Undercover Police Women Infiltrated Pilot Cartel To Get Crucial Intelligence

(Photo: Colombian National Police)

12 undercover policewomen befriended and seduced members of the Pilot Cartel for intelligence leading to the cocaine drug bust of the decade

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 12, 2010

Bogotá, Colombia - A news report by the Caracol TV says that police sources revealed intelligence information about the smuggling operation of the Pilot Cartel, which helped shut down air shipments of cocaine. Authorities in Colombia and the U.S. DEA trained and used a dozen undercover policewomen for more than six months to befriend, seduce and infiltrate the Pilot Cartel.
They were part of "Operation Frontiers" a coordinated international law enforcement operation involving 35 separate units of more than 80 undercover special agents from both the U.S. DEA, North Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Task Force, the Colombian National Police, the U.S. Attorney's Eastern District Office in Dallas, Texas and the Colombian Attorney General's Office.
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) is a program that enhances and coordinates drug control efforts among local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies. The program provides agencies with coordination equipment, technology, and additional resources to combat drug trafficking and its harmful consequences in critical regions of the United States.(Whitehouse)
21 suspects, including 12 pilots were arrested in Colombia. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Dallas were able to get a Plano grand jury to indict 25 suspects in October and the indictments were unsealed on February 5. The Colombian suspects were charged in the U.S. District, Eastern District Court of Texas with manufacturing, transporting and distribution of a controlled substance, cocaine. If convicted, each suspect is facing life in federal prison.
A grand jury indictment is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The indictments of the suspects have not been posted in the U.S. Attorney's Office website as of yet, but the indictments were unsealed in early February, according to John M. Bales United States Attorney.
The suspects will be extradicted from Colombia to face multiple charges in Texas. Authorities have seized 7 1/2 tons of cocaine and $4.25 million in assets.
The undercover policewomen were selected for being attractive and sexy looking women. They frequent a nightclub where members of the Pilot Cartel used to hang out. The women were able to get vital information on flight schedules, drug shipment drops and were given access to photographs of planes, including other items.
Two of the pilots detained had told the undercover policewomen who were their buyers and how they would destroy some of the planes. The pilots also told the women about a trip to Mexico and Central America, which the women would pass the information to officers nearby, who later would confirm through flight plans. The pilots would tell the women that they earned more than $1 million dollars a year.
Police uniform officers were always nearby to provide support in case something went wrong, but they were trained so well that none of them were ever in danger. The undercover policewomen (la bella docena con placas, the beautiful dozen with a badge) are credited for their success in helping to shut down the Pilot Cartel. The pilot's arrest and decommissioning between 15-25 planes is causing a ripple effect by stopping air shipments of cocaine to other drug cartels. Colombian National Police General Óscar Naranjo said on Monday that Operation Frontiers was the largest drug bust in a decade and has cut the cocaine flow to drug cartels in Mexico and other countries.
Authorities are expected to detained 16 more suspects involved in the Pilot Drug Cartel.
Last Monday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (U.S. DEA) and the Colombian National Police executed search and arrest warrants under a two year secret Operation Frontiers. The operation was so well kept a secret that none of the 21 suspects taken into custody for alleged manufacturing, transporting and distribution of 5-6 tons of cocaine weekly from Columbia to 10 countries had any idea they were the targets. 12 pilots and 9 other accomplices were arrested for operating the Pilot Cartel.
They transported by private planes tons of cocaine to the cartels in Colombia, and two Mexican cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel, and the cocaine would then eventually end up in the U.S. María Patricia Rodríguez Monsalve, 38, aka "La Señora" or "La Doctora", herself a pilot is considered a partner and cocaine supplier for Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán known drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel. Rodríguez Monsalve is the first woman detained by authorities to lead a drug cartel.
Rodríguez Monsalve's operations was the infrastructure for the Maximiliano Bonilla aka "Valenciano", Danie Barrera aka "El Loco Barrera", and the Javier Antonio and Luis Enrique Calle brothers, known as "Los Comba" (the gang).
Rodríguez Monsalve was arrested along with other five suspects known to operate the Pilot Drug Cartel. They handled flight smuggling operations from Rodriguez Monsalve private properties that were turned into clandestine air fields connecting air routes from the Pacific, Central America to Mexico, and then the drugs would get smuggled into the U.S.

