Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Phordphan]

There was no cursing or tackling because none of it happened.

It was an interesting first post, no doubt.

[LuvMexicanas]

You tackled him for cursing at you? Sounds like you have some anger issues and low emotional self control. A calm man with self control would have ignored the guy and not escalated.

There was no cursing or tackling because none of it happened.

[FlapJacK]

This happened around December 20th. I'm Asian, not young, and I'm built with a semi-pro kickboxing background.

I was smoking on Revolucin Boulevard when a guy approached me and asked for a cigarette. I said no. He started cursing at me"Chino, puta madre," and all that. I didn't want any trouble.

A few minutes later, he came back and cursed at me again. I figured I could handle it. I threw my cigarette up in the air; when he looked at it, I tackled him to the ground and got into the mount position. I didn't hurt him at allactually, he punched me a little. I never punched him.

You tackled him for cursing at you? Sounds like you have some anger issues and low emotional self control. A calm man with self control would have ignored the guy and not escalated.

[MX2018]

This happened around December 20th. I'm Asian, not young, and I'm built with a semi-pro kickboxing background.

I was smoking on Revolución Boulevard when a guy approached me and asked for a cigarette. I said no. He started cursing at me—"Chino, puta madre," and all that. I didn't want any trouble.

A few minutes later, he came back and cursed at me again. I figured I could handle it. I threw my cigarette up in the air; when he looked at it, I tackled him to the ground and got into the mount position. I didn't hurt him at all—actually, he punched me a little. I never punched him.

I saw a municipal police car nearby, so I approached them and explained that he had cursed at me and I had to act. There was a girl standing next to me—a total stranger I didn't know. I couldn't understand her, but she was defending me.

A few minutes later, the police handcuffed her. And then handcuffed me at the same time. They took me to the detention center. It was really bad.

I told them I didn't hit him—he was the one who started the fight. They said I had to pay 5,000 pesos. I told them I wasn't going to pay anything.

A few hours later, they released the girl and the guy, but they kept me. They said they were going to ship me to the hospital. I asked why? I didn't know what that was about, but I had a bad feeling from the guy's eye (something seemed off).

I decided to pay the 5,000 pesos and get out.

When I left the detention center, the same guy who asked for the cigarette was waiting outside. He guided me to my hotel and even bought me a cigarette. I think the whole thing was a setup.

[Sol12]

Well just to let those who try to get out of anything illegal by offering the police a bribe I have seen multiple articles over the past week of people being arrested for trying to bribe the police to get out of something illegal that they did.

Also the police just received more new vehicles with cameras and now all police vehicles in Tijuana are supposed to have cameras.

[Sol12]

https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...o-be-targeted/

LOS Mayos likely hung banners and signed Los Chapitos, who are strong in Tijuana but weak in Los Cabos hehehe. Indian mongers looking like Kash Patel should worry in Tijuana

I remember seeing this and I've seen plenty of other narco banners in the news and this one doesn't look real to me. Also the fact that none of the other sites that specialize in the cartels carried this story makes me believe they knows it was also fake. Could be some dummies trying to scare people that have nothing better to do or if your a conspiracy person maybe the US government doing it so if something happens to a citizen they will use it as a reason to go after them on Mexican soil.

All that matters is no one of Indian decent or any other tourists should be any more concerned about visiting Cabo or Tijuana because of this.

[Zenduka1]

Indian mongers looking like Kash Patel should worry in Tijuana.

Oh shoot. Not good. I always thought that mofo was a curse to all who look Indian. Unfortunately there are millions of us who look like Indians and are not. Maybe my US swagger would save me.

[Captain Solo]

https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...o-be-targeted/

LOS Mayos likely hung banners and signed Los Chapitos, who are strong in Tijuana but weak in Los Cabos hehehe. Indian mongers looking like Kash Patel should worry in Tijuana.

Araceli Brown Figueredo is the former mayor of Rosarito, became a federal deputy in Mexico's House of Representatives. In September 2025, the USA Treasury Department sanctioned Brown Figueredo for her alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel, specifically the Los Mayos faction.

In September 2025, USA Treasury officials linked Brown Figueredo to the Sinaloa cartel.

The USA Treasury alleges that she benefited from extortion operations and used the Rosarito Police Department to protect the cartel's activities.

Mexico's own treasury department has reportedly frozen her bank accounts, though the former mayor claims the accounts are active and has denied all allegations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cid=TobArticle

[Baxter Slade]

Sitora POLICE.

"TERS," WHO WAS THE MANAGER OF "ARCÁNGEL," THE CJNG LEADER, EXECUTED IN THE CENTRAL ZONE.

