Troop To Task

Mexican drug cartels infiltrating collages and high school campuses in the United States

By Michael Webster: Research Report may 7 2008, 14:00 PDT

In a drug bust in the last official San Diego State University and the federal police investigation led to one years SDSU in drug trafficking on campus and was found to be more sophisticated, more and deeper and more dangerous than expected or have seen before. These arrests coincided with the first anniversary of the deaths related to cocaine in the freshman year.

In local newspaper reports ninety-six suspects, including 75 SDSU students were arrested on drug charges after undercover operation, launched after Jenny Poliakoff, 19, was found dead in off-campus apartment after a night out.

One of the main suspects in this international drug investigation Omar Castaneda, a Pomona gang member with ties to Mexican drug cartels of Tijuana, authorities said.

Castaneda, 36, after his arrest, was arrested in San Diego Superior Court on charges of possessing cocaine for sale. He is suspected of being an important link between drugs flowing into California from Tijuana and sales at SDSU and other California schools.

The violent drug cartel, Tijuana also known as the Arellano Felix organization (AFO) a business and in all fatal drug trafficking activities in Baja California and San Diego, California. Their reach controls drug smuggling in Sinaloa, Jalisco, Michoacán, Chiapas and Baja California, and has links near San Diego, California. The AFO dispenses an estimated $ 1 million a week in bribes to Mexican officials, police and Mexican army and maintains its own security force, well armed, trained, paramilitary. The DEA considers the AFO the most violent and aggressive Mexican drug cartels border. Here is the lower profile of the DEA in the AFO and its leaders. Click on or google: Dangerous Mexican Cartel Gangs

The SDSU Police Department approached the DEA and county narcotics agents care task force in December 07 when it became clear that drug trafficking on campus is widespread and involved Mexican drug cartels and organized crime and gang members feared away from his ability to handle potentially very complicated international research drug.
"We have been in contact with various types of narcotics," said SDSU Police Chief John Browning. "If you are serious about this, you should go to someone who has the resources to the next level. "

As the investigation developed, the campus of the object with another related deaths with drugs. An autopsy showed that Mesa college student Kurt Baker died Feb. 24 at an SDSU fraternity from oxycodone and alcohol poisoning.
"We know that there is drug use in college … But when you have an organization is actually based on a university area, is a different story, "said Garrison Courtney United States DEA. "You do not see that."
Research indicates that lucrative university and high school campuses are fertile markets for traffickers drug. Mexican cartels have known this for years and is believed to have infiltrated many U.S. campuses with the gang members of the cartel. Authorities Mexican cartels federal indicate drugs that are ultimately responsible for border violence by cement ties with street gangs such as Barrio Azteca prison on the U.S. side. Azteca U.S. drugs and other strips retailers obtain the Mexican cartels and Mexican gangs. Mexican gangs run their own distribution networks in the United States, producing more of methamphetamine used north of the border. Even became the Colombians several times to buy directly from producers cocaine in Bolivia, Peru and Afghanistan, even. These gangs are often the same agreement or implementation alternatives on the U.S. side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas. Click or Google: They are known as "Los Zetas have hired members of different bands at different times, including El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13, and Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos to further their criminal activities efforts. authorities on both sides of the border that many of these gang members and others substitutes for Mexican drug cartels powerful have infiltrated and operate openly in many American school campuses, especially in states bordering Mexico, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

One suspect, Phi Kappa Psi member Michael Montoya, worked as an officer in service to the community campus and earned a master of homeland security next month. Another student arrested on suspicion of possession of 500 grams of cocaine and two firearms were justice major criminal.

Authorities identified 22 SDSU students as drug dealers who sold to undercover agents. At least other 17 had supplied the drug. The rest of the suspects had allegedly purchased or possession of illegal drugs.
Authorities said students from seven fraternities were involved in the band of drug traffickers who operated openly across campus.
Evidence has shown that "most members were aware of organized drug dealing occurring fraternity house, authorities said. Drug agents confirmed that "the existence of a hierarchy for the purpose of selling drugs for money."
Authorities Theta Chi have been identified as a center for cocaine processing.

An alleged dealer, Theta Chi member Kenneth Ciaccio, sent text messages to their "clients faithful, "announcing that cocaine sales would be suspended for a weekend to come because he and his" associates "should be in Las Vegas, said authorities.
The same message posted "sale" prices of cocaine if transactions were completed before the dealers left San Diego.
Until yesterday, Ciaccio was on the Internet, promoting SDSU Compact for Success program, which guarantees certain Sweetwater Union High School District students have access to If college maintaining a B average
SDSU President Stephen Weber said that even when campus police decided to seek help from other authorities, " was not clear that we were finally in the place where we were today. "
Ramon Mosler Chief of the Narcotics Division of the Office of the Prosecutor District San Diego, California, said the investigation could occur at any campus in America. Mosler said his unit joined the university, since it took the unusual step of asking for help.
"Often, governments do not want to do this sort of thing, and it's unfortunate," Mosler said. "I think it important to do from time to time to wake people up. It helps educate everyone about the dangers of drugs. "

According to the statement of the search warrant Thomas Watanapun sold $ 400 of cocaine to undercover agents from a Lexus sedan registered to his father in Los Angeles.