Caracol TV news clip about undercover policewomen who infiltrated the Pilot Drug Cartel (Spanish): http://bit.ly/bhgOek

For an online copy of the unsealed February 5, 2010 federal indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Eastern District Court of Texas is posted at ketknbc.com: http://bit.ly/aVupfV

Related article:

Drug bust of the decade: U.S. DEA & Colombian National Police stop air shipments of 5-6 tons of cocaine weekly to 10 countries http://bit.ly/awsorH

(Sources: narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com, elespectador.com, Caracol TV, Televisa and Columbian National Police)

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Operation Frontier Shuts Down Drug Smuggling Pilot Cartel In Colombia, Africa and Europe

(Photo: narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com)

María Patricia Rodríguez Monsalve aka "La Señora", "La Doctora"

Widow of Colombian drug trafficker arrested, she worked with Pilot Cartel and Mexican Drug Lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, of the Sinaloa Cartel

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 9, 2010

Bogotá, Colombia - On Monday, a Colombian miltary police operation along with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (U.S. DEA) arrested María Patricia Rodríguez Monsalve aka "La Señora" or "La Doctora", 38, the widow of Francisco Cifuentes Villa aka "Don Pancho" of the Cali Cartel. She was taken into custody in El Poblado neighborhood in the city of Medellin. 20 other suspects (including 12 pilots) were arrested along Rodríguez Monsalve (a pilot herself) for alleged cocaine manufacturing, smuggling, and distribution, in what is considered one of the largest operations against drug trafficking in Colombia, within the last ten years. Rodríguez Monsalve who is originally from Mexico took over the drug trafficking operations after her husband was killed at Planeta Rica, Córdoba in 2007.
Her husband died owing up to six tons of cocaine to El Chapo del Sinaloa Cartel, so she decided to form a mutual working relationship with him to pay the debt. She also worked with the Pilot Cartel and became a instrumental contact to Mexican Drug Lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, of the Sinaloa Cartel, General Óscar Naranjo, director of the Columbian National Military Police said during a press conference.
Rodríguez Monsalve's operations was the infrastructure for the Maximiliano Bonilla aka "Valenciano", Daniel Barrera aka "El Loco Barrera", and the Javier Antonio and Luis Enrique Calle brothers, known as "Los Comba" (the gang).
Rodríguez Monsalve was arrested along with other five suspects known to operate the Pilot Drug Cartel. They handled flight smuggling operations from Rodriguez Monsalve private properties that were turned into clandestine air fields connecting air routes from the Pacific, Central America to Mexico, and then the drugs would get smuggled into the U.S.
Also arrested with Rodriguez Monsalve were Freddy Arciniegas Niño, José Guilerrmo Gallón Henao, Mario Gómez, Julio Hernando Moya, and John Freddy Correa who is also affiliated with the brothers "Comba" or "Calle Serna". He was able to managed the cocaine drug making laboratories in Nariño, Cauca and Valle del Cauca in Colombia.
Eric Van Dorian López Agudelo, was an active special agent with the Colombian Department of Security Administration (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS) compatibile to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He allegedly provided information to the Pilot Drug Cartel in exchange for money, according to the U.S. federal indictment.
Gómez was able to recruit other pilots and the drug smuggling air routes extended to Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panamá, Venezuela, Africa and Europe. Moya was in the process of establishing various businesses in Florida and handled the alteration of flight plans and provided false documents for the airplanes. Authorities confiscated between 15-25 private planes including 5 which were registered to Rodríguez Monsalve who travelled to Panamá and Miami frequently. She owned several luxury apartments in both places.
Authorities are now working on seizing properties, assets, vehicles, jewelry, weapons, airplanes, money, and all bank accounts connected to the drug smuggling operation of the suspects arrested on Monday in Colombia and other countries. Federal authorities and the Colombian National Police are now proceeding to identify and investigate businesses that worked with the Pilot Cartel.
Rodríguez Monsalve and the five previously mentioned suspects, including 15 other suspects are expected to be extradicted to the U.S.A., to face multiple federal drug trafficking charges. Authorities are expected to arrest another 16 suspects in connection with the Pilot Cartel.
The arrests were in conjunction with an international investigative partnership called "Operation Frontier" involing at least ten other countries. The suspects had been wiretapped since 2007, and telephone conversations between pilots and others led to their arrests. The investigation has led to other arrests as well, in ten countries, General Naranjo said.
The following suspects were arrested on Monday in the cities of Cali, Medellin, Bucaramanga and Ibague by U.S. DEA and the Colombian National Police. A special investigative group of 35 units involving more than 80 special undercover agents was created after a private plane crashed for lack of fuel over the Dominican Republic carrying cocaine, over two years ago. The crash of the plane led authorities to discover that at least 5 tons of cocaine was being smuggled weekly through Central Amerca, Mexico, Africa, Europe and the U.S.
General Naranjo said, the major bust and shutting down the smuggling operations of the Pilot Cartel will most likely eliminate the cocaine supplies for the drug cartels. The drug cartels are facing a substantial blow to their economic survival, according to Naranjo. Naranjo credited the U.S. DEA, North Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Task Force, the U.S. Attorney's Eastern District Office in Dallas, Texas, the Colombian Attorney General's Office, and 10 other countries for the coordinated success.
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) is a program that enhances and coordinates drug control efforts among local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies. The program provides agencies with coordination equipment, technology, and additional resources to combat drug trafficking and its harmful consequences in critical regions of the United States.

