The Hunt for Nacho Paez
Jan 24th, 2008 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
Lots going on this morning. More than 700 soldiers from the Mexican military are moving throughout Caborca, in northcentral Sonora, right now, an operation that ties back to Alfredo Beltrán Leyva's arrest last Monday in Sinaloa. I'm told they're looking for Nacho Paez, the man who controls the Caborca, Sonora, plaza. Paez runs the plaza for the Beltrán Leyva family. Meanwhile, El Imparcial is reporting that agents from the Federal Attorney General's Office are raiding several properties in Ciudád Obregón, southern Sonora, that belong to an associate of the Beltrán Leyva brothers. And over to the east of me, the Diario de Ciudád Juárez is reporting that there have been six kidnappings reported to police since Jan. 1. Even further east, El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo reports that the city cops have lost their guns to the Feds again. This happens regularly when the Feds move in to see which cops are working for the dark side. And I'm also getting word a California woman was carjacked in Puerto Peñasco a few days ago; her assailants were captured within half an hour and her Nissan Armada was returned to her. Not related to anything on the organized crime levels, but still an interesting tale I hadn't heard anywhere else.-- Michel Marizco
