Thread: Headless Bodies Discovered Near U.S. Border

This sounds like Iraq!!! Are the same terrorists in Mexico or so the Mexican gangs do this stuff too? We should not let any of them in our country

I assume it's gangs but I don't care who it is. This is barbaric behavior that we simply cannot allow to become commonplace here.

We've had a few other decapitation stories this year. I have a feeling it won't be the last.


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this is insanity and our own government doesn't seem to care. As long as it's not them getting their heads chopped off.

The San Diego news was just showing a item about a man found shot to death in his car, Encanto area. The police are still investigating so they had little to say and the media even less.
They did show a photo of the car with the mans foot sticking out the drivers window, I'am no CSI expert but I would say this guy was trying to get as far away from the gunman as he could in order to get in that position, another thing the news did not say but I did noticed was the license plate was Baja, Ca.
So it was another Mexican gang hit. At least in my opinion.

Originally Posted by WavTek

Sounds like our friends, south of the border are using Al Qaeda tactics now.

It sure does!

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

This is Gang Rule. The Gangs Rule Mexico and the US too if we dont stop illegal immigration. Coming to a community near you.

Someone remind me to put this on the homepage Friday.

W

Yes, I agree totally. Gangs do rule some areas of CA now, probably other border states as well. I have seen Santa Ana, graffiti everywhere and some areas you don't want to enter. LA is worse. And I remember when both areas were beautiful. Many politicians want to portray poor Juan and Maria working hard to feed their children, etc. but the gangs are another grim side to the situation.
Wake up America or this will be your town/city in the future.

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3 Baja cops, civilian found decapitated; cartels blamed

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 22, 2006

ROSARITO BEACH – The decapitated bodies of three police officers and a civilian were discovered here yesterday morning, and their heads were found hours later in Tijuana in what some see as a particularly grisly message from drug cartels.

“We haven't seen this level and kind of killing before,” said Victor Clark, a Tijuana-based human rights activist who follows crime trends.

The Arellano Félix drug trafficking organization has used Rosarito Beach for years as a place to bring in drugs by land and sea before transporting them through Tijuana and into the United States.

Other groups have been muscling their way into the area, challenging the Arellanos' power in this part of Mexico.

“We are seeing battles over the control of territories and routes . . . and the form of executions becomes more unusual as a way of sending messages that only those who are in the know understand,” Clark said.

The case was turned over to Baja California's organized crime investigations group, which mostly probes drug and kidnapping rings. State authorities provided little information other than saying that the men were abducted Tuesday evening and that their bodies were found the next day.

According to city officials, the abduction took place as two of the officers were investigating a complaint while accompanied by a police officer on leave and a civilian.

It's not unusual for Mexican police near the border to be targeted by drug groups or for authorities to run across mutilated bodies.

But the level of violence and the rank of some of the officers killed is raising questions about the motive. The assailants took pains to dump the heads in Tijuana while leaving the torsos in Rosarito Beach. All of the men's bodies showed signs of having been beaten, according to a news release from the state Attorney General's Office.

According to Rosarito Beach city officials, the three officers are: Ismael Arellano Torres, 36, who had been on work leave because of an injury; Jesús Hernández Ballesteros, 42, who oversaw the commercial police division, which provides protection for businesses; and Benjamín Fabián Ventura, 35, who was a bodyguard for city Public Security Director Valente Montijo Pompa, whose post is similar to that of police chief.

The fourth man was identified by Rosarito Beach city officials as Fernando Avila, 28, of Phoenix. It wasn't clear if he was a U.S. citizen. He had apparently been visiting Montijo and one of the other officers killed yesterday, said Felipe Hernández Villela, a spokesman for the Rosarito Beach city government.

State investigators said the officers were seized while investigating a report of an abduction.

Rosarito Beach authorities, however, said the incident began when the men attempted to investigate a report of armed men in a rural section of the city called Huahuatay.

Hernández said that authorities speaking at a news conference explained how the inactive police officer and Avila became involved:

Arellano had been at the police headquarters with Avila to pick up equipment for his next assignment as a bodyguard. He was scheduled to return to service July 2.

When the call about the armed men came through, the two active-duty officers set off to investigate in their patrol car, and Arellano and Avila tagged along in a separate car, he said. The men were apparently caught by surprise by about 70 people in 40 cars, according to Rosarito Beach city officials.

“They didn't know there were such a large number of cars involved,” Hernández said. “Lots of times, you get calls of armed people and you go out there and it turns out to be a drug addict acting disorderly.”

According to a news release from the city of Rosarito Beach, members of the armed group initially identified themselves as federal agents who had come from Mexico City to conduct a special operation. Criminals here often identify themselves as police, but the Mexican Federal Attorney General's office released a statement saying it wasn't any of its officers.

Around 7 a.m. yesterday, authorities found the bodies of the four men wrapped in blankets and tied with string and binding material, according to the Rosarito Beach news release. The bodies were left on a dirt road behind an auto shop.

Crime experts here have suspected in recent years that a rise in killings in Rosarito Beach – from six 6 in 2004 to 29 in 2005 – is the result of rival groups challenging the Arellanos, who have had ties or understandings with certain high-ranking law enforcement officials to guarantee safe passage of their drugs. That is one of the theories behind the killing last year of the city's top security administrator, Carlos Bowser Miret. Mexican authorities have never fully explained the motive of the crime.

