ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: AZ Central
03March2011 9:04amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The man whose decapitated body was found in a Chandler apartment was killed in retaliation for stealing 400 pounds of marijuana from a Mexican drug trafficking organization, a police report reveals.
The Chandler police report also reveals that the victim believed in Santa Muerte, a Mexican saint of death, and had bragged to his companions shortly before his beheading that he had died and come back to life five times and could kill with a look.
The body of Martin Alejandro Cota Monroy, 38, commonly known as "Jando," was found on the living room floor of 300 W. Fairview St. on Oct. 9. His head was found on the floor several feet away.
Cota Monroy ran afoul of the PEI-Estatales/El Chapo Drug Trafficking Organization when he stole a load of marijuana as well as methamphetamines from the cartel, then lied and blamed in on Border Patrol, the police report says.
To avenge the theft, an enforcement/kidnapping group called "Los Relampagos" was sent to kidnap him, according to the report. The report contains "raw intelligence" Chandler police obtained from the U.S. Border Patrol Intelligence Unit.
Cota Monroy talked his way out of getting killed, the report says, because he promised to repay the money for the drugs he stole and put his house up for collateral.
Instead, he fled to a Phoenix "safe house." It turned out he didn't own the house he put up for collateral. A syndicate known as "El Gio" sent three men to Phoenix to find him, befriend him and kill him, the report says. (read full report)
