http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/27/MNMQ14QQ9B.DTL%20
Elusive bandit loves fast horses and faster ladies
Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, December 28, 2008
(12-28) 04:00 PST Tijuana — (link at the end of article)
He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye.
Teodoro Garcia Simental is among the best known but least identifiable villains in Mexico’s drug war, blamed for a trail of terror across Baja California.
His heavily armed hit men, authorities say, have been leaving the gruesome displays of charred and decapitated bodies across the city, signed with the moniker “Tres Letras,” for the three letters in “Teo.” And authorities believe he runs a network of hideouts where kidnap victims are held in cages.
Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can’t seem to find him.
Billboards showing Tijuana’s most wanted kidnappers don’t include Garcia’s image, even though he is believed to be behind most of the gang war that has claimed more than 400 lives here since late September.
“That tells you that you don’t want to be the one responsible for putting Teo’s picture in public,” said one U.S. law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “There’s no future in it.”
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More today:
Marijuana found hidden in flatbed trailer
December 29th, 2008 @ 10:56am
http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1016025
by Associated Press
More than a million dollars worth of marijuana has been seized while being smuggled into the United States in a flatbed trailer.
The seizure was made Saturday, near the Mexico border south of Patagonia, the U.S Border Patrol said.
Agents assigned to the Sonoita border station stopped a suspicious pickup pulling the trailer, authorities said. They smelled a strong odor of marijuana, but could not see any evidence. A Border Patrol K9 was brought to the scene and alerted to the presence of narcotics. More than 1,000 pounds of marijuana was found hidden under the wooden planks of the trailer.
The driver was arrested.
“Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can’t seem to find him.”
How about: “Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can’t seem resist Simental’s lucrative bribes.”