1. ''It was just a usual-suspects thing,'' a United States official in Guadalajara said, just another of the 71 cases the consulate handled in 1996 of Americans who went missing in that region. I just want to say; I always read the article first then comment. Alfredo Hodoyan | Narcos Wiki | Fandom ''He spared my life and I want to keep my word to him, too,'' he said later in the conversation. The US captured him based on the information provided by General Gutierrez Rebollo. Abductions since last night have been reported in San Fernando, Reynosa "Sol Prendido" for Borderland A man identified as Guillermo Daniel Mndez Madrigal, 25, who allegedly belonged to a cell of the A Blog dedicated to reporting on Mexican drug cartels. The family still hopes that Alex will someday A few months after his sons arrest in 1996, Alejandro Hodoyan pointed out that Alfredo wasnt the only one in Tijuana rubbing shoulders with the Arellano Felixes. Frankie Flowers(Francisco Flores)? MAINERO v. GREGG An even-tempered man with an amiable face, he started doing small favors for the Arellanos and eventually helped them import rifles and grenades to arm their hit squads. I thought [forget] that, and got off the beach. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Kids admired his long hair, his rococo Chinese dragon bedside lamps, and the respect and fear he inspired. The troops had no arrest warrant and filed no report to the police. Last It was a sweltering summer day, but Mr. Arellano sported a mink jacket and leather pants. Court documents say Ramon was named godfather of their son, Emilio Alfredo, in 1991, though relatives say he didnt show up for the baptism. With the help of United States prosecutors in San Diego, the Mexican Attorney General marshaled a wealth of testimony by drug associates against Alfredo Angelica belonged to a sheltered, well-chaperoned world of weddings and baptisms. His father, Alejandro Hodoyan Ramirez, 63, is a respected Mexican civil engineer. They keep meeting these people, in a party, at a disco, they buy bottles of champagne, and they become the new members of the narco-society. Then he came on as the consummate good cop, pretending to scold his subordinates for treating the prisoner harshly and ordering them to loosen his manacles and upgrade his food. Alejandro Hodoyan vanished a second _ and apparently last _ time on March 5 when two men with automatic rifles jumped out of a van in a Tijuana parking lot, tossed him inside, and screeched away. After 28 days on the job, Ibarra was shot to death Sept. 14, 1996, outside the Mexico City airport. No one at the consulate ever spoke with the Mexican military. He was recruited by Arturo "El Kitty" Pez to smuggle drugs across the border, but was Alex confessed that he was involved in the Arellano-Felix cartel and the confession was videotaped. General Gutierrez Rebollo won the fight for Alex Hodoyan's allegiance. This is the story of the movie TrafficLife inmates reality.I don't feel sorry for the parents,they sure enjoyed the lifestyle while it lasted.Easy Money,is easy death.Hard working people that dont get in the game,are better off.The narcos these days are too high on their own supply.They become too paranoid and make too many mistakes. But mostly Benjamin would have his own parties, and the juniors would show up with their girlfriends, the protected witness says. Biographical Information As the man in the videotape begins to spill the inner secrets of Mexico's most violent drug gang, he appears nervous, chewing off pieces of his left thumbnail and gulping water. Weber Rodriguezs arrest was the latest twist in the story of Mexicos former drug czar, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, charged in February with being on the payroll of the late drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes. ''I don't want them using me,'' he said, cursing the Arrelanos. The young man had just run off for three weeks with Ramons sister. After returning to Mexico, he went to meet his brother at a safehouse used by the Tijuana Cartel. El Lobo haba estudiado en una escuela Catlica en San Diego, Estados Unidos al ser hijo de un empresario prominente de Tijuana, Baja California, Mxico. Donald R. Hamilton, the embassy's spokesman, otherwise defended its handling of the case, saying Mr. Hodoyan did not complain of torture to any American official in Mexico or suggest that he was under duress. TIJUANA IS THE MEXICAN CITY OF REINVENTION. Mr. Hodoyan's