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[otayBill]

Tijuana's favorite citizen arrested this morning.

http://www.signonsan...-gang-arrested/

[HK70]

I just saw this on the net today. I am shocked they caught him. Not sure what this means for TJ violence to come..........

[otayBill]

It seems everyone is talking about El Teo's arrest this week. Many are hoping this will end to the murders and kidnappings.

[George Costanza]

So far no major problems since his arrest but time will tell

[mrsports]

So far no major problems since his arrest but time will tell

Since his capture, at least 4 people have been killed with notes left on their body saying that El Teo is still the boss.

[George Costanza]

Since his capture, at least 4 people have been killed with notes left on their body saying that El Teo is still the boss.

Like I said no problems

[nowwhat]

US DEA warns and El Mex reported that El Teo promises payback and targeting citizens ... But...its good to see that over 800 troops have been sent to Tj to help. I see that they are setting up checkpoints in most impacted areas. My friend (who lives in Otay) has decided to finally leave TJ ... I will miss him...but he feels he has a better chance of making it. in Guadalajara. I found the neighborhood where he lives to be very pleasant. His apartment will be up for rent. It's new and very nice...except the landlady needs to fix the roof and she says she will. It's a two bedroom and comes with a refrigerator $325 a month

[HK70]

Severed head left at grave of Mexican drug lord
By The Associated Press

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 2:50 p.m.

CULIACAN, Mexico — A severed human head and a flower have been found in front of the tomb of deceased drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in northern Mexico.

Prosecutors in Sinaloa state say the man's headless body was found in a plastic bag atop the tomb of another drug trafficker in the Jardines del Humaya cemetery in Culiacan.

Prosecutors' spokesman Martin Gastelum says the severed head had a flower tucked behind one ear. It had been carefully placed in front of the entrance gate to Beltran Leyva's elaborate, multistory crypt.

Police found it after receiving a telephone tip.

Beltran Leyva was killed in a Dec. 16 shootout with Mexican marines.

Suspected cartel hit men later killed four relatives of a marine who died in the shootout.

The Associated Press

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[bajashrink]

The cartels have a virtual unlimited amount of resources and an infinite line of succession. Nothing is going to change as long as their products remain illegal.

[Tjc-tahc]

Mexico, began the new year with its bloodiest day on record -- 69 murders, many so shockingly gruesome it would make a horror movie director shudder.
More than 6,500 drug-related killings made 2009 the bloodiest year since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in late 2006

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"Mexicos,deadly violence is a man-made brutality, a conscious and active thing wrought by humans on other humans, the direct result of one of ugliest machinations of our severely distorted capitalist system
Our happy vice equals its deplorable violence. We appear to be only too happy to let them massacre each other way over there across the border, so long as we get our fine chemical enhancements and it doesn't scare the horses. Would legalizing cocaine and marijuana solve the problem? Maybe. Doubtful. But we're still miles from such a possibility. Meanwhile, the blood keeps pouring."[M.Morford]

I feel the same way this nurse does
"I'm afraid to take to the streets every day because of the violence, and I no longer want to excel economically because it could make me an easy target for a kidnapping," [Silvana Cervantes, a Monterrey nurse.]

Maybe a good Charles Bronson savior would help

[HK70]

Mexican judge orders Tijuana kingpin to face trial

Tue Jan 19, 7:39 pm ET

TIJUANA, Mexico – An alleged drug kingpin blamed for much of Tijuana's gang violence was ordered to face trial Tuesday, while the military said it caught three purported members of his gang about to dissolve a body in chemicals.

A judge ordered "El Teo" Teodoro Garcia Simental, who was arrested last week, to stand trial on organized crime and drug trafficking charges, the Attorney General's Office said.

Troops, meanwhile, arrested two men and a woman at a house in Tijuana where a body was found in a bathtub, about to be dissolved in a chemical substance, a military statement said. Soldiers received a tip that armed people were storing drugs in the house.

The military said the three worked for Raydel Udiarte, the reputed chief of hit men for Garcia's gang. They were found with 117 kilograms (258 pounds) of marijuana, three rifles, a pistol, ammunition and two bulletproof vests, the military said.

Authorities say Garcia is connected to the deaths of at least 300 people and ordered his rivals disposed of in especially grisly ways, including dissolving them in caustic soda. He is also believed to be behind many of the dozens of assassinations of Tijuana police officers the last two years.

Officials say Garcia broke with the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel in an April 2008 shootout, plunging the city across the border from San Diego into a period of unprecedented violence. More than 1,500 people have been slain in Tijuana since the beginning of 2008.

Federal troops arrested Garcia on Jan. 12 at a seaside vacation home near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, where his gang allegedly had been bringing in planeloads of drugs to smuggle across the U.S. border.

It was the second time in less than a month that Mexico took down one of its most powerful traffickers. Drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed Dec. 16 in a military raid on a luxury apartment complex in the central city of Cuernavaca.

In 2006, President Felipe Calderon deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to drug trafficking hotspots across Mexico in a frontal attack on brutal cartels. Drug gang violence has since surged, claiming more than 15,000 lives.

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