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Heavily armed hitman of rival El Chapo cartel is arrested over Mormon massacre after a stand-off at the US border where he held two HOSTAGES - Relatives visiting the scene of the slaughter
Police officer Eduardo Triana Sandoval, 32, was murdered by two unknown gunmen outside a shopping center in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Wednesday night moments after he had finished his shift
A Mexican police officer killed in an ambush acted as a lookout to spot cartel gunmen patrolling the streets on the day El Chapo's son was arrested.
Eduardo Triana Sandoval, 32, was murdered by two unknown gunmen outside a shopping center in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Wednesday night moments after he had finished his shift.
Local media outlets reported the fallen cop played a role in the foiled attempt to nab Ovidio Guzmán López.
But Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, chief of Sinaloa Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection, said that Triana Sandoval and other members of the state police were not participants in the raid.
Castañeda Camarillo revealed that Triana Sandoval was not scheduled to work October 17 when he presented himself for duty at the state police command center in Culiacán after news broke of a war-like battle between an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and the military near Guzmán López's home in the Tres Ríos neighborhood.
The official added that Triana Sandoval accompanied him to the Aguaruto Penitentiary, where 49 inmates had escaped from as chaos engulfed Culiacán.
Local media outlets reported the fallen cop (pictured) played a role in the foiled attempt to nab Ovidio Guzmán López but the Sinaloa state police said he and other department agents responded to reports of inmates fleeing a prison and armed gang members patrolling the streets of Culiacán on October 17
Triana Sandoval was also part of a unit that was dispatched to several areas where Sinaloa Cartel armed fighters were spotted patrolling the streets before the gang put down its weapons and retreated.
'He did not participate directly, just as no element of the state police participated in the operation that the federal authorities have carried out on the subject that you all know,' Castañeda Camarillo said.
'The participation of the authorities of the state of Sinaloa was to respond to the different reports on the presence of armed people in different parts of the city. So, this unit element did not participate directly in any detention on the 17th.'
CCTV captured the horrifying moment when at least two armed men with semiautomatic rifles climbed out of a red car and opened fire at a white Nissan four-door sedan.
The ambush took less than 30 seconds as the gunmen used an AR-15 and AK-47 to fired at least 150 bullets into the white vehicle.
The red car had followed the white car into the parking lot of a shopping center in Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa.
Triana Sandoval joined the police force six years ago and was a member of the Elite Force.
He also served on the security detail team assigned to guard the deputy secretary of the Sinaloa Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection.
His friend Gabriel Santos told DailyMail.com that 'bravery' was one of his virtues' that the made him stand out.
This October 17, 2019, frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzmán López at the moment of his detention, in Culiacán, Mexico
Closed circuit television images captured the scene in which the armed men drove up to the white Nissan in a red car
The armed men are seen getting out of the red vehicle and opening fire almost immediately at the white Nissan
The ambush on Wednesday evening at the shopping center took less than 30 seconds
Authorities are investigating whether the two men, who remain at-large, carried out the killing in response to Triana Sandoval's limited role the day soldiers failed to arrest Guzmán López.
Triana Sandoval lived in the town of Costa Rica, where armed men took over a highway toll both to distract law enforcement agents.
Mexican security forces had Guzmán López outside a house on his knees against a wall before they were forced to back off and let him go as his cartel's gunmen shot up the Culiacán.
Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval last week showed video and presented a timeline of the failed operation to arrest Guzmán López - an incident that embarrassed the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The video shot by soldiers shows Guzmán López exit the house with his hands up.
Soldiers order him to call off the attacks around the city as gunfire is heard in the background.
Guzmán López called his brother Archivaldo Iván Guzmán Salazar on his cellphone and told him to stop the chaos.
Cartel leader Iván Archivaldo Guzmán ordered an all-out attack on the Mexican military after they surrounded his brother's house
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (left) defended the decision to release Guzmán López (right), saying he was protecting civilian lives
Archivaldo Guzmán refused and shouted threats against the soldiers and their families.
The attacks continued and eight minutes later the first wounded soldiers were reported.
Archivaldo Guzmán surely knew at that point that the cartel had the upper hand and ordered his men to stand down after Guzmán López was released.
