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The rumor floating around these parts is that El Teo has been detained. Teodoro Garcia Simental, the principal rival of the Arellano Felix family in Tijuana, has been waging war in that city for two years. Don't yet know that it's true, but if it is, hijole.
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Is Caborca, Sonora, changing hands? If so, the latest would-be owners want everybody out, the narcos, the cops and the mayors from every town in the Pinacate Desert. And the new guys are backed by Macho Prieto himself, Mayo Zambada's security chief.
What happened here last week was a sheer massacre, the carnage going far beyond what now passes for normal along the Mexican border. (Be warned: Gross).
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Cd. Juárez – A high level cartel figure assassinated in El Paso last month was murdered because his killers believed he was working as an informant for a U.S. law enforcement agency, say sources in Juárez familiar with the situation.
Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana worked for La Linea, the crew of killers operating under the auspices of Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in Cd. Juárez. On May 15, Gonzalez was gunned down outside the home of his girlfriend in a swank El Paso neighborhood, just down the street from that of the El Paso police chief. It's the highest level cartel assassination performed on the U.S. side of the border since that of Guillermo Gonzalez Calderóni in McAllen, Texas, six years ago.
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Cd. Juárez – A cartel figure taken out in a swank El Paso neighborhood late last month was working with U.S. law enforcement, Mexican law enforcement sources I spoke with today in Juárez say.
Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana is still somewhat of a mysterious figure but something in his case just smells dirty. The 37-year-old man was gunned down outside the home of an Adriana Solis on Pony Trail Drive in El Paso on May 15. The house sits in the same neighborhood as that of El Paso Police Chief Gregory Allen. A pricey place too, listed at $364,000 in tax records. The average El Paso home goes for $113K.
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Events in Sonora have been dwarfed by news of a fire at a daycare center that killed anywhere from 10 to 14 infants a few minutes ago in Hermosillo. I'm not going to have anything that the Sonoran media won't already have on this tragedy. El Imparcial is updating, as is Radio Los Cheros if you can get their media player to work.
Meanwhile, the Sonorans captured two or three of the guys accused in the murder of 11 people found yesterday morning. Nine of the bodies had been hacked up, I don't know how many were decapitated. Cops are saying they found a couple grenades in the car when they popped the killers.