Those identified in the arrests are:

Jairo Hernando Rodríguez Beltrán, Fabio Lorenzo Ibarra Cruz, Mario Fernándo Gómez González, John Freddy Correa, Freddy Arciniegas Niño, Óscar Orlando Barrera Pineda, Luis Guillermo Valencia Bedoya, Erik Van Dorian López Agudelo, Cristian Vásquez Angel, Hermán Federico Umbreit Urrutia, Óscar Ruiz Correa, Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Calbancante, Javier Marín Arboleda, Fernando Alexander Moreno Rodríguez, José Guillermo Gallón Henao, Bayron de Jesús González Vásquez, Robert William Villegas, Jaime Andrés Rodríguez Melo, Hugo Ancir Megudán Méndez, Orlando Prieto Gómez, and Maria Patricia Rodríguez Monsalve.

For an online copy of the unsealed February 5, 2010 federal indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Eastern District Court of Texas is posted at ketknbc.com: http://bit.ly/aVupfV

General Naranjo news conference in Colombia (Spanish) at Internet News links: http://bit.ly/bbXPCJ
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Three Marinette Men Charged In Biggest Heroin Traffic Stop Bust In Sheboygan County

Photos:
Top: Jacob L. Martin
Mid: Benjimen G. Chaltry
Bottom: Robert J. Rogers  

Heroin bust by Sheboygan County Deputy Sheriff during a traffic stop, is hailed by department

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 8, 2010

Sheboygan, Wisconsin - Last Saturday, a Sheboygan County Sheriff arrested three men after stopping them on a seat belt and traffic violation. After searching the vehicle, Sheboygan Sheriff's Deputy Barry Nelson discovered 115 mini plastic bags (bindles) containing heroin, about 2 ounces worth $11,500.
The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office says, it's the biggest bust yet for a deputy sheriff, during a traffic stop.
On Monday, Jacob L. Martin, 26, Benjimen G. Chaltry, 35, and Robert J. Rogers, 31, were charged with felony counts of possession of 10 to 50 grams of heroin with intent to deliver, and face up to 15 years each in prison, if convicted. Cash bail bonds were set at $50,000 for Martin, $45,000 for Rogers, and $30,000 for Chaltry. Also, they were charged with misdemeanor cocaine possession, according to court records.
The three men are from Marinette County. The criminal complaint states that Deputy Nelson saw a vehicle just south of the county line on I-43 with several equipment violations and stopped it. He then noticed that two of the suspects weren't wearing seat belts as required by state law.
Martin apparently lied about his name to Deputy Nelson and Nelson then search the vehicle discovering the heroin. Chaltry had bought the heroin in Chicago, Illinois and was going to sell the drug in Marinette County, according to the criminal complaint.

