America's Mexican Border Wars

[Tosh Plumlee]

This information was brought up on this forum before these bodies were found near the ranch (pictures ranch posted mid March & 6 April 09)

The Drug war has crossed our borders..... notice how mainstrean media stays far away from this subject. These people in these graves must have caught the Mexican flu.

this Information was posted on this forum before the fact. pictures by TF7 and Mexican Army..... ref; Plumlee's work near Crater.

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Tosh
this is probably what JTF north and Mex intel were working on '''

"Yes These are the ones. There are more to come in the next few days... I got some good pictures I'll send you for your article. tosh ...".


----- [B]Subject:[/B] 7 bodies found in narco grave near Palomas



Siete cuerpos, al parecer del sexo masculino, fueron enterrados de manera clandestina en las fosas localizadas en el predio situado a 15 kilómetros del municipio de Rodrigo M. Quevedo, conocido también como Puerto Palomas de Villa.

La mayoría de los cadáveres presentaban características de ejecución y al parecer fueron privados de la vida en un punto distinto al lugar del hallazgo.

Alejandro Pariente Núñez, subprocurador de Justicia en la Zona Norte, dijo que el equipo especializado trabaja en la reconstrucción de los restos óseos, para practicar la necropsia de ley y determinar la causa de muerte de las víctimas, así como su identidad.

El hecho fue reportado a la Procuraduría General de la República para que coadyuve en las investigaciones de confirmarse una posible relación con el crimen organizado.

El subprocurador dijo que este hallazgo ocurrió tras recibir una denuncia anónima la noche del pasado 5 de mayo, a través de la cual una voz masculina reportaba la presencia de huesos y cuerpos enterrados en el área desértica.

“Derivado de una denuncia anónima se realizó un rastreo con personal de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) adscrito al Distrito Galeana”, explicó.

Un equipo especialista en la localización y recuperación de cadáveres formado por peritos en Antropología y Arqueología Forense, así como peritos en criminalística de la PGJE, localizaron siete cuerpos en dos fosas.

Las fosas se encuentran en una zona inhóspita ubicada en un punto medio entre la colonia Guadalupe Victoria y Puerto Palomas, frontera con Columbus, Nuevo México.

A unos 16 kilómetros de ambas localidades, el cementerio clandestino es difícil de localizar no sólo porque el camino que conduce hasta el lugar se encuentra en condiciones poco transitables, sino porque los pobladores poco quieren hablar.

Los sepulcros eran de forma rectangular con una dimensión de 2 metros de largo por 1. 20 metros de ancho y con una profundidad de 50 centímetros, excavadas de forma regular una junta a la otra, con una separación de 60 cm entre ellas.

Pariente explicó que la fauna carroñera, como coyotes, roedores y aves, extrajeron algunos huesos que quedaron dispersos sobre la superficie.

El trabajo pericial realizado por los especialistas consistió en elaborar en la primera fosa, un inventario osteológico. Ahí se determinó que en el hoyo fueron enterrados de manera ilegal tres cuerpos, encontrándose en el relleno 1 casquillo de calibre aún por determinarse, así como restos de cinta “duct tape” (adhesiva) en forma de atadura con algunos filamentos adheridos.

En la segunda fosa, se encontraron 2 individuos esqueletizados completos, en posición anatómica y 2 individuos esqueletizados incompletos, removidos por los animales carroñeros.

También se localizó 1 casquillo de calibre por determinar. Además uno de los cuerpos se encontraba vestido y llevaba las manos atadas con la cinta adhesiva en conjunto con los pies y el cráneo cubierto con este mismo tipo de cinta.

Otro de los cuerpos se encontró vestido, con la manos esposadas en la espalda y el cráneo cubierto con la misma cinta gris.

Parte de los restos fueron esparcidos por la fauna carroñera fuera de las fosas por lo que se deberán clasificar cada una de ellas, para establecer de manera fehaciente a qué cuerpo pertenecen.

Pariente Núñez explicó que los laboratorios de Servicios Periciales y Ciencias Forenses realizan el análisis para la reasociación de los cuerpos, la limpieza de los restos óseos, el análisis osteológico que permitirá determinar el sexo, valoración de edad y estatura, de las víctimas.

Así como la identificación de señas particulares como patologías, huellas de actividad, huellas de violencia, entre otras; así como la descripción de los objetos asociados, y la toma de muestras genéticas.

Indicó que los investigadores buscan indicios sobre las identidades de las víctimas a través de los reportes de personas desaparecidas registrados en Palomas, Janos, Casas Grandes y Ascensión, Chihuahua, de donde presumen pueden ser originarias las personas inhumadas de manera clandestina.

Por este motivo, la PGJE solicitó la colaboración de las personas que hayan sufrido la desaparición de un familiar o conocido para que lo denuncien y se pueda realizar la prueba de ADN a fin de confirmar una posible correspondencia genética, se informó.

Según confirmaron de manera extraoficial autoridades de Ascensión, cabecera municipal de Guadalupe Victoria y Puerto Palomas, la propiedad en la que se encontraron los restos humanos pertenece al rancho La Colorada, pero de ahí no salió ningún habitante a responder sobre el hallazgo.

