AZMEX UPDATE2 30 NOV 2017
UPDATE: Border Patrol agent involved in fatal shooting 'saved partner's life'
Posted: Nov 29, 2017 5:40 PM MST
Updated: Nov 30, 2017 9:15 AM MST
Written By Associated Press
Written By Steve Nunez
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36957499/border-patrol-agent-fatally-shoots-man-in-arizona
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Tucson Sector Rodolfo Karisch
UPDATE: The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector says he believes the action of one of his agents who shot and killed a suspected illegal immigrant Wednesday morning, "saved his partner's life."
During a media-only press briefing, Chief Rodolfo Karisch said a team of two agents confronted a group of illegal immigrants and were in the process of arresting them when one of them attacked an agent.
Karisch said during the struggle the illegal immigrant was able to get on top of the agent and pull his weapon from his holster. That's when the second agent shot the illegal immigrant.
The agents detained three other illegal immigrants in the group, according to Karisch. All three are Guatemalan nationals.
The agent who was assaulted suffered minor injuries.
The fatal shooting is being investigated by the FBI, Tohono O'odham Nation Police and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
No other details were provided.
Watch Thursday's full new conference below.
Note: earlier
TUCSON - Border Patrol officials say an agent has fatally shot a man in a remote area of Arizona.
They say the agent was being assaulted Wednesday by a man in a group of people believed to be in the country illegally.
Further details on the assault weren't immediately available.
Border Patrol officials say the Tucson Sector agent shot the man in the Baboquivari Mountain Range and he later died of his wounds.
Three members of the group have been taken into custody and agents are searching the area for others.
The name of the agent and the man killed haven't been released.
Authorities say the shooting is being investigated by the FBI, Tohono O'odham Nation police and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Border agents seize 140 pounds of fentanyl at Arizona border in 2017
BY KEVYN GESSNER/CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 30, 2017 AT 9:57 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1852995/border-agents-seize-140-pounds-of-fentanyl-at-arizona-border-in-2017/
FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. Acting United States DEA administrator Chuck Rosenberg will visit China next week amid efforts to cut off the Chinese supply of deadly synthetic drugs, like fentanyl. China disputes U.S. claims that it's the top source of opioids. Still, Beijing has already banned fentanyl, an opioid some 50 times stronger than heroin, and 18 related compounds. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
PHOENIX – Agents have seized 140 pounds of fentanyl at Arizona's ports of entry in 2017, a 600 percent increase from 2016, according to a report from United States Customs and Border Protection.
The report stated 140 pounds is enough to kill 21 million people.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Shannon Scheel, Director for Drug Prevention and Education for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, said one of the biggest components of the increase is because Fentanyl can simply be purchased from the black market on the internet.
"All of these items are manufactured – that's why they're called synthetic opioids," Scheel said. "They're not grown from a heroin plant or opium poppies these are synthetic and manufactured. So, it can be easily obtained."
Beth Brady, Crime Lab Director for the Department of Public Safety, said another contribution to the increase of illegal fentanyl is the low price.
"People have switched to heroin, which is cheaper," Brady said. "So now we're just seeing the next step in that process, now people unknowingly are being given fentanyl mixed in with heroin."
Scheel said the reason they lace heroin with fentanyl is to increase the high of the person taking the drug, but the smallest amount of fentanyl can be deadly.
"It takes an amount of just a couple grains of salt to be potentially catastrophic for somebody," Brady said.
Fentanyl is sold in pharmacies in the form of a patch, spray or injection, and is prescribed to people with large amounts of pain like cancer patients.
It's in a much lower dose, and is slowly released into the patient's system throughout a 72-hour period.
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Note: Compared to sentences in parts of the US?
Five people sentenced for transporting drugs and weapons
Details Published on Wednesday, November 29, 2017,
El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=102069
Hermosillo, Son
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) in its Delegation in Sonora, obtained from a Judge of Prosecution of the Federal Criminal Justice Center, conviction for five people, for transporting marijuana and weapons, in Santa Ana, Sonora.
The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), reported that the accused must serve a sentence of 22 years in prison, six months and pay a fine of 120 days minimum wage, for being criminally responsible for the crime against health, in the form of transportation of marijuana, transportation of firearms for exclusive use of the Army, with the aggravation of gang affiliation.
According to the criminal case, elements of the Federal Police arrested, in the vicinity of the Federal Highway, stretch Santa Ana - El Ocuca,
José Raúl "N",
Luis Ángel "N",
José Leonardo "N",
Marco Alejandro "N" and a
Gibran Alexis "N",
on board a vehicle with 22 packages containing 200 kilos of marijuana, four long weapons and a short weapon.
The sentenced are in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 11, based in Hermosillo, Sonora, where they serve their sentence.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 30-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 30 NOV 2017
Man fatally shot following assault on Border Patrol agent, several agencies investigating
KGUN 9 Digital Staff
4:25 PM, Nov 29, 2017
39 mins ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/man-fatally-shot-following-assault-on-border-patrol-agent-several-agencies-investigating
Autoplay:
THREE POINTS, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - A man has been fatally shot after he assaulted a Border Patrol agent.
The shooting happened just before noon today in a remote area of the Baboquivari Mountain Range west of Three Points.
The agent discharged his service issued sidearm, hitting a man who has assaulted him. The man has since succumbed to his injuries.
The man fatally shot was one of several in a group of suspected illegal aliens, according to a media release.
Three members of the group are currently in custody, and agents are searching the area for others.
This incident is under investigation by the FBI, CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility, and Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department.
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Zip line used in attempt to smuggle drugs across border
Wednesday, November 29th 2017, 7:01 pm MST
Thursday, November 30th 2017, 5:10 am MST
By Elizabeth Walton, Digital Content Producer
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/36957920/zip-line-used-in-attempt-to-smuggle-drugs-across-the-border
Drug bundles discovered near international border in Douglas, AZ. (Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
DOUGLAS, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Border Patrol agents with the Douglas Station seized 10 bundles of marijuana and arrested a person after they attempted to smuggle drugs across the border using a zip line on Wednesday, Nov. 29.
Agents using surveillance technology detected the suspect who was only a few feet from the border. According to a CBP release, the suspect was attempting to hide in a vacant lot on the east side of Douglas. When agents arrived at the scene they found the drug bundles and an 18-year-old suspect identified as a resident of Douglas.
After a search of the area, BP agents reported finding a zip line attached to a tall building south of the border in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. BP agents notified law enforcement in Mexico, who then searched the area at the zip line's point of origin. They reported finding no other suspects.
The bundles of marijuana, weighing more than 240 pounds with an estimated value of $120,000, were seized and brought to the Douglas Station for processing. The suspect was arrested and is facing federal smuggling charges and will remain in custody pending further disposition, according to the CBP release.
END
Man fatally shot following assault on Border Patrol agent, several agencies investigating
KGUN 9 Digital Staff
4:25 PM, Nov 29, 2017
39 mins ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/man-fatally-shot-following-assault-on-border-patrol-agent-several-agencies-investigating
Autoplay:
THREE POINTS, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - A man has been fatally shot after he assaulted a Border Patrol agent.
The shooting happened just before noon today in a remote area of the Baboquivari Mountain Range west of Three Points.
The agent discharged his service issued sidearm, hitting a man who has assaulted him. The man has since succumbed to his injuries.
The man fatally shot was one of several in a group of suspected illegal aliens, according to a media release.
Three members of the group are currently in custody, and agents are searching the area for others.
This incident is under investigation by the FBI, CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility, and Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department.
END
Zip line used in attempt to smuggle drugs across border
Wednesday, November 29th 2017, 7:01 pm MST
Thursday, November 30th 2017, 5:10 am MST
By Elizabeth Walton, Digital Content Producer
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/36957920/zip-line-used-in-attempt-to-smuggle-drugs-across-the-border
Drug bundles discovered near international border in Douglas, AZ. (Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
DOUGLAS, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Border Patrol agents with the Douglas Station seized 10 bundles of marijuana and arrested a person after they attempted to smuggle drugs across the border using a zip line on Wednesday, Nov. 29.
Agents using surveillance technology detected the suspect who was only a few feet from the border. According to a CBP release, the suspect was attempting to hide in a vacant lot on the east side of Douglas. When agents arrived at the scene they found the drug bundles and an 18-year-old suspect identified as a resident of Douglas.
After a search of the area, BP agents reported finding a zip line attached to a tall building south of the border in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. BP agents notified law enforcement in Mexico, who then searched the area at the zip line's point of origin. They reported finding no other suspects.
The bundles of marijuana, weighing more than 240 pounds with an estimated value of $120,000, were seized and brought to the Douglas Station for processing. The suspect was arrested and is facing federal smuggling charges and will remain in custody pending further disposition, according to the CBP release.
END
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
AZMEX SPECIAL 27-11-17
AZMEX SPECIAL 27 NOV 2017
Note: Another update on Rancho Negro in Chih.
From the good folks at Borderland Beat and Proceso.
Much bigger story in Mexico than here.
Several photos.
http://www.proceso.com.mx/512514/cocinero-mexico-atrapo-estados-unidos-dejo-ir
thx
Sunday, November 26, 2017
El Rancho Negro, Chihuahua: Meth, Death, and Porn Cult
Translated by Yaqui from Proceso
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/el-rancho-negro-chihuahua-meth-death.html#more
Cult Leader Orson William Black Jr.
Extra Material from Various Sources
Nov 25, 2017 Cuauhtemoc, Chih.
In the quiet Mennonite plains of the outskirts of this city, a US citizen, Orson William Black Jr, former member of a polygamous sect founded in the nineteenth century, decided to found his own sect with another twenty plus of his countrymen and women. Until the day of his arrest, on Saturday Nov 4, no one imagined what was allegedly happening within his commune: rituals that included pedophilia and a secret link with narcos and organized crime. Besides being on the lam for 15 years from US Authorities for sexual abuse of minors; it is now suspected that he was engaged in cooking meth, animal and human trafficking, and transmitting child pornography over the internet.
Black, 56, is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that began after the mainstream Mormon church disavowed polygamy.The sect advocates plural marriage, and its members commonly have legal marriages with their first wife and "spiritual marriages" with other wives.
The group is mainly based in the twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. Its leader, Warren Jeffs, is serving a life sentence in Texas after being convicted of sexually assaulting girls he considered brides.
Black's Arrest and the raid on his compound included 100 US FBI agents and the DEA
Despite the fact that since the arrest, the state government of Chihuahua has denied the collusion of Orson William Black Jr. with the organized crime that operates in the Cuauhtémoc area, US federal agents and relatives of some members of Black's sect assure this weekly that Orson actively collaborated with drug trafficking and that, in fact, that was the reason why they murdered two of his sons and a stepson.
Investigations of those killings led to the arrest of the cult leader.
Orson William Black Jr. was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose ex-leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual abuse of two of his followers who were minors.
Similarly, after being accused in his country of committing sexual abuse against two teenagers, Orson decided to cross the border with Mexico and hide in Chihuahua, where he has been for more than 15 years. But the murder of his children, on September 10 at his ranch El Negro, attracted the attention of the authorities. Black's three sons; Michael B 15 years old, Robert B 19 yrs, and stepson Jesse 23,were killed execution style outside of one of the trailer homes.
In an operation that had the support of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US DEA and the US consulate, agents of the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Chihuahua detained Black on Saturday, Nov 4 and he was deported four days later. In fact, over 100 FBI agents were involved in the raid on Rancho Negro's heavily fortified compound.
Pennie Petersen, an American resident of Arizona and the sister of two of Black's wives, was the first to hear about the murders of the three teenagers. Two of them were her nephews: "They called me from the office of the Alguaciles Corps to tell me that there was bad news: two of my nephews had been murdered in Mexico," she says.
The Trailer Outside of which Orson Black Jr's Sons were found riddled with bullets
Pennie Peterson uses her married name. She is the sister of Roberta and Beth Stubbs, the fourth and fifth wives of the cult leader. Black married Roberta in 1998, when she was just 15 years old, and Beth in 2002, when she was 17.
"Orson almost killed my sister Roberta. Before he married her, he got her pregnant at 12, and I decided I had to do something. I reported it to the authorities, "says Pennie. Black denied ever touching either of them and the sisters claim that they inseminated themselves with Black's semen. The Stubbs sisters refused to testify and fled with Black to Mexico.
Orson had a son with each of them: Michael and Robert. Both, along with his stepson Jesse Barlow, nephew of Dan Barlow, former mayor of Colorado City, Arizona. The young men were killed by more than 100 bullets, according to the report of the Chihuahua District Attorney's Office.
When an officer of the Arizona Sheriff's Department notified Pennie of the death of her two nephews, he provided another piece of information: "Orson had links with the mafia, he was cooking methamphetamines for the Sinaloa Cartel" in Cuauhtémoc.
"I was not surprised by the data, to be honest. Orson was cooking methamphetamine since he lived in Arizona. He dedicated himself to that. He was a chemist. He ended up entangled with the mafia in Mexico and when they could not grab him, they went after his children, " says Petersen.
Pennie Petersen, who is estranged from her sisters, said the men who were killed were two of Black's sons and his stepson. She said she was told by members of her extended family that the deaths were a drug cartel hit, possibly because Black either stole money or drugs. He wasn't home and the cartel killed the others instead, she said.
"They told the family when they killed those boys, if William doesn't turn himself into us, we're going to come back, kill everybody over the age of 6 and we're going to take everyone under the age of 6," Petersen said.
Their statements coincide with the version of an American federal agent assigned in Texas, who works in the investigation:
"The murderers watched the El Negro ranch for about three days, waiting for Black, ie, to kill him. As they did not find him, they went after the young men and left the threat that they would go for other members of their family, they threatened to kill everyone, and TAKE, ie kidnap those under the age of six" confides the agent, who asks that his identity remained anonymous.
However, Carlos Huerta, a spokesman for the Chihuahua Public Prosecutor's Office, says that the investigations in Mexico have not reported any link between Black and the drug traffickers.
Wild animals:
Orson Black Jr, along with 26 other Americans illegally residing in Mexico, had five properties: four houses and a ranch of more than five hectares. He also owned a dozen mobile homes distributed throughout the properties. All 27 persons, including 4 wives , one "concubine" and minors, had illegal residency status in Mexico and all were deported.
El Rancho Negro is on the Mennonite field number 12 and is the last property on a rural road that ends at the foot of a mountain. Here is where they murdered the three young men and it is also where, according to the neighbors, the cult practiced the rituals of worship to Black himself.
"We did not really know what was happening there at the ranch, but they had several bears and other animals that fed on the viscera of the cows they sacrificed for some kind of ritual," says Juanito Peters, one of Black's few neighbors.
Proceso had access to the ranch, inside there are three huge cages with skin remains of different animals. Presumably they were the bears that the neighbor had mentioned.
There were over 50 exotic animals found; exotic birds from Asia, stuffed birds, buffalo, elephant feet and legs, butchered zebras and a lion, stuffed and mounted heads, in addition to freezers with dozens of frozen animals.
Luckily for everyone, I failed at adding photos the of the Dead, Frozen, Mounted and Stuffed animals and heads
not to mention the elephant feet and even exotic chicken, fox and goat breeds from Peru
20 horses still walk around, grazing on the property. After the operations, Mexican agents confiscated a total of 65 animals and parts of stuffed animals: the pair of elephant legs, a lion skin, a buffalo head and several exotic birds. Black has also been charged with animal cruelty.
Area with Large Animal Cages and Dog Kennels
At the entrance of the property there is a document with the stamp of the Attorney General of the Republic in which it is noted that the ranch is under the protection of the federal authorities.
There are five mobile homes in the boundaries of the area. Inside at least these three of these trailers there are electronic items such as screens, laptops, remote controls, cameras, cell phones, radios and antennas.
One of the lines of investigation points to the possible transmission of child pornography from this ranch, says an agent that protects the property. "We commandeered seven hard drives and in all the properties we found encrypted antennas and equipment to transmit live over the internet," he explained.
At the back of the ranch there is also a pile of burnt bones, the authorities are currently carrying out the investigations to find out if they are human.
The rest of Black's properties are in the Mennonite camp number 8C with the numbers 19, 26 and 37. In the first, the number 19, was where the authorities found Orson with one of his wives. Property 26 was used as a kind of warehouse and for dog breeding; there were also three storage trailers with different types of goods.
On the wall of one of the kitchens, Black had pictures of members of his sect and images of characters/ prophets like Kennedy, Gandhi and Einstein.
While Black was in control of the entire place, the properties are in the name of Leroy Reynolds, a Mennonite with ties in Arizona. According to the authorities, Reynolds rented the properties to Black, the leader of the sect. The primarily German Canadian Mennonite community that emigrated to the area years ago in the 1920's practice an agrarian pacifist Christian monogamist lifestyle.
Revolving door:
On Wednesday Nov 8, Chihuahua authorities deported Orson William Black Jr. to the United States through the Santa Fe International Bridge, between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, along with 26
of his "followers" due to US demands. All 27 were considered illegal residents of Mexico.
US Authorities demanded of him to face five charges of "criminal conduct" against two teenagers. After being accused by Pennie Petersen of having sex and procreating two children with her sisters while they were still minors, Black's defense argued that he never touched them and that he only inseminated them artificially.
Black was imprisoned only one day. He was released on Thursday, 9, because the Arizona Attorney's Office dropped the charges, the El Paso County jail confirmed that to this weekly.
