Rocky Point Police Chief Gunned Down
Jun 20th, 2010 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
El Imparcial is reporting that Puerto Penasco’s chief of police was gunned down last night along with his bodyguard.
Police chief Erick Landagaray Macías took six AK-47 rounds and his bodyguard another seven. Both men survived and were taken to a hospital in Hermosillo. It’s the third or fourth shooting in that area since last week; there have also been gun battles up the highway in Sonoyta.
Last month, the government of Sonora grew testy with the State Department who had published a warning that armed men were running fake checkpoints on the highway from Sonoyta to Rocky Point. The state government and the American business community in Rocky Point, in their typical fashion, claimed the warnings were not true.
M,
Do you have any more info on the other shootings you mentioned have happened in the last week and the gun battles up in the highway in Sonoyta?
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M,
Someone just posted this info on the Rocky Point forum, do not know if this is “official” as it did not come from a News source, Puerto Penasco has always been a “small” quiet town and has not seen the lash in violence in comparison with other locations, anyone have thoughts on why so much activity now in this area?
1. On June 12, a white 2003 Toyota Sequoia with AZ plates was found on the Sonoyta-Penasco highway with four bullet holes in it. There was no one found with the vehicle, and there were no traces of blood inside it. The vehicle had been reported stolen approximately 8 months ago in Arizona. Authorities surmise that since the theft, it had been used for illicit purposes and that the driver was forced to stop on the highway by a rival, after which he was taken to parts unknown.
2. Yesterday morning, June 18th at 10:30am, a man by the name of Jorge Mitre Bitar Tosen was shot several times as he exited his black Suburban in Sonoyta. This happened practically in front of the hospital and he received immediate medical attention. At this time it appears he will survive the attempt on his life. The assailants got away.
3. Shortly after 3pm on June 18th, Mario Madueno of Puerto Penasco, his brother-in-law and another man were ambushed and killed in the parking lot of an OXXO. The victims were aged 34, 35 and 37, respectively. The shooters, reportedly in a grey Jeep Grand Cherokee, were seen in pursuit of black Jeep Cherokee on their way out of Sonoyta, headed towards Penasco.
4. At 3:30pm June 18th, a black 2001 Jeep Cherokee, presumed to be the one that had been chased by the shooters in the above shooting, was found abandoned and riddled with bullet holes on the highway. Again, there were no traces of blood either in or around the vehicle, leading authorities to surmise that those in the vehicle were forced to leave the scene.
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Hey! Who are you calling not a news source? I wrote and posted that, and last time I checked, my journalism credentials were valid and legitimate. Jackass.
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Marcus Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Very Professional and you have a way with words?
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Wow, connecting fake checkpoints with the chief of police incident…. not even Evel Knievel could have made that jump.
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To R Glover, there really is no reason for name calling, i am surprised and appalled at your behavior, when i said “newsource”, the comments were posted not from a “newspaper” but a forum, last i checked forums were not credited news sources, that is what was meant by that, it was not a disrepectful remark but one that was more to not stir up rumors until I felt i saw an “official” verification…but i see you have taken this out of context and resorted to name calling, i would have expected you conduct yourself in a more professional manner if you are in fact a credited journalist, maybe you could supply us with repetuniable news organization or print magazines that you have wrote articles or worked for…unfortunate you decided to respond in that manner…
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Rosie,
I think you should be careful about complaining about other peoples plagiarism. Please check your own website for plagiarism
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cortezgirl Reply:
July 12th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I see Rosie has chosen not to reply to some posts. That’s hers MO when “caught” in her own circle.
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iIheard (from a hitch hiker that knows things) that this is all tied to money laundering gone wrong.No one knows if the chief was part of it.Most think he was in the wrong place,working the wrong job at the wrong time.
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I would like to read any verified reports of gun battles, shootings, etc on the highway between Sonoyta and Puerto Penasco. You mention “3rd or 4th shooting ‘in that area’ since last week.” Can you please tell who was shot, when, and where “that area” is located? Thank you so much!
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Official Press Release: http://scr.bi/OCVpr
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A friend wrote this from RP:
There is a HUGE Federal Military stop in full operation as I write, 6/21/10 Noonish, close to the entrance to the Pinacate. Fully armed and uniformed military as reported, not Federal or local police. All vehicles are being stopped, people are required to exit the vehicle and it is carefully inspected.
I just drove up Calle 13 and was passed by a convoy of no less than 15 PP Police cars heading down toward the Hotel del Sol and Pinacate Condos. Lights no sirens. Could not see where or if they stopped. I’m heading down there now to see what I can see. Oops where’s the Kevlar !!
OK, time to close the barn door !! Where did that blasted cow get to anyway.
