EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, are investigating the murder of three men whose mutilated bodies were dumped at the southern entrance to the city.
A sign next to the cadavers proclaimed in red letters “3 x 1” and “Pura gente del sombrero.” The latter is a moniker used by Los Mayos, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel.
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Members of Mexico’s National Guard found the bodies a few yards from the Pan American Highway before dawn Tuesday and notified Juarez municipal and Chihuahua state authorities. Two of the bodies were wrapped in blankets; the third was partly inside a plastic bag.
The three lay in front of a wall with lights illuminating large letters proclaiming, “Welcome to the heroic Ciudad Juarez.” Several crosses in honor of the hundreds of women killed in Juarez in the 1990s and 2000s line the wall.
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The cause of death and the identity of the victims were pending.
A police official told Border Report news partner ProVideo that “3 x 1” likely was a reference to last Saturday’s murder of a man whose decapitated body lay in a farming community southeast of Juarez and head was left inside a cooler in San Agustin, a Mexican community across the Rio Grande from Fabens, Texas.
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No arrests had been made in either case as of late Tuesday…