Colombian Cartel Operatives Detained In Coahuila

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

A code red was activated this weekend by members of the PGJE in Saltillo after two Mercedes Benz refused to come to a stop after coming out of the residential development San Alberto.

Minutes earlier, neighbors from the residential development had reported a white Mercedes, circulating in a 'suspicious' way along with a car of the same make.

Security forces were placed at the entrance to stop the vehicles, but they didn't stop, it was then that a chase began that continued along Pedro Figueroa Boulevard, the road where they were intercepted by members of the Elite Group of the Municipal Police. 

After a routine inspection, the officers found that under the license plate of Coahuila FKG-5757, there was another license place of Coahuila EJN 2779, which proceeded to the questioning of the three suspects (two men and a woman), who assured that the vehicle had been rented in Torreón.

It is presumed that the group, of Colombian origin, allegedly worked for a drug cartel of that country.  After being arrested, members of the attorney general, requested the cell phones of the detainees, and after reviewing the three devices, they found a message received minutes before 15:00 hours, notifying them that the registration number had successfully concluded.

Judging by the authorities, they also found messages with Colombian cartel leaders, which they had received indications of a drug that would be transported, as well as weapons and cash.

The detainees were initially identified as Guadalupe Hernández Espinoza, 38, who said he was from Mexico City; Felipe Emiliano Quintana Cortez, 38, of Tabasco, and Samuel López García, 43, also from Mexico City.

But in the end, they acknowledged being Colombian, when they found out that they were carrying false identifications.  They were made available to the Public Ministry, and the telephones and vehicles were safeguarded by the authorities.

Source:  Revolucion 3.0

Suspect is directly involved with deaths of Adriana Coronado, father, police say

Lucio R. Borderland Beat republished from Click2Houston

Girl watched her father being killed, before being  sexually assaulted and killed

Sheriffs executed a search warrant at the home of a man police called a person of interest in the brutal deaths of Katy teen Adriana Coronado and her father Cesar Coronado.

Police found Jose Solis Jr., 34, to be directly involved with the murders of Adriana and her father. Adriana was found shot to death after her father's body was found burned inside a pickup truck in March.

Solis is accused of helping to transport 16 kilograms of cocaine on commercial buses from Laredo to Houston. He's charged with possession with intent to distribute and conspiring to distribute cocaine.

The faces of a devil and an angel, Solis and Adriana

He was arrested Thursday on a federal drug charge, which is not related to the teen's death or her father, Cesar Coronado. Investigators have not revealed how or why he may be connected to their deaths.

A handcuffed Solis was escorted into the courthouse Monday by several U.S. marshals wearing bulletproof vests, days after agents raided his Magnolia home Thursday and confiscated property to be processed.

Several law enforcement agencies are investigating the teenager's death and are looking at all possible motives, including illegal drug activity.

Solis and another man, Ramon Sanchez, are considered persons of interest in the case, and they have been linked to a drug trafficking ring.

The federal complaint states Solis and Sanchez worked for a drug trafficking organization and that DEA agents had Sanchez under surveillance since February.



Below is a video of Ariana's anguished mother speaking about the murders

The devil's trailer, 29510 Aberdeen Drive, Magnolia Texas

Cocaine was concealed in luggage and transported via bus from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, to Laredo Texas, and on to Houston.

Below is the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint

  Ariana Coronado killing Jose Solis Complaint REDACTED_2449449_ver1.0

Who killed El Montoya and why? the theories

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: Don Carlos, El Montoya, El Artista
Recommendation: See link to article on his assassination

In the primary revision and analysis of the execution of the ex jefe de plaza of  La Paz, Don Carlos aka El Artista, Luis Antonio Montoya Beltran, authorities both Federal and Military suggest that he may have been killed due to treachery, among other causes.

Reporter: Zeta Investigations and photos by Cortesia
In the analysis and revision of the assassination of the drug trafficker and plaza boss for La Paz, Baja California Sur, Luis Antonio Montoya Beltran "El Artista", "Don Carlos" or "El Montoya", according to members of the Group for Coordination of Public Security, there are three hypothesis for what occurred on the morning of the fifth of May in the Arboledas de La Paz Colonia.

1. The principal head of the Beltran Leyva/Los Zetas/Mayo alliance was betrayed and was given up to Sicarios from the Sinaloa Cartel from the organization of capo Damaso Lopez Serrano, El Mini Lic.

