Friday, July 30, 2010

Military Arrests 62 Police And Ministry Agents In Tijuana, Mexico For Drug Cartel Ties

Photo: Narco Trafico en Mexico

Military detains Benito Juárez, Nuevo León Secretary of Public Safety and 5 police officers in connection with 51 bodies found at nine clandestine graves in the municipality.

By H. Nelson Goodson
July 30, 2010

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico - On Thursday, the Mexican Department of Defense announced the arrests of 62 police officers including six ex-ministry federal agents for alleged ties to drug cartels, the Arellano Felix Cartel mainly operates in the area. The arrests of the officers is a big blow to police protection and security for the cartels that operates in Baja California, said Commander Alfonso Duarte Mújica, from the 2nd Military Command in Tijuana.
The two year investigation was conducted by the Assistant Attorney General for Special Investigations and Organized Crimes (SIEDO) of the Baja California Attorney General's Office, said Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, the state Attorney General (state PGR).
The accused municipal officers were taken to Mexico City for further criminal proceedings by the Mexican Attorney General's Office (federal PGR).
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jesús Quiñones Marquez, the Director of International Coordination for the Baja California PGR for having ties to organized criminal drug cartels.
On Friday in an unrelated action by the military, Mexican military detained Alberto González Hernández, the Secretary of Public Safety for the municipality of Benito Juárez and five police officers in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The suspects were detained for questioning in connection with the nine clandestine graves uncovered where 51 bodies were found last week, the Mexican Department of Defense announced. The investigation is ongoing.

The following Mexican Tijuana municipal police and ex-ministry police were arrested and charged for criminal organized activity and crimes against public health.

Municipal and Ministry police officers arrested on Thursday were identified as: Víctor Manuel Peraza Bravo; José Rubén a/k/a Víctor Manuel Escobar Cienfuentes; Édgar Aguilar Morales; Alfredo López Rosales; Juan Carlos Gonzaléz Gonzaléz; Miguel Angel Villagómez Hernández; Verrancio Romero Flores; Fabián Papik Montes Sánchez and Rafael Ramírez Estrada,

Héctor Manuel Diarte Guerrero; Francisco Alonso Rodríguez Pacheco Mario Alberto Ocampo Severiano; Manuel Alcaraz Tiscareño; Juan Francisco Monterrroso Quintero; Carlos Alberto Cabrales Ortiz and José Francisco Valencia López,

Commander of municipal police, Ernesto Silva Frausto; Ismael Barragán Mares; Sergio Díaz Santiago; Leonardo Esquivel Esparza Víctor Gerónimo García Arellano; José de Jesús Ornelas Jiménez,

José Luis Rodríguez Rodríguez; Rafael Solís Rangel; Melecio Valdovinos Chávez; Óscar Vázquez Castrejón; Francisco Vega Lugo; Héctor Eligio Alcántar; José Pablo Adriano Rosales; Jazziel Yusep Angulo Uriarte; María de lo Ángeles Alvarado Lizárraga and Ana Cristina Argueta Díaz,

Iván Ulises Cabrera González; Gabriel Casas Esqueda; José Francisco Castillo Fermín; Guillermo Cruz Lizárraga; Arnulfo Chávez Illescas; Migue Luna Navarrete; Eliseo Martínez Colmenero; Martín Ochoa Barrera and Cinthya Cecilia Oleta,

Édgar Israel Paz Avilés; Juan Pelayo Dueñas Víctor Ramos Rodríguez; Armando Roque Aguiar; David Ruelas Ibarra; Rigoberto Silva Frausto; Efraín Siordia Ramírez and Julio César Sollano García,

María Efigenia Zúñiga Toledo; Alfonso David Corvera Sánchez; Aurelio Román Gutiérrez Cisneros; Jesús Gabriel Reyna Juvera; Benito Corral Ochoa; Juan Carlos Patrón Zúñiga; Luis Armando Chávez Flores,

Alfredo Moreno Cueva, Sergio Heriberto Fernández Dueña and Aarón Isaac Mendoza Fajardo.

News of 62 police and ministry agents arrested on Thursday for alleged ties to drug cartels in Baja California, Mexico: http://bit.ly/bGpsjz

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