“Char” for Borderland Beat
This text was translated and reposted from ZETA TIJUANA
The capturing dying of Carlos Manuel Flores Amezcua, deputy director of the Zapopan, Jalisco municipal police, on Monday morning, November 13, in a cafeteria in the identical district, was stunning for the brutality and viciousness with which he was hunted down by his killers, who have been patiently ready for him within the institution. Nonetheless, what shocked officers and inhabitants of the nation, and even overseas, was the participation of two ladies among the many shooters, apparently members of the Jalisco Cartel – New Technology (CJNG).
This isn’t the primary time that feminine assassins have been concerned within the cadres of felony organizations devoted primarily to drug trafficking; there are many precedents within the cells of teams corresponding to Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel and even the Sinaloa Cartel. Ladies who earlier than have been solely concerned in crime as a result of they have been companions or companions of the leaders, later turned meals and cleansing suppliers, accountants and directors. For greater than a decade there have been ladies skilled for the duties of violence, together with ex-police and ex-military ladies.
Flores Amezcua, a police officer recognized for his clear report of service and for having climbed all of the rungs of the Zapopan police station, the place he joined 27 years earlier as a cyclopolice till he turned 1603 – deputy director of operations – by no means imagined he would die the way in which it occurred: by the hands of empowered ladies who carry out the identical capabilities as a person within the assassination, with the benefit that not even an skilled police officer may suspect them.
It was 09:57 hours when the police commander arrived confidently, strolling, to Ganik Café, a small industrial plaza positioned on Patria Avenue nearly on the nook with Beethoven within the La Estancia subdivision of Zapopan. The precise time is supplied by the video surveillance cameras of each the cafeteria and a retailer positioned on the sidewalk throughout the road, which have served the authorities and public opinion to warn of the magnitude of the perverse scheme.
Whereas Carlos Manuel walks on the sidewalk to the doorways of the institution, on the quick entrance terrace there are two tables occupied by {couples}, one on both sides of the central entrance, apparently consuming sizzling drinks. The police chief crosses the world along with his two fingers contained in the pockets of his navy blue Nike sports activities jacket that coated his uniform shirt; he’s additionally carrying his work pants and black patent leather-based footwear, as a result of he likes to put on these footwear. And a cap of the identical sports activities model because the jacket.
Within the terrace space, 03, as he was recognized by his employees, turned curiously for a couple of seconds in the direction of the couple on his left facet and continued strolling the few meters that separated him from the glass door to enter the closed a part of the cafeteria, when the 2 males and the 2 ladies took their weapons out of their garments and baggage to, in a fast motion, shoot the police deputy director with greater than 20 bullets. That is the twenty third policeman killed in Jalisco to this point this 12 months. The execution took solely 20 seconds.
The killers fled operating via the parking space, whereas one of many two ladies, who nonetheless fired two photographs from the inside door of the café on the sufferer, ran on the sidewalk of the plaza in the wrong way to the site visitors of the autos that have been passing via the busy Patria Avenue. There, no less than a fifth individual was seen leaving in a rush, a few of them on foot to board a automotive and two escaped on a meals supply bike.
The municipal president of Zapopan, Juan José Frangie, instantly expressed his condolences via social networks, confirming: “With nice ache, I inform you that this morning our pricey buddy and commissioner of our @PoliciaZapopan, Carlos Flores Amezcua, suffered a cowardly assault that took his life”.
The fallen public servant was dismissed in an intimate tribute within the police company, with the presence of household, pals and his colleagues, removed from the lenses and microphones of the press, which is evaded the knowledge and investigations.
CRIMES BY DESIGN
The primary recognized proof of the presence of feminine assassins within the CJNG got here to gentle in 2013, after a number of of its members have been arrested and implicated in varied murders. One in every of them, nicknamed El Tiliche, revealed the organizational chart that he knew of the clan headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, who was seconded in command by his son Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, El Menchito; his brothers-in-law Los Cuinis, Gonzalez Valencia, within the monetary operation; the regional boss Ivan Cazarin Molina, Twister or El Tanque; then Danny Quintero, the Guadalajara plaza boss; then El Camaron and Ricardo Ruiz Velazco, El Tripa and/or RR.
Reporting to the now well-known RR or Double R, was Ana Karen Bravo Gutiérrez, alias La Loca, La Güera, La Señora and/or La Chiva Loca, who was initially a hitwoman, who was named in varied preliminary investigations for homicides attributed to the CJNG, till she rose to the coordination of transmitting Ruiz Velazco’s orders to hitmen like Jonathan García, Jhon Perro and others who have been concerned within the homicide of the then Jalisco Secretary of Tourism, J. Jesús Gallegos Álvarez, on March 9, 2013. Ana Karen was arrested a 12 months later, aged 21.
The looks of one other cartel hitwoman got here to gentle after the homicide of the previous governor of Jalisco, Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval Diaz, within the early hours of Friday, December 18, 2020, within the restaurant bar Distrito 5 in Puerto Vallarta. The previous governor, who served from 2013 to 2018, was shot when he was coming back from the lavatory to the desk the place he was with three folks, whereas his bodyguards have been ready exterior the institution. In keeping with video surveillance digital camera photographs, a pair approached him to shoot him in a protracted hallway.