Officials said that some of the suspects made little effort to conceal their activities.
Merchants "are not picky about who they sold," said Mosler.
Also arrested Patrick Hawley, 20, who was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and selling cocaine near campus, authorities said.
According to a study conducted in 2007 by the National Center on Addiction and substance Abuse at Columbia University, nearly half of the 5.4 million full-time college drug abuse students in the nation or alcohol at least once a month.

responsible for enforcing the law in San Diego say street gangs here continue to a close relationship with organized crime groups in Tijuana. A gunman killed recently in an attack in Tijuana is believed to belong to both a gang in Barrio Logan and the Arellano Felix drug cartel. Reporter Amy Isackson reported Kbps
For years, Mexican groups have recruited members to the trafficking gang United States to do everything, to smuggle drugs to murder. Tijuana Cartel Arellano Felix drug gang and the neighborhood of Barrio Logan San Diego dating back to least 15 years.
Many students enrolled in U.S. schools are considered gang members are now from the U.S. military, as they rotate services. Many are veterans who where encouraged to join the U.S. Army to fight against the formation of Mexican cartels and gang leaders.

Cartels face with the police and the army on a regular basis in Mexico and we hope that those same tactics soon bear fruit and enable them to against U.S. police in a much more professional, efficient and dangerous.

Richard Valdemar, a 30-year-veteran of Los Angeles County Sheriff, travels the country teaching conferences and members of the military police band formed. Valdemar and other gang experts say gangs are encouraging members to join the military for training to learn urban warfare and learn the latest weapons.

current emphasis on urban warfare plays in military the mentality of the street fight against the gangs, experts say.
"When people come into the army, learning to use weapons, tactics defense and use a lot of sophisticated techniques, "said LaRae Quy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation." They take this back on the streets with them. a concern legitimate law enforcement. "
Valdemar cites former Marine sergeant at Camp Pendleton. Jesse Quintanilla as high profile example. A military court sentenced Quintanilla to death in 1996 for killing his officer and wounding his commanding officer.
When interrogators asked Quintanilla why he committed the crimes, Quintanilla said it was for "Brown brothers," according to Valdemar. Quintanilla showed them a tattoo on his chest with the word "Sureno," a reference to a California band, according to court documents.
Chief of Army recruiting in Washington, DC, to dismiss the claims as urban myth. A military spokesman said army that background checks are numerous and weeds on gang members.

The Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), often called the Tijuana Cartel, is one of the most powerful and aggressive organizations operating drug trafficking in Mexico, is without doubt the most violent. More than any other organization other major traffic from Mexico, this organization extends its tentacles directly from the figures in the upper echelons of the police and judicial system Mexico to street-level people in the United States cities. The AFO is responsible for transporting, importing and distributing multi-ton quantities of cocaine, large quantities of marijuana and heroin and methamphetamine, the United States from Mexico. The AFO operates primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa (His place of birth) Jalisco, Michoacán, Chiapas, Baja California Sur and Norte.

In Baja California, drugs between California, the main embarkation point of the distribution network United States.
The Arellano family, composed of seven brothers and four sisters, inherited the organization Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, his incarceration in Mexico in 1989 for complicity in the murder of Camarena DEA special agent Enrique. Alberto Benjamin Arellano Felix became head of the family structured criminal enterprise and provides a business approach to managing the operations of drug trafficking.

AFO also maintains complex communications centers in several cities Mexico and the United States for electronic surveillance and action against anti-monitoring bodies of law. The organization has radio scanners and equipment capable of intercepting both hard line, radio and cell phones to ensure the safe operation of the AFO. In addition to technical equipment, the AFO maintains deposits sophisticated automatic weapons obtained from a variety of international sources. Click on or google: Mexican drug cartels and terrorist are recruiting more fighters to train as soldiers
A Joint Task Force composed of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was established in San Diego, California, for the purpose of the AFO, the Working Group to examine the AFO operations in Southern California and regional research track transport drug distribution and money laundering of the AFO throughout the United States. Click on or google: Dangerous Mexican U.S. Criminal operation of the border Mexico

Sources:
DEA
FBI
San Diego Sheriff's Office
San Diego Trubune

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