Perdón, Sorry About That
Apr 2nd, 2009 | By Michel Marizco | Category: Organized Crime
Email
Facebook
Twitter 
Delicious 
Stumble This Post 
Buzz This Post 
Digg This Post
THE BORDER REPORT
Guess that schmuck arrested in Mexicali last weekend wasn’t the interesting Alberto Beltrán Leyva, after all. But that didn’t stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office from holding the poor bastard for seventeen hours in custody. The doctor, a resident of Mexicali for 20 years, was arrested by U.S. port officials last Friday evening when he tried to enter the United States.
What astounds me is that the port inspectors had nothing else to go off of other than his name, which matched that of Mario Alberto Beltrán, brother to “El Mochomo” Alfredo, and capo, “Barbas” Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
Did they really think a man as wanted as a Beltrán Leyva would try using a visa under his real name to enter the U.S.? Apparently, creepily so, they did. Everyone was so convinced it was the real Beltrán brother that SIEDO officials from Mexico City had him on a plane down to the federal district within hours. Then a DNA comparison with Mochomo negated the arrest.
“I thought my life was ruined,” the doctor told Mexicali newspaper, La Cronica.
I’m a little surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Last year, the FBI’s Federal Screening Center declared that the United States has placed 400,000 names on its terror watch lists. But the list included Nelson Mandela, Sen. Ted Kennedy, federal air marshals and lots of people named Robert Johnson. Some 53,000 of those were the real deal.
The good doctor has my sympathies. A few days before he was arrested, yours truly was detained at the San Ysidro port of entry when an agent at the secondary inspection station thought I’d been referred over to him for a check. The situation started calmly enough, then fell apart and a desmadre ensued when the inspector thought I’d taken off the yellow sticker that refers you to secondary. Lots of yelling, lots of shouts of “Empty your pockets!” “Turn around!” “What the hell are you doing?!” (okay, that one came from me).
Thankfully, a supervisor finally walked over to see what the ruckus was all about and determined I wasn’t trying to pull a fast one.
But now I’m curious; what’s happened to you when you’ve tried to cross into the U.S. or into Mexico?
That’s really very horrible for the poor doctor.
Beltran is kind of a common name around there (68 Beltrans in the phone book in Yuma, 94 in El Centro). I wonder if they give the same level of hassle to anyone who happens to be born a Beltran?
I also wonder if the government can force anyone to take a DNA test.
[Reply]
You know how great is the family Beltran, whole towns exist that are familiar of them.
I have 10 broters and sisters in United States and 15 in mexico and many primos and tios and they have many sons and daughters.
cities as culiacan, Guadalajara, Durango, tepic have been founded by beltranes
this family is enormous.
why you think they are named the mochomos because they are many.
[Reply]
Looks like Mexico is getting it together, soon there will be nothing to write about, oops thats happening now.
[Reply]
I got harassed at secondary because I pulled over to use the restroom. I ran back to my truck & one of the agents caught me & slammed me against the hood. 7 more agents came out & started shouting & asking why I was running. Finally the guy at the front desk came out & said that I used the restroom & that I was okay to go. But I was searched, shoved around & threatend if I ever did that again, I would be arrested. Welcome to California!
[Reply]
yeah Tiburon, but you forgot to tell us that they did find 2 grams of coke in your pocket remember?, but not enough to prosecute you.
[Reply]
DICEN QUE AGARRARON A DOS ZETA’S EN LA PLAZA DE DE EL MARQUITOS, AYA EN EL SHARKO PRIETO, A.P.?
[Reply]
In English?
[Reply]
10 broders in US and 15 in Mexico????… I assume that there wasn’t any TV or any other kind of fun!.
[Reply]
Que chihuahuados dices chale?
[Reply]
what many people say when talking about “make” too many chamacos.
I have an uncle who had 12 children with different viejas and that was the usual question my mother used to ask him for another kind of fun! hahahahaha….
[Reply]
Wow, my crossing was boring. The officers were decent, and soon enough I went to a little restaurant across the way and had a beer and some tacos …
[Reply]
boring can be good…………
[Reply]