“Char” for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
Juan Carlos “G”, “El Vampi”, one of the two men who were found murdered Wednesday night inside a Jeep Rubicon pickup truck near the town of La Campana, in the Villa Adolfo López Mateos syndicate, El Tamarindo, belonged to the Zambada faction.
In a photograph, El Vampi, who was originally from Culiacán, appears alongside two of Ismael Zambada García’s sons, Vicente Zambada Niebla, El Vicentillo, and Ismael Zambada Imperial, El Mayito Gordo, as well as Eliseo Imperial Castro, El Cheyo Ántrax, El Mayo’s nephew, Francisco Arce Rubio, Pancho Arce, also a member of the Ántrax, and José Miguel Güero Bastidas Manjarrez.
Along with Juan Carlos, Ivan Ivanhoe or Ivan Onofre, 40 years old, who was nicknamed “El Tocino” and was originally from Badiraguato, was murdered.
According to the information, the two men were returning from the funeral of a relative when they were killed. Their bodies were left with bullet wounds inside the luxury van, on the side of the Mexico 15 International Highway, near the town of La Campana, in the Villa Adolfo Lopez Mateos El Tamarindo syndicate, municipality of Culiacan.
In the photograph, El Vampi appears at the lower left, next to Güero Bastidas, who was killed in 2011, according to the testimony of Dámaso López Núñez, El Licenciado, on the orders of Chapo Guzmán. Behind Juan Carlos is Vicentillo and his brother El Mayito Gordo, both arrested and extradited to the US, and behind them, Cheyo Anthrax, executed last May in Culiacan, as well as Pancho Arce, also gunned down in 2011 in the same city.
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LA CAMPANA, SINALOA