Anonymous - 11-19-2004 at 09:08 AM
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20041119-9...
By Anna Cearley
November 19, 2004
TIJUANA ? Five suspected members of the region's top drug-trafficking organization were captured by state agents Wednesday night.
The detainees, who include a city police officer and a former officer, were flown to Mexico City to face further interrogations, a common practice for
people suspected of ties to Mexico's most powerful drug traffickers.
State authorities said the five were part of an enforcement cell for the Arellano F?lix drug cartel, which is said to control most of the flow of
drugs through Tijuana into the United States.
The detained men included Luis Enrique Garc?a G?mez, 32, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa. State authorities identified him as the personal bodyguard of the
cartel's former top leaders, Benjam?n and Ram?n Arellano.
Benjam?n Arellano is in prison, facing organized crime charges. Ram?n was killed in a shootout with police in Sinaloa.
The others arrested are Jos? Gabriel Demetrio Hern?ndez Rodr?guez, 31, of San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato; Jaime Lara Borjas, 35, of Tijuana; Tijuana
city police officer Omar Garc?a Terrazas, 33; and Juan Manuel Mart?nez Ramos, a former city police officer.
The armed men were driving through the streets of Tijuana about 8 p.m. Wednesday when someone tipped off state police, who pursued the men. Inside the
cars, state investigators found numerous cellular phones, police credentials and radios with police frequencies. They also confiscated five guns,
including several assault weapons.
Under interrogation, the captured men confessed to participating in at least 11 kidnappings and killings, state authorities reported.
Hang um High
Bruce R Leech - 11-19-2004 at 12:56 PM
and slow
Mexican police detain group accused of killing for Mexican drug cartel in Tijuana
Anonymous - 11-19-2004 at 05:02 PM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 19, 2004
TIJUANA, Mexico ? Five men accused of working together as assassins for a major Mexican drug trafficking organization were captured Friday in
connection with at least seven homicides and five kidnappings, state prosecutors announced.
The suspects, who included one current and two former municipal police officials, were captured outside a local business they apparently were planning
to rob, according to the state attorney general's office in Baja California state, which includes Tijuana.
The reputed leader of the group is Joaquin Torres Pineda, a former Tijuana police officer who was known as "El Robocop" and accused of acting as a
bodyguard to members of the Arellano Felix family. The Arellano Felix cartel is believed to control a powerful and ruthless cocaine and marijuana
smuggling gang based in this crime-plagued city.
Authorities also captured a current police officer, Omar Garcia, and former municipal police officer Juan Manuel Martinez. The final two suspects were
identified as Jaime Lara and Jose Gabriel Demetrio.
Police, who recovered two rifles, three pistols, five bulletproof vests, 11 cellular telephones and five police radios ? and a small mountain of
bullets ? at the time of the arrest, say the Arellano Felix organization paid the group to hunt down and kill enemies.
The detained men also have been linked to the kidnapping of several businessmen in Tijuana.