Legal case against Mexicans floating methlab Moerdijk started On Thursday, August 22, the criminal case against four men suspected of running a drug lab in the port of Moerdijk starts in the court in Breda. There, on May 10, 2019, the very first floating Dutch drug lab was found in a cargo ship.
Booby trap In addition to 300 liters of methamphetamine oil, a large container with 10,000 liters of drug waste and chemicals was found on the 80-meter boat. Experts spent three days decommissioning. The last day the ship even sank through a suspected booby trap to clear traces. According to the police, during the evacuation action, water suddenly ran into the ship through a pump that was switched on remotely.
Polluted water The hold of the ship was full of thousands of liters of contaminated water. The experts involved in the decommissioning had to leave in a hurry. Rijkswaterstaat placed a screen in the port of Moerdijk to prevent the pollution around the ship from spreading. The chemicals were removed later.
Notorious cartel family Of the four suspects (a 65-year-old skipper from Breda and three Mexicans aged 23, 26 and 37 without a permanent place of residence or residence), one of the Mexicans is part of an infamous cartel family. The owner of the ship is still without a trace.
Warning Many years ago, the police's national threat assessment warned of the arrival of Mexicans, who smuggle unprecedented quantities of raw materials for drugs. Until more than three years ago no crystal meth was detected in the Netherlands at all, in recent years there have been more and more reports of meth finds and labs.
Doubling in use It is striking that in Amsterdam last year there was a doubling in use compared to 2017. Researchers estimate that 300 to 400 people use crystal meth every day in Amsterdam. This puts our capital in eighteenth place in Europe. The doubling in use is also related to the increase in methlabs in the Netherlands.
Gayscene Crystal meth (also called 'Tina' or 'Ice') is mainly exported to East Germany and the Czech Republic for export. Use is relatively high in Slovakia, the US, Canada, Australia and Asia. Use in the Netherlands is low: it is limited to certain circles in the gay scene, where meth is used as 'sex sex' to continue on sex parties for days and nights.
Problems for the Mexican Jalisco cartel September 2, 2019
The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or CJNG for short, or the Jalisco cartel, has problems. According to Mexican media , a cell of the organization, called Los Cabos, has left the cartel. With bloody violence as a result. Women and small children are also among the victims.
The problems are particularly noticeable in the state of Baja California, where dozens of people have died in the last few months in the city of Tijuana, especially assassins from Los Cabos. This cell is primarily concerned with human trafficking. The number of murders in Baja California has increased by 30% in the last 4 months compared to the same period last year.
"El Mencho" Los Cabos left the Jalisco cartel because of dissatisfaction with the new structure of the organization. This was necessary because Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka “El Mencho†, the leader of CJNG, has been hiding for a long time. Both Mexicans and Americans have started the hunt for him and have put a high price on his head. The departure of Los Cabos has been meticulously answered by the Jalisco cartel. This also includes innocent victims. In the first week of August, the lifeless bodies of a 25-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter were discovered in Tijuana. Both were shot. A few days later, a woman's head was found in a plastic bag in the same neighborhood.
Sinaloa cartel After the departure of Los Cabos from the Jalisco cartel, another human trafficking cell arose: they lost the protection of CJNG and thereby became an easy target of the Sinaloa cartel. The latter organization has been fighting a bloody battle with the Jalisco cartel for years. Los Cabos, for example, literally came under fire from 2 drug cartels. One of the victims of the violence was Ricardo Ãlvarez Olivares, aka "El Baby" or "El Cabo 39". The 30-year-old criminal was wound up in La Paz while he was in his car (photo above). "El Baby" went into hiding in vain.
Issue But the departure of Los Cabos is also a problem for CJNG: in addition to fighting the ancient enemies of the Sinaloa cartel, they also have to fight with their former comrades from Los Cabos. In that complex struggle, it is not always clear to which camp the people involved belong.
Crystal meth CJNG is considered to be one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico. Currently, the activities of the Jalisco cartel are mainly concentrated in eight Mexican states. But the cartel also plays a very important role in the international coke trade and especially in the trade of synthetic drugs and in particular crystal meth. The cartel has links with criminal groups around the world. The export to the US runs over various international stages. Similarly, Chinese criminals are said to be involved in the export of drugs to North America.