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Milenio Cartel Drug Lord Sentenced To 47 Years In A Mexican Prison

Armando Valencia Cornelio aka "Maradona", or "Juanito"
(Photo: narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com)

Drug lord eluded the U.S. DEA since 1999, was arrested in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 2003 by the Mexican military police and the Mexican Attorney General's Office

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 8, 2010

Mexico D.F., Mexico - On Sunday, a press release from the Mexico's Attorney General Office announced that Armando Valencia Cornelio, "Maradona", or "Juanito",  the Milenio Drug Cartel (Millennium/Jalisco Cartel) leader was sentenced to 47 years and 6 months in prison. He was also fined over $13 thousand, but it was not confirmed pesos or dollars.
The Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) said that a coordinated effort by the Mexican military police and their office were able to capture Valencia Cornelio on August 15, 2003 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He eluded capture from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since 1999.
The prosecution was credited to the Federation of Special Investigative Unit of Crimes Against Health and the Attorney General's Office of Investigative Crimes (SIEDO).
Valencia Cornelio was sentenced in the 1st Federal Penal District Court of the State of Mexico. He was convicted for committing crimes against health, cocaine drug trafficking and for organized crime.
His drug trafficking mainly operated in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Michoacán and had a major distribution network of cocaine smuggling into the U.S., according to the Mexican Attorney General's Office.
Valencia Cornelio conspired with Colombian drug kingpin Felipe Salazar Espinosa aka "Hoover" in the early 2000's until his capture and conviction on July 2007 in the U.S. Salazar Espinoza was extradited on August 2006 from Colombia. He was convicted of cocaine importation and money laundering charges.
Both Valencia Cornelio and Salazar Espinosa were responsible for importing ton-quantities of Colombian cocaine, from Colombia through Mexico and into the U.S. and ending up in the City of New York, on a weekly basis. They were money laundering between $12-14 million in narcotic proceeds per week during the period of 2002-2005.
U.S. DEA seized a 1.3 ton cacaine shipment destine to the U.S. concealed in the arm of a crane in Panama on July 2005. (John P. Gilbride, DEA Special Agent in Charge. July 18, 2007)

Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) press release in Spanish at Internet link: http://bit.ly/cMOED9

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Second Mastermind In The Juárez Student Massacre Arrested

Top photo: Israel Arzate Meléndez aka "El 24" (Public Ministry)
Bottom photo: José Dolores Arroyo Chavarría aka "El Chore"

