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Original Report; May 18, 2020; SAN DIEGO, CA — A woman and her boyfriend were behind bars Monday, May 17, in San Diego California, USA, facing federal charges alleging they collected ransom money as part of a kidnapping scheme where Southern California residents were grabbed while visiting relatives and doing business in Mexico.
Two people were murdered!
One of the victims was a San Diego resident.
Leslie Briana Matla, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and former Colton resident who lives in Mexico, and Juan Carlos Montoya Sanchez, 25, of Tijuana, are each charged with one count of money laundering conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice reported. If convicted of the charge, both would face up to life in federal prison.
Sanchez was arrested in San Diego on Sunday and was expected to make his initial appearance Monday in Los Angeles federal court. Matla was also arrested in San Diego and made her initial court appearance Friday, May 15. The complaint alleges that Matla crossed the border from Mexico into the U.S. to pick up ransom payments from victims' family members. According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, on March 28, April 13 and April 22, three men — residents of San Diego, Norwalk and Pasadena — were kidnapped in Tijuana while on business or visiting family. The victims' families were notified via a caller with a Mexican telephone number to deposit ransom money at a specific location, prosecutors allege. Mexican authorities found the San Diego victim's body on March 29 — one day after the man's son placed a bag containing $25,000 inside the women's restroom of a McDonald's in San Ysidro.
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The body of the Norwalk victim was found in Mexico on April 14, one day after the victim's family tried, but did not succeed, to pay a $25,000 ransom to a woman whom law enforcement believes was Matla, at a Lowe's parking lot in Norwalk, according to court documents. According to the DOJ, on April 22, a Pasadena woman called law enforcement to report a family member had been kidnapped in Mexico with a ransom demand of $20,000. One of the kidnappers, calling from a Mexican phone number, informed the victim's family that a pregnant woman would pick up the cash at a Food 4 Less parking lot in Lynwood. That same day, law enforcement rescued the victim, who was being held hostage at the same Tijuana hotel as the first two kidnapping victims. Nine suspects were arrested by Mexican authorities at the hotel. A review of U.S.-Mexico border crossing records, security camera videos from the various pickup locations, and social media led law enforcement to identify Matla as the woman sent to San Ysidro, Norwalk and Lynwood to pick up the ransom money on the dates in question, the affidavit alleges. Records show that Sanchez received wire transfers from two of the kidnapping victims, the complaint alleges.
Another Infamous San Ysidro McDonalds!
"Mexican authorities found the body of San Diego resident Salvador Acosta Medina on March 29 - one day after the man's adult son placed a bag containing $25,000 inside the women's restroom of a McDonald´s in the California community of San Ysidro near the border, officials said."
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A photo sent to a California woman was from her son’s Facebook Messenger account. It showed the young man had been beaten and was — according to the FBI — proof he had been held for ransom in Tijuana. Southern California resident Edgar Esteban Guzman was visiting family in Tijuana when he received a phone call from a Mexican phone number, federal prosecutors say. He told his family he had to leave after he took the call but said he would be back by dinner. He never returned. A day later, Guzman called his mother and said he needed $25,000 in ransom. The photo then came over Facebook Messenger, after which the kidnappers told Guzman’s mother they would be over to take the young man’s car instead. In a phone call, Guzman told his mother a pregnant woman would meet her at a Lowe’s parking lot to pick up Guzman’s Chevrolet Camaro and $1,000. The following day, authorities in Mexico found Guzman’s body in Tijuana. On Monday, U.S. authorities announced charges against former California resident Leslie Briana Matla, 20, and Juan Carlos Montoya Sanchez, 25, in a money laundering conspiracy that involved a string of kidnappings and the death of at least two people. According to the FBI’s charging documents, another victim, Salvador Acosta Medina of San Diego, was kidnapped in Tijuana and according to iCloud.com tracking information his phone’s last known location was the Hotel “Aqua” in Tijuana on March 28. Medina’s adult son was called while in the United States by a man from a Mexican phone number who said he would need to deliver $25,000 to the women’s restroom of a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Video surveillance shows a woman prosecutors say was Matla leave the restroom with a