I would feel safer if the local authorites would let us know about local crime closer to when it happens- not deny it isn't happening at all until the
victim is realeased. And people wonder why we feel like prisoners here...
Four suspected drug gang members said to be responsible for kidnappings and at least three slayings in the Rosarito Beach area were captured yesterday
by Mexican soldiers who raided a safe house and rescued a 66-year-old kidnap victim.
The suspects worked for a criminal group that is led by Teodoro Garcia Simental, often known as El Teo, according to a military news release. They
were identiSed as Ramiro Ramirez, 24, Orlando Santolalla, 23, Rodrigo Ramirez, 26, and Ramiro Lopez, 25.
The detentions mark the latest in a series of recent blows against Garcia's group, which has a reputation for brutality and is suspected of conducting
numerous kidnappings for ransom. Two of the suspects allegedly worked directly for a lieutenant in the organization, a former Rosarito Beach police
officer named Angel Jacome Gamboa who was arrested in March.
The soldiers also seized 20 high-caliber weapons, 14,662 rounds of ammunition and three vehicles.
Interviewed at the military base, the kidnap victim said he was working in a restaurant parking lot in Rosarito Beach when he was abducted May 24.
The kidnappers beat him, bound him, cut off a finger on his left hand, and threatened his family, he said.
The victim, a retiree living on a fixed income, said the kidnappers demanded money from his family but he did not know how much.
[Edited on 6-17-2009 by Woooosh]
[Edited on 6-17-2009 by Woooosh]Pollen - 6-17-2009 at 07:58 AM
The victim is a "retiree living on a fixed income"? Is he a US citizen?
Wow. More nasty publicity for Rosarito, northern Baja, and Mexico in general.DENNIS - 6-17-2009 at 08:02 AM
I guess the MO of targeting high value victims has morphed. Seems nobody is immune anymore. What could they possibly see as profitable to snatch an
old man working in a parking lot?Woooosh - 6-17-2009 at 08:15 AM
The followers of El Teo are big on violence, short on brains. They are violent because they like it. The cut off fingers and put bodies in acid
because they like it. These are sick people who torture animals for fun- now grown up and moving on to people. They get their "street cred" from
being more violent than the AFO narcos they killed off to replace. Kidnapping and mutilating poor old men for what?
It's been like this for three or four months now in Rosarito and some parts of TJ. Teo is killing off the local guys who ran every neighborhood and
is putting his people in place. One group moved in three houses away from me last month. Heavily tattooed 300 pound gorillas that share a brain.
Welcome To Rosarito Beach
CaboRon - 6-17-2009 at 09:17 AM
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Originally posted by Pollen
The victim is a "retiree living on a fixed income"? Is he a US citizen?
Wow. More nasty publicity for Rosarito, northern Baja, and Mexico in general.
Woooosh - 6-17-2009 at 09:53 AM
Not really bad- It would have been bad if they had released the name of the Restaurant or the nationality of the victim. Neither of which they will
do.
They pulled those 4 guys out of the Oceanos del Mar condos. That's the gringo condo project built by Mayor Torres.Woooosh - 6-17-2009 at 08:00 PM
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Originally posted by arrowhead
They pulled those 4 guys out of the Oceanos del Mar condos. That's the gringo condo project built by Mayor Torres.
I heard that today also. A ton of weapons and the kidnap vitim in an Oceana condo. I thought the article said "safe house"? That's using the term
loosely, isn't it?
That is the same condo building Torres' assistant was kidnapped from last year. I see those "forclosure" units on Craigslist a lot, at least I think
it's that building. Torres owns the building and the old man was Mexican (with no money)- so no more details I bet.
