Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a milenio article with additional material from youtube
Subject Matter: Sinaloa Cartel, Gente Nueva, La Linea
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Members of Gente Nueva, the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, stormed the village of Gomez Farias in a search for Jose Luis Gonzalez Montes, El 32, but didn't find him during the search of two houses.
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Reporter: Milenio Digital and Juan Jose Garcia Amaro
Members of the Sinaloa Cartel stormed the town of Gomez Farias, Chihuahua in a search for Jose Luis Gonzalez Montes, El 32, leader of La Linea, one of the groups that operate in the state, informed the Prosecutor Cesar Peniche Espejel.
"We know that we have a problem, but it is not exclusive to Chihuahua but is implicated in other states as well, what occurred yesterday in Gomez Farias was the incursion of an armed group in a search for an antagonistic criminal leader", he signalled.
On board various trucks, armed men came into the town, that caused fear for the inhabitants, who abandoned the streets and closed their businesses, they hid until the Police arrived", he pointed out.
The members of Gente Nueva, considered the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, vandalized two municipal patrol vehicles, and wrecked two houses that allegedly belong to El 32, La Linea plaza boss for this area.
The members of the groups made an incursion into Gomez Farias, came across Municipal Police patrols, and after kidnapping them, beat them and let them go.
He added that according to intelligence information, the wave of violence that has been generated is because a criminal group has entered the state to reinforce one of the two organizations that operate in the state, who are disputing for control of drug trafficking in the frontier.
"The person they were searching for is known by the nickname El 32, this subject has moved around various points of the state, and we did not know that he had been here", he said.
He remembered that the said subject had be detained by the Attorney General, but for errors in the judicial system he was set free and lamentably provoked confrontations, like in the case of El Caso de Madera.
Finally, he recounted the deployment of more than 150 agents of the State Commission for Security and of the State Agency for Investigation, as well as a helicopter, to ensure the security of the inhabitants of Gomez Farias.
It is also noteworthy that yesterday they found the bodies of five persons at the entrance to the village of Ignacio Zaragoza and the highway that leads to Gomez Farias. The bodies had signs of torture and gunshot wounds.
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The Municipal President of Ignacio Zaragoza, schools and businesses suspended business after the discovery of the multiple homicides.
These events happened in the middle of a climate of insecurity that for three months has affected the north east regional towns of the state, where advice has been given by the judiciary to not go out at night time.
Subject Matter: Sinaloa Cartel, Gente Nueva, La Linea
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Members of Gente Nueva, the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, stormed the village of Gomez Farias in a search for Jose Luis Gonzalez Montes, El 32, but didn't find him during the search of two houses.
Reporter: Milenio Digital and Juan Jose Garcia Amaro
Members of the Sinaloa Cartel stormed the town of Gomez Farias, Chihuahua in a search for Jose Luis Gonzalez Montes, El 32, leader of La Linea, one of the groups that operate in the state, informed the Prosecutor Cesar Peniche Espejel.
"We know that we have a problem, but it is not exclusive to Chihuahua but is implicated in other states as well, what occurred yesterday in Gomez Farias was the incursion of an armed group in a search for an antagonistic criminal leader", he signalled.
On board various trucks, armed men came into the town, that caused fear for the inhabitants, who abandoned the streets and closed their businesses, they hid until the Police arrived", he pointed out.
The members of Gente Nueva, considered the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, vandalized two municipal patrol vehicles, and wrecked two houses that allegedly belong to El 32, La Linea plaza boss for this area.
The members of the groups made an incursion into Gomez Farias, came across Municipal Police patrols, and after kidnapping them, beat them and let them go.
He added that according to intelligence information, the wave of violence that has been generated is because a criminal group has entered the state to reinforce one of the two organizations that operate in the state, who are disputing for control of drug trafficking in the frontier.
"The person they were searching for is known by the nickname El 32, this subject has moved around various points of the state, and we did not know that he had been here", he said.
He remembered that the said subject had be detained by the Attorney General, but for errors in the judicial system he was set free and lamentably provoked confrontations, like in the case of El Caso de Madera.
Finally, he recounted the deployment of more than 150 agents of the State Commission for Security and of the State Agency for Investigation, as well as a helicopter, to ensure the security of the inhabitants of Gomez Farias.
It is also noteworthy that yesterday they found the bodies of five persons at the entrance to the village of Ignacio Zaragoza and the highway that leads to Gomez Farias. The bodies had signs of torture and gunshot wounds.
The Municipal President of Ignacio Zaragoza, schools and businesses suspended business after the discovery of the multiple homicides.
These events happened in the middle of a climate of insecurity that for three months has affected the north east regional towns of the state, where advice has been given by the judiciary to not go out at night time.