(DELETED) RE ASSASSINATION OF JOSE MIGIUEL (MERIDA) ESCOBAR

Created: 8/1/1991

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ISSASSINATIQK1 OP JOSESCOoATCTW FORHES CHIEF OF THE HOMICIDE AND KIDNAPPING INVESTIGATION SECTION OF THE GUATEMALAN NATIONAL POLICE, IS BELIEVED BI SENIOR POLICE OFFICIALS TO HAVE BEEN RELATED TO KIS INVOLVEMENTROUP OF CORRUPT POLICE OFFICERS, INCLUDING INDIVIDUALSALAZAR)). THESE HEN HAD FORMED PARTANG DEDICATED TO BANX ROBBERIES AND OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. THE TWO CHIEF SUSPECTS IN THE MURDER ARE LUISIMENEZ AMD EDGAROTH FORMER MEMBERS OF MERIDA'S UNIT WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE0 ROBBERY OF THE LAS VEGAS BILLIARDS HALL IN ZONE 1. BOTH MEN WERE DISMISSED AND CHARGED IN THE THEFT, WHICH INVOLVED THE ROBBERY. CITIZENS. HERIDA WAS ALSO SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE ROBBERY AND HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM KIS POSITION AS CHIEF OF THE HOMICIDE AND KIDNAP INVESTIGATIONEEK BEFORE HIS MURDER. HE WAS TO HAVE BEEN DISMISSED FROM THE NATIONAL POLICE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. EITHER CASTRO OR GAL VEZ BORROWED THE CAR USED IN THE ASSASSINATIONHIRD FORMER NATIONAL POLICEMAN KNOWN TO HAVEEMBERANK ROBBERY GANG. (SOURCE COMMENT: IT APPEARS THAT HERIDA INFORMED ON HIS PARTNERS WHEN THE POOL HALL ROBBERY WAS INVESTIGATED, LEADING TO HIS MURDER WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED FROM CUSTODY. BY INFORMING, KE TEMPORARILY SAVED HIS JOB. THE FULL EXTENT OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IS UNKNOWN. IN THE COURSE OF HIS POLICE WORK, HERIDA HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER. OF.UATEMALAN ANTHROPOLOGIST WITH LEFTIST POLITICAL TIESTP

2. THE CAR USED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF HEPI DA WAS OWNED BY ALFREDO DEALINDO, WHO HAD PURCHASEDHORT TIME BEFORE THE INCIDENT AND HAD NOT HAD TIME TO TAKE OUT THE LEGAL PAPERS FOR IT. (FIELD COMMENT: THE GUATEMALAN PRESSUGUST REPORTED THAT GUERRA HAD BEEN ARRESTEDUSPECT IN THEUERRAORMER MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL POLICE FIFTH DEPARTMENT, WHO WAS DISMISSED CNOR FAILING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK. HE WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK WITH THE SECURITY FORCE FOR THE VICE MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT. AT THE TIKE HE WAS DISMISSED, HE WAS UNDER INVESTIGATIONERIES OF ROBBERIES WHICH HAD TAKEN PLACE AT THE END9 AND IH THESE INCLUDED THE ROBBERY OF THE BANCO BANDESA IN JUTIAPAHE ROBBERY OF THE BANCO BANDESA IN COBAHND THE ROBBERY OF THE BANCO INMOBILARIO IN GUATEMALA Cm. THE GANG ALSO ROBBED TWO GAS STATIONS IN GUATEMALA CITT. EHICLE AND WEAPONS BELONGING TO THE SECURITY STAFF OF THE VICE MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT WERE USED IN THE ROBBERIES. GUERRA HAS THUS FAR CLAIMED HE "LENT" THE CAR TO EITHER CASTRO OR CALVEZ (WHICH ONE WAS NOT SPECIFIED) AND HAD NO IDEA THEY WERE GOING TO USE IT IN THE ASSASSINATION OFA.

3- DESPITE THE FAIRLY CLEAR TRAIL LEADING TO THE MURDERERS OF HEPIDA, COLONEL MARCOARACENA, DIRECTOR OF THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT FERNANDO

RE* AND RETIRED COLONELOLANOS, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL POLICE, HAVE STARTED TO SPREAD THE RUMOR THAT THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL STAFF, WHICH COMES UNDER THE CONTROL OF COLONEL LUISENALEO, WAS IN SOME WAY INVOLVED IN THE KILLING. HERIDA'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MYRNA MACK CASE, WHICH HAS GAINED WIDESPREAD INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION AND THE PERSONAL INTEREST OF PRESIDENTLIAS. HAKES HISSEFUL TOOL FOR ANYONE WISHING TOOLITICAL ENEMY. THE BASIS OF THE RUMORS IS THE FACT THAT TWO ENLISTED MEN ASSIGNED TO THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL STAFF, MARCOAYMUHDO ANDANCHEZ, WERE ARRESTEDULY BY THE NATIONAL POLICE IN COLONIA BELEN, MIXCOUBURB OF GUATEMALA CITY). BOTH WERE ARMED AND SAID THET WERE WAITING FOR FRIENDS TO GO DRINKING. IN FACT, THEY WERE IN HIXCO PLANNING TOAR. THEY WERE TURNED OVER TO THE COMMANDER OF THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT LATER IN THE DAY, AND THAT SAMEEARING WAS HELD, AND BOTH WERE DISMISSED FROM THE SERVICE AS HABITUAL DRUNKARDS. THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL POLICE HAS HOW CLAIMED THE MEN WERE IN FACTATIONAL POLICE OFFICER WHO LIVED IN THE AREA. FROM THIS, HE IS TRYING TOASE IT WAS THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF HERIDA.

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