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#978336 09/18/1904:41 AM09/18/1904:41 AM
The 1500 kilos of pure cocaine intercepted in the port of Rotterdam on September 29, according to the Colombian navy, was from the Mexican Gulf cartel.
The interception was the result of a collaboration between the Colombian navy and British and Dutch authorities. The drugs were hidden in a container with bananas. The Colombian authorities write in a press release that international cooperation to combat drug trafficking will be further developed.
Earlier this year, in May, a good deal of cocaine from the Gulf cartel was also intercepted in Colombia. That happened in the Colombian port city of Santa Marta. It then involved 2200 kilos of coke that was hidden in a cargo of copper ore, destined for Antwerp.
According to a journalist from the New York Times, Ivan Guzmán, the more important brother of Ovidio, was also initially arrested. After being liberated by members of the Sinaloa cartel, relatives of Mexican soldiers were held hostage in order to secure the release of Ovidio. That plan worked.
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Graphic Video: Cartel Boss Executed in Mexican Border State Capital Restaurant
Does anyone know why 'El Napoleon' was killed?
It says he was captured in October of 2018 with four gunmen and was later released with no charges.
Was he cooperating? Or is this something totally different?
Yep he would have been snitching. You don't kill Police officers and walk away with no charges.
It was probably corruption as many police the local police are working at the cartel's interest , they are often the legal eyes and ears of the cartel. Once you buy off the police commander you buy off the whole police force . Also snitching is viewed differently in Mexico than the U.S. Snitching is often used by the cartels to tell against their enemy but is a no no for nobody's or sicarios and down . Snitching is good to the or towards the enemy but no no by nobody's.
Guardia di Finanza of Catania arrested 2 men and issued a European arrest warrant against 5 additional people. The seven are members of an international association aimed at the import and trafficking of cocaine, operating between Italy, Spain, Mexico and Colombia. 406 kg of cocaine was also seized. At the head of the group, there would be the Mexican Jose Angel Rivera Zazueta, 33 years old, called El Flaco, one of the most prominent managers of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Graphic Video: Cartel Boss Executed in Mexican Border State Capital Restaurant
Does anyone know why 'El Napoleon' was killed?
It says he was captured in October of 2018 with four gunmen and was later released with no charges.
Was he cooperating? Or is this something totally different?
Yep he would have been snitching. You don't kill Police officers and walk away with no charges.
It was probably corruption as many police the local police are working at the cartel's interest , they are often the legal eyes and ears of the cartel. Once you buy off the police commander you buy off the whole police force . Also snitching is viewed differently in Mexico than the U.S. Snitching is often used by the cartels to tell against their enemy but is a no no for nobody's or sicarios and down . Snitching is good to the or towards the enemy but no no by nobody's.
And that's why most Mexican cartel leaders are dead or doing life sentences. Because they're snitching each other out. Fools to the end.
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Federal Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo has described the release from custody of the wife of the suspected leader of the Guanajuato-based Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel as “regrettable.â€
Security forces seized four firearms, including an AK-47 and .270-caliber rifle, over 800 rounds of ammunition, loaded magazines, explosives, bulletproof vests, drugs, vehicles and over 69,000 pesos (US $3,700) in cash from the safe house in which the four suspects were detained.
Despite the evidence against them, a federal judge absolved all four suspected criminals on Thursday and ordered their release because Guanajuato state police had not obtained a warrant to search the house.
Durazo told reporters Friday that the government regretted the decision to release the wife of “one of the most important criminal leaders†in Guanajuato.
“The judge alleges errors in due process; we respect the decision of the judge but it doesn’t stop being regrettable [because] after . . . an important investigation we find that the people are returning to the street without having paid†for the crimes of which they were accused, he said.
The security secretary also said that there is a special federal operation underway in Guanajuato, Mexico’s most violent state last year, explaining that the presence of security forces has been bolstered.
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel is engaged in a bloody turf war in Guanajuato with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), considered Mexico’s most powerful criminal organization.
The leader of the former remains at large a year after the federal government launched a specific operation to capture him, although there is growing speculation that authorities, or the CJNG, will catch up with him soon.
Irregularities in the arrest of suspected criminals are cited by judges as justification for their release with alarming frequency in Mexico. The release of so many suspects before they face trial is a factor in the high levels of impunity that continue to plague the country.