Records from the 2003 case show Black had been estranged from the polygamous community since the 1980s but still followed its teachings. The case was the first in a series of efforts to crack down on men in the sect and the community's police, which refused to arrest Black, said former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who brought the charges. Goddard lamented that Black is apparently not going to face consequences. "If somebody can just skip the country and then avoid what I believe was a very legitimate child molestation rap, that's a very sad development," he said Tuesday.
Mexican Prosecutors have not ruled out that Black could be a suspect in his son's deaths, and a Mexican official said Tuesday that the case remains under investigation.
Black's whereabouts are not known. He is not in federal custody, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Meanwhile Pennie Petersen has started a change.org petition to try to persuade Arizona prosecutors to file charges once more against Orson Black Jr. in defense of her sisters.
In a statement, the General Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua demanded Black be returned to Mexico to be charged for his crimes in Chihuahua and requested an explanation of the case from the US authorities.
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Note: Another update on Rancho Negro in Chih.
From the good folks at Borderland Beat and Proceso.
Much bigger story in Mexico than here.
Several photos.
http://www.proceso.com.mx/512514/cocinero-mexico-atrapo-estados-unidos-dejo-ir
thx
Sunday, November 26, 2017
El Rancho Negro, Chihuahua: Meth, Death, and Porn Cult
Translated by Yaqui from Proceso
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/el-rancho-negro-chihuahua-meth-death.html#more
Cult Leader Orson William Black Jr.
Extra Material from Various Sources
Nov 25, 2017 Cuauhtemoc, Chih.
In the quiet Mennonite plains of the outskirts of this city, a US citizen, Orson William Black Jr, former member of a polygamous sect founded in the nineteenth century, decided to found his own sect with another twenty plus of his countrymen and women. Until the day of his arrest, on Saturday Nov 4, no one imagined what was allegedly happening within his commune: rituals that included pedophilia and a secret link with narcos and organized crime. Besides being on the lam for 15 years from US Authorities for sexual abuse of minors; it is now suspected that he was engaged in cooking meth, animal and human trafficking, and transmitting child pornography over the internet.
Black, 56, is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that began after the mainstream Mormon church disavowed polygamy.The sect advocates plural marriage, and its members commonly have legal marriages with their first wife and "spiritual marriages" with other wives.
The group is mainly based in the twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. Its leader, Warren Jeffs, is serving a life sentence in Texas after being convicted of sexually assaulting girls he considered brides.
Black's Arrest and the raid on his compound included 100 US FBI agents and the DEA
Despite the fact that since the arrest, the state government of Chihuahua has denied the collusion of Orson William Black Jr. with the organized crime that operates in the Cuauhtémoc area, US federal agents and relatives of some members of Black's sect assure this weekly that Orson actively collaborated with drug trafficking and that, in fact, that was the reason why they murdered two of his sons and a stepson.
Investigations of those killings led to the arrest of the cult leader.
Orson William Black Jr. was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose ex-leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual abuse of two of his followers who were minors.
Similarly, after being accused in his country of committing sexual abuse against two teenagers, Orson decided to cross the border with Mexico and hide in Chihuahua, where he has been for more than 15 years. But the murder of his children, on September 10 at his ranch El Negro, attracted the attention of the authorities. Black's three sons; Michael B 15 years old, Robert B 19 yrs, and stepson Jesse 23,were killed execution style outside of one of the trailer homes.
In an operation that had the support of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US DEA and the US consulate, agents of the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Chihuahua detained Black on Saturday, Nov 4 and he was deported four days later. In fact, over 100 FBI agents were involved in the raid on Rancho Negro's heavily fortified compound.
Pennie Petersen, an American resident of Arizona and the sister of two of Black's wives, was the first to hear about the murders of the three teenagers. Two of them were her nephews: "They called me from the office of the Alguaciles Corps to tell me that there was bad news: two of my nephews had been murdered in Mexico," she says.
The Trailer Outside of which Orson Black Jr's Sons were found riddled with bullets
Pennie Peterson uses her married name. She is the sister of Roberta and Beth Stubbs, the fourth and fifth wives of the cult leader. Black married Roberta in 1998, when she was just 15 years old, and Beth in 2002, when she was 17.
"Orson almost killed my sister Roberta. Before he married her, he got her pregnant at 12, and I decided I had to do something. I reported it to the authorities, "says Pennie. Black denied ever touching either of them and the sisters claim that they inseminated themselves with Black's semen. The Stubbs sisters refused to testify and fled with Black to Mexico.
Orson had a son with each of them: Michael and Robert. Both, along with his stepson Jesse Barlow, nephew of Dan Barlow, former mayor of Colorado City, Arizona. The young men were killed by more than 100 bullets, according to the report of the Chihuahua District Attorney's Office.
When an officer of the Arizona Sheriff's Department notified Pennie of the death of her two nephews, he provided another piece of information: "Orson had links with the mafia, he was cooking methamphetamines for the Sinaloa Cartel" in Cuauhtémoc.
"I was not surprised by the data, to be honest. Orson was cooking methamphetamine since he lived in Arizona. He dedicated himself to that. He was a chemist. He ended up entangled with the mafia in Mexico and when they could not grab him, they went after his children, " says Petersen.
Pennie Petersen, who is estranged from her sisters, said the men who were killed were two of Black's sons and his stepson. She said she was told by members of her extended family that the deaths were a drug cartel hit, possibly because Black either stole money or drugs. He wasn't home and the cartel killed the others instead, she said.
"They told the family when they killed those boys, if William doesn't turn himself into us, we're going to come back, kill everybody over the age of 6 and we're going to take everyone under the age of 6," Petersen said.
Their statements coincide with the version of an American federal agent assigned in Texas, who works in the investigation:
"The murderers watched the El Negro ranch for about three days, waiting for Black, ie, to kill him. As they did not find him, they went after the young men and left the threat that they would go for other members of their family, they threatened to kill everyone, and TAKE, ie kidnap those under the age of six" confides the agent, who asks that his identity remained anonymous.
However, Carlos Huerta, a spokesman for the Chihuahua Public Prosecutor's Office, says that the investigations in Mexico have not reported any link between Black and the drug traffickers.
Wild animals:
Orson Black Jr, along with 26 other Americans illegally residing in Mexico, had five properties: four houses and a ranch of more than five hectares. He also owned a dozen mobile homes distributed throughout the properties. All 27 persons, including 4 wives , one "concubine" and minors, had illegal residency status in Mexico and all were deported.
El Rancho Negro is on the Mennonite field number 12 and is the last property on a rural road that ends at the foot of a mountain. Here is where they murdered the three young men and it is also where, according to the neighbors, the cult practiced the rituals of worship to Black himself.
"We did not really know what was happening there at the ranch, but they had several bears and other animals that fed on the viscera of the cows they sacrificed for some kind of ritual," says Juanito Peters, one of Black's few neighbors.
Proceso had access to the ranch, inside there are three huge cages with skin remains of different animals. Presumably they were the bears that the neighbor had mentioned.
There were over 50 exotic animals found; exotic birds from Asia, stuffed birds, buffalo, elephant feet and legs, butchered zebras and a lion, stuffed and mounted heads, in addition to freezers with dozens of frozen animals.
Luckily for everyone, I failed at adding photos the of the Dead, Frozen, Mounted and Stuffed animals and heads
not to mention the elephant feet and even exotic chicken, fox and goat breeds from Peru
20 horses still walk around, grazing on the property. After the operations, Mexican agents confiscated a total of 65 animals and parts of stuffed animals: the pair of elephant legs, a lion skin, a buffalo head and several exotic birds. Black has also been charged with animal cruelty.
Area with Large Animal Cages and Dog Kennels
At the entrance of the property there is a document with the stamp of the Attorney General of the Republic in which it is noted that the ranch is under the protection of the federal authorities.
There are five mobile homes in the boundaries of the area. Inside at least these three of these trailers there are electronic items such as screens, laptops, remote controls, cameras, cell phones, radios and antennas.
One of the lines of investigation points to the possible transmission of child pornography from this ranch, says an agent that protects the property. "We commandeered seven hard drives and in all the properties we found encrypted antennas and equipment to transmit live over the internet," he explained.
At the back of the ranch there is also a pile of burnt bones, the authorities are currently carrying out the investigations to find out if they are human.
The rest of Black's properties are in the Mennonite camp number 8C with the numbers 19, 26 and 37. In the first, the number 19, was where the authorities found Orson with one of his wives. Property 26 was used as a kind of warehouse and for dog breeding; there were also three storage trailers with different types of goods.
On the wall of one of the kitchens, Black had pictures of members of his sect and images of characters/ prophets like Kennedy, Gandhi and Einstein.
While Black was in control of the entire place, the properties are in the name of Leroy Reynolds, a Mennonite with ties in Arizona. According to the authorities, Reynolds rented the properties to Black, the leader of the sect. The primarily German Canadian Mennonite community that emigrated to the area years ago in the 1920's practice an agrarian pacifist Christian monogamist lifestyle.
Revolving door:
On Wednesday Nov 8, Chihuahua authorities deported Orson William Black Jr. to the United States through the Santa Fe International Bridge, between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, along with 26
of his "followers" due to US demands. All 27 were considered illegal residents of Mexico.
US Authorities demanded of him to face five charges of "criminal conduct" against two teenagers. After being accused by Pennie Petersen of having sex and procreating two children with her sisters while they were still minors, Black's defense argued that he never touched them and that he only inseminated them artificially.
Black was imprisoned only one day. He was released on Thursday, 9, because the Arizona Attorney's Office dropped the charges, the El Paso County jail confirmed that to this weekly.
Records from the 2003 case show Black had been estranged from the polygamous community since the 1980s but still followed its teachings. The case was the first in a series of efforts to crack down on men in the sect and the community's police, which refused to arrest Black, said former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who brought the charges. Goddard lamented that Black is apparently not going to face consequences. "If somebody can just skip the country and then avoid what I believe was a very legitimate child molestation rap, that's a very sad development," he said Tuesday.
Mexican Prosecutors have not ruled out that Black could be a suspect in his son's deaths, and a Mexican official said Tuesday that the case remains under investigation.
Black's whereabouts are not known. He is not in federal custody, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Meanwhile Pennie Petersen has started a change.org petition to try to persuade Arizona prosecutors to file charges once more against Orson Black Jr. in defense of her sisters.
In a statement, the General Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua demanded Black be returned to Mexico to be charged for his crimes in Chihuahua and requested an explanation of the case from the US authorities.
end
Monday, November 27, 2017
AZMEX POLICY 27-11-17
AZMEX POLICY 27 NOV 2017
Note: A busy AZMEX Monday.
Mexico Treasury Secretary announces presidential bid
Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
Updated 5:14 pm, Monday, November 27, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/Mexico-Treasury-Secretary-announces-presidential-12386738.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, embraces outgoing Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade at a press conference to announce changes to the president's cabinet at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Mexico's president has accepted Meade's resignation, a move that opens up a path for the former secretary to become the presidential candidate for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in July 1 elections. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell, AP /
IMAGE 1 OF 4 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, embraces outgoing Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade at a press conference to announce changes to the president's cabinet at Los Pinos presidential residence in ... more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade declared Monday his intention to be the presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the first time a non-PRI member has sought to run on the party's ticket.
Meade resigned from his Cabinet post earlier in the day, saying he was running as a PRI candidate in hopes of achieving "a country where families always have food on the table."
Supporters of the long-ruling party quickly rushed to back Meade's bid despite his outsider status in what appeared a carefully organized effort to quash any internal discontent over his candidacy before party leaders formally name PRI's candidate for the July 1 election.
"We want you to be our candidate," said Carlos Aceves of the Mexican Workers Confederation, which functions more as a wing of the PRI than as an independent union group.
Meade told cheering union officials, "I want you to accompany me in my wish to make Mexico a great power, and for Mexicans that means food, sustenance, housing and better opportunities."
He also quickly picked up the support of the party's farm sector amid drum beating and chants of "We are going to win!"
The exuberant endorsements came even though as a technocratic, Yale-educated economist, Meade has been fairly distant from farm and labor groups. Critics said the carefully staged shows of support recalled the "dedazo" — literally the hand-picking of candidates by the outgoing president that has been a tradition in the PRI for decades.
"The return of the 'dedazo' in all its splendor," tweeted Margarita Zavala, a former first lady who is running as an independent in 2018. "This ritual ... takes us back in time 25 years. In the 21st century, this is shameful."
President Enrique Pena Nieto did not mention Meade's candidacy at a ceremony in which Jose Antonio Gonzalez, the current head of the national oil company Pemex, was tapped to replace Meade at the Treasury Department. Current Pemex financial chief Carlos Trevino will take over the top spot at Pemex.
But Pena Nieto did say of Meade, "I wish him luck in the project he has chosen to undertake."
If Meade is selected as a PRI candidate by a party congress before the Feb. 18 deadline, it would be the first time the party has ever backed a presidential run by someone who was not a party member.
But the PRI has seen its standing in opinion polls slide, battered by a falling peso and U.S. President Donald Trump's jibes at Mexico. That likely prompted the party's turn to an outsider, knowing most Mexicans now say they wouldn't vote for the PRI.
Meade, 48, who has no formal membership with any political party, has crossed lines as a non-partisan technocrat before. He served as foreign relations secretary and head of the social development department under Pena Nieto, and he was energy secretary under former President Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party.
Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray showered praise on Meade last week, saying that "under the leadership of Jose Antonio Meade, Mexico today has stability, a defined course and clarity in economic policy decisions."
Meade helped rein in the government's troubling budget deficits, but he has also presided over high inflation that runs at about 6.4 percent a year and weak economic growth, including a drop in GDP of 0.2 percent in the most recent quarter.
As a former foreign secretary, Meade would have inside knowledge on dealing with the Trump administration, especially U.S. threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is vital to Mexico's economy.
But if Mexico has to cede ground on things like greater U.S. content in autos, the Pena Nieto administration and Meade could suffer.
"We will be hurt regardless of the deal struck, and we will be hurt if no deal is struck," said Federico Estevez, a political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "They'll get blamed for this whatever way it plays."
The PRI is so weak in the polls that it recently changed its internal rules precisely to allow non-party members to run for public office. In the past, being a candidate meant climbing through PRI ranks and proving one had support from its various wings, like farm and labor groups. Party members will still have to submit proof of such support, but under rules apparently tailor-made for Meade, "sympathizers" won't have to meet those standards.
The PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades through 2000 and regained the presidency in 2012, won't formally register candidates until Dec.3, and won't formally name the presidential nominee until Feb. 18.
It is possible Meade could run unopposed for the PRI's nomination. But it is also possible that support for his candidacy from PRI's elite could cause dissent and even desertions among PRI members who feel passed over.
"You can be assured that Meade won't be out there saying anything that's too dramatic, just to be a steady hand on the tiller," Estevez said. "There's a storm coming. You want a technocrat to steer you to safe harbor as quickly as possible. That's all he's offering.
"That's a hard one to sell, you know, because he's the one responsible for leading us into the storm, as far as his opponents see it, and that's the way they'll play it."
end
Note: A busy AZMEX Monday.
Mexico Treasury Secretary announces presidential bid
Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
Updated 5:14 pm, Monday, November 27, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/Mexico-Treasury-Secretary-announces-presidential-12386738.php?utm_campaign=hpborder
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, embraces outgoing Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade at a press conference to announce changes to the president's cabinet at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Mexico's president has accepted Meade's resignation, a move that opens up a path for the former secretary to become the presidential candidate for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in July 1 elections. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell, AP /
IMAGE 1 OF 4 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, embraces outgoing Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade at a press conference to announce changes to the president's cabinet at Los Pinos presidential residence in ... more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade declared Monday his intention to be the presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the first time a non-PRI member has sought to run on the party's ticket.
Meade resigned from his Cabinet post earlier in the day, saying he was running as a PRI candidate in hopes of achieving "a country where families always have food on the table."
Supporters of the long-ruling party quickly rushed to back Meade's bid despite his outsider status in what appeared a carefully organized effort to quash any internal discontent over his candidacy before party leaders formally name PRI's candidate for the July 1 election.
"We want you to be our candidate," said Carlos Aceves of the Mexican Workers Confederation, which functions more as a wing of the PRI than as an independent union group.
Meade told cheering union officials, "I want you to accompany me in my wish to make Mexico a great power, and for Mexicans that means food, sustenance, housing and better opportunities."
He also quickly picked up the support of the party's farm sector amid drum beating and chants of "We are going to win!"
The exuberant endorsements came even though as a technocratic, Yale-educated economist, Meade has been fairly distant from farm and labor groups. Critics said the carefully staged shows of support recalled the "dedazo" — literally the hand-picking of candidates by the outgoing president that has been a tradition in the PRI for decades.
"The return of the 'dedazo' in all its splendor," tweeted Margarita Zavala, a former first lady who is running as an independent in 2018. "This ritual ... takes us back in time 25 years. In the 21st century, this is shameful."
President Enrique Pena Nieto did not mention Meade's candidacy at a ceremony in which Jose Antonio Gonzalez, the current head of the national oil company Pemex, was tapped to replace Meade at the Treasury Department. Current Pemex financial chief Carlos Trevino will take over the top spot at Pemex.
But Pena Nieto did say of Meade, "I wish him luck in the project he has chosen to undertake."
If Meade is selected as a PRI candidate by a party congress before the Feb. 18 deadline, it would be the first time the party has ever backed a presidential run by someone who was not a party member.