More arrest eminent Mexican authorities say

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 6, 2010

Juárez, Mexico - On Saturday, the Mexican Public Ministry officials said during a press conference that they have arrested the co-mastermind in the planning of the student massacre. They said, Israel Arzate Meléndez aka "El 24" or "El Country", was implicated in the Juárez student massacre by José Dolores Arroyo Chavarría aka "El Chore". Meléndez, 24, was arrested after he was stopped on Thursday night at about 8:30 p.m. in the corner of Henequén and Durango Streets driving a 2006 gray Cherokee Laredo jeep by the Mexican federal Army. The jeep was reported stolen from the U.S.
Meléndez confessed to killing Manuel Hernández Villegas, 37, outside the birthday party where 15 victims were shot and killed, and more than a dozen injured. Meléndez told authorities that they were singling people out, and women and children were ordered to leave, but that the alleged gang leader Adrián Ramírez Armendáriz ordered them to kill anyone, said General Felipe de Jesús Espitia from the Federal Security Operations in Chihuahua (OCDC Operación Coordinada de Chihuahua).
Meléndez in return implicated Chavarría by telling police that Chavarría had taken an active part in the massacre. He carried one of the large weapons, said Meléndez. He said, that he worked for the Juárez Cartel and that they met at Las Torres commercial center close to the restaurant Las Alitas between 9:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., where they thought rival gang members belonging to the Double A's (Artist Assasins) would be attending a nearby birthday party around 11p.m.-12 a.m. Meléndez at the Public Ministry news conference said that 14 gang members of La Línea participated in the deadly assault of the party last Sunday.
"A cell phone with number (656) 169 6699 was recovered from Meléndez and several calls around the time they committed the homicides led us to identified four more suspects, and warrants for their arrest have been issued," said Patricía González Rodríguez, Attorney General of Chihuahua.
Federal authorities have confirmed that the student victims killed were innocent and did not have any ties to organized crime.  
Police are looking into allegations that one or several adults killed might have been involved in organized crime, but has not been confirmed since the investigation is ongoing, according to Jacinto Seguro spokesperson for the Juárez Municipal Police.
On Saturday, authorities confirmed 15 dead, including adults and teenagers between the ages of 13 to 19 had been killed last Sunday inside the residential campound. The residence at 1310 Villa del Portal St., is located in the neighborhood of Villas de Salvárcar, where three homes are built. Fifteen other students were reported injured.
Previously, a 15-year old girl was also reported killed along with rest of the victims, but police confirmed she died in another area and the homicide was not related to those killed by La Línea gang.
Chavarría, 30, aka El Chore, a member of La Línea gang has been charged with 1st-degree intentional homicide for shooting at two Mexican military 2nd sargeants, Elías Cuevas Chávez and Heriberto Godínez Acevedo, and also for shooting at both Daniel Elías Becerra Vicencio and Fátima Guadalupe Irigoyen Rodríguez, said Edgar Caro Ramírez, Mexican District Attorney in Juárez.
He is also accused in the homicide of Municipal Police Officer César Javier Rangel Medina and two other men killed in the Tec. commercial sector.
Multiple homicides charges are pending against Chavarría, and he is expected back in court on February 9, according to prosecutors.
Chavarría confessed to police that José Antonio Acosta Hernández aka "El Diego", "El Blablazo", or "El 10" was the main gang leader of La Línea who ordered Adrián Ramírez Armendáriz aka "El Rama", "El 12", or "El Ramon"  and Meléndez to kill their rival gang members, the Double A's. Ramírez Armendárez was killed on Monday in a confrontation with the Mexican federal army.
Some of the Juárez massacre victims were identified as Eduardo Becerra, 35, Edgar Martin Díaz Macías, 23 , Jaime Rosales Cisneros, 42, Manuel Hernández Villegas, 37, Jesús Enríquez Miramontes, 39, Rodrigo Cadena Dávila, 17, Carlos Lucio Moreno Ávila, 18, Brenda Ivonne Escamilla Pedroza, 17, José Adrian Encina Hernández, 17, Horacio Alberto Soto Camargo, 19, Yomira Aurora Delgado Lara, 13, Jesús Armando Segovia Ortiz, 15,  and José Luis Aguilar Camargo, 19.
Encina Hernández was an honor student and had been recognized by José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, Governor of Chihuahua for his outstanding academic ahievement. Baeza Terrazas visited the crime scene during mid week, where the mass cold blooded killing of teenagers took place.

Related Juárez article click to open: Juárez students killed last Sunday had no gang affiliation. Estudiantes ejecutados en Ciudad Juárez, Mexico eran inocentes http://bit.ly/a8roK9

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Mexican Gang Commando Leader Involved In Juárez Student Massacre Killed

Top photo: Family members grieve their loss at a cemetery in Mexico (Notimex)
Bottom photo: Adrian Ramírez Armendáriz aka El 12, killed

The Mexican Attorney General in the State of Chihuahua confirmed the La Línea gang commando leader aka "El Rama/El 12" involved in the Juárez student massacre had been killed, and two accomplices in the multiple homicides have been also arrested

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 4, 2010
Updated: February 6, 2010