“El dueño del rancho vive en Casas Grandes, pero creemos que él no tiene nada que ver con esos cuerpos porque esa brecha siempre la ha utilizado pura gente que no se dedica a nada bueno”, asegura una fuente que pide no ser identificada.

Aunque en la zona sólo quedaron varios montículos de tierra de las excavaciones que se hicieron y dos fosas, versiones extraoficiales indican que las autoridades periciales de los municipios de Casas Grandes y Juárez realizaron al menos 10 hoyos de los que lograron extraer las osamentas.

Además quedaron una gran cantidad de mechones de cabello esparcidos por el terreno y los arbustos, retazos de tela, pedazos de cinta adhesiva color gris, piezas óseas, un casquillo calibre .45 y un intenso olor putrefacto.




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Ranch one location: (GPS hand held location) N 31 46' 49.96 W 107 01' 59.94 MX Ranch 1/2 mile south of new border fence. (3.5 miles south from NM hiway # 9 at mile marker #125 going to the south to new border fence ( #20 thru # 27 fence markers) Be careful its a very dangerous place.

note; S/E of this ranch about two or three miles is the place know as the "Crater". Its a volcanic mountain and on the north side is the crater. On the other side of the mountain (south) is another ranch in question... it could be the 'compond' you asked about.

It would be inside Mexico about four miles south of border ( at fence marker approx #17 on border road):

Before you get to the crater going S/E from ranch one, there is a fork in the road... the east fork goes to the crater and the other goes south around the mountain to the ranch.., from the ranch the south road goes to MX hiway # 2. At the fork in the road (north side of mountain) is where the Mexican Army is using two backholes and ground radar looking for bodies. I was told they found two last week.

... their cover story is they are digging a pipeline in that area. However, sensitive Mexican Army Task Force Intel reports they think aprox 200 bodies could be buried in this are from a shoot out south of Juarez a few weeks ago (or month perhaps 21 killed) They are going back into the area next week.

Previous post: April 09:

XXXXXXX yes...,this is what I was working on-----------------------------------


"... Ranch one location: (GPS hand held location) N 31 46' 49.96 W 107 01' 59.94 MX Ranch 1/2 mile south of new border fence. (3.5 miles south from NM hiway # 9 at mile marker #125 going to the south to new border fence ( #20 thru # 27 fence markers) Be careful its a very dangerous place.

note; S/E of this ranch about two or three miles is the place know as the "Crater". Its a volcanic mountain and on the north side is the crater. On the other side of the mountain (south) is another ranch in question... it could be the 'compond' you asked about.

It would be inside Mexico about four miles south of border ( at fence marker approx #17 on border road):

Before you get to the crater going S/E from ranch one, there is a fork in the road... the east fork goes to the crater and the other goes south around the mountain to the ranch.., from the ranch the south road goes to MX hiway # 2. At the fork in the road (north side of mountain) is where the Mexican Army is using two backholes and ground radar looking for bodies. I was told they found two last week.

... their cover story is they are digging a pipeline in that area. However, sensitive Mexican Army Task Force Intel reports they think aprox 200 bodies could be buried in this are from a shoot out south of Juarez a few weeks ago (or month perhaps 21 killed) They are going back into the area next week.





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The next Article was posted May 06, 09

Gulf Cartel Declares War on United States
Task Force 7 reported this back in March that it was in the works.... but the media drifted into the Swine flu coverage rather that report the Task Forces reports to the Pentagon... The killings will continue....while we set on our thumbs and do nothing... Its here. The Border War is on our soil....


MEXICO UNDER SIEGE

Sinaloa cartel may resort to deadly force in U.S.

Authorities say Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the reputed leader of the Mexican cartel, has given his associates the OK, if necessary, to open fire across the border.
By Josh Meyer

May 6, 2009

Reporting from Sells, Ariz. — The reputed head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel is threatening a more aggressive stance against competitors and law enforcement north of the border, instructing associates to use deadly force, if needed, to protect increasingly contested trafficking operations, authorities said.

Such a move by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted fugitive, would mark a turn from the cartel's previous position of largely avoiding violent confrontations in the U.S. -- either with law enforcement officers or rival traffickers.

Police and federal agents in Arizona said they had recently received at least two law enforcement alerts focused on Guzman's reported orders that his smugglers should "use their weapons to defend their loads at all costs."

Guzman is thought to have delivered the message personally in early March, during a three-day gathering of his associates in Sonoita, a Mexican town a few miles south of the Arizona border, according to confidential U.S. intelligence bulletins sent to several state and federal law enforcement officials, who discussed them on the condition of anonymity.

The Sonoita meeting is considered one of several signs that Guzman is becoming more brazen even in the face of a Mexican government crackdown on his activities and continued turf rivalries with other traffickers.

Information from informants, wiretaps and other sources have prompted a flurry of warnings to authorities in U.S. border states, instructing them to use extreme caution when confronting people suspected of smuggling drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico or ferrying weapons and cash south from the United States, officials familiar with those warnings said.