2. It was the end of the criminal circle of the capo

3. To open the way for the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion and the Cartel Arellano Felix.



Which ever is the case, the killers could count on at every moment, the protection of agents of the PGJE of Baja California Sur, who can reflect on the attacks of the last few days against official vehicles and the particular houses of experts, agents and commanders of the institution.

All, allegedly linked and related to the execution of the ex head of the organization of "Los Mayitos",
whose attacks leave a possible reason for the homicide.

On the day that he was assassinated, the narco trafficking plaza boss was wearing jeans shorts and deck shoes, he would meet with two agents of the State Ministerial Police.

The he was trapped and assassinated in Calle Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez and Chichen, in the Arbledas de La Paz Colonia, one block from the strategic operations centre, known as the "COE", whose institute specializes in combating narco trafficking; and two blocks further is the offices of the PGJE, where one can find Palemon Alamilla Villeda, and the delegate from the PGR, Ana Luisa Vera Andrade.

According to a report from a specialist, the criminal boss received four shots from a distance of two meters approximately, taking two bullets in the head, and two more in the left side at the top of the ribs.


At the crime scene, according to specialists of the PGJE, they only found one 9mm spent cartridge case, which indicates that the killers fired from a moving vehicle, with the other three shell casings staying inside the killers vehicle.

According to data recovered by Zeta, "Don Carlos" fell with a 9mm pistol in his belt, which he didn't draw as he must have trusted his attackers.

The hypothesis of the crime, was made by Federal authorities and the armed forces, in virtue of the total lack of trust in the PGJE, who could contaminate the investigation, in virtue of the possible suspects linked to the crime who are agents and commanders of the institution; as is the case with the ex sub prosecutor of special investigations, Samgar Salvador Gomez Reves, and the ex chief police dispatcher of the state ministerial police, Bibiano Rigoberto Burgoing Garcia; and the current holder of the same job, Josue Geovanny Zuniga Mendez.

Regarding the crime against the narco trafficker "El Artista", an investigating agent consulted by this magazine said that he was just starting the official investigation into the crime, and admitted that to be vigorous in the new justice system, the process will be complicated, mostly when the weapon used in the killing is tested scientifically to determine who fired the shot against the narco trafficker.

Its worth noting that according to versions of events of some relatives of the deceased, recently Montoya Beltran had been absent from BCS and had been living in Jalisco, because he knew that " some police officers", wanted to kill him on the orders from his enemies, and he had been for several months running his criminal operations from La Paz. (Otis: in many ways he was following in the same manner as Los 28, who's Jefe operates from Tamaulipas).

The Attacks

Around 72 hours after the execution of "El Montoya", on the morning of the 8th of May, two official PGJE vehicles were attacked with Molotov cocktails.

The first event came around 03:20 am, at the house of a PGJE specialist in Calle Peninsular de San Francisco and Calle Peninsular de Portugal in the Peninsular del Sur Fraccionamiento, when a Nissan Sentra, white colored, was found parked in the grounds of the property.

The second took place around five in the morning at the house of the Commander of the State Ministerial Police, Alfredo Aviles in Calles Damiana and Geranios in the Jardines del Sur Fraccionamiento, where a Dodge Ram was parked in a public lot.

The first Molotov attack partially burnt the vehicle, and the second one was destroyed by fire. After the attack, the PGJE announced the opening of two lines of inquiry, about who was responsible for the events, or ordered them.

However, they continue investigating and, four days after, that is to say, the 12th of May, at the close of the edition, the particular house of the ex police chief of dispatch of the Ministerial State Police, Bibiano Rigoberto Burgoing Gracia, was attacked by gunfire around three in the morning in Bahia Campeche and Bahia Banderas #68, in the Paraiso del Sol Fraccionamiento of La Paz.

Click on image to enlarge, area of concern in red box

The attackers shot at his living room, three rounds were deflected by the gate in front of the house, some hit the windows and the trunk of a white Honda CRV.

After the third and last attack, the PGJE staged a press conference, where the Palemon Alamilla Villeda, marked out the principal men he trusted:

"In relation to the informative note that appeared in some electronic media at midday today, about an alleged attack against Bibiano Rigoberto Burgoing Garcia, of whom some media refer to as a functionary of the PGJE, this institution clarifies that said person does not work in any of their areas, as he resigned on the 30th of April of this year with impeachable charcter.

