"Though he was an illegal alien with a substantial criminal
record and deportation history, Huerta lived in El Paso and
planned several bomb plots targeting oil refineries in Houston and
the Fort Worth Stockyards. He is also alleged to have smuggled
explosives and weapons from the Fort Bliss range and exercise
areas in concert with corrupt US Army soldiers and government
contractors with gate passes at the El Paso base."
JUDICIAL WATCH
Illegal Alien in Fla. Drug Bust Deported 3 Times, Easily Reentered Us
A startling drug trafficking case out of south Florida is especially disturbing
because the illegal immigrant caught with more than half a million dollars in
crystal methamphetamine had been deported three times in three months shortly
before the drug bust. A few months after the third deportation, the Mexican
national returned to the United States with a partner and a vehicle stuffed
with thousands of grams of pure crystal meth. The drugs have a street value of
about $560,000, according to estimates issued by federal authorities.
The thrice
deported illegal immigrant, Saul Bustos Bustos, and his partner in crime,
fellow Mexican Irepan Juanchi Salgado, got arrested when they tried to sell
five kilograms of crystal meth to undercover Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) agents in Miami. The exchange occurred in November and this week both men
pled guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute drugs. “During
the transaction, the defendants, who possessed a total of 3,717 grams of 98%
pure crystal methamphetamine, worked together to transfer the drugs from their
vehicle to the undercover officer,” according to a statement from
the Department of Justice. “Bustos Bustos also pled guilty to illegal reentry
after removal, after reentering the United States subsequent to removal on
April 13, 2017, July 6, 2017, and July 19, 2017.”
It’s not
clear how or where Bustos Bustos entered the country after getting deported,
but court documents reveal he drove from Atlanta with the drugs as part of an
operation based in Georgia and New York. On November 28, the two Mexican men
drove to a restaurant in the Miami Dade County city of Hialeah to make the sale.
The customer, an undercover DEA agent, followed the drug dealers to a warehouse
to complete the transfer and the Mexican men got arrested. Bustos Bustos is
scheduled to be sentenced on March 29 and faces life in prison. Salgado’s
sentencing date has not been set, but he also faces a lengthy jail sentence for
the narcotics conviction. Authorities say his brother, Luciano Salgado, is a
renowned meth dealer.
Previously
deported illegal immigrants have reentered the U.S. to commit a multitude of
atrocious crimes over the years, but this one sticks out because President
Donald Trump vowed to tighten border security and the violations occurred after
he took office. Under the famously lax Obama rules, this type of thing was par
for the course. In fact, the former president’s own uncle, Onyango Obama, an
illegal immigrant from Kenya, reentered the U.S. and
even got a driver’s license after getting deported. Uncle Onyango lost the
license for driving drunk and was somehow able to obtain a special “hardship
license” from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles even though he
wasn’t even supposed to be in the United States and had been removed.
Just a few
months ago a previously deported gang member was charged with attempted murder and
kidnapping in the northern Colorado city of Ft. Collins. The illegal alien from
El Salvador, Angel Ramos, was deported from Texas to El Salvador last year
after getting arrested for domestic violence. Somehow, he reentered the U.S.
and tried to kill a woman by stabbing her repeatedly with a screw driver then
running her over with his car before trying to stuff her in the trunk. Ramos is
a confirmed member of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and is
wanted for homicide in his native El Salvador, according to information
provided to the media by the U.S. Marshals Service. In November the 36-year-old
was charged with attempted murder, assault, menacing with a deadly weapon,
kidnapping, domestic violence and criminal impersonation.
Back in
2014 a Judicial Watch investigation uncovered that a twice deported illegal
immigrant was a key figure in a sophisticated
narco-terror ring. The Mexican national, Hector Pedroza Huerta,
plotted a Chicago truck bombing with two of the FBI’s “most wanted”
terrorists and was deeply involved in smuggling drugs
and weapons. The narco-terror ring that Huerta helped operate after being
deported two times from the U.S. runs from El Paso to Chicago to New York.
Though he was an illegal alien with a substantial criminal record and
deportation history, Huerta lived in El Paso and planned several bomb plots
targeting oil refineries in Houston and the Fort Worth Stockyards. He is also
alleged to have smuggled explosives and weapons from the Fort Bliss range and
exercise areas in concert with corrupt US Army soldiers and government
contractors with gate passes at the El Paso base.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the
daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal
of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every
community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a
rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the
kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of
ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart
Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the
cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”
“Heroin is not produced in the United
States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal
evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was
smuggled into the United States. Indeed,
this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his
appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017
when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect
American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a
record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016,
that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated
$6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
THE
ILLEGALS’ AND THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
Heather Mac Donald
of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that
in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
Report: Mexican Cartel Dumped Hundreds of Corpses into Texas Border-Area Lakes
Coahuila Attorney General's Office
One of Mexico’s most violent cartels dumped the bodies of hundreds, perhaps thousands of their victims into various dams and lakes throughout the northern part of Mexico and along the U.S. border.
