Translated from Revista Sin Limite April 15th, 2008
Organized crime in San Carlos?
Delinquent History of a family corporation, where the authorities behave in a soft manner when applying the law, but nobody knows why.
By: José G. Rodriguez “Zurdo”
When two or more people get together with the purpose of committing a crime, according to the penal code; this shall be considered as organized crime.
Like the number of cases where Catalina Ordaz de Evatt has been involved in.
According to public record, Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt has an extensive background where she is presumed guilty on different crimes, from fraud, theft, abuse of confidence, damage to the ecology and many other crimes. And up to this date she has been safe from being the subject of a process that may declare her guilty of any crime despite the evidence presented against her by attorneys of the affected parties, most of these being foreigners.
Currently, Mrs. Kathy James, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, has litigation in both: the state of Sonora and in the United States, trying to recover according to her statements, the amount of 750 thousand dollars, the product of an investment she made in San Carlos three and a half years ago to acquire a residence located at the Caracol Peninsula Sector, through the corporation Snowbird Realty, such corporation is operated by Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt.
Even though she made the corresponding payment, Kathy James said that regardless of her insistence on the matter, Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt never provided her with the corresponding contract of trust, and some time later when Kathy James came back to San Carlos from a trip she had made to the United States for health reasons, she found that her property had been seized, including furniture and very valuable ornamental articles.
Kathy James indicated that Dora Zimmerman was also involved on this issue; she actively participated with Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt to accomplish such action against Kathy James, therefore Kathy James looked for a reason or legal explanation on why she had lost her property. Kathy James indicated that at the beginning she was informed that the seizure of the house was made within the law and through an undetermined court from Guaymas. This situation was false, because after investigating such matter she found out that no one, especially Snowbird Realty or Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt had not filed any lawsuit against Kathy James, so no legal action was performed for such purpose.
Even with the documents to prove the payment of the amount required by Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt for the operation of buying and selling, according to Mrs. James, her attorneys in Mexico and in the United States told her that the documents she received from Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt have as much value as a plain piece of toilet paper, which explains the fact that from the very beginning there was the intention of fraud against Kathy James.
Regarding her belongings, Mrs. Kathy James said that additional to the furniture, she also lost works of art, jewels, antiques, and a sailboat and its corresponding trailer. According to witnesses, Mrs. Dora Zimmerman is suspected of taking such objects from the property. There is also the belief that Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt and her sisters also participated in the disappearance of such belongings, since they had access to the property in dispute.
The actions stated above were known in the United States, when the Channel 3 TV from Phoenix Arizona made a special report to show the details of that situation. This resulted in a negative image of San Carlos as a safe place for investors and for such reason Mrs. Mary Uttley, director of the Department of Real Estate in Arizona, alerted the citizens not to invest in San Carlos, because of the risk of going through similar situations.
Mrs. Kathy James assured us that she will not stop in her efforts to recover her property or the total invested amount, including the expenses originated during her litigations in the courts, which by the way, in Sonora such courts have been extremely slow, regardless of the evidence and elements provided, in obtaining a verdict according to the law, and according to Mrs. James’ expressions, without falling into the pattern where the tribunals avoid punishing Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt with prison.
Finally, Mrs. Kathy James said that it is necessary to stop the actions of the corporation Snowbird Realty and its owner, to prevent her from taking American and Canadian dollars without providing trusts or documents that properly protect the investors. Kathy James also indicated that it was necessary to inform the fiscal authorities of Mexico and even in the United States of the possibility that Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt does not report her financial accomplishments to Tax Authorities.
On other issues, in a recent board meeting and according to sources, President Mr. Jon Mellen and the investors have agreed to appear before the tribunals to expose the problem they now face with Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt and her Sister in Law Mrs. Otilia de Ordaz. This last one the wife of Mr. Jose Ordaz Aguiar who is a construction businessman, union leader and official of the City of Guaymas.
The problem was caused by bad management and abuse of confidence, incurred by Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt in the administration of the Hotel Fiesta Real and the construction of the condominiums Villas Sirenas.
For this case, Mr. Jon Mellen has requested the assistance of a Firm of Attorneys from Hermosillo which is operated by the Attorney at Law Jesus Borchart, who is preparing the evidence and arguments to prove that the Condominium that belongs to the American investor and former senator of the United States, was used without his authorization during the days of Semana Santa (Holy Week) by the family of Mr. Alan Jaramillo, who is the legal representative of Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt.
On this matter, according to sources, Jon Mellen has met with the State Governor Mr. Eduardo Bours Castelo, as well as with the head of the Tourism Agency in Sonora- Mr. Epifanio Salido Pavlovich and he has also met with the Mayor of Guaymas Mr. Antonio Astiazaran Gutierrez. Such sources indicated that the intention was to look for a political solution to the problem, when such problem should actually be resolved through legal means such as penal and civil procedures, in order to prevent the impunity of white collar criminals.
ONE OF THE PROPERTIES INDICATED ON THIS ARTICLE
Also, there are other criminal cases related to the sale of a property known as the “cement house”. Apparently the property belongs to a resident of the state of Sinaloa, who according to sources did not authorize any negotiation to transfer the house to a couple of American doctors named Tylen. Attorneys from the City of Mexico were hired in an attempt to get Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt to return the money she received for the sale that had not been authorized.
Similar is the case of Mr. Ed Brown, owner of a property located at the Caracol Peninsula. Mr. Brown authorized the sale of a house but not the sale of the lot next door which was also his property. Later when he tried to build a new house on the lot in question he found that Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt had also sold the lot. A situation happened that all the construction material he bought for such purpose to build the house disappeared from the lot. According to sources the construction material was taken by the contractor Leoncio Ramirez, who at first admitted that he had taken the material under the orders of precisely, Mrs. Ordaz de Evatt, although later he denied such statement, and the authorities did nothing to clarify the situation.