Drug dealers in the alley
Jackie,
The dealers selling drugs in the alley have to be obvious to the cops posted at the West end, but they are never searched.
They must be paying off the cops to keep selling.
In Tijuana, Mexico, a young woman was obsessively stalked, even after death
In Tijuana, Mexico, a young woman was obsessively stalked, even after death link [URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/tijuana-mexico-young-woman-was-obsessively-stalked-even-after-death-n1146961[/URL].
Relatives suspected the man who showed up at her funeral had stalked and killed her. "The level of suffering is so many degrees, it's so painful. ".
March 2, 2020,7:32 AM PST.
By Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY — The man was obsessed with Marbella Valdez. He sent her gifts, bought food for her friends. Prosecutors say he even planted a tracking device on her car.
And when the 20-year-old law student's body, beaten, bound and strangled, was found at a Tijuana garbage dump, he approached police to demand the case be solved. He even turned up at her funeral bearing a floral arrangement and wearing a T-shirt with her photograph and the feminist slogan "Not One More Woman" printed on it.
A week later, he was arrested and charged with her murder.
The man — identified by Mexican rules only by his first name, Juan — has insisted on his innocence.
Authorities in the border state of Baja California confirmed that the suspect is the man seen in photographs depositing flowers on Marbella's coffin as it was lowered into the ground on Feb. 14.
By that time, Marbella's family already believed he was the one who killed her, but they couldn't say a word.
"And the guy showed up at the funeral and we had to shut our mouths, which was the hardest thing in the world," said William H. Messick, a San Diego software executive who has run a self-funded non-profit since 2014 to help youngsters like Marbella as they age out of orphanages. While he never legally adopted her, Marbella considered him a father.
"I wanted to throw up every time I saw him, I wanted to kill him," Messick said. "And we're getting thrown under the bus. In the media, people are like, 'Oh my God, why did they let him go to the funeral?' We had no choice, we had to play along, otherwise he would have fled, or he would have killed Brenda (Marbella's adoptive sister). ".
The pair, Messick and Brenda Villarreal, had done much of the investigation after she disappeared on Feb. 5. Within a few hours, Brenda got a message from her: Someone had apparently taken Marbella's phone and sent out messages impersonating her.
"We knew it wasn't her when I first read a message I got," Brenda said. "It said, 'I feel bad, I'm going to see the dr,' and my sister doesn't write that way. ".
Marbella had grown up in a Tijuana orphanage and Messick paid her rent and ensured she went to school. In return, he expected she would go to church and not allow any men, even him, into her apartment.
Juan had started pursuing Marbella, a 20-year-old law student, since mid-2019, targeting her mainly at her day job as a pump attendant at an all-female gas station in Tijuana.
He had been trying to win Marbella's trust for months, giving her chocolate, flowers, stuffed animals and other gifts.
"I would ask her and she just kind of laughed it off, she didn't really take it seriously. " Messick said. "I'm like, 'Are you interested in this guy?' And she's like, 'Oh no, of course not. ' . Constantly there was more stuff in her apartment, and like a giant teddy bear. She just always laughed it off. She thought it was hilarious, and thought it was not a big deal. ".
Juan would show up to the gas station where she worked, and bring breakfast to all Marbella's co-workers.
That seemed harmless enough: "he would try to win everybody over, everybody thought he was great," Messick said.
But a more sinister side gradually emerged. Messick said Juan seemed always to know where Marbella was. After his arrest, police found a GPS locating device to Marbella's car, and Messick said he believed the man may have taken a copy of the keys to her apartment.
Marbella disappeared on Feb. 5 and her family quickly managed to get into her messaging accounts. They were later able use them to determine her location after she disappeared, which matched Juan's location.
"This guy Juan, when we hacked her WhatsApp account, he noticed," Messick recalled. "he called and said, 'Oh, this is interesting, her WhatsApp account is active. ' It wasn't like, 'Oh my God, she's connected. ' It was like, 'No, it's interesting. ' . And like 2 hours later, that's when her body showed up. I think he realized we were on to him. ".
The suspect once reportedly worked as a sort of civilian intern for a police forensic office and liked to present himself as a former cop, though he never was one. He also approached police to find out information on their investigation of Marbella's death, according to prosecutors quoted by the newspaper El Imparcial.
State prosecutors said they had more evidence when they arrested Juan on Feb. 21, including GPS location data from his phone showing he had been with Marbella after she disappeared and his DNA was found under the dead woman's fingernails.
For three days after her disappearance, relatives had been telling police they suspected Juan of taking her; Brenda believes that if they had searched Juan's house, they could have found her alive. "I told them, if you had acted, my sister might still be alive," Brenda said.
"The level of suffering is so many degrees, it's so painful," Messick said, days after the initial arraignment. "The guy was smiling at the hearing. ".
Associated Press.
Murder toll in Tijuana surpasses 300 in 2020
Murder toll in Tijuana surpasses 300 in 2020.
BORDER REPORT.
By: Salvador Rivera link [URL]https://fox5sandiego.com/news/border-report/murder-toll-in-tijuana-is-already-past-300-in-2020/[/URL].
Posted: Mar 6, 2020/01:38 PM PST / Updated: Mar 6, 2020/03:40 PM PST.
TIJUANA, Mexico (Border Report) — Crime figures recently released by the Baja California State Police reveal that Tijuana has experienced a high number of murders so far in 2020.
The shocking number that jumps out: 327. That's the number of murders so far this year.
The killings are attributed to the ongoing wave of violence between rival cartels just south of the USA -Mexico border in Tijuana.
In comparison, the number of murders just north of the border in San Diego was 50 for all of 2019.
The level of violent robberies is also up, according to stats furnished by Baja State Police. This type of crime has seen a 40% increase in the first 10 weeks of the year. The latest involved a dry cleaning business, where the thieves brutally assaulted one of the employees.
A citizen's group, called Consejo Ciudadanos de Seguridad Publica, has an advisory function and serves as a liaison between residents and public safety agencies.
According to CCSP, the Tijuana Municipal Police doesn't have the resources to properly patrol the streets. "There's a shortage of patrol cars, equipment and personnel," said Juan Manuel Hernandez Niebla, head of the CCSP in Tijuana.
Tijuana's mayor, Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, responded by saying his administration has "already doubled efforts to try and cut down crime.
Female attendants gas stations
StRobert.
There are a lot of new gas stations with all young female attendants wearing uniforms scattered all over Tijuana. Did not see one in Ensenada.
Some of these gas girls are hot. Guys may want to drive around putting gas in their cars and try to pick up hot dates.