kidnapping and secret detention have been described in separate, mutually corroborating accounts by army officers who are now testifying against General Gutierrez Rebollo in two trials. The Business - Arellano-Felix Cartel | Drug Wars Is General Gutierrez Rebollo. Giants, Padres team up for Mexico City Play Ball event She had volunteered at the church since she was 16, reading Scripture at services and carrying the wine, chalice and water. Its hard to believe Fabian grew into the Shark, alleged by Mexican police to have killed at least a dozen people on behalf of the cartel. A United States magistrate concluded in his ruling that Alejandro Hodoyan had probably been killed last year by the Tijuana drug traffickers, who were Alfredo's associates. ''. A HOT DAY IN TIJUANA IS COOLING INTO A GOLDEN SUNSET. He was killed by the Tijuana Cartel and his body was hanging on an overpass. La facilidad con la que Alfredo Hodoyan cruzaba la frontera con Estados Unidos con total facilidad y sin levantar ninguna sospecha se deba a que contaba con la nacionalidad estadounidense ya que naci en un hospital en suelo de la nacin norteamericana. ''He even bought new clothes for me.''. TE PUEDE INTERESAR:Lola La Chata, de vender ropa y chicharrones a ser una de las pioneras del narco en Mxico. For half an hour, the agent described the American imprisoned in Guadalajara. On Sept. 14, three days after Mr. Hodoyan was abducted by his soldiers, a hit squad linked to the Arellanos assassinated a top Mexican antidrug prosecutor in Mexico City. We all no what happens 2 people who snitch-its a horrible, torturous death & furthermore, u r with ur mom -putting her life n danger too!! Hodoyan wrote that on Feb. 11, a U.S. government plane flew him from suburban Mexico City to San Diego. She was the perfect girl. Her mother tried to discourage her romance with the swaggering Emilio. Alex Hodoyan panicked, afraid that General Gutierrez Rebollo would retaliate if he denounced him. BUSINESSWOMAN Guadalupe Gonzalez is helping a customer select the perfect floral teacup from a china showroom that is a fantasia of fine figurines. ''Tell them I made a deal with the general, and the general is keeping his word to me,'' Mr. Hodoyan said. I know Alfredo is innocent, Cristina Hodoyan said at the time. agent who questioned him. For his parents the conversations were agonizing. Alex's father suggested to his son that he was suffering from Stockholm syndrome, which occurs when kidnap victims become attached to their kidnappers. Now hes trying to sell his story to Hollywood. The echo-filled room and strangely empty military barracks struck the A.T.F. They never did anything to me, Mama, please try to understand,'' he said. The Business - Arellano-Felix Cartel | Drug Wars - PBS Boys who played with Cristinas sons at the Tijuana Country Club years ago. Two Mexican officers, in plain clothes, drove the agent to the base where Mr. Hodoyan was held and accompanied him into the meeting. WebAlfredo Hodoyan was extradited to Mexico and is now awaiting trial in Almaloya, Mexico's high security prison outside of Mexico City. To be fair, he does decent in the group after a rocky start and is even assigned crucial jobs and tasks to complete. After Mr. Hodoyan was released, he said the soldiers had tortured and threatened to kill him. The devalued Mexican peso was relegating some upper class Tijuana families to the middle class. Witness Protection Program in exchange for his testimony against the cartel. That was when Mr. Hodoyan, who had spoken throughout the interview in Spanish, announced that he would not need a visa. You have women all over the place. If he is broke, I pay his credit card bill. Five days later, Adriana Hodoyan, who is 30, traveled to Guadalajara and gave the consulate a photo of Alex and a detailed account of the travel route he had planned. agent that Mr. Hodoyan had been blindfolded to prevent him from seeing the American's face, since the prisoner, they said, was a ''dangerous and violent criminal.''. The priest says he repeated the rendezvous with Benjamin in January 1994. Completely neurotic. Linas father passed away four months later. Deceased 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. He was just like a little child, crying and crying.''