But the PRI has seen its standing in opinion polls slide, battered by a falling peso and U.S. President Donald Trump's jibes at Mexico. That likely prompted the party's turn to an outsider, knowing most Mexicans now say they wouldn't vote for the PRI.
Meade, 48, who has no formal membership with any political party, has crossed lines as a non-partisan technocrat before. He served as foreign relations secretary and head of the social development department under Pena Nieto, and he was energy secretary under former President Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party.
Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray showered praise on Meade last week, saying that "under the leadership of Jose Antonio Meade, Mexico today has stability, a defined course and clarity in economic policy decisions."
Meade helped rein in the government's troubling budget deficits, but he has also presided over high inflation that runs at about 6.4 percent a year and weak economic growth, including a drop in GDP of 0.2 percent in the most recent quarter.
As a former foreign secretary, Meade would have inside knowledge on dealing with the Trump administration, especially U.S. threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is vital to Mexico's economy.
But if Mexico has to cede ground on things like greater U.S. content in autos, the Pena Nieto administration and Meade could suffer.
"We will be hurt regardless of the deal struck, and we will be hurt if no deal is struck," said Federico Estevez, a political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "They'll get blamed for this whatever way it plays."
The PRI is so weak in the polls that it recently changed its internal rules precisely to allow non-party members to run for public office. In the past, being a candidate meant climbing through PRI ranks and proving one had support from its various wings, like farm and labor groups. Party members will still have to submit proof of such support, but under rules apparently tailor-made for Meade, "sympathizers" won't have to meet those standards.
The PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades through 2000 and regained the presidency in 2012, won't formally register candidates until Dec.3, and won't formally name the presidential nominee until Feb. 18.
It is possible Meade could run unopposed for the PRI's nomination. But it is also possible that support for his candidacy from PRI's elite could cause dissent and even desertions among PRI members who feel passed over.
"You can be assured that Meade won't be out there saying anything that's too dramatic, just to be a steady hand on the tiller," Estevez said. "There's a storm coming. You want a technocrat to steer you to safe harbor as quickly as possible. That's all he's offering.
"That's a hard one to sell, you know, because he's the one responsible for leading us into the storm, as far as his opponents see it, and that's the way they'll play it."
end
AZMEX EXTRA 27-11-17
AZMEX EXTRA 27 NOV 2017
Army seizes drugs, ammunition, money and weapon magazines in Navojoa (Son)
Details Published on Saturday November 25, 2017,
Written by El Universal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=101855
Navojoa, Son
Elements of the Mexican Army during a search in a house in Navojoa, Sonora, found more than 3.4 million pesos; ($ 183,113.50 USD) 1,190 grams of marijuana and 880 grams of cocaine, as well as 1,653 cartridges and 6 mags for weapons of different calibers.
The II Military Region of Navojoa and the 4 / a. Military Zone of Hermosillo, reported that the events occurred at 17.30 hours on Friday, November 24, when they were on a ground surveillance patrol between Hidalgo and Obregón avenues, in the Reforma neighborhood.
In the number 100 house of the aforementioned address, they observed a person wearing clothes similar to the one used by personnel of the police forces, who upon noticing the presence of military personnel, immediately fled to the building.
Military personnel established a security perimeter and noticed through a window without curtain that in the place there were various bills, magazines and cartridges and what looked like drugs,
A District judge specialized in the Accusatory Penal System of Hermosillo, Sonora granted a search warrant which was completed by the ministerial authorities.
In the place they secured 3 million 492 thousand 500 pesos national currency;
47 doses of cocaine (45 grams);
a bag with marijuana (270 grams);
a container with marijuana (70 grams);
a glass jar with marijuana (795 grams)
and 25 cocaine wrappers (880 grams).
In addition, there were
98 cartridges caliber .45;
91 cartridges of caliber 5.56 mm;
873 9 mm cartridges;
21 cartridges 7.62 x 39 mm;
499 cartridges caliber 40 mm; (.40 S&W?)
30 cartridges caliber 38 super;
2 cartridges caliber 7.62x 51 mm;
38 22 mm caliber cartridges; (.22LR)
1 cartridge 5.7x28 mm;
4 caliber .223 magazines;
1 magazine caliber 45
and a magazine caliber 22.
Photo gallery
end
Army seizes drugs, ammunition, money and weapon magazines in Navojoa (Son)
Details Published on Saturday November 25, 2017,
Written by El Universal
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=101855
Navojoa, Son
Elements of the Mexican Army during a search in a house in Navojoa, Sonora, found more than 3.4 million pesos; ($ 183,113.50 USD) 1,190 grams of marijuana and 880 grams of cocaine, as well as 1,653 cartridges and 6 mags for weapons of different calibers.
The II Military Region of Navojoa and the 4 / a. Military Zone of Hermosillo, reported that the events occurred at 17.30 hours on Friday, November 24, when they were on a ground surveillance patrol between Hidalgo and Obregón avenues, in the Reforma neighborhood.
In the number 100 house of the aforementioned address, they observed a person wearing clothes similar to the one used by personnel of the police forces, who upon noticing the presence of military personnel, immediately fled to the building.
Military personnel established a security perimeter and noticed through a window without curtain that in the place there were various bills, magazines and cartridges and what looked like drugs,
A District judge specialized in the Accusatory Penal System of Hermosillo, Sonora granted a search warrant which was completed by the ministerial authorities.
In the place they secured 3 million 492 thousand 500 pesos national currency;
47 doses of cocaine (45 grams);
a bag with marijuana (270 grams);
a container with marijuana (70 grams);
a glass jar with marijuana (795 grams)
and 25 cocaine wrappers (880 grams).
In addition, there were
98 cartridges caliber .45;
91 cartridges of caliber 5.56 mm;
873 9 mm cartridges;
21 cartridges 7.62 x 39 mm;
499 cartridges caliber 40 mm; (.40 S&W?)
30 cartridges caliber 38 super;
2 cartridges caliber 7.62x 51 mm;
38 22 mm caliber cartridges; (.22LR)
1 cartridge 5.7x28 mm;
4 caliber .223 magazines;
1 magazine caliber 45
and a magazine caliber 22.
Photo gallery
end
AZMEX I3 27-11-17
AZMEX I3 27 NOV 2017
Note: Keep in mind this one is from AP.
Thx
Men cleared of terrorism ties in high-profile border case
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 27, 2017 AT 1:26 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 27, 2017 AT 7:23 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1848748/men-cleared-of-terrorism-ties-in-high-profile-border-case/
FILE - This March 9, 2016, file photo, shows a stop sign in front of the international border fence in Nogales, Ariz. Reports that a group of Middle Eastern men had been caught crossing the border illegally from Mexico into Arizona two years ago set off alarms among right-wing blogs and for Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. Now, documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request reveal that not only were the men cleared of any ties to terrorism, but they were badly mistreated by two Mexican smugglers with a history of crossing the border illegally. (AP Photo/Astrid Galvan, File)
PHOENIX (AP) — The arrests of six Middle Eastern men caught entering the United States illegally from Mexico two years ago set off alarm in border states and in some right-wing blogs and other media outlets.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called it a matter of national security and invoked the Islamic State group in a statement calling for stepped-up border security in response to the arrests. Conservative publications like the Washington Examiner reported on the men from "Middle East terror hotbeds," while Fox News questioned whether "Islamic State militants could be probing security."
Now, documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request reveal the men were fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands and were cleared of any terrorism ties. They also were physically and verbally abused by two Mexican smugglers with a history of crossing the border illegally and went days without food and water, the records show.
The case highlights the highly politicized nature of the U.S.-Mexico border as hysteria sometimes overtakes facts in an era where President Donald Trump, during his campaign, labeled Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Some blogs incorrectly reported the men were released. Others tied them to the Islamic State.
In fact, the men cooperated with the government, and four have been deported. The remaining two are in removal proceedings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe.
The five men from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan were arrested at a time when the Islamic State group was committing some of its bloodiest acts, just days after coordinated bombings and shootings in Paris heightened fears about attacks in the U.S.
The arrests also came around the same time as two Syrian families with children presented themselves at the border seeking asylum. The families were Christian and fleeing persecution. Still, the incident prompted a tweet from Trump that said, "Eight Syrians were just caught on the southern border trying to get into the U.S. ISIS maybe? I told you so. WE NEED A BIG & BEAUTIFUL WALL!"
But none of the cases had any ties to terrorism.
Government officials have long denied there have been any arrests of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border with ties to the Islamic State, and private security analysts agree.
Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis for Texas-based intelligence firm Stratfor, said he knows of no instances of terrorists sneaking into the U.S. through the southern border.
He says it's much more likely a terrorist would use the Canadian border to sneak into the country, as Ahmed Ressam did in 1999. Ressam planned to bomb the Los Angeles airport and used false documents to enter the U.S. from Canada. Border authorities caught him with a car full of explosives.
Stewart added it's highly unlikely the Mexican cartels, which control smuggling corridors, would help a terrorist enter the United States.
"The last thing they want is to be labeled as narco-terrorists. That's just terrible for business," Stewart said. "I'm honestly much more concerned about meth, fentanyl and heroin than I am of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State coming across."
Despite most border crossers being from Latin America, a small number come from far-away places like China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Investigative files obtained by the AP show the Middle Eastern men completed a long and costly journey to America.
The Afghan man told Border Patrol agents he left his home seven months earlier and traveled through at least 10 countries before making it to the U.S. He was detained for weeks in Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico and paid nearly $15,000 in smuggling fees along the way.
Once the men reached the U.S. border, the smugglers told them crossing illegally into Arizona would be a matter of a few easy hours.
But their trip took several days in treacherous conditions.
The men spent three or four days walking through the desert. They ran out of water on the first night and food on the second, and then trekked through mountains near the border in snow and rain. The men said they had no jackets.
They said the smugglers verbally accosted them and threw rocks at them if they walked too slowly. The Afghan man said one of the smugglers punched him in the chest. When one man injured his ankle, a smuggler said "Bye-bye" and kept walking. Another man who couldn't keep up said he paid the smugglers more to slow down.
The men were arrested in November 2015 after triggering a Border Patrol sensor about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the border.
The arrests were first reported by right-wing blogs, then other news organizations. Three days after the Middle Eastern men were taken into custody, Ducey issued a statement saying their arrests were troubling, "especially in light of new threats on the United States from ISIS in a video released in just the last 24 hours."
But the FBI had already cleared the men, finding they had no ties to terrorism, according to the documents.
When asked about the governor's tweet, Ducey's spokesman issued a statement that touted the Republican's border efforts but did not address the issue of invoking the Islamic State when the men had no terrorism ties.
"The governor continues to put public safety at the forefront," spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said.
The men were interviewed separately, and all told authorities about abuses at the hands of the two Mexican smugglers. They became witnesses in the case against Ernesto Dorame-Gonzalez and Martin Lopez-Alvarado, who had committed prior immigration offenses and pleaded guilty to smuggling charges.
"We find smugglers are more interested in treating people as a commodity instead of human beings," said Stephanie Dixon, a spokeswoman with the Border Patrol's Tucson sector. "Many people are being lied to by smugglers, which leads to deaths and illnesses, for the sole purpose of criminal profiting."
Note: Keep in mind this one is from AP.
Thx
Men cleared of terrorism ties in high-profile border case
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 27, 2017 AT 1:26 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 27, 2017 AT 7:23 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1848748/men-cleared-of-terrorism-ties-in-high-profile-border-case/
FILE - This March 9, 2016, file photo, shows a stop sign in front of the international border fence in Nogales, Ariz. Reports that a group of Middle Eastern men had been caught crossing the border illegally from Mexico into Arizona two years ago set off alarms among right-wing blogs and for Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. Now, documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request reveal that not only were the men cleared of any ties to terrorism, but they were badly mistreated by two Mexican smugglers with a history of crossing the border illegally. (AP Photo/Astrid Galvan, File)
PHOENIX (AP) — The arrests of six Middle Eastern men caught entering the United States illegally from Mexico two years ago set off alarm in border states and in some right-wing blogs and other media outlets.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called it a matter of national security and invoked the Islamic State group in a statement calling for stepped-up border security in response to the arrests. Conservative publications like the Washington Examiner reported on the men from "Middle East terror hotbeds," while Fox News questioned whether "Islamic State militants could be probing security."
Now, documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request reveal the men were fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands and were cleared of any terrorism ties. They also were physically and verbally abused by two Mexican smugglers with a history of crossing the border illegally and went days without food and water, the records show.
The case highlights the highly politicized nature of the U.S.-Mexico border as hysteria sometimes overtakes facts in an era where President Donald Trump, during his campaign, labeled Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Some blogs incorrectly reported the men were released. Others tied them to the Islamic State.
In fact, the men cooperated with the government, and four have been deported. The remaining two are in removal proceedings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe.
The five men from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan were arrested at a time when the Islamic State group was committing some of its bloodiest acts, just days after coordinated bombings and shootings in Paris heightened fears about attacks in the U.S.
The arrests also came around the same time as two Syrian families with children presented themselves at the border seeking asylum. The families were Christian and fleeing persecution. Still, the incident prompted a tweet from Trump that said, "Eight Syrians were just caught on the southern border trying to get into the U.S. ISIS maybe? I told you so. WE NEED A BIG & BEAUTIFUL WALL!"
But none of the cases had any ties to terrorism.
Government officials have long denied there have been any arrests of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border with ties to the Islamic State, and private security analysts agree.
Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis for Texas-based intelligence firm Stratfor, said he knows of no instances of terrorists sneaking into the U.S. through the southern border.
He says it's much more likely a terrorist would use the Canadian border to sneak into the country, as Ahmed Ressam did in 1999. Ressam planned to bomb the Los Angeles airport and used false documents to enter the U.S. from Canada. Border authorities caught him with a car full of explosives.
Stewart added it's highly unlikely the Mexican cartels, which control smuggling corridors, would help a terrorist enter the United States.
"The last thing they want is to be labeled as narco-terrorists. That's just terrible for business," Stewart said. "I'm honestly much more concerned about meth, fentanyl and heroin than I am of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State coming across."
Despite most border crossers being from Latin America, a small number come from far-away places like China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Investigative files obtained by the AP show the Middle Eastern men completed a long and costly journey to America.
The Afghan man told Border Patrol agents he left his home seven months earlier and traveled through at least 10 countries before making it to the U.S. He was detained for weeks in Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico and paid nearly $15,000 in smuggling fees along the way.
Once the men reached the U.S. border, the smugglers told them crossing illegally into Arizona would be a matter of a few easy hours.
But their trip took several days in treacherous conditions.
The men spent three or four days walking through the desert. They ran out of water on the first night and food on the second, and then trekked through mountains near the border in snow and rain. The men said they had no jackets.
They said the smugglers verbally accosted them and threw rocks at them if they walked too slowly. The Afghan man said one of the smugglers punched him in the chest. When one man injured his ankle, a smuggler said "Bye-bye" and kept walking. Another man who couldn't keep up said he paid the smugglers more to slow down.
The men were arrested in November 2015 after triggering a Border Patrol sensor about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the border.
The arrests were first reported by right-wing blogs, then other news organizations. Three days after the Middle Eastern men were taken into custody, Ducey issued a statement saying their arrests were troubling, "especially in light of new threats on the United States from ISIS in a video released in just the last 24 hours."
But the FBI had already cleared the men, finding they had no ties to terrorism, according to the documents.
When asked about the governor's tweet, Ducey's spokesman issued a statement that touted the Republican's border efforts but did not address the issue of invoking the Islamic State when the men had no terrorism ties.
"The governor continues to put public safety at the forefront," spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said.
The men were interviewed separately, and all told authorities about abuses at the hands of the two Mexican smugglers. They became witnesses in the case against Ernesto Dorame-Gonzalez and Martin Lopez-Alvarado, who had committed prior immigration offenses and pleaded guilty to smuggling charges.
"We find smugglers are more interested in treating people as a commodity instead of human beings," said Stephanie Dixon, a spokeswoman with the Border Patrol's Tucson sector. "Many people are being lied to by smugglers, which leads to deaths and illnesses, for the sole purpose of criminal profiting."
Friday, November 24, 2017
AZMEX SPECIAL 23-11-17
AZMEX SPECIAL 23 NOV 2017
Malkin: Dumb Sensors, Deadly Consequences
"They don't want to secure the border; they want to make it LOOK like they are."
11.22.2017 Commentary Michelle Malkin
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-dumb-sensors-deadly-consequences
The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez's death this week remain murkier than the Rio Grande River.
Agent Martinez succumbed to critical head injuries early Sunday morning. An unnamed partner, who came to Martinez's aid after he radioed for help from a remote area of the Big Bend sector in Texas, also suffered serious wounds. Whether by deliberate ambush or accident, one of our border enforcers is dead and the other hospitalized.
This much is clear: Dumb sensors + depleted forces = deadly border disorder.
Agent Martinez had ventured out alone to check on a ground sensor to determine who or what had set it off. He confirmed to his colleagues that human activity had activated the alarm before he died.
Here's the scandal: Our federal government has been squandering billions of dollars on inferior border technology for years. It's a monumental waste of taxpayer funds and a dangerous redistribution of wealth to crony contractors, whose ineffective pet projects are putting our men and women on the front lines at risk.