In a new report by Mexico’s Revista Proceso, Los Zetas top leader Omar Treviño “Z-42” Morales Treviños allegedly told a state investigator to search the dams when he was asked about the mass disappearances throughout the areas where the cartel operated.
Some of those areas where Los Zetas operated include lakes in Mexico and Texas such as Falcon and Amistad–which are believed to be the untimely resting places of hundreds of victims. Mexican authorities have carried out searches for bodies in the Mexican sides.
Through brute force and with the help of some Mexican officials, members of Los Zetas Cartel were able to establish themselves in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. It is in those areas where the cartel has been singled out as being responsible for thousands of unsolved cases. However, bureaucrats refuse to classify the cases as homicides and simply list them as missing persons.
Breitbart Texas published in early 2016 the results of a three-month investigation which revealed that between 2011 and 2013, Los Zetas carried out multiple kidnapping operations where they are believed to have taken, murdered, and incinerated approximately 300 from rural communities in northern Coahuila. At least half of those were incinerated inside the state prison in Piedras Negras, while others are believed destroyed using 55-gallon drums and clandestine ovens.
The new revelations from the report add more weight to the working theories that many of the dams have become clandestine graveyards–similar to the Los Zetas-linked sites in other parts of Mexico.
In 2011, Los Zetas murdered 72 Central American migrants at a ranch in rural San Fernando, approximately 80 miles south of the Texas border. Six months later, Mexican authorities discovered a series of mass graves with at least 193 bodies.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Bodies of two kidnapped federal agents are found inside a car in Mexico after cartel video released on YouTube saw gang members surrounding them with guns
· Octavio Martinez and Alfonso Hernandez disappeared on February 5 after attending a family event in Nayrit, Mexico
· A video was posted earlier this month showing the two on the ground tied up and surrounded by a group of gang members
· Their bodies were found inside a car
· The attorney general's office said it returned the remains to the families of the agents after running DNA tests to confirm their identities
· Mexico is experiencing its worst-ever surge in violent crime, with more than 25,000 killings in 2017, a rate of nearly 21 per 100,000 people
· The description of the video on YouTube said the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was behind the kidnapping
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Human remains found inside a car in Mexico have been identified as two kidnapped federal agents from the organized crime unit.
The Mexican attorney general's office said Sunday that the remains found last week were of Octavio Martinez and Alfonso Hernandez, who were last seen in an online video earlier this month tied up and surrounded by cartel members.
Martinez and Hernandez disappeared on February 5 after attending a family event in the Pacific state of Nayarit, one of the regions hit hardest by an increase in gang-related killings.
Octavio Martinez (left) and Alfonso Hernandez (right) disappeared on February 5 after attending a family event in Nayrit, Mexico
A video posted online the following weekend appeared to show the two agents kneeling and with their hands tied.
The description of the video on YouTube said the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was behind the kidnapping, but this could not be confirmed.
The attorney general's office said it returned the remains to the families of the agents after running DNA tests to confirm their identities, and would keep working to find the murderers.
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A video was posted earlier this month showing the two on the ground tied up and surrounded by a group of gang members. Their bodies were then found in a car
'The Attorney General of the Republic laments and condemns this terrible finding, and expresses solidarity with the mourning of the families,' the office said in a statement.
Mexico is experiencing its worst-ever surge in
violent crime, with more than 25,000 killings in
2017, a rate of nearly 21 per 100,000 people.
violent crime, with more than 25,000 killings in
2017, a rate of nearly 21 per 100,000 people.
Mexican officials said last month the government would deploy more federal police troopers to crack down on criminal groups in affected regions. Violence has increased as rival drug gangs splinter into smaller groups and dispute territory.
The United States regards the cartel as one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs.
Last year, Nayarit's then attorney general, Edgar Veytia, was arrested in San Diego on U.S. narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges.
DOJ: Mexican National Allegedly Led ‘Significant Drug-Trafficking Organization’ in U.S.
This shipment of methamphetamine, which had been hidden in a shipment of commercial candles, was confiscated by Customs and Border Protection at the Laredo, Texas, port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo)
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Justice Department says that a Mexican national allegedly led what it calls a “significant drug trafficking organization” inside the United States.
In an indictment filed last July, according to Justice, the 34-year-old Mexican national, Jose Raul Mendivil-Berrelleza, was charged in New Mexico along with seven others for trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine.
