Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Hargow20]

No it is a Karaoke bar.

Is that the lesbian bar?

[Captain Solo]

I went in Nikki's with wingmen a few times, mostly in the afternoon on the way to La Zona due to low security in that area.

I met that short woman wearing a leopard top, Veronika? a few times. She was there most time, negotiating combination sex and hotel for $120 AI recall. So she was obviously hooking all along. The 2 women were living in Zona Rio with their BFs. But later there was some sorts of disputes about wages and payment. They went to the police and accused Larry of trafficking them for prostitution. Don't know if they travelled to Mexico legally and had work visa.

Responses from Mexico's feds was quick and dramatic. They trucked an armored vehicle from Mexico City and sent it in with 30 well-armed fed agents surrounding the building one afternoon. Don't know how they knew Larry was there. He usually came over only later at night after finishing work at his BBQ place in San Diego.

Larry's arrest was just a show, inconsequential but good for the news, against a guy who was known not guilty by people close to him.

Larry was not and will not be the only guy who got fucked badly by fat, ugly, greedy, lying, evil women.

[Artisttyp]

A friend of mine wife owns a bar by 7th & Madero. She has not had to pay the cartels. Mexico's govt has some fairly strict laws. She had to pay a $2,000 fine for staying open & not serving food. My impression is that it is the officials are the ones trying extract bribes.

Is that the lesbian bar?

[Hargow20]

A friend of mine wife owns a bar by 7th & Madero. She has not had to pay the cartels. Mexico's govt has some fairly strict laws. She had to pay a $2,000 fine for staying open & not serving food. My impression is that it is the officials are the ones trying extract bribes.

Every business has to pay cartel taxes. A taco stand had to pay 200 pesos a night. He would have to sell about 600 tacos before he earns enough to pay cartel's tax, Meanwhile the government could not collect any tax.

So most of the citizens are supporting the cartels, not the government. It's obvious that the cartels will be stronger.

With all this violence, corruption, threats, kidnaps, torture, murder, the cartels will kill off any growth and flush Mexico down the toilet.

Larry, the black BBQ chef from San Diego, opened up Nikkis' on Calle 1 years ago, a combination bar, restaurant, hotel.

He brought in women to work the bar and the hotel, most looked way below low caliber in Adelitas and Chicago. They looked different from Mexicans. After about 2 years in business, 2 Venezuelan women accused him of trafficking, that he brought them in as waitresses then forced them into prostitution. About 30 feds agents with armored vehicle came down from Mexico City, surrounded his bar, arrested him and 4 accomplices. He was held in prison in Mexico City awaiting trial and nobody heard from him again. He had health problems and probably died in there.

The Jewish father and son team who operated the upscale Club Madonna on Revolution was also nailed for human trafficking. Never heard from them again.

You can be taxed, screwed and prosecuted by both cartels and government.

[MemoeNasty]

Yes, Nikki's has been closed for years. Larry was charged with trafficking and was in prison. His health was very bad and if I recall, he was released and died while with his family.

He had a really good thing going because many of us supported his place, especially the food and bar upstairs. BUT, for whatever reason, he brought in the Colombian chicas and that was his doom. Even worse, the girls were not beauties, like many of the other chicas from Colombia.

Here is the last pic I took in the place.

Yeah! This was a really good place. Wasn't crazy about the location but ohh well. Sorry to hear Larry passed away but you can't be trafficking girls, especially in a foreign country. Real good guy! Let me stay in the hotel for what I used to stay at Leyva for. Like 20 bucks which was below what his rates were. I also know Dennis from MLB escort site was a friend of his and used to visit him in jail in Tijuana. He was blogging about it on his site when all this happened. Moe.

[Jackie888]

The gov had to use the police from Mexico City implies that the local police could not be trusted to do a simple arrest. That implies that Larry had his little finger on the buttons of the local LEO. So Larry smells dirty, enough to corrupt the local police.