Thirteen people were killed in gun battles around the city.
Officials in Mexico City ultimately ordered security forces to withdraw four hours after the operation began to avoid more bloodshed.
Mexico's Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo said that the aborted operation to arrest Guzmán Lopez was a 'hasty action' that deserves criticism - but the details revealed that the arrest had been in the works for more than a week.
The government's timeline of events showed that the U.S. government requested Guzmán López's arrest for extradition on September 13, and on October 9 a special Mexican army anti-drug unit traveled from Mexico City to Culiacán to prepare.
Authorities were still in the process of obtaining a search warrant when the operation began on October 17 outside a large home where Guzmán López had been located.
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3 American Mormon mothers and 6 of their children are EXECUTED and their bodies left in burned out SUVs
The suspect - only identified as a 30-year-old man named Leonardo - was found late Tuesday in the town of Agua Prieta, right at the border with the U.S. state of Arizona, holding two hostages who were gagged and tied inside a vehicle
A heavily armed suspected drug lord has been arrested and is under investigation for the slaughter of nine Americans, including three mothers and six children, after the Mormon family was ambushed in northern Mexico by cartel gunmen.
The suspect - only identified as a 30-year-old man named Leonardo - was found late Tuesday in the town of Agua Prieta, right at the border with the U.S. state of Arizona, holding two hostages who were gagged and tied inside a vehicle, Mexico's Agency for Criminal Investigation said.
Authorities said the suspect, who is part of an El Chapo rival cartel, was also found in the possession of four assault rifles and ammunition, as well as various large vehicles including a bullet-proofed SUV.
The hostages are not believed to be related to the nine LeBaron family victims who were killed on Monday while traveling in a convoy of three SUVS on a dirt road in Sonora state.
The Sonora prosecutor's office told DailyMail.com they were still investigating if the arrested suspect is connected to the brutal slayings.
Devastated family members of the slain victims visited the scene of the grisly murders late on Tuesday and were pictured sobbing as they saw the burnt out and bullet riddled SUVs.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Wednesday he was open to allowing U.S. law enforcement to help out with the massacre investigation as officials revealed that the weapons used in the attack were smuggled from the U.S.
Officials have said that the cartel gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival gang amid a vicious turf war.
They also blamed Juarez drug cartel and its armed wing, La Linea, for the attack on the LeBaron family.
Authorities said the suspect, who is part of an El Chapo rival cartel, was also found in the possession of four assault rifles and ammunition, as well as various large vehicles including a bullet-proofed SUV
Emotional members of the LeBaron family look into the burned SUV where some of the nine murdered family members were killed and burned during a cartel gunmen ambush on Monday
Devastated family members of the slain victims visited the scene of the grisly murders late on Tuesday and were pictured sobbing as they saw the burnt out and bullet riddled SUVs
Soldiers assigned to Mexico's National Guard stand by a bullet-riddled vehicle belonging to one of the mothers gunned down in the cartel ambush that killed nine
The interior of a bullet-riddled vehicle belonging to one of the families that were killed by assailants is pictured at the scene of the crime
Police found a baby car seat spattered with blood in a bullet-riddled SUV that was being driven by one of the mothers
La Linea's gunmen had entered Sinaloa cartel territory and set up an armed outpost on a hilltop and an ambush further up the road.
The Sinaloa cartel was previously headed by Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán. The area where the attack occurred is dominated by a Sinaloa cartel offshoot called the Salazar.
The Juarez cartel apparently wanted to send a message that it controlled the road into Chihuahua. It was this invasion force that the American mothers and their three vehicles drove into.
It was only after the first vehicle belonging to the family was shot up and set alight that 50 or 60 Sinaloa cartel gunmen showed up to see what had happened.
'It is believed that the La Linea criminal organization acted on a threat from the Salazars to enter Chihuahua,' General Homero Mendoza said. 'It decided to send a cell to the Janos and Bavispe city limits… This cell was sent to stop any incursion of the Salazar criminal cell to Chihuahua.'
The military general also said that La Linea and the Salazars were involved in another shootout earlier on Monday that resulted in the death of a man.