Some U.S. intelligence officials suggested Guzman was on the defensive because of enforcement efforts on both sides of the border and because he can no longer afford to ditch valuable cargoes when challenged by rivals or authorities.

Michele Leonhart, acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Mexican smugglers were also under pressure because their Colombian partners were no longer extending them credit. "There's a need to get the cash back itself quicker and faster," Leonhart said.

U.S. authorities say Guzman has become increasingly intent on gaining dominance over smuggling routes in Mexico and the United States. To do so, they say, he has escalated his assault on some rival smugglers while forging alliances with others.

"Chapo is at the forefront of the efforts to control the routes into the United States," said Thomas M. Harrigan, the chief of operations for the DEA.

He said virtually all of the violence remained in Mexico, but U.S. authorities were alarmed that attacks on police, soldiers, government officials, journalists and other potential opponents had intensified near the border.

How much risk that poses to U.S. authorities "depends on how desperate the cartels become to move their cargo in the U.S.," said Dan Wells, commander of the Arizona Department of Public Safety's Intelligence Bureau.

So far, the contrast has been stark -- near-daily violence in Mexican border towns with relative tranquillity on the U.S. side, according to data and interviews with law enforcement officials in the region.

For example, Ciudad Juarez had 100 times as many homicides in the 14 months ending in February as neighboring El Paso, which is roughly half its size. In 2008, Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state had 40 times as many homicides as Nogales, Ariz., which is roughly one-ninth as populous.

Deeper into the United States, narcotics agents say they have seen little evidence of spillover from Mexican drug war violence beyond an increase in ransom kidnappings related to collection of drug debts.

But near the Mexico-Arizona border, Robert W. Gilbert, chief patrol agent for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Tucson sector, said confrontations between law enforcement and suspected traffickers -- and among traffickers themselves -- had grown more violent.

A shootout occurred several weeks ago when one group allegedly tried to hijack another's load of drugs on one of the main roads leading north to Phoenix. Two of the suspected traffickers were wounded.

"Times have changed," Gilbert said. "The tactics, the aggressiveness. We're victims of our own success." Now, he said, "they'll fight us."

An internal report from the agency, obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch, appears to support Gilbert's assessment. It shows reported weapons-related assaults against border officers rose 24% last fiscal year, compared with 2007, and assaults involving vehicles rose 7% in the same period.

Among areas with sharp increases in assaults was the Tucson corridor, the report said. Mario Escalante, a spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, said there were 113 assaults against agents in the sector between October and March, and an additional 26 last month.

"They're losing money and they are frustrated, and they are using other tactics to get their loads across," Escalante said.

The tactics include throwing barrages of rocks at agents, ramming their cars into agents' vehicles and sometimes shooting. He said the Guzman warning had put agents on edge.

When authorities stopped a vehicle in Douglas, Ariz., several weeks ago, traffickers on the Mexican side of the border "laid down suppressive fire" to stop U.S. officials from advancing, enabling the vehicle to make it back across the border with a load of marijuana intact, one Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said in an interview.

Arizona Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard said there appeared to be a shift in the rules of engagement on the part of traffickers affiliated with Sinaloa and other cartels.

"They've got to get the dope through, or they won't get paid. . . . These guys are under orders. . . . They have rules of engagement and they follow this direction."

One member of the Shadow Wolves, American Indian trackers who patrol the Tohono O'odham reservation for the Department of Homeland Security on the Arizona border, said that in the past, weapons were largely used by traffickers to protect themselves from bandits.

"But lately, [the bulletins have warned] that they've been carrying them to engage law enforcement," the tracker said.

Last edited by Tosh Plumlee; 05-06-2009 at 02:37 PM.


"... Coyote Hill and Guzman lookout Mountain east of Colombus New Mwxico should be watched veryclose these next few weeks. ...". (Tosh)


From previous EMails in March:

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------this is what I was working on-----------------------------------


Ranch one location: (GPS hand held location) N 31 46' 49.96 W 107 01' 59.94 MX Ranch 1/2 mile south of new border fence. (3.5 miles south from NM hiway # 9 at mile marker #125 going to the south to new border fence ( #20 thru # 27 fence markers) Be careful its a very dangerous place.

note; S/E of this ranch about two or three miles is the place know as the "Crater". Its a volcanic mountain and on the north side is the crater. On the other side of the mountain (south) is another ranch in question... it could be the 'compond' you asked about.

It would be inside Mexico about four miles south of border ( at fence marker approx #17 on border road):

Before you get to the crater going S/E from ranch one, there is a fork in the road... the east fork goes to the crater and the other goes south around the mountain to the ranch.., from the ranch the south road goes to MX hiway # 2. At the fork in the road (north side of mountain) is where the Mexican Army is using two backholes and ground radar looking for bodies. I was told they found two last week.

... their cover story is they are digging a pipeline in that area. However, sensitive Mexican Army Task Force Intel reports they think aprox 200 bodies could be buried in this are from a shoot out south of Juarez a few weeks ago (or month perhaps 21 killed) They are going back into the area next week.





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