Juárez, Mexico - On Tuesday, Patricía González Rodríguez, the Attorney General for the State of Chihuahua confirmed that the alleged gang commando leader Adrián Ramírez Armendáriz, 31, aka "El Rama" "Ramon", or "El 12" involved in early Sunday's Juárez student massacre had been killed in a confrontation with the Mexican federal army. On Monday, Ramírez Armendáriz and an accomplice around 3:00 p.m. were following Daniel Elías Becerra Vicencio an alleged member of the Double A's with intent to execute him. Vicencio was accompanied by Fátima Guadalupe Irigoyen Rodríguez.
When Ramírez Armendáriz cornered Vicencio in the corner of Propocatépetly and Manuel J. Clouthier Streets the confrontation between them erupted in gunfire. Mexican soldiers, including two 2nd Sergeants Elías Cuevas Chávez and Heriberto Godínez Acevedo who were nearby heard the gunfire and responded to the scene. After Ramírez Armendáriz exchanged gunfire with soldiers, he fled running down the street and was fatally shot in the back. His accomplice was arrested, and identified as José Dolores Arroyo Chavarría, 30, "El Chore". Vicencio was shot and was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive. (Source: Narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com)
Ramírez Armendáriz was driving a gray stolen Grand AM 2002 auto from the U.S. He was previously detained on April 15, 2007 and charged with a felony in Mexico, but was released. In 2003, he was also charged and convicted for smuggling 50 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. He violated probation and was wanted, but he eluded police by crossing into Mexico. Ramírez Amendáriz had a registered address in El Paso, according to federal authorities. Ramírez Armendáriz was identified through a fingerprint database (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) and is a U.S. Citizen, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in El Paso, Texas.
Ramírez Armendáriz is also suspected of killing three men, a woman and injuring six people at Los Bandoleros nightclub hours before trying to kill Vicencio and Rodríguez on Monday.
Mexican authorities released a photo showing Ramírez Armendáriz with a "EPT" tattoo on his abdomen, but he is not a known Barrio Azteca member in El Paso, said FBI Special Agent Andrea Simmons. The tattoo stands for El Paso, Texas, and has been a noted insignia used by the Barrio Azteca prison gang, according to Simmons.
Other suspects involved in the student massacre have been identified and are being sought by the Mexican federal police, army and local police, said Attorney General González Rodríguez.
The ongoing investigation indicates that those killed at the high school party were believed to have had ties to the Double A gang (Assassin Artists), according to members of La Línea. The Double A's is the arch rival gang of Los Aztecas or La Línea, the suspected gang involved in Sunday's massacre.
González also said that several other people outside the party had been killed before a group of more than 20 gunmen armed with Ak-47's and AR-15's entered the three resident campound where a birthday party was taking place, in the neighborhood of Villas de Salvárcar. The gunmen just rushed in and began indiscriminately shooting at the 60 people attending the party, González Rodríguez said. "Our investigation and information indicates that the teenagers killed were innocent victims," González Rodríguez stated.
"There is no evidence that any of the students killed on Sunday had any connection or were members of the Double A's," said Enrique Torres, spokesperson for the Federal Security Operations in Chihuahua (OCDC, Operación Coordinada de Chihuahua). The Mayor of Juárez, José Reyes Ferriz told reporters, that at least one student might have had illicit activities because authorities found a photo of himself posing with a weapon and ammunition in his cell phone. But, Ferriz confimed he hasn't actually seen the photo.
Police are looking into allegations that one or several adults killed might have been involved in organized crime, but has not been confirmed since the investigation is ongoing, according to Jacinto Seguro, spokesperson for the Juárez Municipal Police.
Authorities have confirmed 15 dead, including adults and teenagers between the ages of 13 to 19 had been killed inside the residential campound, where three homes are located. Fifteen other students were reported injured.
Some of the Juárez victims who died were identified as Eduardo Becerra, 35, Edgar Martin Díaz Macías, 23 , Jaime Rosales Cisneros, 42, Manuel Hernández Villegas, 37, Jesús Enríquez Miramontes, 39, Rodrigo Cadena Dávila, 17, Carlos Lucio Moreno Ávila, 18, Brenda Ivonne Escamilla Pedroza, 17, José Adrian Encina Hernández, 17, Horacio Alberto Soto Camargo, 19, Yomira Aurora Delgado Lara, 13, Jesús Armando Segovia Ortiz, 15,  and José Luis Aguilar Camargo, 19.
Encina Hernández was an honor student and had been recognized by José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, Governor of Chihuahua for his outstanding academic ahievement. Baeza Terrazas visited the crime scene where the gang cold blooded mass killing of teenagers took place.
Chavarría, one of suspects in custody on Monday admitted to police that he is a member of La Línea.  Chavarría confessed to police that José Antonio Acosta Hernández aka "El Diego", "El Blablazo", or "El 10" was the main gang leader of La Línea who ordered Ramírez Armendáriz to kill their rival gang members, the Double A's.
Another co-mastermind in the planning of the student massacre was Israel Arzate Meléndez aka "El 24" or "El Country", according to Chavarría. Meléndez, 24, was arrested on Thursday night at about 8:30 p.m. driving a stolen 2006 Cherokee Laredo jeep from the U.S. He confessed to killing Manuel Hernández Villegas, 37, outside the birthday party where 15 victims were shot and killed, and more than a dozen injured. Meléndez told authorities that they were singling people out, and women and children were ordered to leave, but that Ramírez Armendáriz had ordered to kill anyone, said General Felipe de Jesús Espitia from OCDC.

