Your last question to Duncan provided the most revealing answer. It is not contingent on law enforcement to hold them accountable because law enforcement does not control it's budget and they under the control and management by politicians and the police chiefs that are appointed by the politicians. The rank and file of law enforcement is crushed by the duplicitous objectives governing the political classes running American cities, political classes that are mired in corruption and criminal activity that no one dares to imagine or say out loud. The whole defund the police movement is a smoke screen to coverup layers of crime and corruption to the point many of our cities and towns are unlivable. On You Tube you will see video tours of the complete collapse of the belly of America.
It is only natural that law enforcement continues to think they can make a difference. But that ability was destroyed a long time ago especially when you look at our so-called models of Federal Law Enforcement which defy the suggestion that they are involved in law enforcement.
Exactly. There have been a huge number of police leaving the force all over the country. Almost every major American city is suffering from an understaffed police force.
She was I think a legal attached to the Secretary of Baja Ca. Governor Alex Glez Alcocer he was before before beeing governor lawyer a for an Honorary consul in Tijuana legal advisor she was working in the governor's office apparently before beeing in Los palillos
A crazy and sad career path. I feel a bit sorry for her and similar girls used in kidnappings who have got life but it is a truly horrific crime. Best there Jorge.
Very disingenuous to make it seem like Nancy had something to do with all of the Palillos crimes and murders. She was charged with 2 kidnappings and both people are alive and well still working for the cartels. Also her age. She did not come up with this stuff to do on her own. She was manipulated by adult seasoned cartel members who this was a normal practice for them. Using under age women to get what they wanted out of them. She was 16 when that grown man, over a decade older than her started grooming her. Things to think about. There’s always a bigger story than what the media shows.
Hi Antonio, Thanks for the comment and good to hear your voice here. I don't think the story makes it seem like Nancy was involved in all of the murders. It says: "Sometimes they lured them into a house to be abducted by pretending to buy drugs or do other business. But they also used honey traps..." However, it is a good point that Nancy was a form of victim as well as victimizer and I probably should have made more of that. Young girls in this situation getting life in prison is harsh, but then so are the repercussions of kidnapping. RE The guys are "still working for the cartels"! If you have any good leads or information on stories in region and want to reach out it's most welcome. Thanks and best, Ioan
The reason why Tostado’s wife cooperated was because he was already an informant. So she called their handlers immediately. That’s how the cops came into it so quickly.
That is very interesting information - and that adds another twist. They kidnapped an informant. What do you think of more recent murders and cartel action in SoCal? If you want to write more privately I am on ioangrillo@hotmail.com Best there.
Nancy Mendoza's cute, which is surely reason to commute her prison sentence. After all, this story, and many stories involving assassinations and mass slaughters , begin with testosterone. Hell, your gender may be the reason why you're addicted to writing exciting stories. A Mendoza won't help you, but methadone might.
Testosterone certainly gets a lot of people in trouble. Like the guys who convinced themselves Nancy Mendoza was coming onto them because they were handsome and charming - and then ended up with a taser blast. Testosterone may have got me into narco-journalism - but now narco-journalism won't let me go. Damn, perhaps I can be a food writer in a few years...
That was a cool way to tell me that I'm not "handsome and charming". Nevertheless, I'm a gentlemen (well, in this moment), and I'll give Eva a call to take you with on her next gluttony tour of Mexico - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16428770/
Your excellent article points out another fact and that is the connection Tijuana has to the United States and particularly the Southwest. It is hard to separate the criminal influence Tijuana has had especially in California over the last 75 years besides the huge economic and social connections Tijuana has had with this region. Tijuana cannot be ignored nor can Tijuana ever be studied enough about cartel influence in the United States and it's unique history with the United States. Being born and raised in Southern California has always made me aware of this connection and influence in the United States. No other city along the US southern border has had the influence and power Tijuana has had and still has in the United States.
Yeah, Tijuana has an influence on the U.S. and is a real influential city, more than any other border city. On the other side, the cartel role in SoCal is definitely a story on its own. Weel appreciated Tom.
Ioan, you would have to write at least two books on cartel and organized crime role in SoCal. SoCal has had everything from the Mafia, Zoot Suit wars, meth or speed a product from SoCal first distributed by the Hells Angels in the late 1950's, a huge fundraising area for the IRA, the Alessio Family, Arellano-Félix-Cartel, Mexican Mafia with it's control all the way to the Lt. Governor of CA at one point and still controlling a tremendous amount of influential people outside the prisons, MS 13, !8th Street Gang also known as 18 Barrio, Crips, Bloods, crack cocaine and Freeway Rick Ross the center of the sale of drugs to buy arms for the Contras in Nicaragua, Chinese gangs who left Hong Kong when China took control, hippie mafia's movement in SoCal with the expansion of marijuana fields in SoCal mountains guarded with fences and Claymore mines, Sinaloa Cartel's expansion and control of Riverside and San Bernardido Counties, landing point for a large amount of CIA trafficked heroin from Vietnam and later from Afghanistan, a huge financial laundering operation for any customer that has existed for decades, former French-Vietnamese who fled to SoCal and formed a vicious gang exploiting Cambodians especially in slave labor, first dumping ground by the CIA to unload the poppy growers of Laos, the Hmongs and the West Coast home of the most corrupt financial institutions in the world. To top it off SoCal has been home and still home to the most corrupt group of law enforcement from the CIA, FBI, DEA and state and local law enforcement including judges and attorneys. The land of Disneyland, beaches and sun and of course the entertainment capital of the world funded by the most sordid criminal activity.
