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[*] posted on 4-29-2008 at 08:19 AM
Seized weapons linked to crimes throughout Baja


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Seized weapons linked to crimes throughout Baja


Rivals fight over 'control of region'
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

April 29, 2008

TIJUANA – Weapons seized after shootouts between rival gangs that claimed at least 13 lives have been linked to eight other high-profile crimes in Tijuana, Rosarito Beach and Ensenada, authorities said yesterday.

Those crimes include last month's killings of two Mexican migrant protection officers in Tijuana's Colonia Libertad neighborhood near San Ysidro, an assassination attempt in December on Rosarito Beach's police chief, and the November theft from Ensenada's morgue of the body of a drug trafficker killed during the Baja 1000 off-road race.
During a news conference yesterday in Tijuana, state law enforcement officials offered some new details about Saturday's gunbattles, the deadliest in recent years. Federal authorities have taken over the investigation because it involves organized crime. They offered no information.

State authorities said the shootings started about 1:40 a.m. Saturday in eastern Tijuana, when gunmen fired at a line of late-model vehicles parked along Bulevar Insurgentes, a major thoroughfare. It led across town to a private clinic in Colonia Herrera where injured suspects opened fire a half-hour later on members of the Baja California State Preventive police who had followed them, authorities said.

The Mexican media speculated that feuding cells of the Arellano Felix cartel carried out the bloodshed.

Baja California's attorney general would not discuss specifics. “What we can say is that there was a confrontation between criminal groups,” Rommel Moreno Manjarréz said. “The why . . . has to do with control of the region.”

Moreno would neither confirm nor rule out that police officials could be among the suspects, nor would he say whether any of the 22 vehicles seized had been connected to any law enforcement agency, but said nine had been reported stolen in California.

Moreno said said his agency has documented 13 deaths but there could be more. Only one has been identified so far: Juan Carlos Ramos Cortéz. Authorities have found no criminal record for him or any information connecting him with a police agency.

Ten suspects were in custody yesterday, including Andrew Armando Cordova, 21, a U.S. citizen born in Los Angeles, the Baja California Attorney General's Office said. Two other suspects have U.S. criminal records for possession and sale of marijuana, the office said.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20080429-9999-1m29tjshoot.html




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[*] posted on 4-29-2008 at 10:50 AM


How convenient. One incident of two factions of the AFO interfighting each other in public and now all the crimes of baja have been solved! Of course some of the men involved were cops- the Rosarito second-in-command was the one fingered for trying to assisinate his boss.

The only Baja crimes not solved in this news article were the kidnappings. But just last week the Mexican Army hostage negotiators were the ones accused of actually doing the kidnappings in TJ! It's one-stop shopping: They kidnap you, they negotiate with your family for your release and then they let you go- how efficient and convenient.
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[*] posted on 5-1-2008 at 07:05 AM


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How convenient. One incident of two factions of the AFO interfighting each other in public and now all the crimes of baja have been solved! Of course some of the men involved were cops- the Rosarito second-in-command was the one fingered for trying to assisinate his boss.

The only Baja crimes not solved in this news article were the kidnappings. But just last week the Mexican Army hostage negotiators were the ones accused of actually doing the kidnappings in TJ! It's one-stop shopping: They kidnap you, they negotiate with your family for your release and then they let you go- how efficient and convenient.


The gov of Mexico is more interested in the perception of crime than in the solving of those crimes.

A few weeks ago in Todos Santos the politizi caught a couple of tweekers and claimed that they were the ones responsible for all of the burgerlies in town... And I quote "we have caught the burgerlers" ....well, of course that was a simplistic assumption .... and we have since had even worse incidents.

Monday night there will be a meeting at the Cultural Central at five pm to discuss our mini crime wave.

I encourage all to attend ... the last time a meeting was held not many showed up .... we need an active neighborhood watch ...

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