dark backpack about six minutes after the son, referred to as R.V. in an FBI agent affidavit, made the ransom drop. The woman’s trip into the U.S. started at 4:19 p.m. that day when she entered through the pedestrian port of entry in San Ysidro. Prosecutors say Matla — seen on video surveillance wearing a sweatshirt-style shirt with a dark colored backpack — arrived at the McDonalds an hour before R.V. and waited in the restroom. FBI agents found a Western Union transfer from Medina in San Diego that was paid to Sanchez about an hour later. The day R.V. delivered the money to the McDonalds’ restroom he received a WhatsApp message from his father’s account that said he would be released later that day. Mexican authorities found Medina’s body in Tijuana, according to prosecutors. A third victim, identified as J.N. in the charging documents, was also kidnapped in Tijuana. One of his relatives in Pasadena, California, received a phone call on April 22 from a Mexican phone number during which an unknown man accused J.N. of killing a family of four while driving drunk. The man on the phone demanded a “fine” of around $20,000, according to prosecutors.The family member who received the call, identified in the affidavit as L.V., knew this was a ransom setup but was told to bring the money to a strip mall in Santa Ana, California, at 6:30 p.m. that day. L.V. contacted another relative, identified as G.V., and throughout the day received numerous calls from the kidnapper and a WhatsApp video call from a Mexican phone number which prosecutors say was the same number used to call Guzman before his kidnapping. During the call L.V. says they saw J.N. in the video and he appeared beaten with one arm bandaged. L.V. said she was able to view the kidnapper’s WhatsApp account profile and saw a picture of a pregnant woman next to a man and a small child. She called the number and the man in the profile photo answered in what appeared to be a room with wood plywood walls and a ceiling with open beams, according to prosecutors. The man placed his finger over the camera, said “one moment” in Spanish and then hung up.G.V. offered to deliver the ransom to Tijuana, but the kidnapper said the woman was already on her way to the United States from Tijuana. The family was instructed to meet the woman at a Food 4 Less parking lot in Lynwood, California, and was told the pickup person was pregnant according to prosecutors.The pregnant woman arrived at the Food 4 Less, but prosecutors say L.V. did not go. The woman then described her car to L.V. in a phone call, and afterward L.V. says she started to receive iMessages from the account
Baja Racing News asserts these reports are parts of thousands of crimes occurring on the border and in Mexico. This reporting is a rare example of villains getting caught. There are thousands of crimes, murders, killings, kidnappings that are NOT being reported!
The recent pandemic has exploded criminal activity, that we've been unable to report, until now.
Border Crime is essential?! Right?!
Essential travel, essential business!
We know the feds are all over this stuff...now...it is 2020! Look over the past reporting below! In 2009 after a decade of creeping cartel criminal activity, DC finally gets involved. To, as they stated in press releases,
'take care of the "spill-over" criminal activity from Mexico'.
What is the local SoCal law enforcement doing? We'll report.
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Past, Continued Reporting:
Murders, Kidnappings & Black Commandos
continued, here's a 2018 Report
The early 2000's crime wave didn't stop, it
just went underground and mainstream news started reporting on the continued freaky baja stuff. From 2013 to 2019, Cray, Cray, Cray!
Oh yes, the Original, BLOCKBUSTER REPORTING
of the TRUE crime-wave that made history and made BajaRacingNews.com Infamous
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From 2010, The cartels attack State Department Americans in Mexico. The gig was up and gloves came off!
Can You Say, Fast & Furious???
From March 2009, after years of Baja Racing News EXCLUSIVE Reporting, the feds finally show up. However, this is also when someone sold the Mexican cartels TONS of HIGH POWERED weapons from the USA, then those same federal agencies, "warned" the public not to go to Mexico on spring break! TRUE.
From September 2008, the BAJA CRIME WAVE-
Exclusively Reported by Baja Racing News.
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From November 2007, the BAJA CRIME WAVE-
Cameron Steele covered up the notorious crimes against American racers and got the "person of the Year" Award from Sal Flush and SCORE-WHORE
BAJA CRIME WAVE!
Photo above from the infamous DEA internal report, sourced to Baja Racing News, for public viewing and discussion.
Photo below, Cameron Steele and Sal Fish of SCORE International covering up cartel crimes against racers, for PROFIT of course!
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and felony gloss-over by SCORE International."
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