Nearly 14,000 ground sensors have been littered along the southern border over the past several decades -- some dating back to the Vietnam War era. Untold numbers have simply been buried and lost by federal workers who failed to record where they put them. Twelve years ago, a Department of Homeland Security inspector general's report found that agents couldn't determine the cause of 62 percent of the sensor alerts because they were "unable to respond to the dispatch, or it took the agent too long to get to the sensor location."
Compounding staff shortages are outdated sensors unable to distinguish between humans, vehicles and animals. They can't tell cows from criminals or wild boars from dirty bombers. Thirty-four percent of alerts were confirmed false alarms in the 2005 review. Only 2 percent resulted in apprehensions of immigrants in this country illegally, the feds admitted.
The Arizona Republic reported that "a possible false alarm from a ground sensor, and faulty radio communications, may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in a friendly-fire incident" in 2012. "(A)gents didn't detect anyone but each other when they arrived. Ivie, responding separately, apparently mistook the other agents for smugglers and opened fire. One of the agents shot and killed him."
A $1 billion integrated fixed tower project, fronted by Boeing, was supposed to remedy the flaws of the ground sensor system. A surveillance program along the southwest border in Arizona, the IFT systems "are fixed surveillance assets that provide long-range persistent surveillance" using radars that send pictures back to a central hub to monitor illegal crossings and criminal activity.
But the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported this summer that the towers had never been properly tested for suitability and operational effectiveness. Its successors haven't fared much better.
On a trip to the Sierra Vista, Arizona, region earlier this summer for my CRTV.com show, "Michelle Malkin Investigates," I talked to ranchers who pointed out fancy new towers with fatal blind spots, out of reach of deep washes and heavy forests where illegal immigrants and drug smugglers travel.
"We have $50 million of infrastructure on this ranch now," fourth-generation Arizona rancher John Ladd told me during a tour of his property, "and none of it has worked. Camera towers, radar, fence, roads, street lights." All the technology in the world is useless, he has long pointed out to politicians and bureaucrats, without boots on the ground. And Border Patrol agents parked in air-conditioned cubicles hours from the border don't count.
"You got 600 (agents) in Tucson" who "take 6 hours to get to the border. Move them down! You got Nogales ... and Naco and Douglas that are within a mile of the border," Ladd points out. "All the rest of them are more than 50 miles north. Why do we have that? What good is that?"
Longtime illegal immigration activist and systems engineer Glenn Spencer, who I first met in California in the 1990s, has lived and worked on the Arizona border for more than decade. He patented and tested a pilot system of seismic detection and ranging on 1.5 miles of his friend John Ladd's property called Seidarm and paired it with a drone, dubbed Hermes, which automatically launches when border activity is detected within 500 feet of the smart sensors. It can be manufactured and built at a fraction of the cost of the big defense contractors' systems. Unlike much of the government's gold-plated technology, Ladd said: "It worked."
"If they had SEIDARM/HERMES installed, they could have checked out the ground sensor without putting the agent in jeopardy," Spencer told me after Agent Martinez's death hit the news this week.
But politicians in both parties have spurned Ladd's pleas and Spencer's proposals. Special interests have raided public coffers to fund border security Kabuki theater and stave off meaningful assessments. Spencer doesn't mince words:
"They don't want to measure it; they don't want to secure the border; they want to make it LOOK like they are."
Beltway business as usual. Another agent's life sacrificed. President Trump, the clock is ticking.
END
Malkin: Dumb Sensors, Deadly Consequences
"They don't want to secure the border; they want to make it LOOK like they are."
11.22.2017 Commentary Michelle Malkin
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-dumb-sensors-deadly-consequences
The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez's death this week remain murkier than the Rio Grande River.
Agent Martinez succumbed to critical head injuries early Sunday morning. An unnamed partner, who came to Martinez's aid after he radioed for help from a remote area of the Big Bend sector in Texas, also suffered serious wounds. Whether by deliberate ambush or accident, one of our border enforcers is dead and the other hospitalized.
This much is clear: Dumb sensors + depleted forces = deadly border disorder.
Agent Martinez had ventured out alone to check on a ground sensor to determine who or what had set it off. He confirmed to his colleagues that human activity had activated the alarm before he died.
Here's the scandal: Our federal government has been squandering billions of dollars on inferior border technology for years. It's a monumental waste of taxpayer funds and a dangerous redistribution of wealth to crony contractors, whose ineffective pet projects are putting our men and women on the front lines at risk.
Nearly 14,000 ground sensors have been littered along the southern border over the past several decades -- some dating back to the Vietnam War era. Untold numbers have simply been buried and lost by federal workers who failed to record where they put them. Twelve years ago, a Department of Homeland Security inspector general's report found that agents couldn't determine the cause of 62 percent of the sensor alerts because they were "unable to respond to the dispatch, or it took the agent too long to get to the sensor location."
Compounding staff shortages are outdated sensors unable to distinguish between humans, vehicles and animals. They can't tell cows from criminals or wild boars from dirty bombers. Thirty-four percent of alerts were confirmed false alarms in the 2005 review. Only 2 percent resulted in apprehensions of immigrants in this country illegally, the feds admitted.
The Arizona Republic reported that "a possible false alarm from a ground sensor, and faulty radio communications, may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in a friendly-fire incident" in 2012. "(A)gents didn't detect anyone but each other when they arrived. Ivie, responding separately, apparently mistook the other agents for smugglers and opened fire. One of the agents shot and killed him."
A $1 billion integrated fixed tower project, fronted by Boeing, was supposed to remedy the flaws of the ground sensor system. A surveillance program along the southwest border in Arizona, the IFT systems "are fixed surveillance assets that provide long-range persistent surveillance" using radars that send pictures back to a central hub to monitor illegal crossings and criminal activity.
But the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported this summer that the towers had never been properly tested for suitability and operational effectiveness. Its successors haven't fared much better.
On a trip to the Sierra Vista, Arizona, region earlier this summer for my CRTV.com show, "Michelle Malkin Investigates," I talked to ranchers who pointed out fancy new towers with fatal blind spots, out of reach of deep washes and heavy forests where illegal immigrants and drug smugglers travel.
"We have $50 million of infrastructure on this ranch now," fourth-generation Arizona rancher John Ladd told me during a tour of his property, "and none of it has worked. Camera towers, radar, fence, roads, street lights." All the technology in the world is useless, he has long pointed out to politicians and bureaucrats, without boots on the ground. And Border Patrol agents parked in air-conditioned cubicles hours from the border don't count.
"You got 600 (agents) in Tucson" who "take 6 hours to get to the border. Move them down! You got Nogales ... and Naco and Douglas that are within a mile of the border," Ladd points out. "All the rest of them are more than 50 miles north. Why do we have that? What good is that?"
Longtime illegal immigration activist and systems engineer Glenn Spencer, who I first met in California in the 1990s, has lived and worked on the Arizona border for more than decade. He patented and tested a pilot system of seismic detection and ranging on 1.5 miles of his friend John Ladd's property called Seidarm and paired it with a drone, dubbed Hermes, which automatically launches when border activity is detected within 500 feet of the smart sensors. It can be manufactured and built at a fraction of the cost of the big defense contractors' systems. Unlike much of the government's gold-plated technology, Ladd said: "It worked."
"If they had SEIDARM/HERMES installed, they could have checked out the ground sensor without putting the agent in jeopardy," Spencer told me after Agent Martinez's death hit the news this week.
But politicians in both parties have spurned Ladd's pleas and Spencer's proposals. Special interests have raided public coffers to fund border security Kabuki theater and stave off meaningful assessments. Spencer doesn't mince words:
"They don't want to measure it; they don't want to secure the border; they want to make it LOOK like they are."
Beltway business as usual. Another agent's life sacrificed. President Trump, the clock is ticking.
END
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 21-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 21 NOV 2017
Note: Photos at link.
BP arrests deported child molesters who snuck back into country
Phil Villarreal
12:19 PM, Nov 21, 2017
5 hours ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/bp-arrests-deported-child-molesters-who-snuck-back-into-country
CBP
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican men who had been convicted of sex crimes against children before they were deported and snuck back into the country.
They arrested the men in separate incidents.
On Saturday, agents arrested 34-year-old Abigael Calvo-Calvo after he illegally crossed the border near Naco. He was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14 in 2012 in California.
On Sunday, agents arrested 33-year-old Juan Herrera-Gameros after he illegally entered the country west of Douglas.He had been convicted of sexual conduct with a child in 2005 in Bisbee.
Both men are in federal custody and will face immigration charges.
end
Border agent assaulted near Sasabe
Posted: Nov 21, 2017 2:06 PM MST
Updated: Nov 21, 2017 2:06 PM MST
Posted By Faye DeHoff
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36899561/border-agent-assaulted-near-sasabe
Anyone can report suspicious activity toll-free and anonymously at 1-877-872-7435/ U.S. Border Patrol
Sasabe -
A Tucson Station Border Patrol agent was assaulted by a 22-year-old Mexican man Friday morning near Highway 286, north of Sasabe, Arizona.
When the agent responded to a group of suspected undocumented immigrants north of the international boundary and attempted to arrest one of the suspects, the Mexican national violently resisted by throwing dirt in the agents face and assaulting him. The agent managed to subdue the suspect after a brief struggle.
The agent was later evaluated at a local hospital and released. The Mexican national was uninjured and declined medical attention. He will be processed for immigration violations, per Tucson Sector guidelines, and charged for assault on a federal agent.
Federal law allows agents to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt. An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
end
Solis out as CBP's port chief in Nogales
Nov 14, 2017
Nogales International
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/solis-out-as-cbp-s-port-chief-in-nogales/article_f0ff8026-c8d4-11e7-9d03-43011119f72b.html
Less than eight months after taking command of Arizona's busiest land port of entry, Efrain Solis is out as Nogales port director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection does make management changes, as needed," a spokeswoman said in response to an email from the NI asking for confirmation of rumors that Solis had been relieved, as well as an explanation as to why the change was made.
Michael Humphries is serving as the interim port director in Nogales "until further notice," the spokeswoman said. Humphries has previously served as area port director for the Douglas/Naco ports of entry.
The change at the top of the local CBP hierarchy coincides with the retirement of Assistant Port Director Joe Agosttini, who stepped down on Friday, Oct. 27 after more than 30 years of service.
Solis, who began his career with the former U.S. Customs Service in Brownsville, Texas, more than 25 years ago, assumed leadership of the Dennis DeConcini and Mariposa ports, as well as the Morley pedestrian gate, the Nogales International Airport and the Rio Rico railyard, during a change-of-command ceremony on March 30.
"It's an honor and a privilege to accept this position," he said at the time. "I don't know of any other place I wanted to be. When they asked, I said I would take Nogales."
Solis took over for Guadalupe Ramirez, Jr., who left to become assistant director of field operations for CBP's Tucson Sector.
end
Note: Photos at link.
BP arrests deported child molesters who snuck back into country
Phil Villarreal
12:19 PM, Nov 21, 2017
5 hours ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/bp-arrests-deported-child-molesters-who-snuck-back-into-country
CBP
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican men who had been convicted of sex crimes against children before they were deported and snuck back into the country.
They arrested the men in separate incidents.
On Saturday, agents arrested 34-year-old Abigael Calvo-Calvo after he illegally crossed the border near Naco. He was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14 in 2012 in California.
On Sunday, agents arrested 33-year-old Juan Herrera-Gameros after he illegally entered the country west of Douglas.He had been convicted of sexual conduct with a child in 2005 in Bisbee.
Both men are in federal custody and will face immigration charges.
end
Border agent assaulted near Sasabe
Posted: Nov 21, 2017 2:06 PM MST
Updated: Nov 21, 2017 2:06 PM MST
Posted By Faye DeHoff
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36899561/border-agent-assaulted-near-sasabe
Anyone can report suspicious activity toll-free and anonymously at 1-877-872-7435/ U.S. Border Patrol
Sasabe -
A Tucson Station Border Patrol agent was assaulted by a 22-year-old Mexican man Friday morning near Highway 286, north of Sasabe, Arizona.
When the agent responded to a group of suspected undocumented immigrants north of the international boundary and attempted to arrest one of the suspects, the Mexican national violently resisted by throwing dirt in the agents face and assaulting him. The agent managed to subdue the suspect after a brief struggle.
The agent was later evaluated at a local hospital and released. The Mexican national was uninjured and declined medical attention. He will be processed for immigration violations, per Tucson Sector guidelines, and charged for assault on a federal agent.
Federal law allows agents to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt. An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
end
Solis out as CBP's port chief in Nogales
Nov 14, 2017
Nogales International
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/solis-out-as-cbp-s-port-chief-in-nogales/article_f0ff8026-c8d4-11e7-9d03-43011119f72b.html
Less than eight months after taking command of Arizona's busiest land port of entry, Efrain Solis is out as Nogales port director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection does make management changes, as needed," a spokeswoman said in response to an email from the NI asking for confirmation of rumors that Solis had been relieved, as well as an explanation as to why the change was made.
Michael Humphries is serving as the interim port director in Nogales "until further notice," the spokeswoman said. Humphries has previously served as area port director for the Douglas/Naco ports of entry.
The change at the top of the local CBP hierarchy coincides with the retirement of Assistant Port Director Joe Agosttini, who stepped down on Friday, Oct. 27 after more than 30 years of service.
Solis, who began his career with the former U.S. Customs Service in Brownsville, Texas, more than 25 years ago, assumed leadership of the Dennis DeConcini and Mariposa ports, as well as the Morley pedestrian gate, the Nogales International Airport and the Rio Rico railyard, during a change-of-command ceremony on March 30.
"It's an honor and a privilege to accept this position," he said at the time. "I don't know of any other place I wanted to be. When they asked, I said I would take Nogales."
Solis took over for Guadalupe Ramirez, Jr., who left to become assistant director of field operations for CBP's Tucson Sector.
end
Monday, November 20, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 20-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 20 NOV 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offers $20,000 for information on those who killed Border Patrol agent
Posted: Nov 20, 2017 11:41 AM MST
Updated: Nov 20, 2017 11:42 AM MST
http://www.kvia.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-offers-20000-for-information-on-those-who-killed-border-patrol-agent/659481158
EL PASO, Texas - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has authorized Texas Crime Stoppers to offer a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent Sunday.
36-year-old agent Rogelio Martinez, of El Paso, died Sunday as a result of injuries sustained while on patrol in the Big Bend area. His partner, also injured during the attack, remains in the hospital in serious condition.
"We owe a great deal of gratitude to the brave men and women of the United States Border Patrol who serve every day to protect our homeland," said Governor Abbott. "Cecilia and I offer our deepest condolences to the families of the agents killed and seriously injured in this attack. As authorities continue their investigation, it is important that they receive any and all information to help apprehend and deliver swift justice to those responsible."
The Border Patrol hasn't released many details about what happened. It said in a statement that the agents "were responding to activity" while on patrol near Interstate 10. The FBI has taken over the investigation.
Border Patrol records show Big Bend accounted for about 1 percent of the more than 61,000 apprehensions its agents made along the Southwest border between October 2016 and May 2017. The region's mountains and the Rio Grande make it a difficult area for people to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico.
To be eligible for the cash rewards, anyone with information on fugitives can provide anonymous tips in three different ways:
Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)
Text the letters 'DPS' - followed by your tip - to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cell phone
CLICK HERE to submit a web tip https://www.tipsubmit.com/WebTipsCSI.aspx?L=E&AgencyID=650
END
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offers $20,000 for information on those who killed Border Patrol agent
Posted: Nov 20, 2017 11:41 AM MST
Updated: Nov 20, 2017 11:42 AM MST
http://www.kvia.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-offers-20000-for-information-on-those-who-killed-border-patrol-agent/659481158
EL PASO, Texas - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has authorized Texas Crime Stoppers to offer a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent Sunday.
36-year-old agent Rogelio Martinez, of El Paso, died Sunday as a result of injuries sustained while on patrol in the Big Bend area. His partner, also injured during the attack, remains in the hospital in serious condition.
"We owe a great deal of gratitude to the brave men and women of the United States Border Patrol who serve every day to protect our homeland," said Governor Abbott. "Cecilia and I offer our deepest condolences to the families of the agents killed and seriously injured in this attack. As authorities continue their investigation, it is important that they receive any and all information to help apprehend and deliver swift justice to those responsible."
The Border Patrol hasn't released many details about what happened. It said in a statement that the agents "were responding to activity" while on patrol near Interstate 10. The FBI has taken over the investigation.
Border Patrol records show Big Bend accounted for about 1 percent of the more than 61,000 apprehensions its agents made along the Southwest border between October 2016 and May 2017. The region's mountains and the Rio Grande make it a difficult area for people to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico.
To be eligible for the cash rewards, anyone with information on fugitives can provide anonymous tips in three different ways:
Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)
Text the letters 'DPS' - followed by your tip - to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cell phone
CLICK HERE to submit a web tip https://www.tipsubmit.com/WebTipsCSI.aspx?L=E&AgencyID=650
END
AZMEX EXTRA 19-11-17
AZMEX EXTRA 19 NOV 2017
Five men receive sentences for smuggling firearms into Mexico
Laredo Morning Times
Published 12:36 am, Sunday, November 19, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Five-men-receive-sentences-for-smuggling-firearms-12369121.php
IMAGE 1 OF 12 File photo of court room gavel. gavel
Five Laredoans have been ordered to prison following their convictions for their roles in smuggling firearms into Mexico.