Burgoing Garcia, was in charge of Ministerial Police dispatch, from the 1st of March to the 30th of April.

In equal manner and on the same date, Samgar Salvador Gomez Reyes, who served head of the special investigation unit against kidnapping, also gave his resignation with impeachable character.

It is necessary to emphasize that both of these men had been named in narco mantas linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, who according to the texts, sold them the La Paz plaza for 5 million pesos then reneged on the deal.

"Sangar and Viviano have 5 days to deliver the 5 million we paid them to clean the plaza, you treacherous sons of bitches, answer your blackberries you treacherous rats, atte CDS, said the last manta hung on a bridge close to the Plaza Paseos of La Paz.

Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana

Jalisco to investigate Gerardo Ortiz for links to organized crime

There is an investigation into the alleged links between organized crime and the owners of the property used as a location for his controversial video.

Mexican singer Gerardo Ortíz have been summoned by Jalisco Prosecutor's Office to testify, for the recording of a music video, Gerardo Ortiz Medina could become a suspect on suspicion to have links to organized crime, said the Attorney General of Jalisco, Eduardo Almaguer.

The Attorney General said that Jalisco (PGR) will investigate Gerardo Ortiz, because  the alleged links between organized crime and to know the origin of the funds used to make this video.

Surprisingly, the prosecutor announced the shift taken by investigation for the misuse of police vehicles and police officers involved in the controversial video for the song "You were mine," which was branded as misogynist and abettor to Femicide.


"What we are announcing today is that the investigations on all the participating companies, and the subjects who have been acting on the video, is giving us a very clear indications of the involvement of organized crime and the use of illegal proceeds" said Almaguer.

The state official said that up to today, they have obtained the statement of nine people and have located a number of unregistered companies - allegedly linked to organized crime, who engaged in video production and rental of luxury vehicles, which would have an important relationship with Gerardo Ortiz.

Eduardo Almaguer did not rule out that on this Friday April 22, when he shows up to his concert at the arena of Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, to parties called "Tepabril" Ortiz Medina could be detained to testify before the Public Ministry.

This article was translated from Zeta Tijuana 

Slain Texas Atty of Osiel Cárdenas was warned he was being hunted

Lucio R. Borderland Beat from Dallas Morning News 

A Mexican drug cartel lawyer who was slain by a masked assassin in Southlake Town Square in 2013 was warned prior to the hit that he was in danger, court records said.

Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa received phone calls from “others” warning him that he was being stalked and that he “needed to be on his guard,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua T. Burgess said in court documents filed Monday.

The documents didn't say when the calls were made.

Burgess is asking a judge to allow the information about Guerrero Chapa's fear for his life to be admitted as evidence in the upcoming trial of three men accused of tracking and stalking him.

Guerrero Chapa, 43, was killed shortly before 7 p.m. on May 22, 2013, at the suburban shopping center. A white Toyota Sequoia pulled up behind his Range Rover and a masked gunman stepped out.

The gunman walked to the passenger side where Guerrero Chapa was sitting and shot him multiple times with a 9 mm pistol. His wife, who was loading shopping bags into the vehicle, was not hurt.

The plot to kill Guerrero Chapa began as early as March 2011, shortly before he closed on a $1.2 million house in Southlake, according to the new court filings.

Guerrero Chapa, personal lawyer to Gulf cartel boss Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, was an informant for U.S. law enforcement authorities. Cárdenas is serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. prison.

Guerrero Chapa received calls from “others to warn him that he was in danger because he had been found by people who wanted to kill him,” Burgess said in the documents.

“Immediately after hanging up the phone, he informed his wife he was scared,” the filing said. “He also told her he didn't want to go back to the house.”

Guerrero Chapa told his wife that the people looking for him knew where they lived. “He instructed her to stop using the cellphones they had,” the court filing said. Guerrero Chapa used four cellphones at the time.

The defendants, three Mexican men, are scheduled to go to trial April 25 in Fort Worth.

Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, and his son, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Campano Jr., 32, were arrested in September 2014 near McAllen while trying to cross into the U.S., officials said. They were former police officers in the same suburb of Monterrey, Mexico, where Guerrero Chapa and his family were from.

