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Two men were found dead in the early hours of Friday 10 June, under the Las Parritas bridge in San Quintin, located 110 miles south of Ensenada.

According to initial data from the attorney general, the bodies were reported around 8:00 am.

The bodies were of young men between 20 and 25 years old, one of which was wrapped in a tarp and another in a sleeping bag. Both were killed violently and were tortured before dying.

At the moment none of these two men has been identified. Both youths were wearing jeans and striped T-shirts


Is this valid?

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We are heading to town this morning to have breakfast with some friends. Will ask around and see if anybody knows anything. It definitely will be a hot topic at the diner...

Bar San Quintin?

Originally Posted by bob r

Bar San Quintin?

That was breakfast and always a good starting point as many of the local cops have breakfast there. From there we went to a few more of my favorite spots to get the local scoop from the "chismosos" who seem to be best tuned into what is going on and this is what they had to say:

The bodies were found under a bridge that is about halfways between San Quintin and El Rosario.

The two are from Tijuana with some type of Sinaloa connection (that part varied from source to source)

The two were working as fishermen.

Their fate has a direct connection to this other story from El Vigia:

Hay saqueo de almeja generosa

Por El Valle, Enrique Rojas
11.06.2011 - 12:00

El Rosario, B. C. - Pescadores locales denunciaron que en las playas de Punta Blanca, el Faro San José y La Víbora, se realiza un indiscriminado saqueo de almeja generosa, y aseguraron que esto ocurre con el conocimiento de las autoridades.

Los informantes, quienes solicitaron el anonimato por temor a represalias, informaron que el problema data de unos seis meses, tiempo en el que la extracción del recurso “ha sido exageradamente alta”.

Detallaron que son 12 las pangas que se utilizan para dicha acción, y precisaron que cada una emplea a tres trabajadores, quienes viven en esos lugares con sus familias.

Señalaron que el producto extraído es recogido cada tercer día por vehículos tipo pánel, de color blanco, marca Ford, con combustión a diésel, y que no ostentan razón social ni logo alguno.

Agregaron que tienen conocimiento de que los trabajadores furtivos son de Ensenada, a donde, al parecer, son llevados los ejemplares extraídos, por lo que no se explican por qué, si las páneles pasan por El Rosario, nadie se da cuenta de ello.

Estos vehículos, abundaron, pasan llenos del producto “y resulta de lo más extraño que ninguna autoridad se percate del movimiento”.

Comentaron que han observado cómo ingresan a las playas en mención uniformados de la Marina, militares, y funcionarios de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa). Agregaron que estos representantes de la autoridad llegan, intercambian palabras con los pescadores furtivos, y se van como si nada, lo que “ocurre con frecuencia”.

Las cosas cambian de manera total cuando las inspecciones son hechas por funcionarios federales provenientes de Mazatlán, Sinaloa, o del Distrito Federal.

Cuando éstos están por llegar, se avisa a los pescadores furtivos para que limpien y desalojen los sitios, con lo que borran toda evidencia de lo que ahí sucede, abundaron.

Los piratas, continuaron los informantes, se dedican de manera constante a extraer productos vedados, como el adulón y la langosta, aunque aclararon que éstos son para consumo de ellos y sus familias.

“Pero no fuera una persona que trabaja decentemente cometiendo algún error, por mínimo que sea, porque hasta el permiso le andan quitando”, acusaron.

Entrevistado al respecto, el encargado de las oficinas de la Sagarpa en El Rosario, Fernando Rubio Castro, respondió que él no estaba facultado para proporcionar información alguna.

Remitió al reportero a la Subdelegación de la dependencia federal en Ensenada.

Is this the Gooey-Ducks they were getting????? Or Pismos??? I saw some divers working around El-Socorro about 3 weeks ago out of Pangas?

The species in question are the almeja generosa:



These are fetching top dollar and Asia is buying everything available right now.

There are 5 or 6 local, legal fishing operations I know of working the coastline south of San Quintin, all with the proper permits and following the rules in terms of numbers and size. The problem has arisen where a group came in working the area without any permits and taking anything and everything they could get their hands on.

The locals working with permits went to the newspaper seeking help to get the story published and shed light on the problem. The out of town "pirates", as they are called by the legal fishing operations were not happy with the spotlight put on them and a rumor is going around that two of them went around making death threats against family members of those they suspected had fingered them.

And those same two who made the threats would be the ones found under the bridge. At least that is how the current chisme tells it...

interesting. Those are gooey-ducks as I know them. Thanks.

There were several boats working in front of our house a few weeks ago the locals said that was what thry were catching.

Originally Posted by J.P.

There were several boats working in front of our house a few weeks ago the locals said that was what thry were catching.

Where was that at?

I live out near La Bufadora,next door to Tigers new Golf Course.