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M,
what are you thoughts on this in reference to who is (sinola etc..) trying to control this particular area in Mexico. I have seen on the internet various reports and maps outlining which cartels control and own specific areas, but i do not recall who might be in current control or wrestling to get control of these western towns.
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Gretchen
Here is another online news source…you can click on Penasco and Sonoyta and they have news reports on the incidents.
http://elsoldecaborca.info/penasco
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We were driving into Rocky Point at about noon on Friday 6/18, and we passed 3 black vehicles on the side of the road pulling out large machine guns from the back of an older model jeep cherokee around kilometer 82. I called the emergency 066, and told them about it. A few minutes later the black vehicles came flying around us chasing newer model white vehicles (all suv’s or trucks). Later that evening we told a restaurant owner we know what we saw, and he happened to see the same thing, but later on around 3:30. He also saw them dragging someone out of one of the vehicles. He turned around and headed back to Sonoyta, but they came charging up behind him, then passed him, so he turned back around and headed to Rocky Point.
I couldn’t believe what I saw, and never have been so scared!
We later heard that 3 or 4 bodies had been found in the desert. Our neighbor in Rocky Point heard that the men we saw may have been undercover federales. Anyone else hear that rumor?
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a new drug cartel is trying to buy the plaza., the negociation gone bad and they are trying to scare the municipal goverment.. like the movie alien vs dpredator.. no matter who wins.. we losee
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About 15 days ago, 7 butchered corpses of mostly younger men were found southwest of Nogales, Sonora at a ranch.
Last week, Nogales, Sonora was flooded with Federales – two busloads. (After the military was more or less ordered out.)
My hunch is (for what it’s worth) is that it’s “La Familia” that’s moving in. The butchered corpses are one of its signatures, I’ve read. And it’s based in Sinaloa, and there have long been rumors that the “highest levels” of the Mexican government favor “La Familia.” As well as the Federales over the military.
Does anyone here know if this is a reasonable “hunch?”
Anyone here know if this is more than a “hunch?”
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YeYo Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Doubt it…La Familia stay in the south and they got enough on thier hands as is..
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YeYo Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 6:05 pm
It seems like inter Sonara beef, but backed by the Sinaloas for the most part..
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laying low Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 am
Anywhere you see problems in Sonora, always look for the usual suspects. There are powers in Sonora that are not afraid to kill. Nothing new, all the usual suspects.
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Thanks, YeYo. But I’m supposing that fact is that no one really knows?
Meanwhile, here’s a link to a podcast from William Flanagan, an investigative journalist at New Yorker magazine. It’s a companion to a 10,000 word piece about “La Familia and is a good summary of the major points Flanagan made in the article.
Scroll down to May 31, 2010 and click on “Listen.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/outloud
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It might be La Familia, but the highest levels of the Mexican Gov’t emphatically DO NOT support La Familia.
La Familia is in a war with the Mexican Federal Police. Their guys ambushed Federal Police last week and
killed at least a dozen of them. I’ll try and find a link to that New Yorker article. Amazing journalism!
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Jack Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 7:27 pm
I have Flanagan’s article here on my desk. I’ll read it again to correct what you think is a misunderstanding.
Good luck on a link to the article itself. Last time I looked, it was reserved only for subscribers.
Could that war with the Federales be the reason why there are so many patrolling Nogales?
Could that indicate that “La Familia” is moving in?
I ask, because Flanagan’s piece reveals an extremely ambitious cartel, one that has virtual control over cities and towns in Michoacán.
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“lies could run round the world before the truth could get its boots on” – Mark Twain
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Does anyone know what is going on in Tijuana i hardly hear any beheadings or killings out of their ever since they captured el teo………….?????
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EL BLAST Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
well their not into that zeta and la familia type of execution..their into the traditional execution ..u know 2 or 3 bullets in ur head..damm i miss those days..anyways..all of tijuana is under the control of ‘ el ingeniero ‘ or el sobrino of the arrellanos brothers..the teo’s and muletas are done for even though their nephews still be murdering a couple people here and their..and el gordo villareal who is the younger brother of el nalgon..he was caught with el tigrillo in his boat a while back..anyways he had a lil breakout with el inge..so basically its like any other plaza en mexico..pero la neta ke tesoro es tijuana..lol.. just think twice before u eat the tacos mannnnn..jajaja
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We were driving back to AZ today, June 21 and we on the highway from R.P to Sonoyta between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. We had a caravan of I believe 4 or 5 large trucks with what appeared to be military uniformed men in them pass us heading south. Front vehicle had some sort of either mounted large gun, or maybe just the guy leaning over the top of the cab was holding the gun. Most guys were masked….pretty intimidating looking…they were driving very fast southbound. I bet this was the trucks that set up the military stop point?