Chavarría aka "El Chore" has been charged with 1st-degree intentional homicide for shooting at two Mexican military 2nd Sergeants, Elías Cuevas Chávez and Heriberto Godínez Acevedo, and also for shooting at both Daniel Elías Becerra Vicencio and Fátima Guadalupe Irigoyen Rodríguez, said Edgar Caro Ramírez, Mexican District Attorney in Chihuahua. He is also accused in the homicide of Municipal Police Officer César Javier Rangel Medina and two other men killed in the Tec. commercial sector.
Chaverría is expected to be charged with multiple counts of murder in connection with the student massacre and for his part in about seven other homicides. Federal prosecutors are working on the pending cases and he is expected back in court on February 9, for a court hearing.
Chavarría said, that a member of his gang who lives near where the high school party was taking place had called Hernández to let him know that a bunch of Double A's were having a party. Hernández then called Ramírez Armendáriz and another member aka "El 51". The two groups later met at a shoe shine parlor at Juárez Park. Other members with aka's  "El 12", "El 15", "El 16", "El 18", "El 26", "El 27", "El 24", "El 28", "El 30", "El 32", "El 37" and others participated in the massacre, according to Chavarría. He said that he was paid $2,000 pesos, about $154.00 U.S. dollars a week, was given a cell, and the 2002 gray Grand AM that they were driving when Ramírez Armendáriz was killed.
The Double A's work as enforcers for Joaquín aka "El Chapo" Guzmán, the drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel. The Sinaloa Cartel is feuding with the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel over control of Juárez.
Family members began burying the victims this week. Seven of the victims were taken to where they were killed in a funeral procession and then taken to the San Rafael cemetery. Hundreds of students attended the services and marched alongside the funeral caskets. Renato Ascencio León, the Bishop of Juárez gave the mass honoring and remembering the victims.
News investigations and family members deny any allegations that the teenage victims had ties to the Double A's or any other reputed gang. Most of the victims were respected students and sports athletes attending the College of Bachilleras number 9 of the Autonomy University of Chihuahua.
Victim's families have reported of receiving numerous text messages and phone calls with death threats, if they give information to authorities. Silence and non-cooperation with authorities are the key factors for the striving drug cartels in the region, but now that might change with the recent student killings.
Recently, people requesting anonymity have become more willing to offer information, and to cash in on rewards, according to authorities. 
About 2,660 homicides have been contributed to the raging drug cartel war between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Juárez Cartel, and 250 homicides were reported for January 2010, according to Mexican federal athorities.
Mexico's President Felipe Calderón had condemn the student killings. He is expected to visit Juárez in a few days. Calderón has sent more than 2,000 federal troops to the region for restoration of the law, fight corruption and to get rid of the drug cartels plaguing the area.
In numerous cities in the region, signs have been posted throughout the area by person or persons unknown who are just fed up with the continuing crime wave and are calling for unity among the Mexican citizens in getting rid of the reputed gang Los Zetas, by calling them Los Bestias, (Beasts). Los Aztecas and La Línea gangs are also targeted by the "Get rid of the gangs" campaign too. La Línea gang and its members who have no remorse are now being labeled as the "Killers of Mexican Children." Other reputed gangs seemed to be distancing themselves from the previously mentioned gangs fearing that they have awaken a sleeping giant the "Public" conscious to come together and eliminate them permanently.
The City of Juârez is well known as the city of the dead, since the 1990's an estimated 380 women have been murdered and hundreds others have disappeared. Most of the pending cases are unsolved homicides.

