Sunday, August 4, 2013: Truth is not sometimes stranger than fiction, it is stranger than fiction. For all the mothers reading this, let me ask you a question, at what lengths would you go to keep your kids from becoming completely unhinged? By unhinged I mean, how far would you go to stop your child from abandoning her own kids for 3-months while she travels ½ around the world? How far would you go to stop your child from cheating on the man she lives with? How far would you go to stop your child from abducting her own kids and steal everything out of the house? How far would you go to stop your child from ambushing the father of your granddaughter at thrown into prison for something he did not do? How far would you go to keep your daughter from starting a prostitution business in the same house you share with your grandkids?
If your name is Maria Guadalupe Tenorio Toledano (AKA Lupita Tenorio, Marsha Tenorio) you would not do anything to stop your child from doing any of the above mentioned.
If you have ever met Maria Guadalupe, then you know evil is written all over her forehead. I mentioned earlier how Adriana told me storied about her mother abandoning her and her sister for a good part of 20-years. Knowing she is a pathological liar, I am not sure how much of this is actually true. There are a few more stories Adriana told me that would make your stomach churn. I never bothered to look into them and even if we did, I am not sure I would publish them here. You can draw your own conclusions as to why.
First, I will give credit to where credit is due. The times when Adriana and I stayed with Maria Guadalupe, I learned quite a bit about the culture in Mexico. The food down there is incredible. And if you ever have the chance to spend Christmas in Mexico, do it. I can’t explain it unless you have ever been there. You won’t be disappointed.
This day in age where families and cultures are becoming more and more integrated. Perhaps a lot of these situations like we find ourselves in now would not happen if we had a better understanding of where we came from. Having said all that, Adriana is not the same person when she was around Maria Guadalupe. Adriana was much more calm and relaxed around her own father. I always found the dynamic to be very interesting. Adriana’s father is a self-sufficient man where Maria Guadalupe is not. Prior to Samantha’s abduction, Maria Guadalupe lived with us for 2-years. I remember getting into disagreements with Adriana about this infamous trip she took to Spain and Maria Guadalupe jumped in like they were some dynamic duo of some kind. Or better yet a pack of wolves may better suffice. It was nuts.
What we do know for sure is that Maria Guadalupe was the mastermind behind Samantha’s abduction back on November 10, 2008. She planned it and executed it with such cold-blooded precision it’s scary when I look back on it.
In 2009, we found out Adriana started her prostitution business. Maria Guadalupe was her right hand helper the whole time. The business was started out of the house she shared with Samantha. We are going to get into all of this soon enough. While Adriana was the creative force behind this business, Maria Guadalupe booked appointments with “John’s” and matched them up with Adriana’s “girl’s”. She would book the time and the place, then actually drive the girl’s to their appointments.
Question to these budding entrepreneurs, what was stopped these “John’s” from following Maria Guadalupe back to “headquarters”??? I suppose they did not think that far ahead. I flipped when I first found out about this. I could not believe a mother would let their own daughter get involved in something like this in the first place, but to be an integral part of it??? I don’t pray much, but I prayed hard that nothing happened to Samantha during this time. This is incredibly stupid and incredibly dangerous. Like I said, truth is stranger than fiction. The hardest part was that I was completely helpless. I could not do anything about it.
Ok, so we established Maria Guadalupe will not win “Mother of the Year” anytime soon. This stuff would be enough for my parents to disown me. Then again, my moral compass does not point in that direction in the first place. I guess it comes as no surprise then that Maria Guadalupe had a hand in my getting ambushed by the Tijuana Police Department back on August 7, 2010. Adriana just lost a Supreme Court decision regarding Samantha and she was beyond pissed off about it. She tried to appeal the decision and lost that too. Badly. I was warned by the US State Department and my own attorneys that Adriana was not going to take those loses lightly and I had to be careful. Sure enough they were right.
The short of it is that I was ambushed by the Tijuana Police Department in Playas. Handcuffed to the back of a pickup truck and went on a joyride for the next 6-hours before they took me to La Mesa Prison. They did not exactly pat me down before we drove off and the cell phone in my pocket is probably what saved my life. For her part in this, Maria Guadalupe told this wonderful story about how I beat the hell out of her, her friend and Adriana in the middle of a Tijuana street, in the middle of the daytime. On top of that she tried to spin the story that as all this was going on, I beat the hell out of several Tijuana police officers as well. Never mind, none of the women had any marks on them what so ever. Witnesses said that Maria Guadalupe and Adriana’s friend were literally running down the street after the police officers scratching their arms trying to injure themselves before they caught up to the cops.
During the 14-months that followed, Adriana, her friend and Maria Guadalupe told 15 different versions of what happened that day. Their own fake doctors turned on them and the police even came out and told the courts that Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) and her friend were behind the ambush. The police also mentioned under oath, that I could not have been cooler to deal with. The whole notion of me getting over on several cops is laughable in the first place. Tijuana police may be corrupt but those guys do not fuck around. In that prison, I saw what happens when a guy gave them a hard time. He could not walk for 3-days. I have always respected the badge, even in other countries.
Suffice it to say, when the case finally got dropped, I had a chance to talk with Maria Guadalupe. I had to know a few things, like why would you do this? And why would a mother allow her own daughter to ambush the father of her own daughter like that? Her answer…“I would do anything to protect my kids”
Really? You would lie, cheat, steal, abduct your granddaughter, steal everything out of the home you mooched out of for a couple years, have the father of your granddaughter ambushed and thrown into prison for no reason, all to protect your daughter? Protect her from what?
That’s quite a legacy Maria Guadalupe is leaving behind.