Ledezma-Cepeda's cousin, Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes, 59, a legal U.S. resident with a green card, was arrested at his Edinburg home.

They were charged with interstate stalking resulting in death and conspiracy to commit murder for hire.

Three others are charged in sealed indictments because they remain fugitives. It's unclear what role they are believed to have played in the murder.

The killers have not been publicly identified or charged.

Another person, who is connected to drug traffickers, tried to get Guerrero Chapa deported to Mexico so he could be killed there, Burgess said in another court filing.

Luis Lauro Ramirez-Bautista was involved in the search for Guerrero Chapa and helped finance the effort, the prosecutor said.

Between November 2012 and January 2013, a drug dealer for Ramirez-Bautista met with Ledezma-Cepeda four times and gave him a total of $38,000, Burgess said.

When he was stopped at the Mexico-U.S. border in March 2011, Ramirez-Bautista told a U.S. border agent that he was looking for Guerrero Chapa.

“He had photos of [Guerrero] Chapa's house, and he told HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] that [Guerrero] Chapa was a drug dealer,” Burgess said in the court filing. “And he told authorities that [Guerrero] Chapa should be deported to Mexico.”

Those statements were designed to “enlist the assistance of the government in returning Chapa to Mexico so that Ramirez-Bautista and others could kill him,” Burgess said.

The murder of Guerrero Chapa was a sophisticated covert operation run by assassins who used surveillance cameras and tracking devices to stalk their victim.

The suspects made several trips across the border to North Texas to stalk Guerrero Chapa while they lived in a rented Grapevine apartment, authorities said. They used at least eight rented and purchased cars. A camera set up in his neighborhood captured Guerrero Chapa driving his Range Rover, which also had a tracking device attached underneath. And cameras were also aimed at the victim's home, officials said.

Ledezma-Cepeda and his son, Ledezma-Campano, had three surveillance tracking devices in their 2012 Volkswagen Jetta when they were arrested trying to re-enter the U.S. in 2014, court records show.

Government authorities have linked the defendants to at least nine other men who were murdered or vanished in Mexico from 2011 to 2014. Some of the murdered men had tracking devices placed on their vehicles by the defendants, prosecutors said in court filings. Others were named in the defendants' emails, records show.

Most recently, Moises Tijerina De La Garza was shot to death in Monterrey, Mexico, on Feb. 23, court documents said.

His contact information had been found in Ledezma-Cepeda's emails, records show. De La Garza was Guerrero Chapa's brother-in-law, 

The defense plans to call nearly 60 witnesses, including federal agents who can testify about Guerrero Chapa's “illegal activities” while he was a U.S. informant, court records show.

Some defense witnesses will testify about how Guerrero Chapa's family was kidnapped and later released based on an agreement with “Mexican drug trafficking organizations.

Slain Texas Atty of Osiel Cárdenas was warned he was being hunted

Lucio R. Borderland Beat from Dallas Morning News 

A Mexican drug cartel lawyer who was slain by a masked assassin in Southlake Town Square in 2013 was warned prior to the hit that he was in danger, court records said.

Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa received phone calls from “others” warning him that he was being stalked and that he “needed to be on his guard,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua T. Burgess said in court documents filed Monday.

The documents didn't say when the calls were made.

Burgess is asking a judge to allow the information about Guerrero Chapa's fear for his life to be admitted as evidence in the upcoming trial of three men accused of tracking and stalking him.

Guerrero Chapa, 43, was killed shortly before 7 p.m. on May 22, 2013, at the suburban shopping center. A white Toyota Sequoia pulled up behind his Range Rover and a masked gunman stepped out.

The gunman walked to the passenger side where Guerrero Chapa was sitting and shot him multiple times with a 9 mm pistol. His wife, who was loading shopping bags into the vehicle, was not hurt.

The plot to kill Guerrero Chapa began as early as March 2011, shortly before he closed on a $1.2 million house in Southlake, according to the new court filings.

Guerrero Chapa, personal lawyer to Gulf cartel boss Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, was an informant for U.S. law enforcement authorities. Cárdenas is serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. prison.

Guerrero Chapa received calls from “others to warn him that he was in danger because he had been found by people who wanted to kill him,” Burgess said in the documents.