Weeks later, the Jalisco prosecutor’s workplace recognized the 2 alleged contributors in Aristoteles’ crime and supplied a reward of 1 million pesos to anybody who supplied info on their identification or whereabouts. The feminine murderer was slim, well-built, about 30 years outdated, with a good complexion and lengthy, dyed blond hair; she was carrying blue denims, a light-colored sweatshirt and comfy trainers. The male gunman, additionally roughly 30 years outdated, gentle brown complexion, quick black hair, was carrying blue denims, black t-shirt and sneakers. By no means arrested, nor his identification revealed. Solely the waiters have been prosecuted for concealment.
On Saturday October 21, 2022, on the Sonora Grill restaurant on Terranova Avenue, between Florencia and Turin within the Providencia neighborhood in Guadalajara, the overall coordinator of the Cupboard of the municipal authorities of Puerto Vallarta and director of the Potable Water and Sewage System, Salvador Llamas Urbina, was shot and killed. Eight to 10 folks participated on this orchestrated crime, amongst them a lady who acted as a companion, however who presumably additionally carried a firearm in her purse. Llamas sat on the desk with two people, one among whom left, whereas the opposite shot him at shut vary. The topic who was with the lady protected the escape of the assassins from the crime scene.
In relation to this crime, the Jalisco prosecutor, Luis Joaquín Méndez Ruíz, acknowledged:
“One of many peculiarities on this case that’s being investigated is exactly the way in which wherein every little thing is designed, how every little thing was deliberate to hold out the crime that we’re investigating”.
Within the streets surrounding the intervention web site there have been quite a few units of the so-called ponchallantas to stop the authorities from following the perpetrators who fled in a number of autos. One of many alleged assailants and a bodyguard of the official, who was additionally a nationwide advisor of the Morena social gathering, have been additionally killed.
The deputy director of the Zapopan Municipal Police, Carlos Manuel Flores Amezcua, was murdered in a cafeteria within the municipality of Zapopan on Monday, November 13.
The then sub-secretary of Safety and Citizen Safety, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, assured that “the modus operandi was just like others utilized in Puerto Vallarta, for instance, the case of the homicide of Aristóteles Sandoval”.
Within the homicide of Carlos Flores Amezcua, Zapopan’s deputy director of operations, on November 13, the 2 feminine assassins, each younger ladies of roughly 30 years of age, have been completely coordinated with their male accomplice. The primary of them, wearing sports activities garments, in addition to the person accompanying her, fired a single-handed shot. She was the one accountable for ending off the general public servant. The second lady was paired with a person, each in informal clothes, and so they fired whereas securing the weapon with each fingers. In each circumstances with dexterity and synchrony.
Sadly, in all these crimes there was no response from the authorities, not even from the bodyguards of the murdered individuals, a lot much less from the C5 City Defend system that’s accountable for monitoring 1000’s of video surveillance cameras put in within the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. Days go by and there’s no info on the criminals who killed Flores Amezcua, nor has the investigation file been prosecuted with a purpose to request any search or different proceedings from the Judicial Energy.
UNSAFE MUNICIPALITY
Regardless of having probably the most acknowledged public safety forces within the nation, the municipality of Zapopan doesn’t escape the intense violence that afflicts Jalisco with homicides, shootings, femicides, kidnappings, lacking individuals and a number of clandestine graves. The presence of organized crime is critical on this district of contrasts, the place on the one hand there are the most effective inns, non-public universities and automotive dealerships, and then again, related belts of distress simply throughout the Periferico ring highway. The households of Rafael Caro Quintero, El Mencho, Chapo Guzman, the Esparragoza, Valencia, Coronel and in different instances the Arellano Felix and Carrillo households have settled right here.
It is sufficient to recall a number of the most related occasions of the three-year time period of Mayor Juan José Frangie, of Movimiento Ciudadano, a celebration that additionally helps the present governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez. On February 8, 2021, a shootout broke out at Los Otates restaurant within the unique space of Andares, between greater than 20 armed topics who took an individual disadvantaged of liberty and one among their hitmen presumed useless within the field of a pick-up truck. On November 16 of that 12 months, in the identical space of Puerta de Hierro, the Secretary of the Navy arrested Rosalinda González Valencia, spouse of CJNG chief Nemesio Oseguera, with out violence.
Because of this motion, in revenge, the felony group picked up two members of the Navy, a person and a lady, inflicting a big deployment of autos and plane of the naval sector, till per week later, the troopers have been discovered alive, mendacity in a vacant lot in Puerto Vallarta. One other scandal erupted on Could 21 after the disappearance of eight younger folks working in a clandestine name middle, operated by the CJNG to commit fraud via time-share negotiations with foreigners. The our bodies of the victims have been discovered dismembered weeks later in a ravine in Zapopan.
On Saturday, September 24, on the well-known Patria Avenue, on the intersection with Gabrielle D’Annunzio, the mayor of Cotija, Michoacán, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, was disadvantaged of her freedom by armed males on the way in which to the lodge the place they have been staying, whereas touring in a rental automotive together with two different ladies, coming from the Andares purchasing middle. She was launched early the next Tuesday morning in Michoacan territory, after receiving threats and alleged administrative requests from the CJNG.
On this case, the C5 video digital camera monitoring didn’t work in actual time both.
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