Posted on 08/15/2009 1:52:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Authorities announced charges Thursday against a Mexican gang that took Tijuana-style violence to the upscale suburbs of San Diego County, kidnapping, torturing and killing well-to-do residents, even after some families paid large ransoms.
The gang, a rogue cell of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel, moved across the border in 2002 and posed as U.S. law enforcement, donning FBI and police uniforms and caps while snatching victims outside homes and public places, said San Diego County prosecutors.
Nine victims were killed from 2004 to 2007, and the bodies of two of them were dissolved in chemicals at a rented house in San Diego. Gang members were also charged with trying to murder a Chula Vista police officer in September 2005, peppering his car with high-caliber bullets before fleeing in a car.
The gang targeted people it suspected of having links to organized crime, although some victims had no known ties, authorities said. Prosecutors charged 17 defendants, including gang leader Jorge Rojas Lopez, who is serving a life sentence for one of the abductions. Eight of those charged Thursday remain at large. The others are in custody on previous charges.
"This rogue group of individuals is responsible for a string of brutal murders and kidnappings that demonstrate the ugly reality of cross-border violence," said San Diego County Dist. Atty. Bonnie M. Dumanis.
Spillover crime from Tijuana's gang wars is relatively small, given the scale and brutality of the violence there. Nevertheless, the gang's migration to the San Diego area reinforces concern that border vigilance is no match for Mexican organized crime.
After Arellano-Felix cartel members in 2002 killed Lopez's brother in a gangland dispute, he moved his cell across the border to stage retaliatory attacks against anyone suspected of cartel links, according to authorities.
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On a slow night, 5,000 cross our southern border from Mexico. On a busy night, the figure is 10,000.
EVERY NIGHT.
Just another celebration of culture and diversity.
I’m sure this will be HEAVILY reported by CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS etc, etc. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I used to ride through Chula Vista and National City when I was a kid in 1958. They were dangerous shit holes back then, and I don’t think they’ve improved with age.
This is appalling, but not all that surprising. Many of the illegals are criminals, and this is what we get for the policy of open borders.
We need open season, no limit, on gangs!
That is, right after the FBI gets done rounding up every white male gun owner whom the Communist SPLC claims is a right-wing extremist.
nor sarcasm
Time for more concealed carry, and more armed homeowners in San Diego.
Jay LaSeur is running for San Diego sheriff next year. He’s promised to go essentially “shall-issue” with CCW permits. The scumbag in there now, well, lets just say the odds of an average citizen getting a permit is near zero.
So Chula Juana is the “upscale” suburb referred to in the article? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Has DHS Sec. Napolitano been told about this?
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