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JrMaFia-
They are either one of 2 things.
1) Broke and dismantled, have no supply chain, and no passage.
2) They got this shit finally figured out, and are smart and making money and staying under the radar, keeping their distance from all this chaos everywhere else.
Who knows…
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JrMaFia Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
AFO is a prime example how this drug war is un winnable they keep killing their members and locking them up and they still doing the same
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This link works:
http://www.technologyinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/SilverorLead.pdf
(Kind of shitty resolution).
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Jack Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:35 am
Thanks, Mickey.
Flanagan’s piece should be “required reading.”
What struck me was how involved “La Familial becomes in the lives of “ordinary people.” Offering, crucial “civic” services that the local, state, and national governments cannot or will not do. Not to mention thousands of well-paid jobs cultivating, producing, packaging, and transporting its products.
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The United States Fedreal Government is pitting & conducting a war in the US borders, using criminals from Mexico that break into the United States against good American BORN citizens. And I’m talking about “True Americans”. Americans that can show proof of the 3 or more generations inside our once precious borders (before the arrival of refugees from ciminal Mexico). American who deserve taxpayer benefits. not dang anchor babies. The anchor babies aren’t “True Americans”.
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YeYo Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Sure buddy,,You should run for president!!! Shane Wayne sounds like a porno actress..I would vote for you.
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Rex Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:43 am
I want to see the full-length movie first.
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YeYo Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Full-lenght??? Sounds like a good title…LoL…Nobody ever watches the hole thing at once anyways.
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Rex Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 5:09 am
But ya’ gotta’ have the full-length or they just kinda’ roll over…..
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the magic negro is not even an american, plus, true americans are not trailer trash, native americans own this land, not a bunch of war mongrels and pedophile drug adicts.
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Any update on the shooting in RP?
What about traveling for the 4th?
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You gotta love AZ and their people..Here is why..
-It is illegal to hunt camels within the state borders.
-In Glendale, Arizona, it is against the law for a car to back up.
-In Hackberry, gargling is prohibited while flying.
-In Nogales, an ordinance prohibits the wearing of suspenders.
-In Tucson, women may not wear pants.
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YeYo Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Theres more..lol
Arizona
. A man can legally beat his wife, but not more than once a month.
. Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony (This goes back in the days of the Wild West).
. Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.
. Donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs.
. Due to a typographical error in the Tempe, Ariz., code, a shooting range can be run by the “Amateur Crapshooting Association.”
. Glendale: Cars may not be driven in reverse.
. Hayden: If you bother the cottontails or bullfrogs, you will be fined.
. Hunting camels is prohibited.
. In 1985, an Arizona legislator proposed that each candidate for the legislature take a reading and an I.Q. test three months before the election. The scores would have been posted on the ballot, had the bill passed. But a majority of legislators, for whatever reason, voted it down.
. In Arizona it is illegal to take naked photographs before noon on Sunday.
. It is illegal for men and women over the age of 18 to have less than one missing tooth visible when smiling.
. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
. It is unlawful to refuse a person a glass of water.
. Maricopa County: No more than six girls may live in any house.
. Mesa: It is illegal to smoke cigarettes within 15 feet of a public place unless you have a Class 12 liqueur license.
. Mohave County: A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
. Nogales: An ordinance prohibits the wearing of suspenders.
. Oral sex is considered to be sodomy.
. Prescott: No one is permitted to ride their horse up the stairs of the county court house.
. There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.
. Tucson: Women may not wear pants.
. When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person posseses.
. You may not have more than two dildos in a house.
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YeYo Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:03 pm
2 dildos??? Really??? Nice to know them AZ brainstormers have their head in the ball game..
Cut Down a cactus mofo and we will put you in jail as longer than we do to rapist..
C’mon Prescot!!! Just let me ride my kuako up them stairs..
Maricopa clearly knows how to do things their is no need for 6 girls under one roof!!!
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Tantos Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Hey, YeYo, do some more research and find out where most of the AZ transplants come from.
Hint: Bears and Cubs fans outnumber the local teams when their teams play away games in AZ.
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YeYo Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Oh, I know that..ja ja..I used to work at a country club as a cady during my early high school years and late middle school before I went on a little state vacation and most of the members had winter homes down there in AZ..I just tought some of them laws where funny the six women one was was repealed not sure about the dildo one though..Part of the reason they outlawed gamefowl sports was because of all them out of state transplants whom have no clue about rural american and hispanic cultural rights..I’m sure some of them old farts down there are just peeved at the fact that they cant take nudiee pic after noon on a sunday..Or some of the rednecks must be outraged that they have to have a full set of teeth..lol
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ilegal Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:41 pm
lmao! that’s some crazy crapshooting.
