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| Diego Says He Was Helped By Chihuahua State Police |
| 2011-08-05 |
| By Chris Covert Captured number two man for La Linea said in his interview that he received help from state police and later from Juarez municipal police officers. José Antonio Acosta Hernandez AKA El Diego, who was was captured in a Policia Federal raid July 31st, did not name any names in his interview. La Linea is the armed wing for the Juarez drug cartel. It is the most vicious enforcement group in Mexican organized crime. Acosta Hernandez said he could not name names, because he did not know any of them. Information he received included locations of Policia Federeal foot patrols and checkpoints. Most of the information received was from state police, but then Juarez municipal police helped as well, but to a much lesser extent. Acosta Hernandez AKA El Diego said that he ordered the murder of subprocuradora Sandra Ivonne Salas June 30th, 2010, whose work had caused several arrests of Juarez cartel and La Linea operatives. He said he suspected Ivonne Salas was in the pay of the Sinaloa drug cartel, the Juarez cartel's bitterest rival. To read the Rantbug report on the murder of Sandra Ivonne Salas, click here. Acosta Hernandez told Policia Federal interrogators the administration of Chihuahua governor Jose Reyes Baeza Terrezas including his attorney general Procuradora General Justicia Estado Patricia Gonzalez, provided much help in the form of information, although there was little from the interview that indicated any specific individuals within the Chihuahua state government. Wednesday Chihuahua Procuradora General Justicia Estado Carlos Salas took statements from several people who may have knowledge of any nexus with organized crime, although only one name was released, current Chihuahua city mayor Marco Adan Quezada Martinez. Marco Adan Quezada Martinez has ties with Reyes Baeza, and calls Reyes Baeza his friend. "He who owes nothing, fears nothing," Quezada Martinez was quoted by the Mexican daily La Polaka as saying. Other Mexican news reports say that other former officials in the Reyes Baeza administration have given statements, though no names were mentioned. Patricia Gonzalez ended her term as Chihuahua Procuradora General Justicia Estado under a cloud of suspicion that she had been in the pay of the Juarez cartel. Several narcopintas appeared just after her term ended in Chihuahua city probably put up by local Sinloa cartel operatives which claimed a nexus between her and the Juarez cartel. Her brother, Mario was kidnapped, then later murdered after a video was released of him saying his sister was in the pay of organized crime. To read Rantburg reports on the kidnapping and murder of Mario Gonzalez, click here and here Gonzalez had been under investigation by the national attorney general's office, Procuradora General Republica (PGR) since the fall of 2010,but no conclusion or update other than to announce continuation of the investigation have been released since. In high profile cases in which serious crimes are alleged, the usual practice is for attorneys general to gain preventative detention while investigating the charges. Gonzalez has suffered none of this since the allegations emerged. |
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