Colombians Carrying $1.5 Million in Cash Arrested at Mexico City Airport

MEXICO CITY – Three Colombians were arrested when they tried to fly out of the Mexico City airport with more than $1.5 million in cash hidden in their luggage, the Attorney General’s Office said.

“The three passengers tried to leave the country without declaring the foreign exchange they were carrying in their double-bottomed suitcases, registered to Copa Airlines flight 428, whose destination was Panama City,” AG’s office special financial analysis unit chief Crisogono de Jesus Diaz said.

The suspects were arrested on Jan. 28 at the airport, De Jesus Diaz said in a statement.

The arrests were made following an investigation by the unit, the Mexican tax agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, the official said.

“Once the cash was seized, accounting procedures were undertaken and the quantity and authenticity of the money was documented,” De Jesus Diaz said.

Federal prosecutors turned over the three suspects to a court.

Mexican Cops Leave Town When Murder Is About to Be Committed

MEXICO CITY – A man was murdered by gunmen in Escuinapa, a town in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, after six police officers fled the scene in two vehicles when they saw what was happening, a video posted on social media sites on Monday shows.

The images show the officers running toward a state police vehicle and a municipal police patrol car, getting in and taking off.

“Puncture the tire, puncture the tire. These (profanity) are going to take off,” a woman’s voice can be heard saying on the video.

The gunmen take a man, identified as 27-year-old Elias Constantino, out of a house a short time later.

“They’re going to kill him. They’re going to kill him,” people are heard shouting.

Shots are heard and a black vehicle is seen leaving town a few seconds later.

Four state police officers and two municipal officers fled town, Escuinapa’s police chief told Mexican media outlets.

The officers have given statements to prosecutors, telling investigators that they fled because they were outnumbered, the police chief said.

Constantino’s body was dumped on the Mazatlan-Durango highway.

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Seven Killed in Gangland Violence in Southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Seven men were found dead of gunshot wounds early Thursday in two different parts of Chilpancingo, the capital of the violence-racked southern Mexican state of Guerrero, police sources told EFE.

At around 3:00 a.m., police received reports of gunfire in the Tatagildo slum, where officers subsequently found three handcuffed men aged 20-25 who had been shot dead and bore signs of torture.

The bodies of four other people killed in a similar fashion were found about an hour later near the Cerrito Rico dam on the city’s north side.

Although authorities have not yet identified the victims, they say the deaths may have been a settling of scores among rival organized crime gangs.

Chilpancingo and the nearby municipalities of Tixtla and Chilapa have been racked by a months-long turf war involving three criminal groups: the Ardillos and the Rojos, based in and around Chilapa; and the Sierra del Sur cartel, whose home is the state capital.

Nine youths were kidnapped in that same region just two days ago.

Six of them were abducted at a motorcycle repair shop located in a Chilpancingo school zone, while the other three were kidnapped in Tixtla’s La Villita neighborhood.

Tixtla is home to the Ayotzinapa Normal School, an all-male teacher-training institute. In September 2014, 43 students enrolled in that institution went missing in the nearby city of Iguala after coming under attack by local police.

On Wednesday, an operation involving some 3,500 soldiers and 200 federal and state police was launched in a bid to reduce cartel-related violence in several Guerrero municipalities.

The operation spans indigenous-majority Chilapa, Zitlala, Cuilapan, Zototitlan and Ahuacuotzingo, which have been plagued by organized crime over the past three years.

Hundreds of people have been killed in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most violent states, since the disappearance of the 43 trainee teachers 16 months ago.

El Chapo's Daughter Gets Rights to Use Father's Pseudonym as Trademark

MEXICO CITY - The daughter of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has intellectual property rights over her father's pseudonym until 2020, according to the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the Global Brand Database.

Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, daughter of the Sinaloa Cartel leader, can use the name 'El Chapo' in a number of sectors regulated by the International Classification of Goods and Services for trademark registration.

Marketable product categories for which she can use the name 'El Chapo' include insurance, real estate affairs, precious metals, leather and faux-leather, and toys, among others.

Her mother and first wife of the drug lord, Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernandez, also tried to get in on the action by registering the trademark 'El Chapito Guzman', 'El Chapito' and 'Don Chapo Guzman' under a sector that relates to alcoholic beverages.

But the IMPI refused, explaining that the names are 'contrary to morals and good customs and public order' because of obvious links to Guzman.

Jose Antonio Jimenez Magaña, who provides legal representation to the two women, argued that the names are commonly used and have no connection with Guzman.

The IMPI, however, said the combination of names 'follows the idea of a particular person'.

Salazar and Hernandez aren't the only ones who have tried to market the 'El Chapo' brand.

Guzman's current wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, tried unsuccessfully to register the name 'Joaquín Archivaldo Guzman Loera El Chapo Guzman', and two people without links to the family have attempted to register trademarks seemingly linked to the cartel leader for sectors including clothing and scientific instruments.