Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, a reputed top leader within the U.S. and Mexico binational Barrio Azteca prison gang who was arrested in connection with the brazen assassination of U.S. citizens in Juarez, Mexico earlier this month, has told investigators that the intended target was Arthur H. Redelfs, a corrections officer from the El Paso County Jail, and not his pregnant wife and U.S. Consulate employee Lesly Ann Enriquez as reported by James C. McKinley Jr. for The New York Times:
Mr. Redelfs and Ms. Enriquez were ambushed by several gunmen as they left a child's birthday party in Ciudad Juárez. Their 7-month-old daughter was found wailing in the backseat. The gunmen also attacked a second car leaving the party, killing the husband of a second consulate worker and wounding two children. The Mexican authorities say Mr. Valles de la Rosa told them he had been ordered several days earlier by unnamed leaders of the gang in El Paso to track down Mr. Redelfs' white sport-utility car in Ciudad Juárez. * * * Mr. Valles de la Rosa, who goes on the street by the names El Chino and El 29, was born in Ciudad Juarez in 1964, but left for El Paso with his parents at age 6 and lived there for 30 years. The statement said he joined a gang and was jailed in El Paso in 1995 and came into contact with the Aztecas while in jail. He was deported to Ciudad Juarez in 2007, and there he worked as a lookout and enforcer for the Aztecas, whom authorities say work for the Juarez drug cartel run by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes on both sides of the border.
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