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U.S. Navy Neglected Federal Law And Executive Orders Regarding Vieques Resulting In Toxic Waste

Former Resident Commissioner to the U.S. Congress Carlos Romero-Barceló from Puerto Rico testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services on October 19, 1999

By H. Nelson Goodson
February 3, 2010

Washington D.C. - In 1999, former Resident Commissioner to the U.S. Congress Carlos Romero-Barceló from Puerto Rico testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was a non-voting member of Congress (Commonwealth voters elect a resident commissioner, who has a voice but no vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. Puerto Ricans became U.S. Citizens in 1917 and Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth in 1952).
Barceló in a compelling testimony, told the committee that for 20 years the U.S. Navy had ignored all directives by changing the weapons training site to Vieques without legal authority when it was ordered by former President Richard Nixon to stop the training at Culebra. Culebra is another Municipality in Puerto Rico, the Navy was first using Culebra as a target site to train the Alantic Fleet.
Barceló quoted a declassified memo from former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger dated June 22, 1974, advising Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense that the weapons training activities on Culebra would be terminated by July 1, 1975, as determined by President Nixon.
Kissinger wrote, "The Secretary of Defense should consider and select alternatives sites for the weapons range activities. In doing so, he should take into account relevant considerations of international law, and in particular, U.S. objectives in the Law of the Sea negotiations.
The selection of the new site, if it is in Puerto Rico, will be contingent on its being accepted to the Commonwealth and the Secretary of Defense should so inform the Governor of Puerto Rico."
Barceló testified that when he took office as Governor of Puerto Rico in 1977, that no legal documents, memos or any records were ever found that the Secretary of Defense followed Kissinger's advised. That same year, he filed federal legal action in U.S. District Court against the Navy (J. William Middendorf, II, Secretary of the Navy served between April 8, 1974 to Jan. 20, 1977) and the Department of Defense for shifting all of its operations to Vieques when military maneuvers and operations in Culebra stopped in 1975. Barceló wanted to stop both the Navy and the Department of Defense from using Vieques as a weapons training site, citing federal and Puerto Rico statues, executive orders, and constitutional provisions.
On September 19, 1979, U.S. District Judge Juan R. Torruella issued his decision finding that the Department of the Navy in technical violation of three provisions. In violation of the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to file and environment impact statement; Presidential Executive Order 11593 by failing to nominate historical sites to the Keeper of the National Register; and the Clean Water Act, by failing to file for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. Each violation was upheld in an Appeals Court.
After the court ruling, Puerto Rico and the Navy signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in September of 1983. Contrary to the standards and goals that were agreed too, the Navy escalated and expanded the range of operations in Vieques after the mid-1980's.
Later. the Navy admitted to violating the MOU and also admitted to using hazardous and toxic weapons including napalm, depleted uranium bullets, and cluster bombs, that were banned for use near civilian populations. Resulting in gross violation of both the terms and spirit of the MOU, testified Barceló.
As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a permit for discharged of pollutants coming from ordances and in addition, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Desease Registery within the Department of Health Services confirmed, their intitial investigation revealed health threat to the population of Vieques citing lower life expectancy, higher mental and emotional problems amongst children, and higher incidence of cancer than anywhere else in Puerto Rico, Barceló testified.
Judge Torruella included a statement that the future of the Navy's manuevers in Vieques had been political instead of environmental. Four years after Barceló's testimony, the Navy left Vieques in 2003.   

For Barceló's complete 9 page testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Sevices in 1999, click on Internet link: 
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/1999/991019cr.pdf

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