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It's enough of the deadly synthetic
opioid to theoretically kill every man, woman and child in Massachusetts
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The drugs were funneled into the
state by Mexico's vicious Sinaloa cartel
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37 suspects including alleged
kingpin Robert Contreras, 42, were captured
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77 pounds of drugs were seized,
including heroin, cocaine and opiate tablets too
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Authorities said they confiscated
$300,000 in drug money
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Authorities in Boston have
seized more than 33 pounds of fentanyl - enough to kill millions of people - in
connection with one of Massachusetts' biggest drug busts ever.
Prosecutors said the
synthetic opioid was being sold on the street by a drug gang with links to Mexico's notorious Sinaloa Cartel,
the drug organization once led by Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.
The seize came at the climax
of a six-month wiretap probe called 'Operation High Hopes,'
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A lengthy wiretap operation
by a joint task force including Drug Enforcement Administration agents and
Boston police resulted in an early-morning sweep of the drugs and 37 suspects
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Edward Soto-Perez, 43, of
Boston was the first to be arrested late last year and he allowed wiretaps to
be set up for others tot be caught in the drug operation
'I want to be clear about
the size and scope here,' District Attorney Daniel Conley said. 'Massachusetts'
fentanyl trafficking statute covers quantities greater than 10 grams. That
threshold represents less than 1/1000 of the quantity we've taken off the
street.'
'Individuals who buy and
sell at this level aren't users,' Conley said. 'They're not small-time dealers,
either. They're certainly not selling to support a habit. They're trafficking
in addictive substances that claim more lives in Massachusetts than all
homicides, all suicides, and all car crashes, statewide, combined.'
He said that the number of
overdoses the seized fentanyl could have caused 'is truly staggering.'
Enough Fentanyl to Kill
Millions Found En Route to
U.S. South of
Border
Mexico's
National Security Commission
A traffic
stop led Mexican authorities to seize enough fentanyl to kill millions of
people as well as almost 1,000 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and other
drugs that were headed to the California border.
This week, Mexico’s National Security Commission announced the seizure of
45.5 kilograms of fentanyl that were found as part of a synthetic drug shipment
in the Mexican beach resort town of Ensenada, Baja California. The seizure also
included more than 914 pounds of crystal meth, 87 pounds of cocaine and 18
pounds of heroin.
Unlike the other synthetic drugs, fentanyl is a medically used
opioid that is considered to be 100 times more powerful than morphine and prone
to lethal overdoses.
The 45.5 kilograms of fentanyl seized is enough to fuel millions
of possible lethal doses.
The seizure was made by federal police forces who spotted an SUV
without license plates that had been traveling along the highway that connects
Ensenada with the town of Lazaro Cardenas. The beach resort of Ensenada is
directly south of the border city of Tijuana and its various ports of entry
into California.
After pulling over the vehicle, authorities searched the SUV
and discovered 10 bundles, three suitcases, 18 bricks and 18 plastic containers
with the various drugs inside. As part of the investigation, Mexican
authorities were able to confirm that the SUV is registered in California.
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
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and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
ILLEGALS CLIMBING CALIFORNIA’S BORDERS FOR JOBS AND WELFARE: SAN
DIEGO … Mexicans (registered democrat anchor baby breeders
(1,877).
In just the month of October 2017 CBP Border Patrol San Diego
border sector reported apprehension of individuals from
Bangladesh (12), Brazil (1), Camaroon (3), Chad (1), China (16), El Salvador
(76), Eritrea (7), Gambia (4), Guatemala (178), Honduras (54), India (101),
Iran (1), Mexico
(1,877), Nepal (31),
Nicaragua (1), Pakistan (13), Peru (1), Somalia (1), and “Unknown”
(1) — a total of 2,379 individuals. These numbers are similar
to volumes seen in this sector for October
since 2012. MICHELLE MOONS
GRAPHIC — Mexican Cartel
Cuts Out
Living Victim’s
Heart near Acapulco
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
A group of
cartel gunmen fighting for control of a Mexican coastal state cut out the heart
of one of their living victims while another was beheaded. The violence took
place not far from the beach resort cities of Acapulco and Ixtapa Zihuatanejo,
Guerrero.
