Ahead of the US summer travel season, the murders of three surfers in Mexico are making headlines, but a private investigator suspects that the country’s killer may not be the person you expect. I’m warning you that there is.
Jay Arms III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and handles cases around the world, told Fox News Digital that cartels are increasingly using women and children to carry out violent acts.
Images and videos of cartel members in tactical gear carrying intimidating military-style weapons aim to instill fear, but the “most frightening part” of Mexico’s violence is that “the bad guys don’t seem bad. That’s true,” Arms said.
“If you grab these people and line them up and look closely at their faces, they look like the gardener, the waitress who served you dinner at the restaurant, the little old grandma down the street,” he said. .
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Claudia Ochoa Felix was reportedly the leader of Los Antrax, an elite killing squad with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel. (Instagram)
A man has been charged with “enforced disappearance” in connection with the deaths of surfers Carter Lord, Callum Robinson and Jake Robinson, the BBC reports. Fox News Digital reached out to the Attorney General of Baja California for the latest updates and information.
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Lord, an American citizen, and Robinson, an Australian citizen, were killed in a carjacking when they were planning to marry in August, according to the attorney general’s office in Baja California, Mexico. Their bodies were found at the bottom of a 50-foot well, and the truck was set on fire. Prosecutors said the suspects wanted tires.
Above left are Australian brothers Callum Robinson and Jake Robinson, and American national Jack Carter Lord. (Reuters)
One of the three suspects, Jesús Gerardo, was criminally charged with killing three tourist surfers, including an American. (Attorney General of Baja California)
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It is unclear whether the suspects in the surfer’s murder are connected to organized crime, but Arms said the cartel employs women and children as young as seven years old as assassins.
Armes, who listed the names of several notorious Mexican female assassins, such as Claudia Ochoa Felix, known as the Kim Kardashian of the Mexican cartel, said young children were kidnapped and raised to be killers. It is said that there is.
Felix was El Chapo’s “top assassin” and was known for posing with weapons on social media.
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“It’s not new per se, but it’s becoming more and more common,” the private investigator said. “Women and children are basically the perfect attackers because they don’t attract attention from anyone’s security detail.
“They’re not going to look at a child or a beautiful woman twice with the same scrutiny as a man. … The target could be in a restaurant or a hotel, and the child or woman can easily get close enough to take the target down.” Please. ”
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An investigation by the International Crisis Group (ICG) corroborates Mr. Armes’ personal knowledge from local and his own sources.
“Male crime bosses tend to evaluate women in terms of their competence, respect for hierarchy, and ability to evade police attention.” ICG November 2023 Report Say. “The presence of women in illegal groups has strengthened these organizations and embedded crime even deeper into the fabric of Mexican society and within the family.”
Johana Mary Hernandez was one of 13 people arrested in Mexico in March 2016 for suspected ties to the New Generation Jalisco cartel. (Reuters)
Michelle Angelica Pineda, aka “La Cherie,” was arrested in El Paso, Texas, and turned over to Mexican authorities on suspicion of involvement in multiple murders. (Chihuahua State Bureau of Investigation)
ICG interviewed women in Mexican prisons and found that from 2017 to 2021, the proportion of women charged with cartel-related offenses increased from 5.4% to 7.5%.
Armes said the numbers are still increasing and that women are committing or being involved in murders, as evidenced by the surfer murders.
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As summer vacation and honeymoon season begins, Americans circle the white sand beaches of Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum.
Armes said the coastal tourist area was once off-limits to violence, but the rules have changed and the warring cartels now see tourists as potential customers, leading to gunfire and gunfire. He said he could be an innocent bystander who was killed.
He said it was important to “exercise extreme caution” while traveling.
Mexican authorities have charged a man with “enforced disappearance” in connection with the deaths of surfers Carter Lord, Callum Robinson and Jake Robinson. (Attorney General of Baja California)
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“If people walk into a place and they get a really bad vibe and something’s wrong…and their instincts are telling them to get out, they should get out,” Arms said.
