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Two "Barrio Azteca" Gangmembers Arrested for Murder of U.S. Consulate EmployeeMexican authorities announced the arrest on Friday of two members of the Barrio Azteca gang for the murders of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband in Ciudad Juárez on March 13, 2010.Mexican officials said Jesús Ernesto "El Camello" Chávez Castillo is accused of providing the weapons and planning the execution of consulate employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs.Chavez Castillo allegedly led a band of hit men for the Barrio Azteca street gang that is tied to the Juarez cartel. The Barrio Azteca is a street gang that works for the Juarez cartel on both the U.S and Mexican sides of the border. According to authorities most members of Barrillo Azteca are recruited inside U.S. prisons.The arrest of Chávez Castillo also led to the detention of Francisco "Paco" Puga de la Torre, for allegedly participating in the murders of Enriquez and Redelfs, investigators said. Chávez Castillo told police investigators that members of the Juárez drug cartel ordered the murder of Enriquez because she facilitated passports (visas) to members of the Sinaloa cartel.
U.S. authorities expressed doubts about the claim, and the victims’ family members in El Paso said they stand by what they’ve said from the beginning: They have no reason to believe that the consulate employee and her husband were targeted because of their work. … “Something is not adding up,†said Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman. “We still maintain that we don’t have information to say they were targeted because of their jobs. We’re still investigating. We’re still working with Mexican authorities to solve the case.â€
WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate slain in the violent Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday were not victims of a drive-by shooting as first reported, the FBI said today."They were certainly targeted," special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman for the El Paso office, which borders the Mexican town, told AOL News. "They weren't randomly picked."
Published: 5:31 PM 03/16/2010 | Updated: 8:52 PM 03/16/2010CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Confused hit men may have gone to the wrong party, the FBI said Tuesday as it cast doubt on fears that the slaying of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate shows that Mexican drug cartels have launched an offensive against U.S. government employees.Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/16/fbi-no-evidence-mexico-hit-men-targeted-americans/#ixzz0sgsfrn3b
But there is one factor that is rarely talked about in the U.S. press that does support the contention that Enriquez was the main target of the murders due to her failure to play ball with a corrupt scheme involving official Consulate documents.Visa and passport fraud, as well as corruption within U.S. embassies, is a fact of life overseas.In fact, as evidence of the seriousness and extent of passport- and visa-fraud schemes, in 2009, the State Department’s recently created Consular Integrity Division “conducted its first ‘red cell’ operation to detect malfeasance and corruption within the passport adjudication process,†states the report by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.“As part of this exercise, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security [DS] submitted fraudulent applications into the passport system and then closely monitored the progress of the fraudulent applications,†the report states. “Based on the results of the exercise, DS identified vulnerabilities in the passport process. …â€