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They were caught red-handed, the three Mexicans who produced crystal meth on a boat in Moerdijk . Who their client was, seems to be the question a few days before the start of their trial - next Tuesday.
Have the lab technicians moved forward from notorious Mexican drug cartels who want to storm the European drug market? Or are Brabant pill farmers looking for new revenue models? And they have flown in with external Mexican specialists to show them the tricky final step in the process: crystallizing the meth.
In the trial against the Moerdijk suspects, it is likely that the next week will be purely about this floating lab, the first of its kind in the Netherlands and the role of the suspects. In police and justice circles such a well-defined investigation, in which the large bosses are left out of the picture, is a short blow.
The Mexican suspects deny and have held their lips tight together until now. These are the brothers Victor Manuel (27) and Diego J. (24) from the notorious narcotic state Durango and Candelario VL (37) from Chihuahua.
In those ruthless circles, talking to the law is equivalent to the death penalty, also for family members
The court would like to hear from them what they did on board the Arsianco. But their lawyers expect the men to continue to invoke their right to remain silent.
That silence proves nothing, but in the scenario that the suspects would work for a Mexican cartel is not very surprising.
In the telephones of the Mexicans, the police found a cash book with, among other things, photos of trays full of (produced) crystals, a total of more than 100 kilos. The police think that drugs were made from mid-December until the raid. The telephone traffic would have shown that the Mexicans received instructions from Mexico via the app.
Of course, the police and the judiciary want to know exactly what the role of Mexicans is, who the organizers and clients are. Mexican crystal suspects have also recently been caught in other crystal meth labs - in Wuustwezel and Wateringen. Something structural is going on.
It is not for nothing that a delegation from the Dutch police recently made a working visit to Mexico, where it was driven around in highly secured transport. That is the problem immediately. Mexico is a narco state where supreme drug cartels have infiltrated the police, the judiciary and the administration and where it is difficult for the Dutch judiciary to investigate, let alone gather evidence.
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Reportage on the ongoing violence in the state of Guerrero: “Acapulco - Hellish Paradise†by Alfredo Bosco
***warning: graphic images***
In the crystal-clear waters of a bay in the Pacific Ocean, Elizabeth Taylor smiled ecstatically at the beauty of a city whose name to her and many other Hollywood celebrities was synonymous with Paradise: Acapulco.
Today Acapulco, the most important city in the State of Guerrero, is the theatre of an ongoing war between criminal gangs and the Mexican government. The consequences are poverty, violence, and as a result the demise of wealthy tourism, especially from the Unites States and Canada.
Leader of infamous Mexican cartel dies in prison after contracting Covid-19 11 May, 2020 14:09 / Updated 1 day ago
Notorious Mexican cartel leader Moises Escamilla May has died after contracting the novel coronavirus while serving a lengthy sentence in maximum-security prison on a raft of serious drugs and weapons charges. Escamilla headed one of the factions of the Los Zetas cartel – a notorious criminal gang in Mexico, involved in cross-border cocaine smuggling as well as kidnapping, sex trafficking and extortion. According to the Jalisco State Health Secretariat, Escamilla contracted the virus on May 6 and passed away two days later from respiratory complications believed to be linked to his excessive weight. He was over a decade into a 37-year sentence after being convicted of a range of serious offenses including organized crime, drug charges, possessing firearms, and involvement in the decapitation of 12 people in 2008. Earlier this month, the UN warned about the “chronic†state of prisons in Latin America, which are particularly overcrowded – sometimes at five times their recommended capacity – making them breeding grounds for the spread of coronavirus. Since the start of the viral outbreak, there have been several incidents of prisoners protesting anti-sanitary conditions in their facilities, including a bloody riot in La Modelo prison in Columbia in March in which more than 20 people were killed and over 80 injured. Bogota prison riot over coronavirus leaves 23 dead and 83 injured – Colombian justice ministry (VIDEOS) The Puente Grande maximum security prison in which Escamilla was incarcerated has reported 74 confirmed Covid-19 cases to date, according to health officials, however it’s unclear how many of the sick prisoners have died from the disease.
He was in his sister's car who, together with her husband, were also killed in the attack. According to Mexican police, there was a shooting on Friday night in Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa. The three were kidnapped and found dead the next day in a black SUV.