“Immediately after hanging up the phone, he informed his wife he was scared,” the filing said. “He also told her he didn't want to go back to the house.”

Guerrero Chapa told his wife that the people looking for him knew where they lived. “He instructed her to stop using the cellphones they had,” the court filing said. Guerrero Chapa used four cellphones at the time.

The defendants, three Mexican men, are scheduled to go to trial April 25 in Fort Worth.

Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, and his son, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Campano Jr., 32, were arrested in September 2014 near McAllen while trying to cross into the U.S., officials said. They were former police officers in the same suburb of Monterrey, Mexico, where Guerrero Chapa and his family were from.

Ledezma-Cepeda's cousin, Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes, 59, a legal U.S. resident with a green card, was arrested at his Edinburg home.

They were charged with interstate stalking resulting in death and conspiracy to commit murder for hire.

Three others are charged in sealed indictments because they remain fugitives. It's unclear what role they are believed to have played in the murder.

The killers have not been publicly identified or charged.

Another person, who is connected to drug traffickers, tried to get Guerrero Chapa deported to Mexico so he could be killed there, Burgess said in another court filing.

Luis Lauro Ramirez-Bautista was involved in the search for Guerrero Chapa and helped finance the effort, the prosecutor said.

Between November 2012 and January 2013, a drug dealer for Ramirez-Bautista met with Ledezma-Cepeda four times and gave him a total of $38,000, Burgess said.

When he was stopped at the Mexico-U.S. border in March 2011, Ramirez-Bautista told a U.S. border agent that he was looking for Guerrero Chapa.

“He had photos of [Guerrero] Chapa's house, and he told HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] that [Guerrero] Chapa was a drug dealer,” Burgess said in the court filing. “And he told authorities that [Guerrero] Chapa should be deported to Mexico.”

Those statements were designed to “enlist the assistance of the government in returning Chapa to Mexico so that Ramirez-Bautista and others could kill him,” Burgess said.

The murder of Guerrero Chapa was a sophisticated covert operation run by assassins who used surveillance cameras and tracking devices to stalk their victim.

The suspects made several trips across the border to North Texas to stalk Guerrero Chapa while they lived in a rented Grapevine apartment, authorities said. They used at least eight rented and purchased cars. A camera set up in his neighborhood captured Guerrero Chapa driving his Range Rover, which also had a tracking device attached underneath. And cameras were also aimed at the victim's home, officials said.

Ledezma-Cepeda and his son, Ledezma-Campano, had three surveillance tracking devices in their 2012 Volkswagen Jetta when they were arrested trying to re-enter the U.S. in 2014, court records show.

Government authorities have linked the defendants to at least nine other men who were murdered or vanished in Mexico from 2011 to 2014. Some of the murdered men had tracking devices placed on their vehicles by the defendants, prosecutors said in court filings. Others were named in the defendants' emails, records show.

Most recently, Moises Tijerina De La Garza was shot to death in Monterrey, Mexico, on Feb. 23, court documents said.

His contact information had been found in Ledezma-Cepeda's emails, records show. De La Garza was Guerrero Chapa's brother-in-law, 

The defense plans to call nearly 60 witnesses, including federal agents who can testify about Guerrero Chapa's “illegal activities” while he was a U.S. informant, court records show.

Some defense witnesses will testify about how Guerrero Chapa's family was kidnapped and later released based on an agreement with “Mexican drug trafficking organizations.

"El Cenizo" leader of Los Caballeros Templarios arrested in Guerrero

Official sources confirmed the arrest of Ignacio Renteria Andrade, "El Cenizo", he was the last main objective of the Knights Templar Cartel and was arrested in the state of Guerrero, as it was published by news portal Quadratin.

Unofficially it was learned that Renteria Andrade was located by members of the Navy and Federal Police after an operation in Guerrero, which also managed to capture several of his cronies, but they did not determined the number or the identity of those arrested.

According to the same source, "El Cenizo" was transferred to the 43rd Military Zone, located in the town of Apatzingan, where he is expected to be brought to the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City , to be questioned by federal authorities.

Ignacio Andrade Renteria was one of the main leaders of the Knights Templar cartel and was a fugitive after the arrest of Servando Gomez "La Tuta", and the death of Nazario Moreno "El Chayo" and Kike Plancarte.

This article was translated from Excelsior