The Arellanos, who have been arrested in greater numbers since 2000, are believed to have ceded control several years ago over eastern Baja California to rival groups, though they are said to be dominant in Tijuana – which rubs shoulders with Rosarito Beach's boundaries.

Hugo Torres, president of the Business Coordinating Council of Rosarito Beach, said it was important for yesterday's killings to be solved.

“We're concerned about this group of criminals that made their presence known in such a strong and ostentatious manner,” he said.

Yesterday afternoon, extra security measures were being taken at Rosarito Beach City Hall, where an officer with an assault rifle stood guard in front of the mayor's office. Meanwhile, the front doors of the Rosarito Beach police station were locked, though workers could be seen inside. A posted sign said the office was closed “for unforeseen circumstances.”

Staff writer Sandra Dibble contributed to this report.


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Anna Cearley: (619) 542-4595; anna.cearley@uniontrib.com

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

This is Gang Rule. The Gangs Rule Mexico and the US too if we dont stop illegal immigration. Coming to a community near you.

Someone remind me to put this on the homepage Friday.

W

You've been reminded.

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Beheading in Rosarito may be linked to Mexico's Elections

Amy Isackson


KPBS SAN DIEGO (2006-06-23)
The beheading of three Rosarito policeman and one civilian earlier this week could be an act of election time cleansing by drug cartels, according to one San Diego academic who has sources close to the action. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has details.

The men were abducted by a heavily armed convoy. The next day, their bodies were found in a vacant lot in Rosarito. Their heads were discovered miles north in Tijuana.

Many say the murders are the latest battle in the drug cartels' war to control key drug smuggling routes.

Jeffery Mc Illwain who studies border security at San Diego State University suspects the violence could also be tied to Mexico's July second elections.

Mc Illwain: "Because there's no civil service protection like we have here in the Unite States, many people that are prosecutors, judges police officials will all lose their jobs or they might have other people who will come in and replace them. As a result of that the cartels that have influence with the incoming regimes or the outgoing regimes may find it necessary to clean house for the individuals they've been working with."

The assault was one of the largest in Baja California history. Amy Isackson, KPBS news.

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Organized crime link probed in deaths


Rosarito officers beheaded last week
By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 30, 2006

TIJUANA – Mexico's top federal prosecutor yesterday said police connections with organized crime may have contributed to the beheadings of three Rosarito Beach police officers last week.

“What we are seeing is that organized crime is penetrating many police groups, and this is the line of investigation that we have,” Mexican Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said during a news conference at the Hotel Camino Real.

Cabeza de Vaca stopped short of saying whether the officers and a civilian who was killed with them were believed to have been involved in organized crime.

The bodies of the four men were found in Rosarito Beach and their heads were found in Tijuana on June 21 in what has been widely interpreted as a sign of rivalries between drug-trafficking groups, who typically form links with certain law enforcement officials.

Five men are being held under house arrest in connection with the crime, according to a statement released this week by the Federal Attorney General's Office, which is overseeing the investigation. Authorities will have 90 days to collect evidence for prosecution.

The five, who are being held on suspicion of organized crime activities, kidnapping and drug-related crimes, were identified as José Joaquín Jiménez Jiménez, José Angel Espinoza Leyva, Miguel Serrano García, Pedro Rodríguez Mejía and Apolinar Ochoa Quiroz.

Organized crime groups, in particular drug traffickers, are suspected of being behind a rash of violence aimed at law enforcement groups in recent months. In April, armed men in Mexicali shot hundreds of times at a convoy of cars carrying Baja California's secretary of public security, Manuel Díaz Lerma, who escaped harm. In May, assailants stormed a Tijuana building where a federal agent was working and gunned him down.

DCabeza de Vaca praised Díaz as someone who is fighting against organized crime. “We are seeing the consequences in this unfortunate incident,” he said.

Cabeza de Vaca came to Tijuana from Mexico City to meet with top law enforcement officials and, notably, citizens groups who have been trying to meet with him since the start of this year.

The meeting came a week after the Rosarito Beach officers were killed, and just days before the presidential elections in which the National Action Party is attempting to retain its hold of the presidency through candidate Felipe Calderón.

Cabeza de Vaca said more federal agents would be sent to Baja California, and that his agency would work with state authorities to come up with an anti-kidnapping program. Many community members here are concerned about a surging kidnapping problem that affects ordinary residents.

The official also said his agency's specialized group that investigates organized crime would open an office in Tijuana, but he provided few details. More information would emerge in upcoming months, he said.

Genaro de la Torre, coordinator with the Tijuana chapter of the Alianza Ciudadana Por La Seguridad, made up of more than 300 nongovernmental organizations in the state, said he welcomed the efforts. Citizens advisory committees and independent civic groups have been taking a larger role in Mexico's development as a modern democracy.

“In this moment, we achieved something that has never been done before – the citizens summoned the attorney general to come and talk with us and realize what we are really going through in this city,” he said. “This used to come through the governor, or whatever person, but not from the ones who were really suffering.”


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