"El Gafe" or "La Borrega" of CDN executed in Nuevo Leon

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a ValorporTamaulipas article and Zocalo

Subject Matter: Raul Gomez Moreno, La Borrega, El Gafe
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Raul Gomez Moreno alias “La Borrega” or “Commander Gafe”, was executed in Nuevo Leon, he was the operational jefe of CDN in Ciudad Victoria and Apodaca, and received direct orders from El Z-40 and Z-42 from Almoloya.

He appeared wrapped in a canvas in a square in the San Miguel de Apodaca colonia. He had signs of torture and at least six bullets in his hands, feet and neck

Zocalo reports: 
The report that there was a package covered with grey canvas in the middle of Hidalgo Street in the San Miguel Colonia yesterday mobilized Police from Apodaca. Upon arrival they found the body of Raul Gamez Moreno, alias “La Borrega” and designated as second in command of the CDN. The former ministerial police officer, 44 years old from Tamaulipas, was identified by his fingerprints.

He was executed with 8 bullets and had blows to the face, so it is presumed that he was subjected to torture, after being kidnapped, according to police investigators.

The deceased, said one informant, was dark, about 1.80 meters of approximate height, and wore blue shirt, blue shorts with black stripe, blue tennis shoes and white socks with black.

The body was thrown to the side of the main square of the colony.

Police sources said that “La Borrega” was a group leader of the Tamaulipas Ministerial Police and was highlighted in Reynosa, before being dismissed.

In July 2009, they said, he was captured by the Army in Matamoros,  he was in possession of  a package with powder cocaine and $ 8,000 in cash, for which he was held in Ciudad Victoria.

There, in narcomantas, last year he was pointed out by another group of organized crime as one of the main responsible for the violence in the area and threatened with death.

On Tuesday night, one of his subordinates in the CDN, Iván Eduardo Hernández Rodríguez, “El Güero Texas”, allegedly in charge of the Ciudad Victoria plaza, was captured with an accomplice by Escobedo police in the Northwest Libramiento.