Alex Hodoyan is a typical teenager living in Tijuana. I knew about his rages. By then, he says, Ramon was just muscle. She shakes her head. Mr. Hoyodan's mother and father urged him to remain loyal to the family and his circle of childhood friends. BUSINESSWOMAN Guadalupe Gonzalez is helping a customer select the perfect floral teacup from a china showroom that is a fantasia of fine figurines. Ramons narcojuniors now had a much higher profile in Tijuana, and they were drawing scrutiny for a spate of gangland murders that would include eight senior prosecutors from Baja in a single year. ''Killing is a party for them, it's a kick,'' Mr. Hodoyan tells Mexican investigators. Mr. Hodoyan soon became devoted to his jailer. By law, the Mexican armed forces can hold criminal suspects for no more than 48 hours before turning them over to the civilian authorities. Completely neurotic. She has always had many admirers. Within days, several witnesses said, there was a change in Mr. Hodoyan's demeanor. Been there and still living it. Alfredo was with the Arellanos and his gf was raped and killed first, then he. It is also a story of kidnapping and coercion that highlights some of the perils for the United States in working with the secretive Mexican military, which has been given a central role in the drug war despite its lengthening record of corruption and brutality. But it wouldnt have mattered. On Feb. 10, D.E.A. the fat crazy looking guy in military or police outfit in the middle? The nuncio blessed Ramon, and they left. They just want to help me now because they have problems with the military and the police. The Business - Arellano-Felix Cartel | Drug Wars - PBS For half an hour, the agent described the American imprisoned in Guadalajara. But how had a penniless 19-year-old come up with the money for a liquor license? Kitty Paez? Status He felt very brave strutting around with them. Los Angeles Times He and Angelica had been divorced for a year, her family says. Two Mexicans who saw Mr. Hodoyan in later weeks of his detention say they noticed a fresh scar in the middle of his forehead. Some American officials involved in the case now acknowledge that they were too willing to turn a blind eye to the methods used by the Mexican military to secure Mr. Hodoyan's cooperation. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Perhaps they were grateful enough to ignore the fact that Benjamin had begun to move about with an armed security detail, rare for an ordinary entrepreneur. The account of Mr. Hodoyan's experiences was pieced together from interviews with his family, American officials in Mexico, and Mexican justice officials who knew him as an informant. The brothers skipped bond and returned to Mexico. ''The amazing thing is, the guy just doesn't shut up,'' said a United States official who questioned the A.T.F. Like Angelica, Kitty partied with a popular crowd of teenagers who studied at the Instituto Mexico, one of Tijuanas exclusive private schools. In 1986, Ruth Serrano Corona, the granddaughter of a top federal official in Tijuana, married Benjamin Arellano Felix. Mermaids hold out conch shells with tiny freshwater pearls. ''He was crazy, loco, desperate,'' Bertha Hodoyan said. But if they hurt me here, who will take care of my little girls? Her family says she has since remarried, but the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that she showed up with the children at Kittys sentencing hearing in January as he choked back tears and apologized to society in general for everything I did. His freewheeling life was reduced to clinical legal descriptions of meetings where Ramon plotted violent acts by narcojuniors. Angelica belonged to a sheltered, well-chaperoned world of weddings and baptisms. I never did. One of the flashiest was Ramon Arellano, a leader of the gang who met members of the Hodoyan family at a society wedding in Tijuana. It's a shame they choose that life style. And it was anything but bland. WebAlfredo Hodoyan (Died 1995), also known as El Lobo was a Mexican-American drug trafficker and a narcojunior of the Tijuana cartel . In a sworn statement before his second disappearance, Hodoyan, 35, wrote that he met the general during his interrogation in Guadalajara, and that he was tortured there. Not Alfredo-tall, good-looking, bilingual, U.S.-born; a graduate of the prestigious St. Augustine Academy in San Diego. 8 All the ladies my age, we all say thats the worst cancer to ever hit Tijuana. That cancer was the cartel. ''He didn't tell anybody above, below or alongside,'' a diplomat said later, calling Mr. Randall's performance ''a clear case of nonfeasance.''. He never considered turning the brothers in because this was a matter of conscience. It would have been fine with me if they hadnt gotten married at all. 1 cocaine smuggler before his July 4 death. If he is broke, I pay his credit card bill. Seven weeks earlier, gunmen for the Arellano organization had bungled a plot to assassinate Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the leader of a rival cartel.
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