In mid-October, 13 Mexican police officers were killed in an ambush in El Mencho's home state of Michoacn in western Mexico. his anguished parents asked. //]]>. Agents and prosecutors didn't openly discuss in court records or hearings which cartel supplied Farfan, but The Courier Journal learned in February that he was supplied by a top U.S. target, the Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin the subject of a nine-month investigation and 28-page special report by the newspaper in 2019. Agents arrested him in 2006, and he was convicted of illegally reentering the U.S. and trafficking cocaine and meth. The Michoacan Attorney Generals Office revealed that the bodies were removed and the scene was largely cleaned by the perpetrators. They seized more than $1 million in drug moneyhis couriers were hauling to Mexico. In Hillsboro, a suburb 30 minutes west of Portland, a savvy drug cell leader supplied by Victor Farfan seemed untouchable. Furthermore, it's part of their propaganda drive to recruit the many youths seeking that "narco"-glamorized life, flashed and filtered by images of beautiful women, mounds of money and a depository of deadly arms. "A very big, increasing problem. A nine-month Courier Journal investigation reveals how CJNG's reach hasspread across the U.S. in the past five years, overwhelming cities and small towns with massive amounts of drugs. Walker then secured search warrants to monitor social media accounts, where drug ring members chatted in code on Facebook Messenger. CJNG's rapid rise to power and its expansion havestunned and stymied Americas top drug fighters. There's a reason why gente de Sinaloa stay in business while everyone else eats shit and goes away. Critics say the Mexican president, known as AMLO, seems more concerned about using federal troops to keep South Americanimmigrants out of his country than challenging the cartels. In cases in which immigrants resist the cartel's offer, CJNG members often threatened violence to them or their loved ones back in Mexico, according to court cases and law enforcement officials. ", "The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!". Armas, in turn, supplied the former nurse and other dealers who carted the drugs further west into Seaside and other communities in Clatsop. Eduardo mulled over his future. You can follow him onTwitterand onFacebook. From the shadows, he continues to lead CJNG with ruthless authority. Both serve as popular entry ports for the precursor chemicals in synthetic drugs, mostly brought in fromChina. The 56-year-old rose from the humble roots of an avocado growing family, dropped out of primary school to work in the fields, to become one of the most potent drug lords on the planet. The judge also noted that while there was no evidence Farfan was physically violent, "the drugs that he played a role in distributing, including as a leader, caused so much harm in our community.". CJNG burns rivals face alive as a way of mocking his nickname Ghost Rider. Farfan agreed to forfeit $100,000, and the judge ordered him to remain on supervised release for five years after he serves his time in prison. It has drug cells all across the U.S., even in tiny towns. In just six months, smugglers brought across the border almost two kilos of fentanyl up to 1 million lethal doses of the No. Courier Journal reporters pieced together CJNGs network, from the suburbs of Seattle, the beaches of Mississippi and South Carolina, Californias coastline, the mountains of Virginia, small farming towns in Iowa and Nebraska, and across the Bluegrass State, including in Louisville, Lexington and Paducah. He doesn't make wild errors; he doesn't hesitate; one word for el Mecho is 'calculated,'" Wesley said. But DEA agents across the border are sharing intelligence and working with their Mexican counterparts to devise ways to dismantle CJNG and arrest its leaders. During that time,overdoses sent more victims to Kentucky's morgues than bullets and car crashes combined withthe commonwealth sufferingthe fifth-highest overdose death rate in the nation. As a young adult, he and his older brother, Abraham Oseguera Cervantes,sold heroin to two undercover police officers at a San Francisco bar in 1992 and were sent to federal prison on drug trafficking charges. (REUTERS/Stringer). But he ended up working for his Uncle Victor. Pullup the seat. In Mexico, a DEA investigator said he was stunned when he learned CJNG cells were popping up in communities as small as Axton. In May, a judge sentenced Armas to serve seven years and six months in prison, followed by five years of supervision. From there, Victor Farfan and his inner circle supplied drug trafficker John Armas in Hillsboro. Farfan refused to talk to agents or prosecutors. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Additional Video Update: There is an additional video of a fight against state police that took place in the town of Tizapn El Alto. The cartel circulates these images of torture and execution on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to spread fear and intimidation. He handed the bag to Noe Antonio Machado-Medrano, then age 23. Prosecutors say Parra Pedroza and Pineda Sanchezwould keepa percentage, with the rest going tocartel members in Mexico. Ciro Macias Martinez was praised by his supervisor and fellow farmhands alike for his punctuality, work ethicand soothing manner with horses at the breeding and training farm in the heart of Kentucky. Eleven months after the Lexington raid, a SWAT team crept in the darkness and blasted off the front door of the tire shop owner's house in Louisville. "He spoke with Mexican-based members of the conspiracy, met interstate couriers and directed subordinates," prosecutors noted in a government motion to keep Farfan locked up pending trial. 