The mothers were driving in separate vehicles with their children from the La Mora religious community where they live, which is a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Rhonita Miller and four of her children - her six-month-old twins, Titus and Tiana, her 10-year-old daughter Krystal and 12-year-old son Howard - were all killed. Another two mothers, Dawna Langford and Christina Langford Johnson, as well as Dawna's sons, Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 3, were also all killed.
Eight children, some just infants, survived the ambush. Those surviving children not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers but managed to hide in the brush for hours until help arrived.
The five wounded children were seriously enough injured that Mexican authorities flew them to the border in a military helicopter to receive hospital care in the United States. Sonora state health officials said they were 'stable' at the moment of transfer. Three other children who were not wounded are in the care of family members in La Mora.
At least three American mothers and six children from a Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been massacred in an attack blamed on drug cartel gunmen. Maria Rhonita Miller was killed along with her six-month-old twins, Titus and Tiana (left and right), her 10-year-old daughter Krystal (left) and 12-year-old son Howard (center)
Christina Langford Johnson (left) and Dawna Ray Langford (right) were also killed traveling in two separate SUVs. Christina saved her seven-month-old baby Faith's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV. Two of Dawna's children, Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 3, were killed in the attack
Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and two of her children, Trevor, 11, (right with his mom) and Rogan, 3, (left) also died in the attack
Authorities in Utah, where the family has ties, believes the same cartel responsible for their slaying is running operations in the U.S. state.
Utah County undersheriff, Shaun Bufton, said they have been dealing with cartels for years.
'We have illegals here that have been dealing drugs in Mexico,' Bufton said. 'They come up here. They work here. They go back. They go to California. They go to Arizona. It's the same people. It's the same group.
'As you saw yesterday, when that family was murdered in Mexico, you're talking women and children, and they just don't care.
'If you look at the homicides in Mexico, the number of people, Americans who get in the crossfire, there's a lot.'
Meanwhile, the sheriff of an Arizona county told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that drugs cartels posed a similar threat to terror groups like ISIS.
'Think about what ISIS does and think about what the cartels do. They terrorize,' Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels said.
'They kill both their own citizens - they kill Americans as demonstrated last night... We know one thing for sure, the cartels are behind it.'
In the aftermath of the tragedy, harrowing and heroic details emerged of the attack including how Dawna's quick-thiking 13-year-old son Devin covered his injured siblings with branches to hide them before walking 13 miles to get help from relatives back at La Mora.
Relatives say he reached the community six hours later. Family members alerted authorities before arming themselves with guns to go out searching for the injured children.
Christina has also been credited with saving her children's lives after she stashed her seven-month-old baby Faith on the floor of her Suburban and got out of the vehicle, waving her arms to show the gunmen she wasn't a threat.
She may have moved away from the vehicle to distract their attention because her bullet-ridden body was found about 15 yards away from the SUV.
The baby was found unharmed and still in her car seat on the backseat floor of the SUV when family members arrived at the scene hours later. She has since been reunited with her father Tyler Johnson.
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President Donald Trump has waged a war on Mexican drug cartels after three American mothers and six children from a Mormon community based in northern Mexico were massacred by cartel gunmen.
The victims, who belonged to the LeBaron family, were ambushed about eight miles apart in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday while traveling in a convoy of three SUVs.
At the time of the attack, 17 of the family members were traveling from the La Mora religious community where they live, which is a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
La Mora is about 70 miles south of Douglas in Arizona and many of the church's members were born in Mexico and thus have dual citizenship.
Mexico's top security official Alfonso Durazo blamed cartel gunmen on Tuesday for the attack and said they may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
Nine of the LeBaron family members, who have ties to Utah, were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing, Mexican authorities said. Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona.
The slaughter of U.S. citizens on Mexican soil quickly became an international issue with Trump on Tuesday vowing to help Mexico wage a war on its drug cartels. He said in a series of tweets that the LeBaron family had gotten caught up between 'two vicious drug cartels'. Mexican officials have not confirmed if this was the case.
'If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,' Trump tweeted. 'The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
'This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!'
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to Trump's tweet, saying 'war is the worst thing that can happen' and said he doesn't believe lethal force would solve them problem.
