Mexican Police Official Gets 10 Years In Prison

 

Borderland Beat reported on 30 Dec 11 that former Federal Police regional security coordinator Javier Herrera Valles was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Herrera Valles used his position to assist Sinaloa drug cartel operations. He received 70,000 dollars a month for his services.

Javier was also reported to have his own illegal operations in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/12/ex-police-chief-gets-10-years-for.html

Comment and some Background Information: Collusion between members of the Federal Police of Mexico and the drug cartels is not new. The seeds to the current Mexican Drug War were sown in the 70s...YES, I said that right...the 1970s.

The relationship between narcos and Mexican authorities existed since at least the 70s when Colombian cartels started figuring ways to use Mexico as a transit point for their product into the US. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, a former Sinaloa Governor bodyguard, and trained Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent, prostituted his relationships (access to corrupt police and legal officials) and skills to Colombian Drug Lords.

Gallardo was the first Mexican Narco leader. He founded the Guadalajara cartel. 1989, Gallardo was arrested for his direct involvement in the early 1985 murder of a former US Marine/DEA Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.  While in prison, Gallardo’s Guadalajara cartel broke into the now known Tijuana and Sinaloa Cartels.

  

Head of 'Blondies' cartel arrested in Mexico City

28Dec11, Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican authorties reported Luis Rodriguez Olivera aka "Whitey" was arrested at the Mexico City airport. Olivera's gang, "The Blondies" formed short-term alliances with larger Mexican drug cartels to smuggle drugs and conduct other criminal activities.

Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/28/20111228mexico-drug-cartel-blondies-arrest.html?

US targets money laundering activity for cartels

29Dec11, Associated Press reported the US levied sanctions against two "Lebanese-Colombian Nationals Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly and Mohamad Zouheir El Khansa" for moving money for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. The effort aslo targeted nine other unspecified personalities as well as almost 30 "entities" in China, Lebanon, Panama and Colombia.
Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_DRUG_CARTELS?SECTION=HOME&SITE=AP&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Part 2 – US Targets Money Laundering Activity for the Cartels

Refer to Post: http://www.mexdrugcartels.com/2011/12/us-targets-money-laundering-activity.html… 29Dec11, Associated Press reported the US levied sanctions against two "Lebanese-Colombian Nationals Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly and Mohamad Zouheir El Khansa" for moving money for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. The effort aslo targeted nine other unspecified personalities as well as almost 30 "entities" in China, Lebanon, Panama and Colombia.
Click on Graphic to access actual PDF of link chart.

Graphic Source:  http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Documents/Chart%20of%20Cheaitelly%20and%20Khansa%20Affiliates.pdf