{"id":2265171,"date":"2024-06-11T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-cartel-suspected-in-murders-of-five-rideshare-drivers-near-border\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:56:54","slug":"mexican-cartel-suspected-in-murders-of-five-rideshare-drivers-near-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-cartel-suspected-in-murders-of-five-rideshare-drivers-near-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected cartel involvement in the killing of five rideshare drivers near the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexican-cartel-suspected-in-murders-of-five-rideshare-drivers-near-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2265171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-love-reproductive-choice-until-women-choose-to-stop-taking-the-pill\/\" title=\"Media supports reproductive choice until women opt to discontinue using contraception\">summary discusses<\/a> the recovery of the bodies of five missing rideshare drivers\u200c who disappeared while transporting passengers to the U.S.-Mexico border. The\u200d Mexican cartel, La Linea, is considered the prime\u200d suspect \u200bin their deaths. The bodies were found late last week and have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/person-of-interest-in-waukesha-tragedy-may-have-significant-criminal-history-released-on-bail-days-prior-reports\/\" title=\"\u2018Person Of Interest\u2019 In Waukesha Tragedy May Have \u2018Significant Criminal History,\u2019 Released On Bail Days Prior: Reports\">officially identified<\/a> by forensic investigators, according to a statement from the district attorney&#8217;s office in Chihuahua, Northern Mexico.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>The bodies of five missing rideshare drivers were recovered after each went missing while taking riders to the United States-Mexico border. Mexican cartel La Linea has been named as the prime suspect in their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney\u2019s office in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua said in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/fiscalia.chihuahua.gob.mx\/completa-fiscalia-identidades-de-las-cinco-victimas-de-homicidio-localizadas-en-el-libramiento-oriente\/\" title>statement<\/a> that the remains of the five drivers were found late last week and have since been confirmed by forensic investigators as the five missing drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all certainty, we have a line of investigation, we have a motive, and we have a criminal group [identified]. The investigation is ongoing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/immigration\/border-crime\/la-linea-drug-cartel-linked-to-killing-of-5-ride-share-drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Gustavo Jauregui Moreno on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers went missing on May 30 after they were believed to have each picked up riders in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, and told to travel three hours away to Ojinaga, a Mexican city that borders Presidio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have not disclosed why all five drivers were targeted or why their bodies were found back in Chihuahua City. <\/p>\n<p>Jauregui Moreno said Monday that the La Linea cartel controls human smuggling through the region and that the likely reason for the driver\u2019s murders was because they had not \u201cpaid the fee\u201d to the cartel in order to move people through the area, costing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eight-of-the-biggest-failures-of-mayorkas-leadership-of-dhs\/\" title=\"Eight of the Biggest Failures of Mayorkas' Leadership of DHS\">cartel profit<\/a> and angering them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx\/local\/chihuahua\/al-pago-de-cuotas-apuntan-investigaciones-de-los-crimenes-de-cinco-choferes-en-ojinaga-12062293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> <em>El Heraldo Chihuahua<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The missing drivers have been identified as Abigael Ramos Gonzalez, Abigael Ramos Torres, Fabian Ramos Torres, Sandra Salais Calzadillas, and Francisco Ivan Flores Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Their remains were identified through fingerprints and dental records. Autopsies conducted by Chihuahua officials <a href=\"http:\/\/fiscalia.chihuahua.gob.mx\/completa-fiscalia-identidades-de-las-cinco-victimas-de-homicidio-localizadas-en-el-libramiento-oriente\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>revealed<\/a> each victim was fatally shot at the base of the skull.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities recovered the bodies of five missing rideshare drivers near the U.S.-Mexico border. All had disappeared while transporting passengers. The La Linea cartel is the prime suspect in their deaths, according to a statement from the Chihuahua district attorney&#8217;s office in northern Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2265172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP24012649519395-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP24012649519395-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}