Juan Diego Madrid, 27,
Rolando Armando Madrid, 21,
Erik Villasana, 20,
Edward Alexander Duenas, 20, and
Francisco Xavier Martinez, 25,
participated in a scheme to purchase civilian variants of firearms issued to military forces from various local firearms dealers.
Between March 2016 and November 2016, Juan Madrid directed several individuals,
including Rolando Madrid, Duenas and Martinez, to purchase the firearms.
The firearms were then transferred to Villasana, who arranged for the firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.
U.S. District Judge Diana Saldaña sentenced Juan Madrid to a term of 65 months in federal prison,
while his brother Rolando Madrid, Villasana, Duenas and Martinez received respective sentences
of 51, 63, 27 and 41 months in prison.
The straw purchasers bought AR-15 and
AK-47-type semiautomatic rifles,
Beretta 92FS (Pistols) and
DPMS AR-type rifles
from Academy and Kirkpatrick Guns & Ammo stores in Laredo and San Antonio.
Juan Madrid would then purchase the firearms from the straw purchasers and then re-sell them at a profit to Villasana.
Villasana told federal agents that he had established contact with Rolando Madrid through Facebook.
Madrid sold Villasana a rifle for $1,100 and told him he could get more firearms.
Villasana said that he told one of his friends in Mexico, who works for a cartel, about the firearms.
That friend asked Villasana to buy more firearms for Madrid.
"Rolando Madrid's brother, Juan 'El Padrino' Madrid, called Villasana back and said he could get Villasana anything he wanted, including firearms and grenades," court records states.
Villasana would sell the firearms to his friend and contact in Mexico for $1,300 to $1,400.
The contact would send different people from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to pick up the firearms from Villasana
in Laredo and then smuggle them to Mexico.
Villasana would meet the smugglers at a downtown McDonald's parking lot in Laredo.
RELATED: Convicted felons busted with firearms, marijuana yards away from Laredo high school
Juan Madrid was already a convicted felon and prohibited from purchasing, owning or possessing firearms.
His brother, Ruben Madrid, was also involved in the scheme as a straw purchaser.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation.
Assistant U.S. attorney Homero Ramirez and special assistant U.S. attorney Lisa Ezra are prosecuting the case.
END
Five men receive sentences for smuggling firearms into Mexico
Laredo Morning Times
Published 12:36 am, Sunday, November 19, 2017
http://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Five-men-receive-sentences-for-smuggling-firearms-12369121.php
IMAGE 1 OF 12 File photo of court room gavel. gavel
Five Laredoans have been ordered to prison following their convictions for their roles in smuggling firearms into Mexico.
Juan Diego Madrid, 27,
Rolando Armando Madrid, 21,
Erik Villasana, 20,
Edward Alexander Duenas, 20, and
Francisco Xavier Martinez, 25,
participated in a scheme to purchase civilian variants of firearms issued to military forces from various local firearms dealers.
Between March 2016 and November 2016, Juan Madrid directed several individuals,
including Rolando Madrid, Duenas and Martinez, to purchase the firearms.
The firearms were then transferred to Villasana, who arranged for the firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.
U.S. District Judge Diana Saldaña sentenced Juan Madrid to a term of 65 months in federal prison,
while his brother Rolando Madrid, Villasana, Duenas and Martinez received respective sentences
of 51, 63, 27 and 41 months in prison.
The straw purchasers bought AR-15 and
AK-47-type semiautomatic rifles,
Beretta 92FS (Pistols) and
DPMS AR-type rifles
from Academy and Kirkpatrick Guns & Ammo stores in Laredo and San Antonio.
Juan Madrid would then purchase the firearms from the straw purchasers and then re-sell them at a profit to Villasana.
Villasana told federal agents that he had established contact with Rolando Madrid through Facebook.
Madrid sold Villasana a rifle for $1,100 and told him he could get more firearms.
Villasana said that he told one of his friends in Mexico, who works for a cartel, about the firearms.
That friend asked Villasana to buy more firearms for Madrid.
"Rolando Madrid's brother, Juan 'El Padrino' Madrid, called Villasana back and said he could get Villasana anything he wanted, including firearms and grenades," court records states.
Villasana would sell the firearms to his friend and contact in Mexico for $1,300 to $1,400.
The contact would send different people from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to pick up the firearms from Villasana
in Laredo and then smuggle them to Mexico.
Villasana would meet the smugglers at a downtown McDonald's parking lot in Laredo.
RELATED: Convicted felons busted with firearms, marijuana yards away from Laredo high school
Juan Madrid was already a convicted felon and prohibited from purchasing, owning or possessing firearms.
His brother, Ruben Madrid, was also involved in the scheme as a straw purchaser.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation.
Assistant U.S. attorney Homero Ramirez and special assistant U.S. attorney Lisa Ezra are prosecuting the case.
END
Thursday, November 16, 2017
AZMEX EXTRA 15-11-17
AZMEX EXTRA 15 NOV 2017
Man smuggling guns, ammo to Mexico stopped at port
Release Date: November 15, 2017
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/man-smuggling-guns-ammo-mexico-stopped-port
TUCSON, Ariz. – Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona's Port of Nogales apprehended an 18-year-old male U.S. citizen Tuesday evening after finding weapons and ammunition under the front and rear seats of the Chevy sedan he was driving.
Officers working outbound operations at the Mariposa crossing selected the man for an outbound inspection as he was leaving the United States. Subsequently, officers located five assault rifles, two handguns, and more than 800 rounds of ammunition.
Weapons found in sedan
Officers arrested the man for weapons trafficking and turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations. Officers also seized the vehicle, ammunition and weapons.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt. An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
CBP's Office of Field Operations is the primary organization within Homeland Security tasked with an anti-terrorism mission at our nation's ports. CBP officers screen all people, vehicles and goods entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel. Their mission also includes carrying out border-related duties, including narcotics interdiction, enforcing immigration and trade laws, and protecting the nation's food supply and agriculture industry from pests and diseases.
END
Note: more photos at link.
Decomisan arsenal and methamphetamines in Mariposa
Details Published on Wednesday, November 15, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=101316
Nogales, Az
A young man just of age was arrested with an arsenal, while a woman was assured a shipment of methamphetamine, when both intended to cross through the local posts, in separate cases.
According to the official report of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English), in the first case, the subject of 18 years and American nationality, was apprehended with several assault rifles and municipalities, under and behind the seats of a Chevy seden he was driving.
He was intercepted by federal agents at the Mariposa exit, when he was looking to cross to the Mexican side, with five long guns, two pistols and more than 800 useful cartridges.
In the other case, a 42-year-old woman, also a legal resident of Arizona, was detained in Mariposa when she tried to cross with thirty packs of methamphetamine, which were valued at $ 101,000.
They were hidden in the box of a Ford F-150 double-cab pick-up, and were stopped and turned over to Immigration and Customs Control for processing, along with the drug and the unit.
end
Man smuggling guns, ammo to Mexico stopped at port
Release Date: November 15, 2017
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/man-smuggling-guns-ammo-mexico-stopped-port
TUCSON, Ariz. – Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona's Port of Nogales apprehended an 18-year-old male U.S. citizen Tuesday evening after finding weapons and ammunition under the front and rear seats of the Chevy sedan he was driving.
Officers working outbound operations at the Mariposa crossing selected the man for an outbound inspection as he was leaving the United States. Subsequently, officers located five assault rifles, two handguns, and more than 800 rounds of ammunition.
Weapons found in sedan
Officers arrested the man for weapons trafficking and turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations. Officers also seized the vehicle, ammunition and weapons.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt. An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
CBP's Office of Field Operations is the primary organization within Homeland Security tasked with an anti-terrorism mission at our nation's ports. CBP officers screen all people, vehicles and goods entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel. Their mission also includes carrying out border-related duties, including narcotics interdiction, enforcing immigration and trade laws, and protecting the nation's food supply and agriculture industry from pests and diseases.
END
Note: more photos at link.
Decomisan arsenal and methamphetamines in Mariposa
Details Published on Wednesday, November 15, 2017,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=101316
Nogales, Az
A young man just of age was arrested with an arsenal, while a woman was assured a shipment of methamphetamine, when both intended to cross through the local posts, in separate cases.
According to the official report of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English), in the first case, the subject of 18 years and American nationality, was apprehended with several assault rifles and municipalities, under and behind the seats of a Chevy seden he was driving.
He was intercepted by federal agents at the Mariposa exit, when he was looking to cross to the Mexican side, with five long guns, two pistols and more than 800 useful cartridges.
In the other case, a 42-year-old woman, also a legal resident of Arizona, was detained in Mariposa when she tried to cross with thirty packs of methamphetamine, which were valued at $ 101,000.
They were hidden in the box of a Ford F-150 double-cab pick-up, and were stopped and turned over to Immigration and Customs Control for processing, along with the drug and the unit.
end
AZMEX UPDATE 15-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 15 NOV 2017
Wanted polygamist free after 15 years on the lam in Mexico
Posted: Nov 15, 2017 1:42 PM MST
Updated: Nov 15, 2017 1:42 PM MST
By BOB CHRISTIE
Associated Press
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36853298/wanted-polygamist-free-after-15-years-on-the-lam-in-mexico
PHOENIX (AP) - A polygamist who fled to Mexico about 15 years ago with this wives and kids while facing child molestation charges in Arizona is now free after the charges were dropped.
Orson William Black Jr. was arrested by Mexican authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua and handed over to U.S. officials in El Paso, Texas, last week. He was briefly held on an Arizona fugitive warrant before being released because no agency would extradite him.
The Arizona attorney general's office charged Black in 2003 with molestation over allegations he persuaded two teenagers to impregnate themselves with his sperm. The charges were dropped in May after a review.
Former state Attorney General Terry Goddard, who charged Black, called it a "sad development" that Black successfully dodged them by fleeing to Mexico.
END
Wanted polygamist free after 15 years on the lam in Mexico
Posted: Nov 15, 2017 1:42 PM MST
Updated: Nov 15, 2017 1:42 PM MST
By BOB CHRISTIE
Associated Press
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36853298/wanted-polygamist-free-after-15-years-on-the-lam-in-mexico
PHOENIX (AP) - A polygamist who fled to Mexico about 15 years ago with this wives and kids while facing child molestation charges in Arizona is now free after the charges were dropped.
Orson William Black Jr. was arrested by Mexican authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua and handed over to U.S. officials in El Paso, Texas, last week. He was briefly held on an Arizona fugitive warrant before being released because no agency would extradite him.
The Arizona attorney general's office charged Black in 2003 with molestation over allegations he persuaded two teenagers to impregnate themselves with his sperm. The charges were dropped in May after a review.
Former state Attorney General Terry Goddard, who charged Black, called it a "sad development" that Black successfully dodged them by fleeing to Mexico.
END
Monday, November 13, 2017
AZMEX I3 12-11-17
AZMEX I3 12 NOV 2017
Deport the 26 detainees along with sect leader
El Diario de Juárez | Friday 10 November 2017 | 08:55 hrs
The Diario de Juárez
http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Estado/2017/11/10/deportan-a-los-26-detenidos-junto-a-lider-de-secta/
Related
Expect leader of sect extradition to Arizona
Sect Leader is already in the EP County jail
US is handed over the sectarian leader accused of pedophilia
PGR charges against sect leader
Two of the children rescued are Mexican: Office of the Prosecutor
Family members of cult victims arrive
Nobody claims the bodies of the Blacks
They give status of victims to aliens of sect
Two executed in November alleged sons of cult leader
They manage the repatriation of the US sect
Seized animals seized on property of escaped pedophile
Cuauhtémoc deports leader of the fugitive sect to the United States
Ciudad Juárez.- The group of 26 foreigners who were arrested along with the leader of a polygamous sect in the city of Cuauhtémoc, were handed over to US authorities this morning.
The mobilization of the federal authorities occurred at 01:15 hours.
On board two vans of the National Institute of Migration (INM), guarded by two units of the Federal Police (PF), the 16 adults and nine minors, were taken from the immigration offices, located under the bridge and delivered to officers of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at the international bridge Paso del Norte.
Previous analysis determined that they were in good health and physical condition, the 26 people were taken one by one from the units of the INM and delivered to the federal authorities of the United States.
Migration staff commented that relatives of the 26 foreigners held in the city of Cuauhtémoc by the leader of the sect, Orson William Black Jr., were waiting for their arrival at a Customs office in El Paso.
Part of the process for the deportation of foreigners was the elaboration of an individual file on the immigration status of each one, as well as the recovery of their belongings that were collected at rancho el negro located in the Mennonite camps of Cuauhtémoc, said the informant .
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
end
Deport the 26 detainees along with sect leader
El Diario de Juárez | Friday 10 November 2017 | 08:55 hrs
The Diario de Juárez
http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Estado/2017/11/10/deportan-a-los-26-detenidos-junto-a-lider-de-secta/
Related
Expect leader of sect extradition to Arizona
Sect Leader is already in the EP County jail
US is handed over the sectarian leader accused of pedophilia
PGR charges against sect leader
Two of the children rescued are Mexican: Office of the Prosecutor
Family members of cult victims arrive
Nobody claims the bodies of the Blacks
They give status of victims to aliens of sect
Two executed in November alleged sons of cult leader
They manage the repatriation of the US sect
Seized animals seized on property of escaped pedophile
Cuauhtémoc deports leader of the fugitive sect to the United States
Ciudad Juárez.- The group of 26 foreigners who were arrested along with the leader of a polygamous sect in the city of Cuauhtémoc, were handed over to US authorities this morning.
The mobilization of the federal authorities occurred at 01:15 hours.
On board two vans of the National Institute of Migration (INM), guarded by two units of the Federal Police (PF), the 16 adults and nine minors, were taken from the immigration offices, located under the bridge and delivered to officers of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at the international bridge Paso del Norte.
Previous analysis determined that they were in good health and physical condition, the 26 people were taken one by one from the units of the INM and delivered to the federal authorities of the United States.
Migration staff commented that relatives of the 26 foreigners held in the city of Cuauhtémoc by the leader of the sect, Orson William Black Jr., were waiting for their arrival at a Customs office in El Paso.
Part of the process for the deportation of foreigners was the elaboration of an individual file on the immigration status of each one, as well as the recovery of their belongings that were collected at rancho el negro located in the Mennonite camps of Cuauhtémoc, said the informant .
END
Don't forget:
Mexico decides who enters our country
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
end
AZMEX UPDATE 12-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 12 NOV 2017
Fugitive leader of sect of the United States caught in Cuauhtémoc, Chih.
The Journal | Sunday 05 November 2017 | 06:27 hrs
http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Cuauhtemoc/2017/11/05/cae-en-cuauhtemoc-lider-de-secta-profugo-de-eu/
Related
Deport the 26 detainees along with sect leader
Expect leader of sect extradition to Arizona
Sect Leader is already in the EP County jail
US is handed over the sectarian leader accused of pedophilia
PGR charges against sect leader
Two of the children rescued are Mexican: Office of the Prosecutor
Family members of cult victims arrive
Nobody claims the bodies
They give status of victims of sect
Two executed in November alleged sons of cult leader
They manage the repatriation of the EU sect
Seized animals seized on property of escaped pedophile
Cuauhtémoc.- Orson William Black Jr, leader of a group of polygamists, presumably based in camp 8 of Colonia Manitoba in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, was captured yesterday after an intense operation in which more than 100 elements participated, including agents of The United States and the State Attorney General's Office at El Negro ranch, where on September 10, three US citizens, including a minor under 15 years of age, were gunned down.
Black was wanted by the FBI as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of pedophile. Another 25 people, all foreign, and apparently with illegal status, were taken by the authorities and will be transferred to immigration authorities.
It was learned that the actions, which led to the securing of property and vehicles, were led by elements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for its acronym in English) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with the participation of personnel the Consulate of the United States.
During the police action, which began last Friday, they secured at least thirteen trucks, seven motorcycles and two ATV's, and stuffed animals, which were transported aboard cranes and trucks provided by the Prosecutor's Office.
Orson William Black was wanted since 2006. He faced charges of sexual misconduct with a minor in Mohave County, Arizona. He was also accused of having sex with teenagers who later became his wives.
Black, 55, is a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with headquarters in Hildale and Colorado City.
In a presentation of the program "Most Wanted" (Most wanted) The North American authorities affirmed that it had separated from the religion and founded its own group.
"It is believed that he fled to the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, where his wives and followers live," the report says.
In El Negro ranch, located in Field number 8, the presence of the first American foreigners dates back to 2003. Until this year, according to information provided by residents of the area, more than 20 people lived, all alien to the customs of the region. None professed the Mennonite faith.
They also told El Diario, who did not know if it was a matter of several marriages, of a single family, or of young people and single adults who lived in a kind of commune: the ranch composed of at least three houses built in the architectural style of the Mennonites. It was said that they were dedicated to livestock.
On that site on Sunday morning, September 10, the bodies of Jesse L. Barlow, 23, and brothers Robert and Michael Black, ages 19 and 15 respectively, were found, who shared a surname with the detainee. .
The State Investigation Agency informed that same day that two bodies were at the entrance of a motor home and the third a few meters away. In the crime scene of the Crimes against Life Research Unit, they collected 35 caliber 9-millimeter casings and another two caliber 357-caliber casings. There were no detainees, but one of the lines of investigation was focused on clarifying whether the Three people killed were part of the group that lived on the ranch.
At the request of the Western Zone Prosecutor's Office, after the personal finding of the National Institute of Migration, it requested the American consulate to review the legal status of the victims to strengthen the investigations, the stay was illegal, it transpired.
