Police department chief and six officers detained for the disappearance of eight hunters from Guanajuato and six suspects also involved arrested.
By H. Nelson Goodson
December 14, 2010
Joaquín Amaro, Zacatecas, Mexico - The state department of justice in Zacatecas confirms that ten mexican hunters detained by local police were turned over to paid assassins, according to confessions by two Joaquín Amaro municipal police officers. The hunters from León, Guanajuato who are licensed to carry arms and allowed to hunt went to the Sierra de Morones near the Joaquín Amaro municipality to hunt when they were stopped on December 7, by municipal police. They been missing for more than a week.
Police than called a group of armed men who took the ten hunters to a secluded area. Several members of the hunting party were able to escape. One of the hunters was shot in the leg while he escaped and eluded his capters.
A woman driving in the area picked up the injured hunter, identified as Antonio, aka, "El Tongas" from Jalisco. He was able to reach a nearby town and reported the kidnappings and murders.
Antonio, the surviving hunter told authorities that he was able to watch the torture, brutal killings and the burning of his companions bodies before contacting state police. Authorities later found another hunter, a 15-year-old boy identified as Alexis González Cervantes who collaborated the story. The killers allowed the teenager to leave because they don't kill kids, Cervantes told authorities.
Several Joaquín Amaro members of the municipal police later told investigators that they had stopped the hunters and turned them over to drug cartel members in the area, according to Arturo Nahle García, form the Zacatecas Department of Justice. Investigators haven't been able to locate the bodies as of Monday, but family members have been contacted about their disappearance.
García in a press release statement said, the municipal police took them to the local jail, then released the hunters by turning them over to about 20 armed men. The information about the incident was provided by Mario Cordero Anguiano, the brother of one of the missing hunters, García said.
State police on Monday questioned the Joaquín Amaro chief of police and six municipal police officers suspected of being involved in the disappearances. who denied the allegations.
Julio César Ortiz Pérez, Chief of Police, and Officers Juan Carlos García Guerrero, Felipe Valenzuela Ruiz, Arturo Almaraz Ávila, Agustín Rodríguez Saldívar, José Ángel Ortiz Pérez and Mario Torres Beltrán were later detained in connection with the murders.
Two of the officers have confessed to being connected to alleged cartel members who apparently killed the hunters at a remote Sierra de Morones area.
Zacatecas State Police arrested six men who were caught driving in the red 1994 suburban with license plate number GNH-8616 owned by one of the hunters that was reported missing. The suspects are believe to have been involved in the homicides. Inside the van, police found the hunters clothing, ammunition and weapons.
More arrests are pending in the homicides, according to García.
The ten hunters are members of the "Caza, Tiro y Pezca Aldama" from León, Guanajuato. Most of them were business men in leather goods and manufacturers of shoes, according to authorities. The missing men were identified as, Ernesto Cordero Anguiano, 37, Diego Cordero Anguiano, 47, Juan Diego Cordero Valdivia, 22, Alan Josué Bocanegra López, 19, Sergio Sánchez Pérez, 32, Mario Alberto Reyes, 26, José Javier Martínez, 46, and Héctor González Cervantes, 37.
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By H. Nelson Goodson
December 14, 2010
Joaquín Amaro, Zacatecas, Mexico - The state department of justice in Zacatecas confirms that ten mexican hunters detained by local police were turned over to paid assassins, according to confessions by two Joaquín Amaro municipal police officers. The hunters from León, Guanajuato who are licensed to carry arms and allowed to hunt went to the Sierra de Morones near the Joaquín Amaro municipality to hunt when they were stopped on December 7, by municipal police. They been missing for more than a week.
Police than called a group of armed men who took the ten hunters to a secluded area. Several members of the hunting party were able to escape. One of the hunters was shot in the leg while he escaped and eluded his capters.
A woman driving in the area picked up the injured hunter, identified as Antonio, aka, "El Tongas" from Jalisco. He was able to reach a nearby town and reported the kidnappings and murders.
Antonio, the surviving hunter told authorities that he was able to watch the torture, brutal killings and the burning of his companions bodies before contacting state police. Authorities later found another hunter, a 15-year-old boy identified as Alexis González Cervantes who collaborated the story. The killers allowed the teenager to leave because they don't kill kids, Cervantes told authorities.
Several Joaquín Amaro members of the municipal police later told investigators that they had stopped the hunters and turned them over to drug cartel members in the area, according to Arturo Nahle García, form the Zacatecas Department of Justice. Investigators haven't been able to locate the bodies as of Monday, but family members have been contacted about their disappearance.
García in a press release statement said, the municipal police took them to the local jail, then released the hunters by turning them over to about 20 armed men. The information about the incident was provided by Mario Cordero Anguiano, the brother of one of the missing hunters, García said.
State police on Monday questioned the Joaquín Amaro chief of police and six municipal police officers suspected of being involved in the disappearances. who denied the allegations.
Julio César Ortiz Pérez, Chief of Police, and Officers Juan Carlos García Guerrero, Felipe Valenzuela Ruiz, Arturo Almaraz Ávila, Agustín Rodríguez Saldívar, José Ángel Ortiz Pérez and Mario Torres Beltrán were later detained in connection with the murders.
Two of the officers have confessed to being connected to alleged cartel members who apparently killed the hunters at a remote Sierra de Morones area.
Zacatecas State Police arrested six men who were caught driving in the red 1994 suburban with license plate number GNH-8616 owned by one of the hunters that was reported missing. The suspects are believe to have been involved in the homicides. Inside the van, police found the hunters clothing, ammunition and weapons.
More arrests are pending in the homicides, according to García.
The ten hunters are members of the "Caza, Tiro y Pezca Aldama" from León, Guanajuato. Most of them were business men in leather goods and manufacturers of shoes, according to authorities. The missing men were identified as, Ernesto Cordero Anguiano, 37, Diego Cordero Anguiano, 47, Juan Diego Cordero Valdivia, 22, Alan Josué Bocanegra López, 19, Sergio Sánchez Pérez, 32, Mario Alberto Reyes, 26, José Javier Martínez, 46, and Héctor González Cervantes, 37.
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