. The elegant breakables in the tall glass cases seem too fragile for the tale that Gonzalez is telling. He was very handsome, another mother says. To Dario Garin, the president of the Tijuana Country Club, the Arellano Felixes allure boiled down to two simple things: Money. Mexican Tale: Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/world/mexican-tale-drugs-crime-torture-and-the-us.html. WebAlfredo Hodoyan (Died 1995), also known as El Lobo was a Mexican-American drug trafficker and a narcojunior of the Tijuana cartel . At one point, the elder Mr. Hodoyan told his son that a Mexican lawyer who had defended the Arellanos was offering to help get Alex out of military custody. Gender He replied, ''This is more than I want to hear.''. Her new boyfriend was a very polite young man, and very much in love with Ruth, says Montano. ''He was a very confident guy who projected the sense that 'we're the military -- we're going to get the job done.' Gustavo Miranda Santacruz fue el siguiente en la lista al ser levantado y posteriormente baleado, suerte que no corri El Lobo. did not allow its Mexico agents to comment about their role. U.S. prosecutors say he worked for the notorious Arellano Felix brothers: Benjamin, described by law enforcement authorities as the cartels chief executive, and Cristina, 62, rolls her eyes dismissively at any suggestion that Alfredo was the killer, the Wolf described by prosecutors. Upper-class circles are as newly minted as the modern Tijuana Country Club, built in 1948 on the grounds of the old casino, a remnant of the time that the city was a Prohibition getaway for Hollywood movie stars. He was fun.. It's a shame they choose that life style. Ramon was shot to death by Mexican police in February. Climate change sparks disaster fears, Police manhunt continues for suspect in Texas mass shooting, A powerhouse U.S. doctor slain in Sudan, killed for nothing, In final Mass in Budapest, pope urges Hungary to open doors, What GOPs plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean. WebAlfredo and Alex are both killed by Arellanos. En los ltimos das de 2016, Hodoyan Palacios recobr su libertad a solo 14 aos de haber permanecido tras las rejas en tres diferentes penales federales de mxima seguridad: del Altiplano en el Estado de Mxico, en Tamaulipas y en Chiapas. After a long period of few consequences, the narcojuniors were about to discover that U.S. prosecutors couldnt care less about their fathers, wives, friends or family connections. I dont think he was involved in killing people, he said. Alfredo Hodoyan, 25, and a childhood friend have been jailed in San Diego for a year on a Mexican warrant charging them with helping the Arellano Felix brothers General Gutierrez Rebollo's officers, he said, warned him before the interview that if he told the A.T.F. General Gutierrez Rebollo had good reason to court Mr. Hodoyan. Finally he broke down in sobs. ''My son, it's a trap -- you're in a trap, try to understand,'' Cristina Hodoyan entreated in a phone call on Dec. 10. '', Mexican officers told the A.T.F. He is accused of being one of Mr. Arellano's most feared gunmen and is wanted for murder in Mexico. One by one, friends the Hodoyans had known since childhood were drawn into the Arellanos' circle of riches and violence. Officially, the Arellano Felixes were on the lam. As soon as the Hodoyan family realized Alex was missing, they turned to the American authorities for help. Officers at the Defense Ministry in Mexico City invited an agent from the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to question an exceptional informant they had about arms smuggling to Mexican drug traffickers. Authorities managed to swoop in and arrest Francisco Arellano Felix in 1993 in Tijuanas tony Chapultapec hills. ''I'm sure I would have done whatever needed to be done,'' he said, calling it ''convenient'' that embassy officials had heaped all of the blame on the one person involved who was no longer in government service. Cristinas older son, Agustin Hodoyan, would wave when Ramon drove by in a red sports car, rock-and-roll booming from his stereo. He would have to go briefly to jail, but then he, his wife and daughters could join a witness protection program. Mexican Tale: Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S. Giants, Padres team up for Mexico City Play Ball event As his legal woes deepened, Emilio complained to a relative that his wife Lina was receiving not a cent from Ramon Arellano. So did skinny little Fabian Martinez, who was so shy that his father, a respected pediatrician, organized a baseball team so his son would have children to play with. Nope, it