The execution was recorded by cartel gunmen who then disseminated
the footage through social media. Mexican intelligence sources revealed to
Breitbart Texas that the murders took place at a ranch near the boundary
between Michoacan and Guerrero states. The location of the murders is not far
from the famed resort city of Acapulco. Law enforcement sources also revealed
that the ranch once belonged to former Los Zetas ally and founder of La Familia
Michoacana, Carlos Rosales Mendoza.
During the execution, a leading figure within Los Viagras Cartel
threatened and tortured two villagers whose hands were tied behind their backs.
The victims were killed for allegedly relaying information to
their rivals. One of the gunmen used a large stick to beat one of the
villagers.
Another gunman then comes up from behind and uses a sharp knife to
slash the man’s throat and then sever his head.
While the second victim screams for mercy, the gunmen use knives
to slice open his chest to the point where they can see the man’s beating
heart. One of the gunmen reached inside the victim’s chest cavity and manually
removed the vital organ.
Soon after the executions, the gunmen issued a series of threats
toward rivals claiming they would meet a similar fate.
The Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan are theaters for a
fierce territorial war between the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and
their rivals with Los Viagras, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and some factions
of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists
willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their
communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel
Chronicles are
published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense
Movement in Michoacán.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel Chronicles Project contributed to this
report.
WATCH: Mexican
Cartel
Gunmen Engage Marines,
Police near Tourist Hotspot
Breitbart
Texas / Cartel Chronicles
At least five suspected cartel gunmen were captured in Baja California
Sur on January 29 after firing upon and attempting to flee Mexican Marines
and local police.
The
violent confrontation occurred at approximately 4:30 pm in the popular tourist
spot of La Paz after officers attempted to stop a vehicle full of gunmen. The
governor of Baja California Sur, Carlos Mendoza Davis, confirmed the
circumstances during a press conference with local media outlets.
The
governor reported that five suspects were captured after they retreated into a
residence and exchanged gunfire with security personnel for approximately 30
minutes before they surrendered. Numerous high-powered rifles, handguns, and
ammo were recovered by investigators of the state attorney general’s office
with support from the Marines.
The
armed confrontation was broadcast live on local television, which captured the
arrival of supporting military elements to provide assistance while fully
automatic gunfire could be heard in the background. Civilian footage also
surfaced on YouTube.
BLOG:
NARCOMEX HAS A REAL TIME IN KEEPING THE HEROIN CARTELS IN PRISON. SEEMS LIKE
THEY ALL HAVE KEYS TO THE BACK DOOR AND LIMOS WAITING FOR THEIR
"ESCAPE"
La
Paz State Attorney General Daniel de la Rosa Anaya confirmed that
among the detainees is Henry Froylán Rojas Ramirez, aka, “El Zopilote”, who
escaped from San Jose del Cabo state prison in September 2017. Rojas Ramirez
was serving a sentence for since 2014 and was considered one of the regional
leaders of the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templars Cartel) prior to prison.
According to law enforcement sources, Rojas Ramirez is a former member of the
Mexican armed forces and is originally from Michoacán.
“Los
Guzmanes” is a cell working for the Sinaloa Cartel that is controlled by the
relatives of jailed leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. “Los Tegoripeños” appears
to be an allied regional unit. The Tegoripeños surfaced in early November when
narco-messages appeared in La Paz and Los Cabos, warning the governor and law
enforcement agencies to align with them, Mexico’s SDP reported.
Breitbart
Texas reported in
December that gunmen hung the bodies of six men from three overpasses and left
narco-messages in the tourist hotspots of La Paz and Cabo in Baja California
Sur.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive
experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in
the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in
Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States
Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where
he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas,
Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
February
5, 2018
Maybe that border fence would help Mexico, too
Over the last few years,
I've had conversations with Mexican friends who agree that the proposed border
fence could actually be very helpful to stop guns and cash going south
everyday. It could also have an impact on the human traffic and drugs
going north every day. We get drugs and they get billions of dollars in
cash. They get guns and we get people coming in anyway imaginable.