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That’s the most sensible set of bye-laws I have ever heard of. I am moving to Phoenix.
— What sane man wouldn’t?
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Rosie, where can we read your blog that was quoted?
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Mexico: The Kosovo Next Door.
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YeYo Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Arizona: The Retarded cousin that pees his pants and exposes himself to old ladies…lol..j/k My state is retarded too.
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Fenix Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 pm
That comment was so juvenile. Gheee….
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Frank Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:36 am
At least Yoyo has elevated his comments above his previous Chris Smalldaisy remarks, the vato is an intellectual, que no?
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ilegal Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:33 am
U.S: the Israel next door…
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Michel,
On channel 12 News you said that two gangs were fighting for the plaza. Who are they?
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Why don’t we just give the illegal Mexican’s the state of Arizona, kick them out of the other 49 states, & tell them if they come out of Arizona, we’ll shoot them in the head? Let them have Arizona since they want it so bad, but trap them there & don’t let them.
Illegal aliens are like roaches. The US is infested & needs to be exterminated of these “roaches”. They are pure criminals.
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k Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Well, Az was once part of Mexico… If you want to give it back what would you do with the rest of the illegals? I mean Non mexicans.
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elchilepelais Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:41 am
OK Tough guy. Why doesn’t the U.S. give back what was taken from the Mexicans and what was taken from the Native American(Indians). And go back under the rock they crawled out under from. You sound ridiculous “shoot them in the head”.
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Tantos Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Juan More, that’s already been stated as the goal of the “Aztlan” fanatics. Except the area also includes California, New Mexico, and Texas.
Interestingly enough, many Neo-Nazi groups also advocate “giving” the southwest to hispanics, as well as making the southeast all black. I think they also want to create small pockets strictly for Jews and Asians.
Thankfully there aren’t enough crazy radicals in this country to turn the U.S. into a large version of what was formerly Yugoslavia.
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Great job Border Patrol!
5 Undocumented Immigrants Busted
LAREDO, Tx.- Immigration agents arrested a man that transported 5 undocumented immigrants in a truck. According to reports, a Dodge pick up was pulled over by Police Department officials after detecting that there was no light on the back license plate.
When the officer drew near the vehicle he noticed several passengers that seemes to be illegal immigrants and it was then that he decided to call Border Patrol agents.
Upon interrogating the passengers, they confessed that they were indeed Mexico residents and that they had been hiding in an abandoned house in El Cenizo.
The undocumented immigrants also added that they were picked up by a man that was to transport them to Houston for a payment of $2,000.
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I live 23 miles North of the mexican border. Except for a pocket near Portal crossings are down 50% from 3 years ago (90 near me) i give people a ride all the time when they come up to my ranch…no one has ever caused me a problem.
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Unfortunately there is so much “OUT THERE” to be afraid of but we can’t live our lives hiding in fear of being gunned down while visiting Mexico. Bottom line is we should always be careful and mainly with the company we keep. BY NO MEANS AM I DEFENDING THE COLD BLOODED MURDERERS but from what I have read & heard Drug traffickers aren’t serial killers; they don’t kill for the fun of it. Most cases are a result of retaliation & it’s usually other drug dealers or sadly their family members that are targeted. It seems most of the time (NOT ALWAYS) when it’s a high ranking official that is gunned down it’s because the individual was involved in some way shape or form or some how impacted thier operation in a negative way. I visited Rocky Point a couple weeks ago, will do it again in the very near future and will not hesitate to ever visit it as it is Gorgeous and the people are friendly and the food is great ! Nice cold Dos-Equis on the Beach… MMMMM
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http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm i guess el Chapo is not wanted by the FBI anymore.
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So, we have a trip planned to RP, beginning 7/17 for a week, (staying at Las Palomas)
My wife, 4 kids and I are traveling there. Is it safe to venture down there?
All this crap going on has got me freakin’ out a bit…what to do??
Advice please…thank you
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Jerry Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Don’t worry Barry..this stuff is all part of some Byzantine internal dispute that hasn’t so much as touched an American tourist.
Narcos on all sides have huge bucks invested in RP. Condo development is the perfect money laundering machine .The worst thing that can happen to the mexican economy is to make it hard on a guy with a truckful of dollars to build a bunch of condos for tourists.
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honey bee Reply:
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:46 pm
honestly is affecting all the people., residents and turism., obviously we are scare., but we live here.. we keep inside our houses and not goin out too late at nigth
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i don’t think the racist stuff doesn’t advance this story much ,and makes you guys seem sort of pathetic.You guys next to raise the level of your game (just as mexico will need to do against Argentina)
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