17. Sam Upshaw Jr., Louisville Courier Journal. Regardless, prosecutors had strong evidence including transcripts from six months of wire taps in 2018 as Farfan chatted about drug shipments. Most people don't associate drug trafficking with the scenic tourist destinations along the Oregon coast, but Mexican cartels seek less scrutiny there. Yet, no sooner had authorities busted Kentucky's CJNG ringthan the cartel replaced Macias, sending in another team. Officials in Attorney General William Barr's office declined to comment on The Courier Journal's findings. "It's gonna be hard to catch him slippin'," said Mori, the DEA agent overseeing the U.S. criminal investigation against El Mencho. Garbage. I am a family man. Agents say Macias didn'tinvolveCalumet in his drug crimes. Se le pudre el Gobierno de #Michoacan a @ARBedolla MASACRAN A 17 PERSONAS que se encontraban en un velorio. "One of the techniques cartels use here in the United States is to take young people and make them responsible for significant amounts of drugs in order to shield themselves," Schindler said. He knew that cartels have connections inside U.S. prisons. "When Eduardo got involved in this he was a very young man, and it was because of a family connection an uncle who had been involved in Mexico organized crime for decades," his attorney, Matthew A. Schindler, told The Courier Journal, referring to Victor Farfan. "If an agent saw him, we couldnt say, 'Hey, were gonna grab El Mencho right now, take him and put him into custody.' "There would be times on surveillance where you'd see 15 to 25 people roaming the local trap house waiting for the next supply to come in, walking around or sitting in cars, just waiting," said Walker, who later left the department. One of them interrogates the semi-nude Mendoza, who admits he sold drugs in Valle de Santiago, where gunmen assaulted a police station on Friday, killing five prisoners and freeing another. Agents followed Machado-Medrano as he took a taxi to a bus station and headed to a bathroom. For example, a Lexington waitress seekingcash to pay fordental assistant courses ended up making bank deposits that she didnt know were for CJNG, according to court transcripts. It is a tactic later mimicked by the likes of ISIS, a digital bid to intimidate and inflict anxiety on enemy factions and send a warning to government law enforcement who dare to meddle in their monetary schemes. Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. As they hovered over a cartel convoy, CJNG members fired Russian-made rocket-propelled grenade launchers, shooting down Morales helicopterinto a cluster of trees. The unparalleled speed of CJNGs growth coasttocoast in less than a decade has made the cartel a clear, present and growing danger, says Uttam Dhillon, DEA's acting administrator. He agreed to talk to agents only about certain drug crimes, including detailing his actions and his uncle's actions inside the U.S., after a judge released him from jail on bond and after his elder family members gave him their blessing. The incident is only one of many deeds of bloodshed to have been carried out by the CJNG, whose barbarity is said to be on ascendance in recent weeks and months spilling on to U.S. soil and livelihoods. Mexico's CJNG is currently making a series of territorial incursions around the country to take control of key fuel theft, drug trafficking, and human smuggling regions. Armas, in turn, paid Farfan, who then oversaw the flow of money back to cartel members in Mexico. That load was headed from Portland to Baltimore. Police arrested Farfan in October 2018 as he and Montes drove toward California on Highway 99 near Roseburg, nearly three hours south of Portland, while towing a car. Unlike most cartels and affiliated crime units that permeate Mexico, the CJNG has long posted its most extreme real-life horror films on display for the world to see across social media beheaded bodies left to hang and rot on bridges in broad daylight and beatings so brutal that the sound of bones cracking can be heard. Flames leftMoralesdisabled and disfigured. While officials can't say how much of the U.S. drug trade comes from CJNG, they predict the powerful organization is poised to supplant the more well-known and established Sinaloa Cartel as the world's most powerful drug trafficking organization. The investigation documented CJNG operations in at least 35 states and Puerto Rico, a sticky web that has snared struggling business owners, thousands of drug users and Mexican immigrants terrified to challenge cartel orders. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Market data provided by Factset. There, he built a thriving drug trafficking business, but the city's dominantcartel ordered him to leave when leaders became threatened by his success. "The CJNG is one of the most powerful (cartels) and in a short time may become the dominating force in Mexico if not restrained. Dozens of couriers throughout the U.S. would then collect the drug profits and use the dirty moneyto buy scrap and fine gold. All the CJNG nutthuggers here's your bad ass cartel terrorizing 10 year kids with dynamite. Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password. "Once the cartel brings a huge load across (the border) and throws it out there for everyone to sell, its out of their hands. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel). Many are committed by cartels. Bizarre / Cartel / Murder / Pure Gore. Prosecutors successfully pushed for 15 years in their sentencing memo, pointing to Farfan's "unwillingness to stop drug trafficking and his unwillingness to remain outside of the United States." "He was very minutely involved. Rapid gunfire could be heard in videos that appeared to have been recorded at the scene of the mass murder. U.S. officials have . "All intelligence indicates hes still there, moving regularly," said Craine, the retired DEA supervisor who led the successful hunt for El Chapo. Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) gunmen lined up at least 17 victims and shot them during a funeral in western Mexico Sunday. "If you provide information to the Mexican government, its probably the last thing you would say.". CJNG took credit on social media for the massacre. Why is The Courier Journal reporting on a deadly Mexican drug cartel? The Farfans and other defendants mulling over plea offers took it as a threat if they mentioned any cartel connections. With a $10 million reward on his head, hes on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrations Most Wanted list. Warren traveled to six cities in the U.S. and reviewed thousands of documents in more than 100 court cases and sought prison interviews with more than two dozen cartel members and associates. To help Maciassmuggle drugs into the U.S., cartel leaders used a Toyota Camry with a secret compartment on the armrest that opened through a sequence of steps: Turnon the heater. In an international operation that stretches back to 2011 dubbed "King's Gold," Homeland Security investigatorsin Chicago uncovered a money laundering organization that funneled more than $101 million to CJNG and another cartel. Mexican cartel murders bride at altar during her own wedding, kidnaps groom, Canada's defence minister pledges 200 armoured personnel carriers for Ukraine during . They control witnesses in the U.S. by threatening to kidnap, torture and kill loved ones within their reach in Mexico, hamstringing agents trying to target drug kingpins and their powerful inner circle. CHINESE 'CARTELS' QUIETLY OPERATING IN MEXICO, AIDING US DRUG CRISIS. Authorities identified one of the four victims as Rey Jose Poblete Ramos, a man with a lengthy criminal history. It is known for its aggressive use of violence and its public relations campaigns. He initially came to the U.S. to earn money as a mechanic for another relative. "He has transformed his life from being an insular methamphetamine abuser to an active member of the recovery community, mentoring and guiding others who struggle," his attorney argued in a May 6, 2020, sentence memo asking for leniency. Colima: Four members of the CJNG cartel mistakenly identified a ten year old girl as the daughter of a rival involved in a conflict over drug market territory. Using others to deposit drug profitsin cartel-controlled bankaccounts. Armas and his wife, known as "Coco," used a handful of drug associates to store and repackage the drugs and drive them to Seaside and surrounding areas. Alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel arrested on smuggling charges in 2010 Credit: . In a Nov. 5 tweet, after nine people including six children with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship were killed by cartels(though different ones than CJNG), President Donald Trump vowed to assist Mexican officials "in cleaning out these monsters. . And, in a 2019 case pending in federal court,an accused cartel lieutenantconnected to Chicago drug trafficking settled into a $2 million Nashville condo. Roberto never talked to agents or prosecutors. More:He reached 'kingpin' status by selling Mexican cartel-supplied drugs. Echeagaray pointed out that CJNG, although very violent, does not target civilians systematically. But they didn't know about dogged sheriff's detective John Walker, who developed informants and bought drugs while undercover. The CJNG could take on the Sinaloa area, Baja California and the Golden Triangle, which it currently does not have in its control, but it's trying," said Wesley Tabor, a retired assistant special agent in charge of Los Angeles Field Division of the DEA. Los Marros behead man, woman from CJNG cartel, Two men dismembered, ditched on road along with pizzas and cartel narcomantas, CJNG cartel members BBQ dismembered opps in Mexico, Sicarios who brutally stabbed two men to death dismembered in Mexico, Cartel members skin two men alive and wear their faces on their head. IRAN SENTENCES 3 MORE MEN TO AMPUTATION FOR 'STEALING,' REVIVING ONCE-RARE ISLAMIC LAW. "The tug of war between CJNG and Sinaloa is getting more violent, likely driven by a stronger CJNG, which managed to make several territorial gains while Sinaloa saw bouts of infighting after El Chapo's capture," Ines Echeagaray, a Mexico-based Senior Analyst at Global Risk Analysis, told Fox News. It has drug cells all across the U.S., even in tiny towns. Adam died midsentence while writing a thank-you note to a friend on the eve of entering a rehab facility. Theyve got their money," Williams said. This time, as Farfan oversaw his drug business, FBI agents mounted an investigation against him. 2020 has been an especially savage year in the border city of Tijuana,racking upalmost 2,000 murders almost on par with 2019 and once again earning the label of having the highest murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico. Hisoffice has prosecuted Sinaloa and CJNG members. Treasury Department officials