'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'
At least three American mothers and six children from a Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been massacred in an attack blamed on drug cartel gunmen. Maria Rhonita Miller was killed along with her six-month-old twins, Titus and Tiana (left and right), her 10-year-old daughter Krystal (left) and 12-year-old son Howard (center)
Christina Langford Johnson (left) and Dawna Ray Langford (right) were also killed traveling in two separate SUVs. Christina saved her seven-month-old baby Faith's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV. Two of Dawna's children, Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 3, were killed in the attack
Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and two of her children, Trevor, 11, (right with his mom) and Rogan, 3, (left) also died in the attack
Several family members took to social media following the massacre and described horrific scenes, including how gunmen opened fire on one child running away while others burned to death inside a car that was torched.
Other young children managed to escape and hide by the roadside while one of the mothers was shot in the chest as she put her hands up to surrender. Relatives fear some of the victims may have been raped.
One family member has described how a boy managed to hide his wounded siblings - some less than a year old - in bushes before he ran back to the nearby town to get help after his mother was gunned down.
It is not yet clear what motivated the killings, which took place on a dirt road between Chihuahua and Sonora states, both bordering the United States.
Family members believe it was an attempted kidnapping after one relative reported receiving a phone call hearing screams before they were executed.
Family members say Rhonita Maria LeBaron was driving to Phoenix on Monday with her four children to pick up her husband and then return to Mexico to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
The relatives say her car had broken down when gunmen opened fire and torched her vehicle causing the gas tank to explode.
She was killed along with her twin six-month-old babies, Titus and Tiana, her 10-year-old daughter Krystal and 12-year-old son Howard.
A video posted on social media showed the charred and smoking remains of the vehicle riddled with bullet holes that was apparently carrying the victims when the attack happened.
'This is for the record,' a male voice with an American accent can be heard saying while filming the clip.
'Nita and four of my grandchildren are burnt and shot up,' he said.
Eight miles away in different attacks, several other family members were gunned down.
Christina Langford Johnson, 29, Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and two of Dawna's children, Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 3, also died while traveling in two other SUVs.
Family members say Christina saved her seven-month-old baby Faith's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV as bullets tore through the vehicle. Relatives say the baby had been in the back of the car all day before rescuers found her.
Seven of Dawna's children survived but suffered multiple gunshot wounds, according to relatives.
A video posted on social media showed the charred and smoking remains of one of the vehicles riddled with bullet holes that was apparently carrying the victims when the attack happened
The shooting occurred near the town of Bavispe between Sonora and Chihuahua near the US-Mexico border
Relatives have since taken to social media to share horrific details of the attack, including fears that some of the victims were raped.
They also described how one mother got out of her car during the siege and put her hands up to surrender before being shot in the chest at point blank range.
They described how the injured children were left abandoned on the dirt road by their attackers.
One of Dawna's sons managed to hide his injured siblings before running to a nearby town for help, according to relatives.
Relatives have since been paying tribute to their slain family members while also praising the heroic efforts of the surviving children.
'My beautiful niece.. I'm heartbroken I'm so so sorry you became a victim of the evil in this world. You will always be my angel girl. Hold your babies tight. Love you Dawna, Rogan and Trevor eternally #familieswillbetogetherforever,' Trish Cloes posted on Facebook.
'The evil might of had a plan on this earth but God has a greater plan for our family.'
She added in a later post: 'Dawna's children escaped with bullet holes in several places on their bodies. The children managed to get help under horrible circumstances.
'The children managed to escape with their baby brother. Baby was harmed with a bullet across his chest and through his arm. (Just got an update) This is a courage act of these innocent children.'
Dawna's injured children are pictured above in hospital. Brothers Xander Boe, 4, and Cody Grayson, 7, suffered gunshot wounds in the attack
Dawna's injured children are pictured above in hospital. Kylie Evelyn, 14, is pictured left in hospital with blood soaked jeans as she is comforted by a relative following thew shocking attack. Brixon Oliver, 10 months, feeds from a bottle (right) in hospital alongside his siblings
Kenny LeBarón, a cousin of one of the women, told the New York Times: 'When you know there are babies tied in a car seat that are burning because of some twisted evil that's in this world. It's just hard to cope with that.'
