AZMEX UPDATE 26 OCT 2017
Note: Santa Cruz county be tuff on crime.
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Law and order briefs: Probation for defendants in heroin, stolen truck cases
Nogales International
Oct 24, 2017 Updated Oct 24, 2017
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/law-and-order-briefs-probation-for-defendants-in-heroin-stolen/article_8dc7efcc-b84c-11e7-ab89-6fd3a067c30f.html
Teen heroin smuggler convicted as an adult
A teenager from Sahuarita was sentenced to three years of probation for trying to smuggle heroin from Mexico to Phoenix through Santa Cruz County.
According to her pre-sentence report, the teen, who was a few months shy of her 18th birthday at the time, was riding on a northbound shuttle on July 22, 2016 when the van was sent for a secondary inspection at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on Interstate 19.
During the inspection, agents noticed the young woman was acting suspiciously, including walking backwards to prevent them from seeing her front waistline area while also holding her purse in front of her waist. When an agent asked to see her purse and she handed it over, tan plastic tape protruded from her waist area, the report says.
At that point, the teen volunteered that she wanted to cooperate and told agents that she had something on her, but didn't know what it was. She was taken to a room where agents removed two square-shaped packages from around her waist.
The packages reportedly contained brown crystals that gave off a vinegar-like smell. The substance later tested positive for heroin.
The girl said someone she knew only as "Cuate" had put the packages on her in Nogales, Sonora, and she was supposed to bring them to Phoenix, where someone would meet her at the shuttle office and give her $500. Upon returning to Nogales, Sonora with the money, she expected be paid $400, she said.
The suspect was later released to the custody of her mother and prosecuted in the local court system as an adult.
She pleaded guilty to a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if she successfully completes her sentence, which includes three years of probation and 30 days of suspended jail time.
The defendant, now 19, was sentenced Oct. 16 by Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Stolen truck driver gets probation
On Aug. 4, 2016, then 18-year-old Karim Leonardo Payanes of Nogales, Sonora tried to drive a Ford F-350 pickup into Mexico through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting outbound checks stopped the truck and learned that it had been stolen in Phoenix.
Payanes was prosecuted in the local court system, and on Oct. 16, Judge Anna Montoya-Paez of Santa Cruz County Superior Court sentenced him to three years probation, including 30 days of deferred jail time.
The judge also ordered that he pay $451 in restitution to the owner of the truck. According to Payanes' pre-sentence report, the vehicle suffered damage to its driver's side door and ignition.
Payanes was convicted of a Class 6 undesignated felony, meaning the offense can be designated a misdemeanor if he successfully completes his punishment.
During a pre-sentence interview, Payanes told a probation officer that some friends asked him to cross the truck into Mexico in exchange for $100. "I had a bad feeling once I started driving the truck," he said, adding: "I had no idea why I had a bad feeling about it."
When he was stopped at the port, he thought the vehicle might have been loaded with drugs, he said.
Payanes was arrested and spent the next nine days in the county jail. When he was released from jail, he said, he thought the matter had been resolved and he went back to Mexico. However, when he returned to the United States, he learned that there was a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for court hearings.
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Note: The gun guys will find the photo at the link also of interest.
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ESP will fight criminal groups
Details Posted on Thursday October 26, 2017,
Written by Jesús Esquer / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=99839
Hermosillo.
Cajeme has a new criminal group that entered through Sinaloa and joins the two already existing in that municipality, admitted Adolfo García Morales, who admitted that the National Gendarmerie temporarily left there and focused its efforts in Puerto Peñasco in order deal with a fisheries problem.
The State Secretary of Public Security stressed that during the last month has increased the intentional homicide and some of that is due to the the Military Police that hardly knows the area, in addition to the exit of Gendarmería that had helped in the rural sector.
He admitted that the arrival of a third criminal group was on the border with Sinaloa that made use of its strategies to evade checkpoints such as Don Station checkpoint and stressed that if a good job is done with intelligence that will allow them to contain them . "What happens is that it breaks up and splits organized crime groups and they become groups, the same group becomes two sometimes, that's the problem," he said.
The head of the SESP said that the State Public Security Police will make an effort to send more agents, but in addition will make a strategic modification that will include their presence for a few days and manage to recompose the operational plan to expect that there are no presence of those groups in other municipalities.
Garcia Morales noted that the Gendarmerie left Ciudad Obregon on federal orders and although at first it was thought that only part of the elements would leave, later confirmed that it needed the more than 200 soldiers in Sonora.
"They left temporarily to Puerto Peñasco because of the problem of the fisheries, there was a problem with the fishermen that altered the security situation and that is why they went there, but hopefully in about 15 days they will return to Cajeme," he said.
The head of the SESP explained that the fishermen of the region did not allow the work of officials of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries who were under pressure, in addition to the recent confrontations that included damages to a patrol of the PESP.
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