The story of Orson Black occupies several media headlines in the United States.
It is said that he separated from the Mormon church, after claiming to have received a revelation that named him a prophet.
He affirmed to his followers that he maintained direct communication with God.
In another story entitled 'Few dare to disobey' it is said that at 39 years of age he married a 12-year-old girl, named Petersen, in the city of Colorado.
In 2002, one of his polygamous wives fled the house after what she said were years of abuse. Tamara Phelps, then 33, told authorities that she married Orson William Black Jr. when she was 17 and he was 27.
Phelps sought and received custody of his children in March, but Black's legal wife, Amy, filed a lawsuit for Amy to be the legal guardian of the children.
Phelps, a woman who was described as timid and fearful, signed the guardianship because she felt intimidated.
On February 27, 2003, Arizona authorities filed five charges against Black for sexual misconduct with minors, but he fled. Phelps and others close to the family told authorities they believed Black and his other wives and children had fled to Mexico to live in a polygamous community.
"I'm so worried that my children are in Mexico now," Phelps wrote in an interview.
According to the US investigations, he tried to take refuge in Colonia LeBaron, municipality of Galeana, but "when he arrived with three wives and a future underage girlfriend, the residents threw him out of the city," the report said.
The authorities assumed that during his entire stay in Chihuahua, Black was receiving food, money and other assistance from his followers in the United States.
As of yesterday the ranch remains in police custody.
end
Also: Another version. Story at the link:
Fugitive American polygamist caught in Mexico linked to triple murder
Nicole Chavez, associate writer CNN Digital
By Nicole Chavez, CNN
Updated 3:43 AM ET, Sat November 11, 2017
Polygamist linked to triple murder captured
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/us/fugitive-polygamist-orson-black-detained/index.html
Orson William Black is accused of child sex crimes in Arizona
He was living in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico
end
Fugitive leader of sect of the United States caught in Cuauhtémoc, Chih.
The Journal | Sunday 05 November 2017 | 06:27 hrs
http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Cuauhtemoc/2017/11/05/cae-en-cuauhtemoc-lider-de-secta-profugo-de-eu/
Related
Deport the 26 detainees along with sect leader
Expect leader of sect extradition to Arizona
Sect Leader is already in the EP County jail
US is handed over the sectarian leader accused of pedophilia
PGR charges against sect leader
Two of the children rescued are Mexican: Office of the Prosecutor
Family members of cult victims arrive
Nobody claims the bodies
They give status of victims of sect
Two executed in November alleged sons of cult leader
They manage the repatriation of the EU sect
Seized animals seized on property of escaped pedophile
Cuauhtémoc.- Orson William Black Jr, leader of a group of polygamists, presumably based in camp 8 of Colonia Manitoba in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, was captured yesterday after an intense operation in which more than 100 elements participated, including agents of The United States and the State Attorney General's Office at El Negro ranch, where on September 10, three US citizens, including a minor under 15 years of age, were gunned down.
Black was wanted by the FBI as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of pedophile. Another 25 people, all foreign, and apparently with illegal status, were taken by the authorities and will be transferred to immigration authorities.
It was learned that the actions, which led to the securing of property and vehicles, were led by elements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for its acronym in English) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with the participation of personnel the Consulate of the United States.
During the police action, which began last Friday, they secured at least thirteen trucks, seven motorcycles and two ATV's, and stuffed animals, which were transported aboard cranes and trucks provided by the Prosecutor's Office.
Orson William Black was wanted since 2006. He faced charges of sexual misconduct with a minor in Mohave County, Arizona. He was also accused of having sex with teenagers who later became his wives.
Black, 55, is a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with headquarters in Hildale and Colorado City.
In a presentation of the program "Most Wanted" (Most wanted) The North American authorities affirmed that it had separated from the religion and founded its own group.
"It is believed that he fled to the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, where his wives and followers live," the report says.
In El Negro ranch, located in Field number 8, the presence of the first American foreigners dates back to 2003. Until this year, according to information provided by residents of the area, more than 20 people lived, all alien to the customs of the region. None professed the Mennonite faith.
They also told El Diario, who did not know if it was a matter of several marriages, of a single family, or of young people and single adults who lived in a kind of commune: the ranch composed of at least three houses built in the architectural style of the Mennonites. It was said that they were dedicated to livestock.
On that site on Sunday morning, September 10, the bodies of Jesse L. Barlow, 23, and brothers Robert and Michael Black, ages 19 and 15 respectively, were found, who shared a surname with the detainee. .
The State Investigation Agency informed that same day that two bodies were at the entrance of a motor home and the third a few meters away. In the crime scene of the Crimes against Life Research Unit, they collected 35 caliber 9-millimeter casings and another two caliber 357-caliber casings. There were no detainees, but one of the lines of investigation was focused on clarifying whether the Three people killed were part of the group that lived on the ranch.
At the request of the Western Zone Prosecutor's Office, after the personal finding of the National Institute of Migration, it requested the American consulate to review the legal status of the victims to strengthen the investigations, the stay was illegal, it transpired.
The story of Orson Black occupies several media headlines in the United States.
It is said that he separated from the Mormon church, after claiming to have received a revelation that named him a prophet.
He affirmed to his followers that he maintained direct communication with God.
In another story entitled 'Few dare to disobey' it is said that at 39 years of age he married a 12-year-old girl, named Petersen, in the city of Colorado.
In 2002, one of his polygamous wives fled the house after what she said were years of abuse. Tamara Phelps, then 33, told authorities that she married Orson William Black Jr. when she was 17 and he was 27.
Phelps sought and received custody of his children in March, but Black's legal wife, Amy, filed a lawsuit for Amy to be the legal guardian of the children.
Phelps, a woman who was described as timid and fearful, signed the guardianship because she felt intimidated.
On February 27, 2003, Arizona authorities filed five charges against Black for sexual misconduct with minors, but he fled. Phelps and others close to the family told authorities they believed Black and his other wives and children had fled to Mexico to live in a polygamous community.
"I'm so worried that my children are in Mexico now," Phelps wrote in an interview.
According to the US investigations, he tried to take refuge in Colonia LeBaron, municipality of Galeana, but "when he arrived with three wives and a future underage girlfriend, the residents threw him out of the city," the report said.
The authorities assumed that during his entire stay in Chihuahua, Black was receiving food, money and other assistance from his followers in the United States.
As of yesterday the ranch remains in police custody.
end
Also: Another version. Story at the link:
Fugitive American polygamist caught in Mexico linked to triple murder
Nicole Chavez, associate writer CNN Digital
By Nicole Chavez, CNN
Updated 3:43 AM ET, Sat November 11, 2017
Polygamist linked to triple murder captured
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/us/fugitive-polygamist-orson-black-detained/index.html
Orson William Black is accused of child sex crimes in Arizona
He was living in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico
end
Friday, November 10, 2017
AZMEX I3 10-11-17
AZMEX I3 10 NOV 2017
Local DACA student arrested in D.C. demonstration
Belen Sisa joined protesters in Washington D.C. in a peaceful demonstration to support a clean Dream Act when she was arrested.
Nico Santos, KPNX 5:22 AM. MST November 10, 2017
http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/local-daca-student-arrested-in-dc-demonstration/490656413
PHOENIX – The day of action turned into tense moments for some demonstrators, including a public DACA recipient from the Valley who received backlash earlier this year for posting her income taxes.
A representative from United States Capitol Police said Belen Sisa was arrested for crowding, obstructing and incommoding along with 14 other demonstrators.
There were hundreds of demonstrators outside the Capitol to encourage Congress to pass a clean Dream Act. By "clean," they mean they want a permanent solution, not a simple extension of protection under DACA or something similar.
Another protestor told 12 News many of the demonstrators entered the Capitol building through the required security procedures.
They started chanting inside, and while it is a public building, it is against the law in Washington to use a public building in such a way, according to U.S. Capitol Police.
That's when the arrests happened, but Sisa was soon released.
"[I was] fighting for a clean Dream Act, because I want the thousands and thousands of undocumented youth, who feel that they are voiceless, to be heard," she said. "I am doing this for the families who have DACA recipients in their families and don't know what's happening to them March 5."
March 5 is a reference to President Donald Trump's deadline for protection for anyone who is a DACA recipient.
END
Then another perspective:
Subject: All hell just broke lose in DC today!
From: ALIPAC <alerts@alipac.us>
Date: Thu, November 09, 2017 2:52 pm
At least 15 illegal aliens have been arrested, and hundreds have stormed the office buildings of our members of congress today while more than 20 GOP Reps have joined the illegals calling for DACA Dream Act Amnesty for illegals!
There is too much happening at once for us to put it all in an e-mail to you and our copies of illegal alien supporting group communications indicated they are mounting a major offensive today and on Nov 14!!!
We need each of you to spread this warning and bring yourself up to speed by rallying at our home base where all of the materials are coming in rapidly!
Please proceed to www.ALIPAC.us and dig in on the reports!
---> Go To www.ALIPAC.us <----
This is not a drill. They are moving to take the country now!
If you are willing to stand against them, we need an immediate large surge of donations to ALIPAC of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000 and more or we are going to be sidelined trying o refuel when you need us most!
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
I will be online at www.ALIPAC.us and monitor WilliamG@alipac.us closely during this crisis if you need assistance navigating our site and getting up to speed on this massive political attack from the Amnesty groups and lawmakers!
William Gheen
AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION PAC
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009
FEC ID: C00405878
end
Local DACA student arrested in D.C. demonstration
Belen Sisa joined protesters in Washington D.C. in a peaceful demonstration to support a clean Dream Act when she was arrested.
Nico Santos, KPNX 5:22 AM. MST November 10, 2017
http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/local-daca-student-arrested-in-dc-demonstration/490656413
PHOENIX – The day of action turned into tense moments for some demonstrators, including a public DACA recipient from the Valley who received backlash earlier this year for posting her income taxes.
A representative from United States Capitol Police said Belen Sisa was arrested for crowding, obstructing and incommoding along with 14 other demonstrators.
There were hundreds of demonstrators outside the Capitol to encourage Congress to pass a clean Dream Act. By "clean," they mean they want a permanent solution, not a simple extension of protection under DACA or something similar.
Another protestor told 12 News many of the demonstrators entered the Capitol building through the required security procedures.
They started chanting inside, and while it is a public building, it is against the law in Washington to use a public building in such a way, according to U.S. Capitol Police.
That's when the arrests happened, but Sisa was soon released.
"[I was] fighting for a clean Dream Act, because I want the thousands and thousands of undocumented youth, who feel that they are voiceless, to be heard," she said. "I am doing this for the families who have DACA recipients in their families and don't know what's happening to them March 5."
March 5 is a reference to President Donald Trump's deadline for protection for anyone who is a DACA recipient.
END
Then another perspective:
Subject: All hell just broke lose in DC today!
From: ALIPAC <alerts@alipac.us>
Date: Thu, November 09, 2017 2:52 pm
At least 15 illegal aliens have been arrested, and hundreds have stormed the office buildings of our members of congress today while more than 20 GOP Reps have joined the illegals calling for DACA Dream Act Amnesty for illegals!
There is too much happening at once for us to put it all in an e-mail to you and our copies of illegal alien supporting group communications indicated they are mounting a major offensive today and on Nov 14!!!
We need each of you to spread this warning and bring yourself up to speed by rallying at our home base where all of the materials are coming in rapidly!
Please proceed to www.ALIPAC.us and dig in on the reports!
---> Go To www.ALIPAC.us <----
This is not a drill. They are moving to take the country now!
If you are willing to stand against them, we need an immediate large surge of donations to ALIPAC of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000 and more or we are going to be sidelined trying o refuel when you need us most!
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
I will be online at www.ALIPAC.us and monitor WilliamG@alipac.us closely during this crisis if you need assistance navigating our site and getting up to speed on this massive political attack from the Amnesty groups and lawmakers!
William Gheen
AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION PAC
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009
FEC ID: C00405878
end
AZMEX UPDATE3 9-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE3 9 NOV 2017
Note: From the good folks at Borderland Beat www.borderlandbeat.com/
thx
You are more likely to win the lottery than see a crime solved in Mexico
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/you-are-more-likely-to-win-lottery-than.html#more
Subject Matter: Impunity, inefficiency, Mexican Justice System
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Reporter: Patricia Davila
The insufficiency's and inefficiencies of the criminal investigations are the heart of impunity in Mexico, above all in crimes of major impact, signalled a study of the incompetence of prosecutors offices of the country, carried out by the investigator Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona.
In a press conference, Federico Reyes Heroles, president of the organization Zero Impunity, told of the study" State Indices of unemployment of Prosecutors Offices", whose result is that in Mexico it is more probable to get a double win in the National Lottery than solve a crime, which currently stands at a rate of 1 to 0.9 % respectively.
According to the study, only 9.7% of the crimes committed are reported in the country. Of these, only 65% are investigated. This means that only 6.4% of the crimes committed in the country are investigated. According to these numbers, the un-investigated figure, for authorities is 93.6%.
Therefore, the effectiveness of investigations based on the parameters of determining whether or not there is an offence to be prosecuted, and if there is a probable perpetrator, or some other form of resolution is 14.1%.
The figure distributed is 10.2% in the traditional system, and 18.1% in the new criminal justice system.
The study " State Performance Index" concludes that, just a few months after the deadline for the implementation of the new criminal justice system in the whole country, the capacity for criminal investigation has deteriorated, this means that 15 years ago, 23% of the cases and today only 14%.
The States of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato and Baja California are the only ones in which professionalization and management models are applied with greater efficiency.
According to the study, only nine out of every 20 arrest warrants issued by local judges result in the arrest of the probable perpetrator. In addition, only one in ten Mexicans actually trust a lot in the local public ministry.
A disturbing fact is that, in the accusatory system, one in three cases in which it is determined that there is no crime to pursue, is done without having carried out an investigation, explained Reyes Heroles.
In addition, he informed that, before the criminal reform, in Mexico, the victims pardon was resolved between 8% and 10.5% of the preliminary inquiries.
With the new system, the are solved by alternative mechanisms in the country, on average 6.4% of cases are resolved with the research files.
All this, despite the training and certification of the facilitators, such as public ministries and Judges.
Borderland Beat Reporter Otis B Fly-Wheel Posted at 7:42 AM
END
Note: From the good folks at Borderland Beat www.borderlandbeat.com/
thx
You are more likely to win the lottery than see a crime solved in Mexico
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/you-are-more-likely-to-win-lottery-than.html#more
Subject Matter: Impunity, inefficiency, Mexican Justice System
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Reporter: Patricia Davila
The insufficiency's and inefficiencies of the criminal investigations are the heart of impunity in Mexico, above all in crimes of major impact, signalled a study of the incompetence of prosecutors offices of the country, carried out by the investigator Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona.
In a press conference, Federico Reyes Heroles, president of the organization Zero Impunity, told of the study" State Indices of unemployment of Prosecutors Offices", whose result is that in Mexico it is more probable to get a double win in the National Lottery than solve a crime, which currently stands at a rate of 1 to 0.9 % respectively.
According to the study, only 9.7% of the crimes committed are reported in the country. Of these, only 65% are investigated. This means that only 6.4% of the crimes committed in the country are investigated. According to these numbers, the un-investigated figure, for authorities is 93.6%.
Therefore, the effectiveness of investigations based on the parameters of determining whether or not there is an offence to be prosecuted, and if there is a probable perpetrator, or some other form of resolution is 14.1%.
The figure distributed is 10.2% in the traditional system, and 18.1% in the new criminal justice system.
The study " State Performance Index" concludes that, just a few months after the deadline for the implementation of the new criminal justice system in the whole country, the capacity for criminal investigation has deteriorated, this means that 15 years ago, 23% of the cases and today only 14%.
The States of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato and Baja California are the only ones in which professionalization and management models are applied with greater efficiency.
According to the study, only nine out of every 20 arrest warrants issued by local judges result in the arrest of the probable perpetrator. In addition, only one in ten Mexicans actually trust a lot in the local public ministry.
A disturbing fact is that, in the accusatory system, one in three cases in which it is determined that there is no crime to pursue, is done without having carried out an investigation, explained Reyes Heroles.
In addition, he informed that, before the criminal reform, in Mexico, the victims pardon was resolved between 8% and 10.5% of the preliminary inquiries.
With the new system, the are solved by alternative mechanisms in the country, on average 6.4% of cases are resolved with the research files.
All this, despite the training and certification of the facilitators, such as public ministries and Judges.
Borderland Beat Reporter Otis B Fly-Wheel Posted at 7:42 AM
END
Thursday, November 9, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE2 9-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE2 9 NOV 2017
Comment: Not to forget that Mexico has a de facto death penalty, not in the courts, but on the streets. Used very frequently. Many observers believe it to be a result of the culture of corruption. Especially of the courts, prosecutors and law enforcement. Although Mexico is not alone in that problem of the judiciary, the USA seems to be trying hard to catch up over the past few years. "does not solve problems"? Rubén will not be committing any more crimes in Texas.
thx
CNDH condemns not to stop execution of Mexican in Texas
The ombudsman, Luis González, claims that the execution 'does not solve problems'; reproaches that this practice still exists; Donald Trump represents regression for human rights, he says
11/08/2017 13:41 NOTIMEX
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/08/1199963
The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) regretted that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles of Freedom ignored the requests of the Mexican government and international and local organizations to postpone and commute the death sentence of the Mexican Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas, 47 old.