Just last week two well known AFO's members where gun down at Chili's in Easth lake Chula Vista and other also nearby in the most affluent side of San Diego county most people's and drug Traffiquers are living tdy in the most affluent areas near the border
Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri is definitely complicit in the rise of violent crime and street gangs. This clowns comment after the Super Bowl Party violence was "this is what happens when you have guns." He also criticized the governor of Missouri for calling the young gang member suspects in the Super Bowl Party violence thugs. The Mayor claimed the Governor used a "dog whistle" which is a convenient catch phrase to call anybody a racist. Of course, these young gang member suspects were just misunderstood members of an oppressed class.
Lucas wants every city in the country to have the legal means to ban possession of any and all guns. He believes in decreasing the budget of police departments and his actions in Kansas City were so extreme that the legislature of the State of Missouri passed a bill for Kansas City to increase it's funding for the police. The Mayor said the bill is unconstitutional. He is also expanding programs for essentially social welfare agents to act as agents to prevent violence. Examples of these programs around the country are dismal failures and conduits for corruption and drug trafficking. Los Angeles has a long and incredibly long history of this type of corruption and resulting violence.
Kansas City has always been a hub of organized crime from the Mafia to the Sinaloa Cartel and Juarez Cartel. Lucas reminds of the Kwame Kilpatrick family who destroyed one of the jewels of American cities in architecture and music, Detroit, Michigan.
When Are we gonna be able to get a Scarface remake using Mexicans?
Yeah, there hasn't been the ultimate Mexican narco movie. Perhaps because it's too Scarface meets The Killing Fields. Best there TomC.
Your last question to Duncan provided the most revealing answer. It is not contingent on law enforcement to hold them accountable because law enforcement does not control it's budget and they under the control and management by politicians and the police chiefs that are appointed by the politicians. The rank and file of law enforcement is crushed by the duplicitous objectives governing the political classes running American cities, political classes that are mired in corruption and criminal activity that no one dares to imagine or say out loud. The whole defund the police movement is a smoke screen to coverup layers of crime and corruption to the point many of our cities and towns are unlivable. On You Tube you will see video tours of the complete collapse of the belly of America.
It is only natural that law enforcement continues to think they can make a difference. But that ability was destroyed a long time ago especially when you look at our so-called models of Federal Law Enforcement which defy the suggestion that they are involved in law enforcement.
That brings up the concern whether demoralized police forces can keep holding the line.
Exactly. There have been a huge number of police leaving the force all over the country. Almost every major American city is suffering from an understaffed police force.
She was I think a legal attached to the Secretary of Baja Ca. Governor Alex Glez Alcocer he was before before beeing governor lawyer a for an Honorary consul in Tijuana legal advisor she was working in the governor's office apparently before beeing in Los palillos
A crazy and sad career path. I feel a bit sorry for her and similar girls used in kidnappings who have got life but it is a truly horrific crime. Best there Jorge.
Very disingenuous to make it seem like Nancy had something to do with all of the Palillos crimes and murders. She was charged with 2 kidnappings and both people are alive and well still working for the cartels. Also her age. She did not come up with this stuff to do on her own. She was manipulated by adult seasoned cartel members who this was a normal practice for them. Using under age women to get what they wanted out of them. She was 16 when that grown man, over a decade older than her started grooming her. Things to think about. There’s always a bigger story than what the media shows.
Hi Antonio, Thanks for the comment and good to hear your voice here. I don't think the story makes it seem like Nancy was involved in all of the murders. It says: "Sometimes they lured them into a house to be abducted by pretending to buy drugs or do other business. But they also used honey traps..." However, it is a good point that Nancy was a form of victim as well as victimizer and I probably should have made more of that. Young girls in this situation getting life in prison is harsh, but then so are the repercussions of kidnapping. RE The guys are "still working for the cartels"! If you have any good leads or information on stories in region and want to reach out it's most welcome. Thanks and best, Ioan
The reason why Tostado’s wife cooperated was because he was already an informant. So she called their handlers immediately. That’s how the cops came into it so quickly.
That is very interesting information - and that adds another twist. They kidnapped an informant. What do you think of more recent murders and cartel action in SoCal? If you want to write more privately I am on ioangrillo@hotmail.com Best there.
