THE BORDER REPORT

Expreso newspaper is reporting this morning that state police cannot identify the author of the confession into Alfredo Jiménez's disappearance.

The confession was signed with the name, Saul Garcia Gaxiola.

There's another Garcia Gaxiola name floating around, down around Ciudád Obregón to be precise.

Rodolfo Garcia Gaxiola, El Chipilón, was a commander with the Mexican Attorney General's Office, gunned down in 1998 by the Arellano Felix brothers.

El Chipilón was no angel; he'd been working for the Sinaloans when he was gunned down. Before that, for El Güero Palma.

His father was Rigoberto Gaxiola Medina, a high-level money-launderer working for Amado Carrillo Fuentes in Sonora in the 1990s. Don Rigo owned several businesses and properties throughout Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona and Hermosillo and Cd. Obregón in Sonora.

In 1997, the U.S. filed a formal complaint against Don Rigo after $184 million that was seized from his accounts managed to disappear. The Mexican Feds declared he had only $16 million in holdings. In 2005, the United States placed him on the Kingpin list, used to signify the most powerful drug lords in the world. In 2007, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in the construction of drug tunnels throughout Sonora into Arizona.

I don't know that the confessor into the reporter's disappearance is related to Chipilón or Don Rigo, but I do find the names interesting.

-- Michel Marizco