"It is regrettable that this exists, because it is proven that the death penalty does not solve the problems of justice and it can incur injustice and is irreversible," said the national ombudsman, Luis Raúl González Pérez.
In an interview, the president of the CNDH reproached that these practices still exist in the world, and recalled that in Mexico the death penalty is not practiced.
Gonzalez Perez said that the commission in charge sent a respectful letter to the US authorities, requesting "that this penalty not be carried out, that it be reviewed and replaced, and well, the closure prevails in this and other issues today."
Asked about the first anniversary of the election of President Donald Trump, the head of the CNDH considered that his election has represented a "regression for human rights."
This, given that it has shown a rejection of the dignity of the people and, even, to his own American citizens, when he looks for to revert laws or agreements in matter of environment.
He adds his racist and xenophobic policy against migration, without forgetting the hate speech he has proclaimed during his tenure, "that is why, almost a year after the Trump presidency, it has been a terrifying year for human rights" .
The ombudsman celebrated the appointment of Nasheli Ramírez Hernández as head of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) and expressed the full support of the national body for capital management.
"She is a civilian fighter for the defense of human rights and children in particular, there was a expression of civil society and I believe that the designation of Nasheli will be an augury for the defense of human rights in Mexico City. and will have all the support of the CNDH, "said González Pérez.
END
Comment: Not to forget that Mexico has a de facto death penalty, not in the courts, but on the streets. Used very frequently. Many observers believe it to be a result of the culture of corruption. Especially of the courts, prosecutors and law enforcement. Although Mexico is not alone in that problem of the judiciary, the USA seems to be trying hard to catch up over the past few years. "does not solve problems"? Rubén will not be committing any more crimes in Texas.
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CNDH condemns not to stop execution of Mexican in Texas
The ombudsman, Luis González, claims that the execution 'does not solve problems'; reproaches that this practice still exists; Donald Trump represents regression for human rights, he says
11/08/2017 13:41 NOTIMEX
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/08/1199963
The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) regretted that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles of Freedom ignored the requests of the Mexican government and international and local organizations to postpone and commute the death sentence of the Mexican Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas, 47 old.
"It is regrettable that this exists, because it is proven that the death penalty does not solve the problems of justice and it can incur injustice and is irreversible," said the national ombudsman, Luis Raúl González Pérez.
In an interview, the president of the CNDH reproached that these practices still exist in the world, and recalled that in Mexico the death penalty is not practiced.
Gonzalez Perez said that the commission in charge sent a respectful letter to the US authorities, requesting "that this penalty not be carried out, that it be reviewed and replaced, and well, the closure prevails in this and other issues today."
Asked about the first anniversary of the election of President Donald Trump, the head of the CNDH considered that his election has represented a "regression for human rights."
This, given that it has shown a rejection of the dignity of the people and, even, to his own American citizens, when he looks for to revert laws or agreements in matter of environment.
He adds his racist and xenophobic policy against migration, without forgetting the hate speech he has proclaimed during his tenure, "that is why, almost a year after the Trump presidency, it has been a terrifying year for human rights" .
The ombudsman celebrated the appointment of Nasheli Ramírez Hernández as head of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) and expressed the full support of the national body for capital management.
"She is a civilian fighter for the defense of human rights and children in particular, there was a expression of civil society and I believe that the designation of Nasheli will be an augury for the defense of human rights in Mexico City. and will have all the support of the CNDH, "said González Pérez.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
AZMEX UPDATE 9-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 9 NOV 2017
Note: "Cardenas' defense team, funded by the Mexican government,"
gracias
Mexico fights to stop Texas from executing convicted murderer, citing treaty
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/08/mexico-fights-to-stop-texas-from-executing-convicted-murderer-citing-treaty.html
At right, Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, who is set to be executed. At left, Mexico's Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Carlos Manuel Sada Solana speaks at a news conference about the case. (AP/Reuters)
After two decades on death row, a Mexican national at the center of an international dispute is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night in Texas unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in and issues an 11th hour stay.
Lawyers for Ruben Ramirez Cardenas asked the nation's highest court to halt the Texas execution, citing advances in DNA testing. Cardenas is set to die for the February 1997 rape and beating death of his 16-year-old cousin Mayra Laguna.
Cardenas told police he and his friend Jose Antonio Lopez Castillo were on drugs when they drove to Laguna's apartment and raped her. When he untied his cousin she "came at me," he said, scratching and kneeing him. He said he "lost it" and then started punching her in the face.
When he hit her in the neck, Laguna started to cough up blood. Cardenas tried to revive her. When that didn't work, he tied her back up and "rolled her down a canal bank."
Mayra Laguna
It's what happened next that has Mexican officials and human rights groups arguing he shouldn't be put to death.
Cardenas' defense team, funded by the Mexican government,
claims the United States violated an international treaty by denying Cardenas the opportunity to speak to his country's consulate after his arrest.
'This guy deserves the death penalty.'
- Rene Guerra, prosecutor
"It's a significant treaty violation," Gregory Kuykendall, an Arizona attorney authorized to speak on behalf of Mexico, told the Houston Chronicle.
If Texas officials execute Cardenas, they would be in apparent violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
In 2004, the U.N.'s international court in the Hague ruled that the U.S. must review cases similar to Cardenas'. Then-President George W. Bush told states to comply but the Supreme Court overruled him and said it was up to Congress – not the president – to order states to obey.
Since then, Congress has dragged its feet.
"The result: an illegal loophole states are exploiting to execute foreign nationals in violation of international law," the ACLU says.
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights issued a statement Tuesday calling for the death sentence "to be annulled and for Mr. Cardenas to be re-tried in compliance with international standards relating to due process and fair trial."
Kuykendall adds that the legality of the treaty was never in question and therefore should be followed.
"It's not a question of whether there really is a binding legal obligation or not; every justice in the Supreme Court agrees that there is," Kuykendall, who heads up the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, said. "The only question is who is going to implement the legal mechanism to put it into place."
Mexico, unlike the U.S., does not have capital punishment. The country hasn't weighed in on whether Cardenas committed the crimes but instead has focused on the treaty.
Cardenas also reportedly was denied a lawyer for 11 days. His attorneys argue that the DNA evidence against him is faulty, his confession was coerced and their client is innocent.
But Rene Guerra, the former local district attorney who prosecuted Cardenas, dismissed the complaints.
"I never would have authorized a case that was not there or was a flimsy investigation," he told The Associated Press. "This guy deserves the death penalty."
With only hours until his scheduled execution, Cardenas attorneys filed two federal lawsuits seeking to stop Wednesday's execution.
One argues that Cardenas' due process and civil rights are being violated because state officials are refusing to release evidence that could lead to new DNA testing in the case.
The other asks for a phone in the prison so Cardenas' attorney Maurie Levin can contact the Texas governor or the courts before and during the execution.
Cell phones are typically barred from Texas prisons. There are no landlines either.
If Cardenas is executed, he would be the 166th inmate to be executed in Texas in the past decade. He'd be the 11th Mexican national to be executed in the U.S. in 35 years.
END
Note: "Cardenas' defense team, funded by the Mexican government,"
gracias
Mexico fights to stop Texas from executing convicted murderer, citing treaty
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/08/mexico-fights-to-stop-texas-from-executing-convicted-murderer-citing-treaty.html
At right, Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, who is set to be executed. At left, Mexico's Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Carlos Manuel Sada Solana speaks at a news conference about the case. (AP/Reuters)
After two decades on death row, a Mexican national at the center of an international dispute is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night in Texas unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in and issues an 11th hour stay.
Lawyers for Ruben Ramirez Cardenas asked the nation's highest court to halt the Texas execution, citing advances in DNA testing. Cardenas is set to die for the February 1997 rape and beating death of his 16-year-old cousin Mayra Laguna.
Cardenas told police he and his friend Jose Antonio Lopez Castillo were on drugs when they drove to Laguna's apartment and raped her. When he untied his cousin she "came at me," he said, scratching and kneeing him. He said he "lost it" and then started punching her in the face.
When he hit her in the neck, Laguna started to cough up blood. Cardenas tried to revive her. When that didn't work, he tied her back up and "rolled her down a canal bank."
Mayra Laguna
It's what happened next that has Mexican officials and human rights groups arguing he shouldn't be put to death.
Cardenas' defense team, funded by the Mexican government,
claims the United States violated an international treaty by denying Cardenas the opportunity to speak to his country's consulate after his arrest.
'This guy deserves the death penalty.'
- Rene Guerra, prosecutor
"It's a significant treaty violation," Gregory Kuykendall, an Arizona attorney authorized to speak on behalf of Mexico, told the Houston Chronicle.
If Texas officials execute Cardenas, they would be in apparent violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
In 2004, the U.N.'s international court in the Hague ruled that the U.S. must review cases similar to Cardenas'. Then-President George W. Bush told states to comply but the Supreme Court overruled him and said it was up to Congress – not the president – to order states to obey.
Since then, Congress has dragged its feet.
"The result: an illegal loophole states are exploiting to execute foreign nationals in violation of international law," the ACLU says.
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights issued a statement Tuesday calling for the death sentence "to be annulled and for Mr. Cardenas to be re-tried in compliance with international standards relating to due process and fair trial."
Kuykendall adds that the legality of the treaty was never in question and therefore should be followed.
"It's not a question of whether there really is a binding legal obligation or not; every justice in the Supreme Court agrees that there is," Kuykendall, who heads up the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, said. "The only question is who is going to implement the legal mechanism to put it into place."
Mexico, unlike the U.S., does not have capital punishment. The country hasn't weighed in on whether Cardenas committed the crimes but instead has focused on the treaty.
Cardenas also reportedly was denied a lawyer for 11 days. His attorneys argue that the DNA evidence against him is faulty, his confession was coerced and their client is innocent.
But Rene Guerra, the former local district attorney who prosecuted Cardenas, dismissed the complaints.
"I never would have authorized a case that was not there or was a flimsy investigation," he told The Associated Press. "This guy deserves the death penalty."
With only hours until his scheduled execution, Cardenas attorneys filed two federal lawsuits seeking to stop Wednesday's execution.
One argues that Cardenas' due process and civil rights are being violated because state officials are refusing to release evidence that could lead to new DNA testing in the case.
The other asks for a phone in the prison so Cardenas' attorney Maurie Levin can contact the Texas governor or the courts before and during the execution.
Cell phones are typically barred from Texas prisons. There are no landlines either.
If Cardenas is executed, he would be the 166th inmate to be executed in Texas in the past decade. He'd be the 11th Mexican national to be executed in the U.S. in 35 years.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 8-11-17
AZMEX UPDATE 8 NOV 2017
Jailed undocumented detainees in Arizona
manuel POSTED ON 08/11/2017
Omar Chiquete
New Day / Nogales, Arizona
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/11/08/daran-a-carcel-a-detenidos-indocumentados-en-arizona/
Border Patrol Agents from the Tucson Sector, assigned to the Ajo Station, Douglas "Brian A. Terry", recently arrested three Mexican citizens previously convicted and expelled from the United States for committing serious crimes.
In a first case, the arrest was reported of Ernesto Ventura Gil, 52, who was arrested Thursday afternoon after agents of the Ajo Station discovered that he was illegally in the United States. The agents conducted a record check of the Ventura data and discovered that he had been convicted of a felony of child cruelty in Fresno, California.
In another case, federal agents assigned to the Douglas Station arrested Rutilo Morales Gomez, 42, after he illegally entered the country east of the Douglas border on Friday. During the prosecution, the agents discovered that Morales was found guilty in London, Ohio, for involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Sunday, officers from the "Brian A. Terry" station, who worked in Cochise County, arrested José Antonio José, 57, for being illegally in the United States. Further verification of his records revealed that he was convicted of a felony in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and that he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The three men are currently in the custody of Border Patrol authorities and have been charged with federal immigration violations for serious crimes.
All persons detained by the Border Patrol are subject to criminal background checks through biometric data to ensure that illegal immigrants with criminal records are positively identified.
end
Note: not all the drugs make it across the border.
thx
Marijuana consumption predominates in Nogales (Son.)
manuel POSTED ON 08/11/2017 0 90 Views 0
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Día / Nogales, Sonora
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/11/08/predomina-consumo-de-marihuana-en-nogales/
The consumption of marijuana among young people and adolescents in Nogales has increased considerably, according to data from the Juvenile Integration Center (CIJ) of this border.
The Director of the Center Zulema Thomé Martínez, informed that from 2014 to 2017 there has been an increase of 5 percent in the consumption of cannabis, a problem that mainly affects the mental health of adolescents. This health problem generates different damages such as low capacity in learning and a syndrome called A-motivational, where adolescents who are dependent on marijuana, seem to have no motivation for anything, just for consumption.
Thomé Martínez pointed out that statistics places cannabis at the top, due to the issue of its legalization, and that it is hypothesized that young people see it as a healing product.
"The fact that marijuana was legalized favored that young people and adolescents were thinking that it, because it is a plant that has medicinal properties and that does not hurt and that triggered its consumption in the last three years," said the Director of CIJ
He added that so far in 2017 has served 62,278 young people, of which 32 percent are between 15 and 19 years of age, and its greatest consumption is marijuana, on alcohol and snuff. The Director pointed out that she will continue working in prevention seminars, mainly in the education sector, in order to reach the goal established during this year, which is to serve 77 thousand people.
END
He commits suicide due to drug problems
Fredy Mejía
Friday, November 3, 2017
in Police
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/metropoli/policia/se-suicida-menor-por-problemas-de-droga
Last night, Pablo, aged 17, was found dead on a tree in the yard of his house.
According to family members, he was desperate for days because he could not stop drugs.
The police went to San Juan Avenue between San Esteban Street and San Emeterio Street to start the investigations, finding the body on the ground, and that the 15-year-old brother took him down ,trying to save his life.
Days before, he had already told his relatives that he would hang himself.
In a posthumous letter he wrote in his social network space he said that only then would he leave drugs.
end
Jailed undocumented detainees in Arizona
manuel POSTED ON 08/11/2017
Omar Chiquete
New Day / Nogales, Arizona
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/11/08/daran-a-carcel-a-detenidos-indocumentados-en-arizona/
Border Patrol Agents from the Tucson Sector, assigned to the Ajo Station, Douglas "Brian A. Terry", recently arrested three Mexican citizens previously convicted and expelled from the United States for committing serious crimes.
In a first case, the arrest was reported of Ernesto Ventura Gil, 52, who was arrested Thursday afternoon after agents of the Ajo Station discovered that he was illegally in the United States. The agents conducted a record check of the Ventura data and discovered that he had been convicted of a felony of child cruelty in Fresno, California.
In another case, federal agents assigned to the Douglas Station arrested Rutilo Morales Gomez, 42, after he illegally entered the country east of the Douglas border on Friday. During the prosecution, the agents discovered that Morales was found guilty in London, Ohio, for involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Sunday, officers from the "Brian A. Terry" station, who worked in Cochise County, arrested José Antonio José, 57, for being illegally in the United States. Further verification of his records revealed that he was convicted of a felony in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and that he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The three men are currently in the custody of Border Patrol authorities and have been charged with federal immigration violations for serious crimes.
All persons detained by the Border Patrol are subject to criminal background checks through biometric data to ensure that illegal immigrants with criminal records are positively identified.
end
Note: not all the drugs make it across the border.
thx
Marijuana consumption predominates in Nogales (Son.)
manuel POSTED ON 08/11/2017 0 90 Views 0
Everardo Rivera
Nuevo Día / Nogales, Sonora
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2017/11/08/predomina-consumo-de-marihuana-en-nogales/
The consumption of marijuana among young people and adolescents in Nogales has increased considerably, according to data from the Juvenile Integration Center (CIJ) of this border.
The Director of the Center Zulema Thomé Martínez, informed that from 2014 to 2017 there has been an increase of 5 percent in the consumption of cannabis, a problem that mainly affects the mental health of adolescents. This health problem generates different damages such as low capacity in learning and a syndrome called A-motivational, where adolescents who are dependent on marijuana, seem to have no motivation for anything, just for consumption.
Thomé Martínez pointed out that statistics places cannabis at the top, due to the issue of its legalization, and that it is hypothesized that young people see it as a healing product.
"The fact that marijuana was legalized favored that young people and adolescents were thinking that it, because it is a plant that has medicinal properties and that does not hurt and that triggered its consumption in the last three years," said the Director of CIJ
He added that so far in 2017 has served 62,278 young people, of which 32 percent are between 15 and 19 years of age, and its greatest consumption is marijuana, on alcohol and snuff. The Director pointed out that she will continue working in prevention seminars, mainly in the education sector, in order to reach the goal established during this year, which is to serve 77 thousand people.
END
He commits suicide due to drug problems
Fredy Mejía
Friday, November 3, 2017
in Police
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/metropoli/policia/se-suicida-menor-por-problemas-de-droga
Last night, Pablo, aged 17, was found dead on a tree in the yard of his house.
According to family members, he was desperate for days because he could not stop drugs.
The police went to San Juan Avenue between San Esteban Street and San Emeterio Street to start the investigations, finding the body on the ground, and that the 15-year-old brother took him down ,trying to save his life.
Days before, he had already told his relatives that he would hang himself.