Nancy Mendoza's cute, which is surely reason to commute her prison sentence. After all, this story, and many stories involving assassinations and mass slaughters , begin with testosterone. Hell, your gender may be the reason why you're addicted to writing exciting stories. A Mendoza won't help you, but methadone might.
Testosterone certainly gets a lot of people in trouble. Like the guys who convinced themselves Nancy Mendoza was coming onto them because they were handsome and charming - and then ended up with a taser blast. Testosterone may have got me into narco-journalism - but now narco-journalism won't let me go. Damn, perhaps I can be a food writer in a few years...
That was a cool way to tell me that I'm not "handsome and charming". Nevertheless, I'm a gentlemen (well, in this moment), and I'll give Eva a call to take you with on her next gluttony tour of Mexico - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16428770/
I am sure we both have the charms and looks for Eva and Nancy. In the meantime, yes Eva, I'll set up up the "narco canibalism" leg for the series.
Slowly turned by hand on a spit, only with a pile of salt and tomato chili, just like they do tilapia fish on the side of the road in Kampala.
My eyes scorched from 23 hours on laptop. 1am. So goodnight, don't die, eat well, write strong, and dream good.
Your excellent article points out another fact and that is the connection Tijuana has to the United States and particularly the Southwest. It is hard to separate the criminal influence Tijuana has had especially in California over the last 75 years besides the huge economic and social connections Tijuana has had with this region. Tijuana cannot be ignored nor can Tijuana ever be studied enough about cartel influence in the United States and it's unique history with the United States. Being born and raised in Southern California has always made me aware of this connection and influence in the United States. No other city along the US southern border has had the influence and power Tijuana has had and still has in the United States.
Yeah, Tijuana has an influence on the U.S. and is a real influential city, more than any other border city. On the other side, the cartel role in SoCal is definitely a story on its own. Weel appreciated Tom.
Ioan, you would have to write at least two books on cartel and organized crime role in SoCal. SoCal has had everything from the Mafia, Zoot Suit wars, meth or speed a product from SoCal first distributed by the Hells Angels in the late 1950's, a huge fundraising area for the IRA, the Alessio Family, Arellano-Félix-Cartel, Mexican Mafia with it's control all the way to the Lt. Governor of CA at one point and still controlling a tremendous amount of influential people outside the prisons, MS 13, !8th Street Gang also known as 18 Barrio, Crips, Bloods, crack cocaine and Freeway Rick Ross the center of the sale of drugs to buy arms for the Contras in Nicaragua, Chinese gangs who left Hong Kong when China took control, hippie mafia's movement in SoCal with the expansion of marijuana fields in SoCal mountains guarded with fences and Claymore mines, Sinaloa Cartel's expansion and control of Riverside and San Bernardido Counties, landing point for a large amount of CIA trafficked heroin from Vietnam and later from Afghanistan, a huge financial laundering operation for any customer that has existed for decades, former French-Vietnamese who fled to SoCal and formed a vicious gang exploiting Cambodians especially in slave labor, first dumping ground by the CIA to unload the poppy growers of Laos, the Hmongs and the West Coast home of the most corrupt financial institutions in the world. To top it off SoCal has been home and still home to the most corrupt group of law enforcement from the CIA, FBI, DEA and state and local law enforcement including judges and attorneys. The land of Disneyland, beaches and sun and of course the entertainment capital of the world funded by the most sordid criminal activity.
Just last week two well known AFO's members where gun down at Chili's in Easth lake Chula Vista and other also nearby in the most affluent side of San Diego county most people's and drug Traffiquers are living tdy in the most affluent areas near the border
And yet, the mayor of KC continues to minimize gang activity …….
Is that right? Do you know much about Kansas City there? Best.
Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri is definitely complicit in the rise of violent crime and street gangs. This clowns comment after the Super Bowl Party violence was "this is what happens when you have guns." He also criticized the governor of Missouri for calling the young gang member suspects in the Super Bowl Party violence thugs. The Mayor claimed the Governor used a "dog whistle" which is a convenient catch phrase to call anybody a racist. Of course, these young gang member suspects were just misunderstood members of an oppressed class.
Lucas wants every city in the country to have the legal means to ban possession of any and all guns. He believes in decreasing the budget of police departments and his actions in Kansas City were so extreme that the legislature of the State of Missouri passed a bill for Kansas City to increase it's funding for the police. The Mayor said the bill is unconstitutional. He is also expanding programs for essentially social welfare agents to act as agents to prevent violence. Examples of these programs around the country are dismal failures and conduits for corruption and drug trafficking. Los Angeles has a long and incredibly long history of this type of corruption and resulting violence.
Kansas City has always been a hub of organized crime from the Mafia to the Sinaloa Cartel and Juarez Cartel. Lucas reminds of the Kwame Kilpatrick family who destroyed one of the jewels of American cities in architecture and music, Detroit, Michigan.
This is fascinating. I was surprised the Palillos had a hub there but it has a long history of organized crime!