Nearly 200 people from
Mexico and Central America were stuffed inside large trucks and caught trying
to enter the United States illegally during three huge January smuggling busts
that occurred in just nine days.
Officials in southern
California said 77 people, including five children, were found near the
Mexico border Monday packed inside a sweltering truck that had been painted to
resemble a UPS truck.
It raises a couple of
questions:
1) Who checks what comes
out of Mexico? Are there any controls in place on the Mexico side of the
U.S.-Mexico border? The answer is complicated. They tell me that
there are controls in some populated areas but it's wide open in others.
2) Why isn't Mexico
doing a better job controlling the human flow from Central
America? Complicated again. The cartels are now moving people through
the country. They can buy their way from town to town. They travel on
protected routes, or so they tell me.
We feel sorry for the poor
people found in these trucks. Nevertheless, it's time to publicly call out
Mexico and demand more effort on their side of the border. At least,
we should point out the benefits of a border fence to stop this terrible stuff
going north and south.
The Implacable Logic of a Wall
By Dan
Cadman
CIS
Immigration Blog, February 2, 2018
. . .
First,
a wall exists independent of the waxing and waning of the available cadre of
border enforcement agents, something that has always been subject to the
vagaries of the legislative and executive branches. Congress may or may not
appropriate the money to staff officers and agents up to the required levels;
and if they do, a recalcitrant or anti-enforcement president such as Barack
Obama may choose to not take advantage of the money and simply let the funds sit
idle until year's end when they revert back to the Treasury.
Second, and it is a corollary to the above, it
is a mistake to think that "smart" technologies somehow supplant the
need for a robust officer corps. To the contrary, they absolutely demand it.
Every kind of technological advancement, whether it is drones, military-grade
sensors, forward-looking infrared radar (FLIR), tower-mounted high powered
cameras, or something else, requires a sufficient number of human beings — of
trained agents — to respond to intrusion alerts. Law enforcement always has
been a human-resource-intensive occupation, and technological wonders won't
change that equation, at least, not until we see walking, talking androids
capable of apprehending aliens, putting the cuffs on them, advising them of
their rights, and transporting and processing them.
Third, and this is critical, all of the smart
technologies that have been mentioned in the context of border technology are
reactive in nature. They alert agents to respond after an alien has crossed into the United
States, and thus has been imbued
with constitutional rights to hearings, to make claims, seek various forms of
relief, and to stall in each and every way possible his or her removal, no
matter how immediate in time or place he was arrested relative to his illegal
entry.
The harsh reality is that due process in the
immigration context is breaking down. The immigration courts are thoroughly
backlogged into the several hundreds of thousands. This, in turn, forces
inappropriate or premature release of aliens from detention as the available
space is filled. And that, in turn, leads to the kind of situation we have now,
wherein there are more than 900,000 (yes, you read that right, nearly a
million) aliens loose in the United States who have either absconded from their
hearings or failed to report for removal as required.
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC VIDEO!
AMERICA’S
OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS:
LA RAZA
HEROIN CARTELS CUT HEART OUT OF LIVING MAN AND BEHEAD HIS PARTNER!
MEXICANS
ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE!
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. Granted, those statistics are old, but
if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s
much worse today.
THE
ILLEGALS’ CRIME TIDAL WAVE…. Where are Americans (Legals) safe from the foreign
predators and their violence? NOT IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS!
One could ask Kate
Steinle, if she was still alive, what happens when a multiple-
times deported felon
continues to return to the U.S. after each deportation, only to
U.S. Feds Seize $1 Million
in
Gulf Cartel Cash En Route to
Border
Courtesy Kingsville Police
U.S.
authorities are tracking down the individuals behind a shipment of $1 million
dollars headed south to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.
Agents
with Homeland Security Investigations are expanding on a traffic stop in
Kingsville, Texas, where authorities found 69 bundles with $1,071,503 in the
cabin of a tractor-trailer heading for McAllen, court records obtained by
Breitbart Texas revealed.