stood with Sessions and announced more sanctions on businesses linked to CJNG and its affiliate, Los Cuinis. Throughout Mexico, more than 40,000 children and adults remain missing. Police grabbed him, finding two kilos of fentanyl stuffed in a backpack. Snchez was once a top lieutenant in the CJNG, but split to form his own cartel called La Nueva Plaza in 2017. He previously was convicted on federal drug charges in the U.S. and was deported at least twice. Eduardo began running errands for his uncle, including delivering a bag to an El Salvador native who flew in from Maryland. A high-ranking state official in Jaliscosaid Americans are too quick to blame Mexico for the U.S. drug crisis. Los Cabos allegedly engaged in this violence in support of CJNG, one of the most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world. Their current. Walker realized he wasn't the only one watching this drug ring. CJNG torture video - The man was poured alcohol on his head and set on fire The man was poured alcohol on his head and set on fire The gunmen used isopropyl alcohol to set fire to the man's face and mocked his nickname. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, In America, Hispanic workers find themselves looked atwith suspicion because of political rhetoric that brands the drug trade and immigration as one and the same, say advocates for those workers. Sanctions recently imposed by the United States and Mexico on CJNG members allegedly linked to two high-profile murders demonstrate that the criminal group is one of the few remaining with a traditional hierarchical structure. The military veteran served in Operation Desert Shield in 1990 and didn't have a criminal history, but he and his wife suffered from addiction. Make no mistake, Taylor said. Signed Elite Group.". El Menchos powerful international syndicate is flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl every year despite being targeted repeatedly by undercover stings, busts and lengthy investigations. For an overview of the Pjaros Sierra versus Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin (CJNG) conflict, please see this previous Borderland Beat story. "My family knows Im not that person. For two years, Farfan's nephew, Eduardo Alvarez Farfan, was scared silent. He was thought to be one of the leaders of Carteles Unidos. At night,from 2015 through April2017, Maciasdirected the flow of $30 millionworth ofheroin, cocaine, ecstasy, crystal meth and fentanylfromMexico to Kentucky's two largest cities:Lexington and Louisville. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Victor Alvarez Farfan began sneaking into the U.S. and targeting the Portland area more than two decades ago when he was in his early 20s. Parra Pedroza and Pineda Sanchez received 13 and 15 years, respectively, in prison after both pleaded guilty to money laundering. Farfan got the drugs from CJNG members in Michoacn, a western state long controlled by the cartel, La Familia Michoacna. Mexican Cartel Members Behead Two Men. For police, it was d vu. But someCJNGbossesdidnt follow those rules. In June 2015, the Mexican military arrested El Menchos son and second-in-command, Rubn Oseguera Gonzles. . And for those who make the gut-wrenching decision to stay, life has been reduced to the desperate, defensive gambit ofdigging trenchesacross highways in western Michoacn. His cousin, Roberto Carlos Farfan Alvarez, known as "Raton" or "Mouse," pleaded guilty but never talked to police. Months later, the veteran texted his adult son about his gratitude that agents arrested him, saving his life. MEMBERS ONLY. In Mexico, El Mencho is a household name. Pictures taken of the victims show them blindfolded, with their arms and legs bound. Despite the capture of certain top leaders, it is now Mexico's foremost criminal threat . He can be contacted atIortiz@breitbart.com. Armas also used a former nurse from Clatsop County who was battling addiction to cart drugs from Hillsboro to the coast. They are surrounded by 13 masked men, apparently Los Zetas hitmen, who point their rifles at them. Known as "El Mencho," he's remained in hiding for years and is on the DEA's Most Wanted list. His attorney lobbied for 13 years, claiming his client likely couldn't survive a longer prison stint. He co-founded Breitbart Texas Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darbyand senior Breitbart management. Cartels target tourist destinations along Oregon coast for illegal drug distribution. Headless bodies were dumped at the doorstep of a business associated with the Farfan family in their home state of Michoacn. But soon, he was asked to deliver drugs. According to U.S. officials, the CJNG is now the primary drug trafficking outfit in 24 of Mexico's 32 states. "And that his uncle had manipulated him and used him and his cousin. Next steps crucial, experts say. "They are, however, big on extortion and can turn to violence if victims refuse to cooperate," she asserted. including the drug-related killings of two Mexican brothers in 2014, one of whom was found . Betrayal led to the drug ring'scollapse. "Once 'safe' areas such as Mexico City and Puebla State and the tourist zones of the Yucatan Peninsula are now contested. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. 1 / 6. He shares intel with the DEA,but not his own people. Tipped off that a police caravan was on its way to grab El Mencho, CJNGhitmen hidalong the route in April 2015 and ambushed fourpolice vehicles. He paid couriers to return the drug profits to him. 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