This afternoon, a report was received on Constitución Street between Coahuila and Baja California, indicating that one person had been injured by a firearm. Once on the scene, the information was corroborated, and one person was located in the parking lot of the Posada Santiago Hotel inside a black Volkswagen Passat. Inside, on the driver's side, a male person with gunshot wounds to the chest, which caused his death at the scene.

Police officers identify the male who lost his life as an important player in the CJNG organization, as he followed orders from "ARCÁNGEL" and "PETER" to charge merchants for protection money and execute those who refused to pay, who are identified as the main drivers of violence in the ZONA CENTRO neighborhood.

If this is one of the guys who has been shaking down the SG's it looks like he got what he deserves!

[Sol12]

Sheinbaum and corrupt Mexican pols are shaking. What can Trump do? He would have to send the US Marines' Expeditionary Corp. To Mexico to make arrests. May be he would suggest a regime change and extensive donation of prime real estate for development of Trump's resorts..

The current administration isn't looking to go after corrupt politicians in Mexico since they can't. What they can do is what they have been doing and just exposing them to the Mexican media and citizens and the Mexican media will do the investigation since they are better at it.

The current administration has been withdrawing the Visas of suspected politicians that work with the Cartels. They have also been exposing the Mexican banks that launder money by not allowing them to do business in the US. As the old sane goes "There are many ways to skin a cat."

[Captain Solo]

In exchange for leniency, Ovidio likely already spilled for the records all Mexico's government officials' names, how they work for drugs cartels and profit from them. He will make deals to testify in court.

Sheinbaum and corrupt Mexican pols are shaking. What can Trump do? He would have to send the US Marines' Expeditionary Corp. To Mexico to make arrests. May be he would suggest a regime change and extensive donation of prime real estate for development of Trump's resorts.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...s-roils-mexico

Case of 'El Chapo' son cooperating with USA Prosecutors roils Mexico.

By Patrick J. McDonnell Foreign Correspondent July 16,2025 3 AM PT.

MEXICO CITY — A bitter public dispute between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the New York lawyer representing a son of drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has raised speculation here that the deal-seeking scion of the onetime Sinaloa cartel leader may expose corrupt Mexican officials.

On Tuesday, Sheinbaum said she had filed a defamation complaint in Mexico against Jeffrey Lichtman, the high-profile attorney representing Ovidio Guzmán López, who last week pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to fentanyl trafficking and other crimes. He has agreed to cooperate with USA Prosecutors in a bid to reduce a potential life sentence.

In comments after the court hearing, Lichtman labeled as "absurd" Sheinbaum's repeated contentions that Washington should coordinate with Mexico on the case — especially if, as is widely expected, Guzmán López spills the beans on alleged ties between Mexican officials and cartels.

In an incendiary post on X, Litchman assailed the Mexican leader's "corrupt office and government" and charged that Sheinbaum "acts more as the public relations arm of a drug trafficking organization than as the honest leader that the Mexican people deserve."

That sparked a flurry of denunciations from allies in Sheinbaum's ruling Morena bloc, which dominates Mexican politics.

Ernestina Godoy Ramos, Sheinbaum's official counsel, labeled Lichtman's comments "grotesque and unforgivable, breaking the ethical and legal limits of the profession. ".

Declared Sheinbaum: "I'm not going to establish a dialogue with a lawyer for a narco-trafficker. ".

Lichtman also represented El Chapo — now serving a life sentence in a USA Prison in Colorado — and is the attorney for Joaquíand Guzmáand López, another son of the drug lord. Like his brother, he is in USA Custody and faces drug smuggling and other charges.

El Chapo's sons, known as LOS Chapitos, or the "Little Chapos," assumed responsibility for cartel dealings after their father's arrest in 2016, prosecutors say. Guzmáand López was extradited to the United States in 2023 after being nabbed following a shootout outside Culiacáand, the Sinaloa state capital, that left almost two dozen people dead, including 10 Mexican soldiers. Two other sons of El Chapo remain in Mexico directing cartel operations, according to USA Officials.

Behind the nasty contretemps between the New York barrister and la presidenta is a widespread sense here that Guzmáand López is poised to dish a mound of dirt about Mexican politicians on the payroll of the Sinaloa cartel. He may have already done so.

What else, political observers ask, could explain the special treatment that members of El Chapo's family received in the spring?

In May, USA Authorities escorted 17 members of El Chapo's extended family — including his ex-wife, the mother of Ovidio and Joaquíand — into San Diego from Tijuana. Although the USA Justice Department declined to comment, Mexico's top law enforcement official said the move was probably part of a cooperation deal between Guzmáand López and Washington.

"he (Ovidio) must be singing," said Guillermo Valdés Castellanos, a former intelligence chief in the administration of former President Felipe Calderóand, a political adversary of Sheinbaum. "I think it's part of a very clear strategy by the government of Donald Trump to pressure Mexico. To take action against the profound links between organized crime and and Mexican politics. ".