In a posthumous letter he wrote in his social network space he said that only then would he leave drugs.
end
Saturday, November 4, 2017
AZMEX SPECIAL 4-11-17
AZMEX SPECIAL 4 NOV 2017
Note: major oil find in Mexico - mostly computer "translation"
They discover an oil 'gold mine'
It is the Ixachi-1 well, in Veracruz; is the most important finding on land in the last 15 years, says the President; the extraction will be less expensive
11/04/2017 05:47 VANESSA ALEMAN AND NAYELI GONZÁLEZ
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/04/1199107
President Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled the discovery of the Ixachi-1 well, a major oil and gas field that Pemex discovered near Cosamaloapan, Veracruz.
According to initial studies, it has a volume of more than one thousand 500 million barrels of crude that could represent total reserves of around 350 million barrels of 3P reserves, that is, proven, probable and possible.
The president assured that "Pemex becomes richer from the discovery of this deposit", the most important finding that the company has made in the last 15 years, which will allow it not only to incorporate reserves, but also to increase oil production in the medium and long terms.
Peña Nieto made the announcement when attending the assembly of the fractionating tower of the coking plant of the refinery of this city.
He added that the extraction of oil in this new deposit will be able to be done relatively soon and at lower costs, since it is close to where there is Pemex infrastructure.
"THE MOST IMPORTANT AREA IN THE LAST YEARS"
The President of the Republic, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced yesterday the discovery of Pozo Ixachi-1, a major oil and gas field that Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) discovered near Cosamaloapan, south of the Port of Veracruz. the country's crude reserves increase exponentially.
According to initial studies, it has an original volume of more than one thousand 500 million barrels of crude that could represent total reserves of around 350 million barrels of 3P reserves, that is, proven, probable and possible.
When going to the assembly of the fractionating tower of the Coalization plant of the Tula refinery, Hidalgo, the federal president stressed that this discovery is one of the most important in 15 years and represents an important precedent for financial markets.
This is the most important Pemex finding in terrestrial fields that this company has carried out in recent years; In addition, the extraction of this oil will be able to be done relatively soon and at lower costs because of the location where this deposit is located, which is near where there is Pemex infrastructure and will allow to process the oil that is extracted more easily.
In such a way that this is very good news: Pemex becomes richer from the discovery of this site. It's the Ixachi 1 well, the one that has been discovered, "said Peña.
According to Pemex, the volume is similar to the discovery with the Zama-1 well, reported last July by the private companies Talos, Premier Oil and Sierra Oil and Gas, cataloged as a mega deposit in shallow waters, as well as the Trión fields in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Last September, the National Hydrocarbons Commission granted permission to Pemex to carry out exploration work, which required investments of more than 600 million pesos, of which 498 million pesos were destined for drilling and 108 million pesos for the termination.
According to the calendar of the regulatory body, the drilling of Ixachi-1 began on October 30, 2016, and culminated on July 13 of this year.
At the start of the fractionating tower, the director of Pemex, José Antonio González Anaya, explained that this new infrastructure will allow with the same amount of oil increase the production of gasoline and give them 154 thousand barrels to 220 thousand barrels of gasoline and give them .
With time, the Mexican oil is getting heavier and, therefore, more fuel oil is produced; this plant takes the fuel oil and converts it into more gasoline and more diesel, and in coke, up to 80% recovery factor, "he said.
The Tula refinery has a refining capacity of 219 thousand barrels per day and supplies the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla and Querétaro, so the objective is to consolidate it as the main producer of gasoline and become the third part of the National Refining System.
After the ASF warned about the lack of investment in infrastructure of the National Refining System, which can put at risk the supply of gasoline and diesel by Pemex and bring serious social consequences, the director of Pemex, ruled out that required new refineries to meet the needs of the country.
We do not necessarily need more refineries, as some say, we need our refineries to perform more, "he said during his participation. He reiterated that it is not required to process more barrels of oil, but more yields per barrel; For what he said, the challenge is to end the unscheduled stoppages that have nothing to do with refining.
end
Descubren una 'mina de oro' petrolera
Se trata del pozo Ixachi-1, en Veracruz; es el hallazgo más importante en tierra en los últimos 15 años, afirma el Presidente; la extracción será menos costosa
04/11/2017 05:47 VANESSA ALEMÁN Y NAYELI GONZÁLEZ
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/04/1199107
El presidente Enrique Peña Nieto dio a conocer el hallazgo del pozo terrestre Ixachi-1, un importante yacimiento de petróleo y de gas asociado que Pemex descubrió cerca de Cosamaloapan, Veracruz.
De acuerdo con estudios iniciales, cuenta con un volumen de más de mil 500 millones de barriles de crudo que podrían representar reservas totales de alrededor de 350 millones de barriles de reservas 3P, es decir, probadas, probables y posibles.
El mandatario aseguró que "Pemex se vuelve más rico a partir del descubrimiento de este yacimiento", el hallazgo más importante que ha realizado la empresa en los últimos 15 años, que le permitirá no sólo incorporar reservas, sino también incrementar la producción de crudo en el mediano y largo plazos.
Peña Nieto hizo el anuncio al acudir al montaje de la torre fraccionadora de la planta de coquización de la refinería de esta ciudad.
Agregó que la extracción de petróleo en ese nuevo yacimiento va a poder hacerse relativamente pronto y a costos más bajos, pues se encuentra cerca de donde hay infraestructura de Pemex .
"EL YACIMIENTO MÁS IMPORTANTE EN LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS"
El presidente de la República, Enrique Peña Nieto, anunció ayer el hallazgo del Pozo Ixachi-1, un importante yacimiento de petróleo y de gas asociado que Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) descubrió cerca de Cosamaloapan, al sur del Puerto de Veracruz, con lo que se incrementan exponencialmente las reservas de crudo del país.
De acuerdo con estudios iniciales, cuenta con un volumen original de más de mil 500 millones de barriles de crudo que podrían representar reservas totales de alrededor de 350 millones de barriles de reservas 3P, es decir, probadas, probables y posibles.
Al acudir al montaje de la torre fraccionadora de la planta de Coquización de la Refinería de Tula, Hidalgo, el mandatario federal destacó que este descubrimiento es uno de los más importantes en 15 años y representa un precedente importante para los mercados financieros.
Este es el hallazgo de Pemex más importante en campos terrestres que haya realizado esta empresa en los últimos años; además la extracción de ese petróleo va a poder hacerse relativamente pronto y a costos más bajos por la ubicación donde está este yacimiento, que se encuentra cerca de donde hay infraestructura de Pemex y va a permitir procesar el petróleo que se extraiga de manera más fácil.
De tal suerte que ésta es una muy buena noticia: Pemex se vuelve más rico a partir del descubrimiento de este yacimiento. Es el Pozo Ixachi 1, el que se ha descubierto", dijo Peña.
De acuerdo con Pemex, el volumen es similar al descubrimiento con el pozo Zama-1, reportado en julio pasado por las empresas privadas Talos, Premier Oil y Sierra Oil and Gas, catalogado como un mega yacimiento en aguas someras, así como al campos Trión en aguas profundas del Golfo de México.
En septiembre pasado, la Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos, otorgó el permiso a Pemex para llevar a cabo los trabajos de exploración, que requirieron inversiones por más de 600 millones de pesos, de los cuales 498 millones se destinaron a los trabajos de perforación y 108 millones para la terminación.
Según el calendario del órgano regulador, la perforación de Ixachi-1 comenzó el pasado 30 de octubre de 2016, y culminó el 13 de julio de este año.
En el arranque de la torre fraccionadora, el director de Pemex, José Antonio González Anaya, detalló que esta nueva infraestructura permitirá que con la misma cantidad de petróleo aumente la producción de gasolinas y diéseles de 154 mil barriles a 220 mil barriles de gasolinas y diéseles.
Con el tiempo el petróleo mexicano es cada vez más pesado y, por ende, se produce más combustóleo; esta planta toma el combustóleo y lo convierte en más gasolina y más diésel, y en coque, hasta 80% de factor de recuperación", destacó.
La refinería de Tula cuenta con una capacidad de refinación de 219 mil barriles por día y abastece la zona metropolitana del Valle de México, Estado de México, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla y Querétaro, por lo que el objetivo es consolidarla como el principal productor de gasolinas y llegar a ser la tercera parte del Sistema Nacional de Refinación.
Luego que la ASF alertó sobre la falta de inversión en infraestructura del Sistema Nacional de Refinación, lo que puede poner en riesgo el abastecimiento de gasolina y diésel por parte de Pemex y traer consigo graves consecuencias sociales, el director de Pemex, descartó que se requieran nuevas refinerías para atender las necesidades del país.
No necesariamente necesitamos más refinerías, como algunos dicen por ahí, necesitamos que las refinerías que tenemos rindan más", aseveró durante su participación.
Y reiteró que no se requiere procesar más barriles de petróleo, sino más rendimientos por barril; por lo que dijo, el reto es acabar con los paros no programados que no tienen nada que ver con refinación.
end
Note: major oil find in Mexico - mostly computer "translation"
They discover an oil 'gold mine'
It is the Ixachi-1 well, in Veracruz; is the most important finding on land in the last 15 years, says the President; the extraction will be less expensive
11/04/2017 05:47 VANESSA ALEMAN AND NAYELI GONZÁLEZ
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/04/1199107
President Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled the discovery of the Ixachi-1 well, a major oil and gas field that Pemex discovered near Cosamaloapan, Veracruz.
According to initial studies, it has a volume of more than one thousand 500 million barrels of crude that could represent total reserves of around 350 million barrels of 3P reserves, that is, proven, probable and possible.
The president assured that "Pemex becomes richer from the discovery of this deposit", the most important finding that the company has made in the last 15 years, which will allow it not only to incorporate reserves, but also to increase oil production in the medium and long terms.
Peña Nieto made the announcement when attending the assembly of the fractionating tower of the coking plant of the refinery of this city.
He added that the extraction of oil in this new deposit will be able to be done relatively soon and at lower costs, since it is close to where there is Pemex infrastructure.
"THE MOST IMPORTANT AREA IN THE LAST YEARS"
The President of the Republic, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced yesterday the discovery of Pozo Ixachi-1, a major oil and gas field that Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) discovered near Cosamaloapan, south of the Port of Veracruz. the country's crude reserves increase exponentially.
According to initial studies, it has an original volume of more than one thousand 500 million barrels of crude that could represent total reserves of around 350 million barrels of 3P reserves, that is, proven, probable and possible.
When going to the assembly of the fractionating tower of the Coalization plant of the Tula refinery, Hidalgo, the federal president stressed that this discovery is one of the most important in 15 years and represents an important precedent for financial markets.
This is the most important Pemex finding in terrestrial fields that this company has carried out in recent years; In addition, the extraction of this oil will be able to be done relatively soon and at lower costs because of the location where this deposit is located, which is near where there is Pemex infrastructure and will allow to process the oil that is extracted more easily.
In such a way that this is very good news: Pemex becomes richer from the discovery of this site. It's the Ixachi 1 well, the one that has been discovered, "said Peña.
According to Pemex, the volume is similar to the discovery with the Zama-1 well, reported last July by the private companies Talos, Premier Oil and Sierra Oil and Gas, cataloged as a mega deposit in shallow waters, as well as the Trión fields in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Last September, the National Hydrocarbons Commission granted permission to Pemex to carry out exploration work, which required investments of more than 600 million pesos, of which 498 million pesos were destined for drilling and 108 million pesos for the termination.
According to the calendar of the regulatory body, the drilling of Ixachi-1 began on October 30, 2016, and culminated on July 13 of this year.
At the start of the fractionating tower, the director of Pemex, José Antonio González Anaya, explained that this new infrastructure will allow with the same amount of oil increase the production of gasoline and give them 154 thousand barrels to 220 thousand barrels of gasoline and give them .
With time, the Mexican oil is getting heavier and, therefore, more fuel oil is produced; this plant takes the fuel oil and converts it into more gasoline and more diesel, and in coke, up to 80% recovery factor, "he said.
The Tula refinery has a refining capacity of 219 thousand barrels per day and supplies the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla and Querétaro, so the objective is to consolidate it as the main producer of gasoline and become the third part of the National Refining System.
After the ASF warned about the lack of investment in infrastructure of the National Refining System, which can put at risk the supply of gasoline and diesel by Pemex and bring serious social consequences, the director of Pemex, ruled out that required new refineries to meet the needs of the country.
We do not necessarily need more refineries, as some say, we need our refineries to perform more, "he said during his participation. He reiterated that it is not required to process more barrels of oil, but more yields per barrel; For what he said, the challenge is to end the unscheduled stoppages that have nothing to do with refining.
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Descubren una 'mina de oro' petrolera
Se trata del pozo Ixachi-1, en Veracruz; es el hallazgo más importante en tierra en los últimos 15 años, afirma el Presidente; la extracción será menos costosa
04/11/2017 05:47 VANESSA ALEMÁN Y NAYELI GONZÁLEZ
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/11/04/1199107
El presidente Enrique Peña Nieto dio a conocer el hallazgo del pozo terrestre Ixachi-1, un importante yacimiento de petróleo y de gas asociado que Pemex descubrió cerca de Cosamaloapan, Veracruz.
De acuerdo con estudios iniciales, cuenta con un volumen de más de mil 500 millones de barriles de crudo que podrían representar reservas totales de alrededor de 350 millones de barriles de reservas 3P, es decir, probadas, probables y posibles.
El mandatario aseguró que "Pemex se vuelve más rico a partir del descubrimiento de este yacimiento", el hallazgo más importante que ha realizado la empresa en los últimos 15 años, que le permitirá no sólo incorporar reservas, sino también incrementar la producción de crudo en el mediano y largo plazos.
Peña Nieto hizo el anuncio al acudir al montaje de la torre fraccionadora de la planta de coquización de la refinería de esta ciudad.
Agregó que la extracción de petróleo en ese nuevo yacimiento va a poder hacerse relativamente pronto y a costos más bajos, pues se encuentra cerca de donde hay infraestructura de Pemex .
"EL YACIMIENTO MÁS IMPORTANTE EN LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS"
El presidente de la República, Enrique Peña Nieto, anunció ayer el hallazgo del Pozo Ixachi-1, un importante yacimiento de petróleo y de gas asociado que Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) descubrió cerca de Cosamaloapan, al sur del Puerto de Veracruz, con lo que se incrementan exponencialmente las reservas de crudo del país.
De acuerdo con estudios iniciales, cuenta con un volumen original de más de mil 500 millones de barriles de crudo que podrían representar reservas totales de alrededor de 350 millones de barriles de reservas 3P, es decir, probadas, probables y posibles.
Al acudir al montaje de la torre fraccionadora de la planta de Coquización de la Refinería de Tula, Hidalgo, el mandatario federal destacó que este descubrimiento es uno de los más importantes en 15 años y representa un precedente importante para los mercados financieros.
Este es el hallazgo de Pemex más importante en campos terrestres que haya realizado esta empresa en los últimos años; además la extracción de ese petróleo va a poder hacerse relativamente pronto y a costos más bajos por la ubicación donde está este yacimiento, que se encuentra cerca de donde hay infraestructura de Pemex y va a permitir procesar el petróleo que se extraiga de manera más fácil.
De tal suerte que ésta es una muy buena noticia: Pemex se vuelve más rico a partir del descubrimiento de este yacimiento. Es el Pozo Ixachi 1, el que se ha descubierto", dijo Peña.
De acuerdo con Pemex, el volumen es similar al descubrimiento con el pozo Zama-1, reportado en julio pasado por las empresas privadas Talos, Premier Oil y Sierra Oil and Gas, catalogado como un mega yacimiento en aguas someras, así como al campos Trión en aguas profundas del Golfo de México.
En septiembre pasado, la Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos, otorgó el permiso a Pemex para llevar a cabo los trabajos de exploración, que requirieron inversiones por más de 600 millones de pesos, de los cuales 498 millones se destinaron a los trabajos de perforación y 108 millones para la terminación.
Según el calendario del órgano regulador, la perforación de Ixachi-1 comenzó el pasado 30 de octubre de 2016, y culminó el 13 de julio de este año.
En el arranque de la torre fraccionadora, el director de Pemex, José Antonio González Anaya, detalló que esta nueva infraestructura permitirá que con la misma cantidad de petróleo aumente la producción de gasolinas y diéseles de 154 mil barriles a 220 mil barriles de gasolinas y diéseles.
Con el tiempo el petróleo mexicano es cada vez más pesado y, por ende, se produce más combustóleo; esta planta toma el combustóleo y lo convierte en más gasolina y más diésel, y en coque, hasta 80% de factor de recuperación", destacó.
La refinería de Tula cuenta con una capacidad de refinación de 219 mil barriles por día y abastece la zona metropolitana del Valle de México, Estado de México, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla y Querétaro, por lo que el objetivo es consolidarla como el principal productor de gasolinas y llegar a ser la tercera parte del Sistema Nacional de Refinación.
Luego que la ASF alertó sobre la falta de inversión en infraestructura del Sistema Nacional de Refinación, lo que puede poner en riesgo el abastecimiento de gasolina y diésel por parte de Pemex y traer consigo graves consecuencias sociales, el director de Pemex, descartó que se requieran nuevas refinerías para atender las necesidades del país.
No necesariamente necesitamos más refinerías, como algunos dicen por ahí, necesitamos que las refinerías que tenemos rindan más", aseveró durante su participación.
Y reiteró que no se requiere procesar más barriles de petróleo, sino más rendimientos por barril; por lo que dijo, el reto es acabar con los paros no programados que no tienen nada que ver con refinación.
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