Santos Hernandez Juarez, used a B1-B2 visa to drive in the U.S.
for a company based in Donna, Texas. He was pulled over by local police in
Kingsville because his license plate was covered, records say. During the
traffic stop, Hernandez appeared unusually nervous, raising the suspicions of
the police officer who asked for permission to search the vehicle. The officer
noticed the mattress in the truck’s cabin was heavier than normal and found 69
bundles of cash inside.
The truck was taken to the Kingsville Police Station where a K-9
was used to search for drugs, cash, or weapons. The dog alerted to the cabin
area where the cash was allegedly found. Initially, Hernandez told authorities
that he delivered a load of produce to New York and was on his way back when
three men approached him, asking to deliver an unknown item to McAllen in
exchange for $9,000 USD.
Agents with HSI asked Hernandez for permission to look at his
three phones. After he agreed, authorities found messages that disproved his
original version of events. When confronted, Hernandez changed his story, the
criminal complaint revealed. Hernandez told the agents that he met a man at a
mechanic shop in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, who told him he could make extra money.
The man instructed Hernandez to wait for another person to contact and
coordinate the delivery of cash and receive 1.5 percent of the funds safely delivered
to McAllen, Texas.
Hernandez was formally charged with one count of cash smuggling
and remains in federal custody without bond. HSI agents wrote in the criminal
complaint that the operation was tied to the Gulf Cartel, which controls
Matamoros, and is considered to be a brutal criminal organization that
regularly uses tractor-trailers to move drugs north and proceeds south.
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.
Tony Aranda contributed to this report.
THE
LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY'S VISION OF AMERICA: DEATH OF THE
GOP AND 49 MEXIFORNIAS!
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of
California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing
economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are
coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over
2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that
California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens,
including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
BLOG: MANY DISPUTE CALIFORNIA’S EXPENDITURES FOR THE LA RAZA
WELFARE STATE IN MEXIFORNIA JUST AS THEY DISPUTE THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS.
APPROXIMATELY HALF THE POPULATION OF CA IS NOW MEXICAN AND BREEDING ANCHOR
BABIES FOR WELFARE LIKE BUNNIES. THE $22 BILLION IS STATE EXPENDITURE ONLY.
COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY LEADING AT OVER A BILLION DOLLARS
PAID OUT YEARLY TO MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. NOW MULTIPLY THAT BY THE
NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN CA AND YOU START TO GET AN IDEA OF THE STAGGERING WELFARE
STATE MEXICO AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE ERECTED SANS ANY LEGALS VOTES. ADD TO
THIS THE FREE ENTERPRISE HOSPITAL AND CLINIC COST FOR LA RAZA’S “FREE” MEDICAL
WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $1.5 BILLION PER YEAR.
Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but
that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in
California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost
California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless,
open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal
aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an
assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast
majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does
accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of
welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were
contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6
million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on
welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the
1980s. 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. Granted,
those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement
officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the
Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien
crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself
a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the
border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes
the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement
will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil
rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to
either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing
Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect
our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has
even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For
example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process
driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now
driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long
lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just
recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will
spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even
taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other
potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t
afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for
illegals to get a college education.
Border City near Texas Considered Mexico’s Most Dangerous, Finds Survey
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The citizens of this border city consider it as one of the most dangerous in Mexico.
The city where citizens felt least safe is in Reynosa, according to 95.6 percent of local respondents.
Since 2010, this border city has been immersed in waves of violence where rival cartel groups fight for control. The violence began when the Gulf Cartel split off from its former enforcers, Los Zetas, thus setting off a series of gun battles for control of the streets. The skirmishes continue in waves where in addition to the fight with Los Zetas, the CDG went through a series of internal fractures that spread even more bloodshed. As a consequence of the high cost of being constantly at war, residents have also been victimized by a spike in extortions, carjackings, kidnappings, and home and business robberies.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “A.C Del Angel” from Tamaulipas.