[TomJackin]

I used to hang in this place and did know Larry. This had to be maybe 2014. It was awhile ago. Great place! It was on the same street as velario. When he got shut down there was a rumor going around that he had Colombian girls working there illegally.

Yes, Nikki's has been closed for years. Larry was charged with trafficking and was in prison. His health was very bad and if I recall, he was released and died while with his family.

He had a really good thing going because many of us supported his place, especially the food and bar upstairs. BUT, for whatever reason, he brought in the Colombian chicas and that was his doom. Even worse, the girls were not beauties, like many of the other chicas from Colombia.

Here is the last pic I took in the place.

[VisitUSA]

Dozens of candidates have been killed leading up to Mexico's midterm elections.

The violence has shown how divided, chaotic and intertwined with organized crime Mexico's political system has become.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/10026...erms-in-mexico

[Dogers69]

I used to hang in this place and did know Larry. This had to be maybe 2014. It was awhile ago. Great place! It was on the same street as velario. When he got shut down there was a rumor going around that he had Colombian girls working there illegally. Girl named veronika worked the bar downstairs and every time I walked in she would ask me if I wanted a girl and that they just got some New faces in from Columbia. So maybe it was true. Who knows. I never did see Larry again and that nice place was just abandoned. Nothing ever went in it's place as far as I know. Moe.

I like reading about past Tijuana clubs. I just googled it here's the article and videos of the club. Yep Tijuana only getting more dangerous by the year. If Tijuana was as safe as Los Angeles even, it would have a quarter million more gringos living in it.

https://rosaritoenlanoticia.********...l-bar.html?m=1

[Sol12]

Every business has to pay cartel taxes. A taco stand had to pay 200 pesos a night. He would have to sell about 600 tacos before he earns enough to pay cartel's tax, Meanwhile the government could not collect any tax.

So most of the citizens are supporting the cartels, not the government. It's obvious that the cartels will be stronger.

With all this violence, corruption, threats, kidnaps, torture, murder, the cartels will kill off any growth and flush Mexico down the toilet.

Larry, the black BBQ chef from San Diego, opened up Nikkis' on Calle 1 years ago, a combination bar, restaurant, hotel.

He brought in women to work the bar and the hotel, most looked way below low caliber in Adelitas and Chicago. They looked different from Mexicans. After about 2 years in business, 2 Venezuelan women accused him of trafficking, that he brought them in as waitresses then forced them into prostitution. About 30 feds agents with armored vehicle came down from Mexico City, surrounded his bar, arrested him and 4 accomplices. He was held in prison in Mexico City awaiting trial and nobody heard from him again. He had health problems and probably died in there..

I agrees with Moe, unless we are really close to the situation we don't know what's true. Our instincts are to side with the American because he's one of us. Like a family member be blinded by what harmful things one of their own has done. I never heard this story but if police from Mexico City came to get him I'm guessing they knew he was guilty.

Remember the guy a few years ago caught at the border bringing guns into Mexico and he played stupid and his family got the media involved and forced Mexico to let him go. The whole time I assumed he was guilty but with the bad press on Mexico it was easy to get people on his side instead of looking at it from a non bias point of view.

[Baxter Slade]

I used to hang in this place and did know Larry. This had to be maybe 2014. It was awhile ago. Great place! It was on the same street as velario. When he got shut down there was a rumor going around that he had Colombian girls working there illegally. Girl named veronika worked the bar downstairs and every time I walked in she would ask me if I wanted a girl and that they just got some New faces in from Columbia. So maybe it was true. Who knows. I never did see Larry again and that nice place was just abandoned. Nothing ever went in it's place as far as I know. Moe.

The Captain does tell a true story. Larry eventually was released from Mexican prison in very poor health and did die once back in the San Diego area. I do have pictures somewhere of the day those federal SWAT vehicles showed up. The whole story would have made for a good movie, any screenplay writers out there?

And yes Moe, the place still sits empty to this day and you can still see the words "Free Larry" spray painted on the front of the building.

