MORI

The same year of Gutierrez-Ochoa’s disapperance, a company named Pasion Azul, a purported tequila manufacturer and suspected money laundering front for the cartel, paid $1.2 million in a cash for a luxury residence in an exclusive neighborhood of Riverside, according to an affidavit from Kyle Mori of the DEA’s Los Angeles office.

Mori said he interviewed the escrow agent, real estate agent and seller of the home, who called the circumstances of the purchase “suspicious.”

The department utilized facial recognition software and found that Gutierrez-Ochoa and Martinez were the same person, Mori stated.

As DEA agents attempted to conduct surveillance of Gutierrez-Ochoa, Mori said, he began employing counter-surveillance techniques and later began following an agent.

Dr. Haruka Kato, a junior associate professor at Osaka Metropolitan University and Professor Emeritus Kazuhiko Mori conducted action research in Senboku New Town, one of the largest old new towns in Japan.