Friday, April 15, 2011

36 Suspects Including 16 San Fernando Municipal Police Officers Implicated In 148 Homicides And Disposing Bodies

Mugshots of 16 suspects arrested earlier in the week in connection with the homicides.

Military police arrested 16 municipal police officers connected to mass murders

By H. Nelson Goodson
April 15, 2011

San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico - The Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) announced the arrest of 16 San Fernando municipal police officers connected to Zetas and the homicide cover up of 148 victims discovered buried in clandestine graves. The suspects were on the payroll of los Zetas and provided protection and information to the criminal organization about military, federal and state police operations in the area. 
The PGR identified the officers as Guadalupe Hernández Ibarra, Remigio Camarillo Mireles, Óscar Jaramillo Sosa, Martín García Badillo, José Luis Aguilar Vélez, Jesús Ramos Pérez, Eliodoro Robles Sánchez, Elpidio Reyes Sáenz, Gilberto Rivera Hernández, Lázaro Flores Peña, María Guadalupe Galván Hernández, Mario Alberto Romero Hernández, Santos Maldonado Reyes, Julio Guadalupe Jaramillo Vela, José Manuel Ávila Lugo and Rogelio de la Portilla Heredia.
The Mexican government is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of four members of los Zetas involved in the homicides. They were identified as Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo, aka, “La Ardilla,” Omar Martín Estrada Luna, aka, “El Kilo,” Román Ricardo Palomo Rincones, aka, “El Coyote,” and Sarahí Fabiola Díaz Arroyo, aka, “Fila or Muñeca.” A reward of $1,281,065 U.S. (15 milliones de pesos) each was posted for the arrest of La Ardilla and El Kilo, $854,043 U.S. (10 milliones de pesos) reward for the arrest of El Coyote and $427,021 U.S. (5 milliones de pesos) reward for La Muñeca, according to the PGR.
On Tuesday, the PGR arrested 16 other alleged members of los Zetas implicated in the San Fernando mass murders. So far, 36 suspects have been implicated, 32 have been arrested and four are being sought in connection with the 148 bodies found in clandestine graves in the municipality of San Fernando. Authorities believe the body count could reach more than two hundred.
The victims were kidnapped from several buses between March 24 through the 29 and later killed by the suspects, according to the PGR. Several of the bodies were identified as the remains of Gonzalo García Casanova from the state of Matamoros and Feliciano Tagal Ovalle, 44, of Guatemala. The rest of the bodies are considered to be Mexican nationals.
People from throughout the region who have reported family members missing have been providing DNA to state investigators to try and identify bodies.
Last year in August, 72 bodies were found in clandestine graves in San Fernando.

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