[MemoeNasty]

Every business has to pay cartel taxes. A taco stand had to pay 200 pesos a night. He would have to sell about 600 tacos before he earns enough to pay cartel's tax, Meanwhile the government could not collect any tax.

So most of the citizens are supporting the cartels, not the government. It's obvious that the cartels will be stronger.

With all this violence, corruption, threats, kidnaps, torture, murder, the cartels will kill off any growth and flush Mexico down the toilet.

Larry, the black BBQ chef from San Diego, opened up Nikkis' on Calle 1 years ago, a combination bar, restaurant, hotel.

He brought in women to work the bar and the hotel, most looked way below low caliber in Adelitas and Chicago. They looked different from Mexicans. After about 2 years in business, 2 Venezuelan women accused him of trafficking, that he brought them in as waitresses then forced them into prostitution. About 30 feds agents with armored vehicle came down from Mexico City, surrounded his bar, arrested him and 4 accomplices. He was held in prison in Mexico City awaiting trial and nobody heard from him again. He had health problems and probably died in there.

The Jewish father and son team who operated the upscale Club Madonna on Revolution was also nailed for human trafficking. Never heard from them again.

You can be taxed, screwed and prosecuted by both cartels and government.

I used to hang in this place and did know Larry. This had to be maybe 2014. It was awhile ago. Great place! It was on the same street as velario. When he got shut down there was a rumor going around that he had Colombian girls working there illegally. Girl named veronika worked the bar downstairs and every time I walked in she would ask me if I wanted a girl and that they just got some New faces in from Columbia. So maybe it was true. Who knows. I never did see Larry again and that nice place was just abandoned. Nothing ever went in it's place as far as I know. Moe.

[Phordphan]

If any gringos needed to know the dangers of Tijuana. Here you go. The guy is from Japan. The next time you see a dude from Japan up to no good in north America will be the 1st. His restaurant was definitely always busy and I wondered how that looks to the locals. Tijuana is rough town. Its about the last place a foreign guy should be opening a small business. I know its tempting with the cheap cost of leasing a place, and the large volume of people going out to eat. But it was always more likely than not this is how it would end for a guy from Japan doing so visibly well.

Word is that the guy, against advice, was doing business with one or the other of the cartels. Apparently somebody took exception to it.

[Captain Solo]

Every business has to pay cartel taxes. A taco stand had to pay 200 pesos a night. He would have to sell about 600 tacos before he earns enough to pay cartel's tax, Meanwhile the government could not collect any tax.

So most of the citizens are supporting the cartels, not the government. It's obvious that the cartels will be stronger.

With all this violence, corruption, threats, kidnaps, torture, murder, the cartels will kill off any growth and flush Mexico down the toilet.

Larry, the black BBQ chef from San Diego, opened up Nikkis' on Calle 1 years ago, a combination bar, restaurant, hotel.

He brought in women to work the bar and the hotel, most looked way below low caliber in Adelitas and Chicago. They looked different from Mexicans. After about 2 years in business, 2 Venezuelan women accused him of trafficking, that he brought them in as waitresses then forced them into prostitution. About 30 feds agents with armored vehicle came down from Mexico City, surrounded his bar, arrested him and 4 accomplices. He was held in prison in Mexico City awaiting trial and nobody heard from him again. He had health problems and probably died in there.

The Jewish father and son team who operated the upscale Club Madonna on Revolution was also nailed for human trafficking. Never heard from them again.

You can be taxed, screwed and prosecuted by both cartels and government.

[Jinxx]

You're exactly right, Jinxx. It's difficult for Americans to comprehend a "cartel state" because in the US there's still some semblance of law and order at the state level, at least for the time being. The cartels own Mexico and Tijuana and to believe otherwise is just naive. There is no Mexican government force at any level that is more powerful than the cartels--not the police, not the national guard, not the military. I realize it may be scary for some to think about, but that's just the facts.

Yes that's one way to put it. Another way to put it is the Mexican government and the cartels are one and the same. It's basically impossible to distinguish where one ends and the other begins.