While frequently praising Sheinbaum, Trump has denounced the "intolerable alliance" between Mexico's government and organized crime. Trump has imposed punishing tariffs on Mexico in what he calls an effort to shut down fentanyl trafficking.

Though critics have called Trump's characterizations overblown, the narco-government collaboration in Mexico goes back decades.

Calderóand's top security official, Genaro García Luna, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from Sinaloa cartel traffickers and is serving a 38-year USA Prison sentence.

Sheinbaum and her political mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hailed the USA Prosecution of García Luna — a case that exposed deep corruption among their political rivals. But the tables may now be turning.

There have been no public disclosures about what Guzmáand López may be secretly revealing to USA Prosecutors. But speculation in Mexico has focused on the suspected crookedness of so-called narco-governors serving under the banner of Sheinbaum's dominant Morena political bloc. None have been charged.

But even more explosive, experts say, would be any fresh allegations against López Obrador, Sheinbaum's predecessor and the founder of Morena. During his six-year term, López Obrador repeatedly denied unconfirmed reports of having received political donations from people tied to organized crime.

By all accounts, any public airing of new accusations against López Obrador from USA Authorities could trigger a political earthquake in Mexico.

"There is total uncertainty and fear in the presidency," said José Luis Montenegro, a Mexican journalist who wrote a book on LOS Chapitos. "The politicians of Morena must be trembling. ".

Sheinbaum has won widespread acclaim for her "coolheaded" approach to Trump provocations on issues such as tariffs, immigration and drug smuggling. But the Mexican president has sharply rebuked USA Prosecutors' apparent deal-making intentions with El Chapo's son. She has accused USA Authorities of hypocrisy — seeking cooperation from Guzmáand López at a time when the Trump administration has designated the Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican crime groups as terrorist organizations.

"So where is their position of 'not to negotiate with terrorist groups' Sheinbaum asked this month.

Mexican leaders are still outraged about what they call the USA -orchestrated kidnapping almost a year ago of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada — co-founder of El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel — who is now also in custody in the United States.

Mexican officials suspect that USA Authorities recruited Joaquíand Guzmáand López to abduct El Mayo, bundle him into a private plane and fly him to an airfield outside El Paso, where USA Agents arrested both El Mayo and Joaquíand Guzmáand López.

Washington has never clarified its role in the sensational case. The apparent betrayal of El Mayo set off a civil war in the cartel — pitting El Mayo loyalists against LOS Chapitos — that has cost hundreds of lives in Sinaloa state.

Now, three top accused Sinaloa cartel capos sit in USA Custody, and at least one, Guzmáand López, appears keen to make a deal that could expose a web of official corruption, roiling Mexican politics.

Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal contributed to this report.

[Captain Solo]

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[Sol12]

I gave you enough information about the sources without saying it openly.

The girls are afraid they may get beat up or killed for disclosing details. A few independently confirmed the coming tax. Wonder when the cartel will start taxing bar girls and escorts.

In Cabo for about the last 10 years the Jalisco cartel has firm control over the escort business. Girls have to follow strict rules re tax, prices, services, schedules. Quite a few could not live with all the rules and just quit.

You give no information on sources and like I said you just believe what someone tells you and you have no idea how to really investigate anything.

But keep living in your fantasy world where you have better information than the local media because some SG is going to trust you more. Do you remember last year when the SG were protesting about the new police chief. Do you don't think they would band together and protest against some extortion from the Cartel. You lack common sense.

So now you're out think you know anything about Cabo also. LOL.

[Captain Solo]

I gave you enough information about the sources without saying it openly.

The girls are afraid they may get beat up or killed for disclosing details. A few independently confirmed the coming tax. Wonder when the cartel will start taxing bar girls and escorts.

In Cabo for about the last 10 years the Jalisco cartel has firm control over the escort business. Girls have to follow strict rules re tax, prices, services, schedules. Quite a few could not live with all the rules and just quit.

[Sol12]

Just a side note. I had heard a couple months ago that tohn the Caliente owner had bought the place. So don't know if that means anything as far as the mayor. Maybe that's what helped it to reopen. But recently heard from a tropical manager as he was telling me about the recent shooting. That Rohn is leasing the place from the HK group.

Well that seems to make some sense from the different reports I read. When I first read about the attack I noticed in some pictures of the place they had a large banner above the bar that read "Nueva Administracióand Próximamente". So they had done something to be able to reopen. Also in one of the articles they wrote about it but it didn't mention that it was new ownership just new management so that might be more to HK leasing it to Rohn.

The day after the mayor was very frustrated with the place and basically calling for it to be closed because it's a "generator of violence ". Which is unfair IMO to the owners because they can't control the crimes that have happened. I've seen other bars in Centro that have had multiple shootings and they were never closed.