ICE Agent Fired for Not Reporting US Informant’s Role in Juarez Murders

Bencomo was the ICE agent who controlled, or handled, the U.S. government informant implicated in the House of Death murders.

Ironically, Bencomo's firing on Feb. 10, 2009, came five years to the week after Mexican law enforcers identified on Feb. 6, 2004, the last of a dozen corpses dug up in the backyard of the House of Death, located at 3633 Parsioneros Street in Juarez, Mexico. The victims were all murdered, most tortured first, between August 2003 and mid-January 2004 by Mexican cops working for a cell of the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (VCF) narco-trafficking organization.

The ICE informant, Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, himself a former Mexican cop, was a high-level member of that cell, which was headed by a brutal VCF lieutenant and sociopath named Heriberto Santillan Tabares.

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