Members of Mexico's El Gordo y El Flaco aka/The Fat and the
Skinny kidnapping gang. According to Mexican
news reports,
the gang is led by former U.S. Marine and
Texas cop, Javier
Aguirre Cárdenas [left].
Ex-U.S. Marine and Kidnapper-for-Hire Captured After Taunting
Police (El DiarioDecoahuila,
Mexico)
"The gang is credited with the abduction and murder of
Jorge Luis Martinez Martinez, 70-year-old father of
the mayor of Zuazua [15 miles from Monterrey], who
was kidnapped last September 25 and his body found in October in the town Manantiales del Valle ... The gang's leader was identified
as 32-year-old Luis Ricardo Gonzalez Garcia, aka/Javier Aguirre Cardenas, a
member of the U.S. Marines from 1998 to 2002, and policeman in Laredo,
Texas from 2002-2009, when he moved to Tamaulipas and began to engage in criminal
activity."
A nightmare for U.S. authorities: 32-year-old Luis Ricardo Gonzalez Garcia, aka/Javier Aguirre Cardenas, a member of the U.S. Marines from 1998 to 2002, and policeman in Laredo, Texas from 2002-2009, is now under arrest for leading a Mexican kidnap- and murder-for-hire gang.
On August 31, 2012,
he taunted 20 policemen surveilling him in a hotel in Ramos Arizpe
where he was holed up.
Captured
at a residence in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León, Javier Aguirre Cárdenas is
leader of an organized gang of kidnappers operating between Nuevo Leon and Coahuila
states, and he has boasted of being owner of a house in the town of San Patricio,
in Saltillo, where on October 16, the authorities released several of his
accomplices.
The
argument given by the authorities - unofficially - was that the suspects were
just moving house, but three of them were detained for drug and weapons
possession and are now facing trial.
On
Monday afternoon, Nuevo Leon Security spokesman Jorge DomeneZambrano reported on the arrest of a kidnapping gang composed
of 16 people and headed byformer U.S.
policeman [and Marine] Javier Aguirre Cardenas.
The
Nuevo Leon official explained that the gang is credited with the abduction and murder
of Jorge Luis Martinez Martinez, 70-year-old father
of the mayor of Zuazua [15 miles northeast of
Monterrey], who was kidnapped last September 25 and his body found in October
in the town Manantiales del Valle, in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila.
The
gang's leader was identified as 32-year-old Luis Ricardo Gonzalez Garcia, aka/Javier
Aguirre Cardenas, a member of the U.S. Navy [Marines] from 1998 to 2002, and policeman
in Laredo, Texas from 2002-2009,when he
moved to Tamaulipas and began to engage in criminal activity.
In
Coahuila, on the morning of Friday, August 31, 2012, El Flaco
[Skinny] Aguirre Cardenas, aka/El Matute [the Smuggler],
mocked over 20 state police surveilling him, and escaped from room #6 of the Santa
Maria Hotel, where he was under house arrest for kidnapping and extortion. From
there, he led a gang identified as "El Gordo y El Flaco"
["The Fat and the Skinny" in reference to comedy duo Laurel and
Hardy], all the while under direct surveillance by agents Arturo Oyervidez, Jose Amaro, and
Hernando Gonzalez Martinez.
When Javier Aguirre Cárdenas was first seized on August 3, he was at a safe
house located at Pedro Figueroa Boulevard, along with other members of his
criminal gang: Carlos Alberto Montelongo Cisneros, Angel
Cedillo Murillo Ibarra, Omar GuillenZarazua and Oscar HoracioCastañeda Santos. On October 16, police of the Special
Group of Weapons and Tactics [Grupo de Armas y TácticasEspeciales, or GATE] closed
Paseo del Rey, Paseo San
Patricio and Quetzalcóatl
streets in the town of San Patricio, after reports on social networks of armed men
looting a house at 953 Paseo del Rey.
Detained
during that operation were Pedro Leos Barajas, Luis Alberto Jimenez, Uriel Alexis Ramos, Jose Coronado, Ruben Lorenzo Fernandez and
Hugo Dueñez Reyes.
At
the same time, GATE agents pursued and caught two other suspects: Leonardo
Lorenzo Fernandez and Omar Saldaña Hernandez, who,
along with Ruben Lorenzo Fernandez, were taken into custody and their car,
firearms and drugs impounded.
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In
San Nicolas, 24-year-old Juan Refugio Escobedo Balboa and 22-year-old Ivan
Ricardo BasurtoCastañeda
were detained for being members of the gang, as was 49-year-old Fernando BorbonZuñiga in another police
action.
DETAINED IN
OCTOBER
Also
arrested were 20-year-old Gustavo Rogelio Silva Navarro, 25-year-old Victoriano Flores Ramírez, 34-year-old
Gustavo Alejandro Torres Rosete, and 35-year-olds Juan
Manuel ElizondoMarroquín and
Gustavo GonzálezEstevis, along with 40-year-old César Arturo Frías Venegas, 35-year-old Luis Armando Vázquez Ponce, 30-year-old Érick Jesús Elías Vázquez, 32-year-old Armando Urrutia Morales, and 24-year-old Norma Isela Chavez Vela.
These
men were arrested on October 29 in Saltillo, Coahuila, along with 16 more, including
a 17-year-old, in Ramos Arizpe.
One
of these detainees, Julio "El Susto" [the Frightener]
Cesar Aguirre Alday, said it was he who is leader of
the gang, and offered details of three kidnappings and murders, including that of State Police Investigator Roberto Gómez.