would be awesome. At midnight, Montano says, the nuncio went to speak with then-president Carlos Salinas: Ramon wanted to meet with him, too. ''Had this person done even the minimum which duty, regulation, law and custom indicate, the consular service would not have been ignorant of Mr. Hodoyan's detention,'' said Mr. Hamilton, the spokesman for the embassy in Mexico City. Alex Hodoyan | Narcos Wiki | Fandom WHATEVER RELATIONSHIP THE ARELLANO FELIXES HAD WITH TIJUANA SOCIety was irreparably damaged on May 24, 1993, when Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, the archbishop of Guadalajara, was shot to death at the Guadalajara airport-a killing that shocked the deeply Catholic nation. If Alfredo said, Mama, I need a car, I got him a car. Then, several officials said, Mr. Randall did nothing further about Mr. Hodoyan. Seduction of a Generation - Los Angeles Times Carrillo was considered Mexicos No. THERE ARE STILL SOCIETY KIDS WHO brag that they know two of the younger Arellanos, Eduardo and Javier, who, some DEA officials believe, are living under armed guard in Tijuana, trying to stave off competitors and paying $1 million a week to police. If Father Montano was in denial, he wasnt alone. Mr. Curiel acknowledged recently at a court hearing in San Diego that the allegations of torture were plausible and serious, but said they should be investigated by the Mexican authorities. Reached by telephone at his southern California residence, Mr. Randall said he had no recollection of Mr. Hodoyan's case. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. They laugh after a murder, and go off and have a lobster dinner.''. After 10 days in San Diego, he suffered what family members described as a psychological breakdown. I never did. He had a nice car, his own place, money, and a lot more independence than his peers. But soon all the teenagers knew Benjamins kid brother, 12 years his junior. ''Everything about him made you turn around and say, who is he?''. It is the story of her daughter Angelicas first marriage. The american agent that interviewed him -just left an american citizen 2 b tortured?? Every Friday or Saturday night he would be at a party or a disco. Alex's own brother Alfredo assists him in joining the gang, which does not end well for Alex. Cartel Suspects Ordered Extradited | AP News General Gutierrez Rebollo played his prisoner with a maestro's touch, according to the officers who testified in the trials against him. Now the kids I don't feel sorry for. ''Alfredo is my brother. Drawing on his prodigious memory, he poured out what he knew about the Arellanos in manic bursts. Follow Border City podcast I wondered sometimes about the fine line that separated safety from danger in Tijuana. It is also based on confidential Mexican court documents as well as tape recordings, obtained by The New York Times, of telephone calls he made to his family in Tijuana last year when he was a military prisoner. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. One of the gangs leaders, Ramon Arellano Felix, was placed on the FBIs Most Wanted list in September. But when Lina became pregnant, her family reluctantly consented to their marriage, a relative says. Police told the family that he appeared to have been tortured in front of her. Soon after he arrived in the United States, Mr. Hodoyan, his 32-year-old wife, Bertha Gastelum de Hodoyan, and his mother met with the American prosecutor who was handling the extradition of his brother. But by the mid-1980s, even this reliable terrain began to shift. The government put him up at a hotel, where he talked with federal agents and prosecutors. Meanwhile, one of the Arellanos top gunmen, Fabian Martinez, ''the Shark,'' placed several calls from hiding to the Hodoyans, saying he knew Alex was a Government informant. Hector hEochagin shares devastating news of And with his disappearance, a promising window into the inner workings of one of Mr. Brayshaw did not inquire again what had become of Mr. Hodoyan because he assumed that the Consul General had done his job, Mr. Hamilton said. Why is Frank McCourt really pushing this? Alex Hodoyan (died 1997) was the younger brother of narcojunior Alfredo Hodoyan. Authorities rounded up two suspects Sept. 30 in a luxury apartment in San Diegos picturesque Coronado Shores. He was fighting Mexicos attempt to extradite him for the murder The A.T.F. He consulted with the No. Narcos Mexico S3 Cast Guide: All New & Returning