego and or Eduardo Garcia Simental, who is also nicknamed "El Tres Letras", "El Alamo", "El Siete", "El Tomatero", "El Ruben", and "El Rojo", was on September the 20th of 2015 transferred from Alitiplano to Cefereso 11 Hermosillo, and in early 2017, returned to the federal prison at Almoloya de Juarez.

With the study carried out, the prison authorities fought a series of amparo trials promoted by "El Teo", who sought to be released from the Sonora maximum security prison; However, it was proven that the inmate has criminological profile to be in a penitentiary with special characteristics.

The specialist who interviewed the prisoner obtained the legal, psychological, social, educational, medical and safety opinions of the inmate of robust complexion, in adequate hygiene conditions and personal dressing, with suspicious questions of his interviewer though he collaborated.

This man who was a sicario and later cell jefe in the Arellano Cartel Felix, was initially evaluated in the psychological area, where he is described as a "subject that is a person located in space and time, whose memories are conserved, without presence of some alteration in the sensory-perception.

Based on the interview, it was noted that El Teo presents a functional deductive thinking, increased self critical judgment and decreased hetero chromatic mental functions of superior integration on average, during the activity his mood was normal.

The intelligence test showed that El Teo has an average IQ and shows impulsiveness, suspicion, aggressiveness, evasion, opposition and sensitivity to criticism. A questionnaire of 16 factors highlighted the mentioned traits, besides emotional sensitivity, concealment, anxiety and tension.

In criminological dynamics the subjects difficulty is evident for interpersonal relations, being dominant before them, minimizing the consequences.

Made in a urban environment, a high criminological zone, with the presence of criminal-contaminant friends and groups, Garcia Simental was linked to the Tijuana cartel or Cartel Arellano Felix and then to the Sinaloa cartel. As para-social behaviours, the inmate admitted alcohol consumption from the age of twenty and occasional tobacco use. He acknowledged having three gunshot wounds from an assault on him.

El Teo does not recognize the commission of crimes that he is charged with. Their denial is aided by reactive formation, repression and rationalization as a defence mechanism to evade his responsibility, and is manipulative and incoherent during his speech, denoting suspicion.

Specialists diagnosed that, within the group dynamics, the maximum security prisoner adopts a role of emergent leader. His aggressiveness is contained whenever he is in a controlled environment, however, he can externalize it, since his handling of impulses is inadequate, as well as his tolerance to frustration.

He is dangerous, the study stated that Teodoros capacity for discernment is limited. Because of the previous sentence, he is a subject with contaminating criminogenic expansion and a low crime threshold, and shows immutability to social reproach, being skillful and indifferently affective, since it shows few inhibitory brakes, and has been granted multiple disciplinary sanctions in Altiplano, which increases his delinquency nocivility, projecting himself as unimpeachable to the environment where he is, trying to be dominant in order to obtain some kind of benefit to himself, and is notorious for self regulation.

Things that trigger his criminological characteristics, are obtaining economic satisfactors in an easy and fast way, besides his adhesion to a criminological group for a sense of belonging, making him prone to commit criminal acts with greater facility.

Criminologists point out that according to the penitentiary records, El Tres Letras, initially hired as sicario within the AFO, and later transferred to drug trafficking after the arrest of the Arellano Felix brothers, had issues with El Ingenireo and his mother and her sister, took the decision to ally himself with the Sinaloa cartel and the Gulf cartel, causing confrontations between the various organizations.

Family criminological aspects were also highlighted, as the three brothers of El Teo are prisoners in various maximum security prisons. Among them, Marco Antonio Garcia Simental and or Mario Alberto Rivera El Cris, Manuel Garcia Simental, El Chiquilin, and Eleazar, who all played important roles in the CAF, among them payment of payroll to all employees, packaging and protection of cocaine, as well as executions and disappearances of undisciplined persons and enemies.

Criminological Profile of El Teo