Another relative, Lafe LeBaron, said the family had no help from authorities. He said family members from the settlement had risked their own lives by 'scrambling into the mountains to find our loved ones' after first finding out about the attacks.
Julian LeBaron, a relative and activist who has denounced criminal groups in the area, described the attack as a 'massacre'.
His brother, Benjamin LeBaron, founder of a crime-fighting group called SOS Chihuahua, was assassinated in 2009.
When asked who might be responsible, LeBaron said the attack took place in a 'war zone', home to drug cartels and 'thugs'.
The government deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, but experts blame the so-called 'drug war' for the spiraling violence between fragmented cartels and the military, which has lead to more than 250,000 murders.
His family 'may have been caught in crossfire or targeted by mistake, we don't know the cause,' he said, but added that the Mormon community had recently been the target of threats.
Family members say Rhonita Maria LeBaron (left) was driving to Phoenix on Monday with her four children to pick up her husband and then return to Mexico to celebrate their wedding anniversary. She was killed along with her twin six-month-old babies, Titus and Tiana, (right) her 10-year-old daughter Krystal and 12-year-old son Howard.
Rhonita Maria LeBaron was driving to Phoenix on Monday with her four children to pick up her husband and then return to Mexico to celebrate their wedding anniversary, relatives say
Rhonita Maria LeBaron's two children, 12-year-old Howard and 10-year-old Krystal, were killed alongside their mother
The Chihuahua state attorney general, Cesar Augusto Peniche, said the number of victims killed in the attacks remains 'confused'.
Authorities in Sonora state and the U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The federal Department of Security and Citizens' Protection said security forces were reinforced with National Guard, army and state police troops in the area following 'the reports about disappearance and aggression against several people.'
The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said in a tweet in Spanish that 'the safety of our fellow citizens is our top priority. I am closely following the situation in the mountains between Sonora and Chihuahua'.
Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, the governor of Sonora, said on Twitter late Monday that 'as a mother,' she was filled with deep pain by 'the cowardly acts in the mountains'.
'I don't know what kind of monsters dare to hurt women and children,' she wrote.
Senator for Sonora, Lilly Téllez, tweeted: 'The massacre in Sonora cannot go unpunished.'
Manuel Añorve Baños, another Mexican senator, described the incident 'a despicable, merciless and savage act'.
It would not be the first time that members of the break-away church had been attacked in northern Mexico, where their forebears settled - often in Chihuahua state - decades ago.
The colony was founded by Alma Dayer LeBaron who moved to Mexico as a breakaway from the Mormon church in 1924 after being excommunicated from the church for practicing polygamy.
When Alma died in 1951, he passed the leadership of the community on to his son Joel LeBaron, whose younger brother Ervil LeBaron, was his second in command.
When the brother's split, Ervil had Joel killed. He was tried and convicted in Mexico for Joel's murder in 1974. He died in prison in 1981.
In 2009, Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who was related to those killed in Monday's attack, was murdered in 2009 in neighboring Chihuahua state.
One former member is George Romney, father of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was born in 1907 in Colonia Dublan in Chihuahua state.
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HANG IN THE IVAN AND OCTAVIO, STAY STRONG AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER. IS A DAMN SHAME WHAT THEY DID TO YOUR FATHER, BUT NOT TO THE AMERICAN LAW OFFICERS WORKING FOR HIM.
Castrate them, then excecute them when they are caught. No wonder that gay said that they are rapists and murderers.
Mormans in mexico. these white have had no business in that country on that land in the first place... next couple years they would be acting like thats their land and mormans are natives... whats not funny is that mormans belief and practice that the brown black people are cursed from so-called heaven during some war in the sky. it is unfortunate when there is a lost of life no doubt.
Thank the Democrats...They don't want to put borders up...because that's so-called cheap labor for their tasks.BUT ALL I SEE IS THE MEXICANS GETTING OVER LIKE S FAT RAT JUST LIKE THE COLUMBIANS IN FLORIDA ..AND WASHING THEIR CARTEL MONEY IN PHONY AND/OR LEGAL BUSINESS ENTITLED OF ALL AMERICAN TAX BRACKETS AND GAINS. Keep up eating their tacos and guacamole...They've been planning to massacre some Americans for a LONG TIME.
MY OPINION .PERIOD
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