“The indictment was the result of a multi-agency investigation into a significant drug trafficking organization allegedly led by Jose Raul Mendivil-Berrelleza, 34, a Mexican national who resided in Hobbs, [N.M.] that allegedly imported methamphetamine and cocaine into Lea County from Mexico through Arizona,” the department said in a statement released yesterday.
“The 20-count indictment charged alleged ringleader Mendivil-Berrelleza and seven co-defendants with conspiracy, methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking, and money laundering offenses,” said the Justice Department.
“Count 1 of the indictment charged all eight defendants with participating in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine in Lea County and elsewhere between Nov. 2016 and July 2017,” the department said. “Count 2 charged Mendivil-Berrelleza and Roberto Rendon-Duran, 70, of Yuma, Ariz., with participating in an international money-laundering conspiracy. Counts 3 through 5 charged certain defendants with methamphetamine trafficking offenses and Count 6 charges certain defendants with a cocaine trafficking offense. Counts 7 through 20 charged certain defendants with using communications devices to facilitate their drug trafficking activity.”
One of the defendants in the case, Jeremy W. Gough, was sentenced on Tuesday to 120 months in prison.
“On Dec. 13, 2017, Gough pled guilty to conspiracy and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute,” said the Department of Justice. “ In entering the guilty plea, Gough admitted that from Nov. 2016 through June 2017, he conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine in Hobbs by having methamphetamine delivered to Gough’s residence from his source of supply, which Gough would then deliver to other individuals in Hobbs through the use of couriers.”
Here is the full statement on the case released by the Department of Justice on Tuesday:
Hobbs Man Sentenced to Ten Years for Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Conviction
ALBUQUERQUE – Jeremy W. Gough, 41, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
Gough and seven other residents of Lea County, N.M., including four Mexican nationals, and a resident of Yuma, Ariz., were charged in a 20-count indictment filed in July 2017, alleging federal drug trafficking and money laundering offenses. The indictment was the result of a multi-agency investigation into a significant drug trafficking organization allegedly led by Jose Raul Mendivil-Berrelleza, 34, a Mexican national who resided in Hobbs, that allegedly imported methamphetamine and cocaine into Lea County from Mexico through Arizona.
The investigation, which was led by the DEA and included HSI and the Lea County Drug Task Force of HIDTA Region 6, was designated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program, a Department of Justice program that combines the resources and unique expertise of federal agencies, along with their local counterparts, in a coordinated effort to disrupt and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations. During the course of the investigation, law enforcement authorities seized approximately 13 kilograms (28.6 pounds) of pure methamphetamine and 1.45 kilograms (3.2 pounds) of cocaine, a firearm and $19,000 in cash.
The 20-count indictment charged alleged ringleader Mendivil-Berrelleza and seven co-defendants with conspiracy, methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking, and money laundering offenses. Count 1 of the indictment charged all eight defendants with participating in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine in Lea County and elsewhere between Nov. 2016 and July 2017. Count 2 charged Mendivil-Berrelleza and Roberto Rendon-Duran, 70, of Yuma, Ariz., with participating in an international money-laundering conspiracy. Counts 3 through 5 charged certain defendants with methamphetamine trafficking offenses and Count 6 charges certain defendants with a cocaine trafficking offense. Counts 7 through 20 charged certain defendants with using communications devices to facilitate their drug trafficking activity.
On Dec. 13, 2017, Gough pled guilty to conspiracy and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. In entering the guilty plea, Gough admitted that from Nov. 2016 through June 2017, he conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine in Hobbs by having methamphetamine delivered to Gough’s residence from his source of supply, which Gough would then deliver to other individuals in Hobbs through the use of couriers. Gough further admitted that on Nov. 5, 2016, he possessed approximately 152 grams of methamphetamine which he intended to sell to other individuals in Hobbs.
Four of Gough’s co-defendants have previously entered guilty pleas and are pending sentencing hearings. Two co-defendants have entered pleas of not guilty and are pending trial. Miguel Angel Luna-Arredondo has yet to be arrested and is considered a fugitive. Charges in indictments and criminal complaints are only accusations, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
This case was investigated by the DEA and HSI offices in Las Cruces and the Lea County Drug Task Force with assistance from the Lea County Sheriff’s Office and the Hobbs Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Terri J. Abernathy and Dustin Segovia of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office are prosecuting the case.
The Lea County Drug Task Force is comprised of officers from the Lea County Sheriff’s Office, Hobbs Police Department, Lovington Police Department, Eunice Police Department the Tatum Police Department and the Jal Police Department, and is part of the NM HIDTA Region VI Drug Task Force. The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program was created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. HIDTA is a program of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) which provides assistance to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States and seeks to reduce drug trafficking and production by facilitating coordinated law enforcement activities and information sharing.
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