A 2019 DEA report says most of the
methamphetamine available in the United States is produced in Mexico and
smuggled over the Southwest border.
Teens with nearly $2 million in narcotics arrested at border, feds
say
Phil Helsel
The arrest by Border Patrol agents Saturday afternoon near Rio
Rico happened after other people were seen emerging from some brush and placing
packages in the parked truck, CBP said in a statement.
"We've gotten larger seizures, but this one no doubt is
sizable, and it is significant," said Border Patrol Agent Daniel
Hernandez, a public information officer for the Tucson sector. "The street
value is pretty high."
The agency estimates it to be $1.8 million.
After the packages were loaded near Peña Blanca Lake, which is
northwest of the Nogales border crossing, the truck drove off. It was stopped,
and 57 packages of drugs were found inside, the Border Patrol said.
The names of the two people arrested, who were the driver of the
Chevy Silverado and a passenger, were not released by the Border Patrol, but
they were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration to face federal
charges.
Requests for more information to the DEA's Phoenix office and
the U.S. attorney's office for Arizona were not immediately returned Tuesday,
and the status of the two people arrested was not clear.
The people who emerged from the brush, loaded packages into the
truck and slipped back into the desert were not found, the Border Patrol said.
Hernandez said it is not uncommon for people on foot to travel
from Mexico into the U.S. through mountainous or remote terrain, drop off drugs
and return to Mexico. They are typically employed by transnational criminal
organizations.
That area of the border has historically been considered a
marijuana corridor, he said.
"That is declining, and now we're seeing with greater
frequency harder narcotics and synthetic narcotics," Hernandez said.
The 18-year-olds are residents of Rio Rico, a community of about
19,000 north of the border at Nogales, the Border Patrol said.
A 2019 DEA report says most of the
methamphetamine available in the United States is produced in Mexico and
smuggled over the Southwest border.
Mexico is also considered the primary source of heroin in the
U.S., while most cocaine in the country is produced in Colombia.
Texas Sheriff Says Mexican Cartels at the Heart
of Border Crisis
February 25, 2019 Updated: February 25, 2019
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WASHINGTON—A porous southwest border is the
gift that keeps on giving to Mexican cartels, whose multibillion-dollar businesses depend solely upon getting
illicit goods into the United States.
Sheriff Andy Louderback of Jackson County,
Texas, said border securityefforts need to focus more on disrupting the cartels.
“The cartels remain at the heart of the
problem here in the United States. They have unlimited funding. … They’re very
good at what they do. They’re very powerful, very powerful, in this country,”
he said.
Louderback said the cartels are exploiting
weak borders and are “profiting hugely off human misery in this
country—profiting off of Americans.”
“It’s imperative that the American public
understand the criminality of what we’re facing. That alone is enough to secure
the border,” he said.
Mexican cartels, otherwise known as
transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), show continued signs of growth in
the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a 2018 report.
The cartels control lucrative smuggling
corridors, primarily across the southwest border, and maintain the greatest
drug-trafficking influence in the United States, states the DEA.
“They continue to expand their criminal
influence by engaging in business alliances with other TCOs, including
independent TCOs, and work in conjunction with transnational gangs, U.S.-based
street gangs, prison gangs, and Asian money laundering organizations,” the DEA
said.
Almost 90 percent of the heroin in the
United States comes from Mexico, according to the DEA, and Mexican heroin
production grew by 37 percent from 2016 to 2017.
“Mexican cartels continue to make large
quantities of cheap methamphetamine and deliver it to the United States through
the southern border,” the DEA said. Seizures of meth at the border increased
from 8,900 pounds in 2010 to more than 82,000 pounds in 2018.
The cartels also export significant
quantities of cocaine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the United States.
“The drugs are delivered to user markets in
the United States through transportation routes and distribution cells that are
managed or influenced by Mexican TCOs, and with the cooperation and
participation of local street gangs,” the DEA report states.
“Illicit drugs, as well as the
transnational and domestic criminal organizations that traffic them, continue
to represent significant threats to public health, law enforcement, and
national security in the United States.”
Most of the drugs that are seized are found
in vehicles coming through ports of entry. Customs and Border Protection
officials seized the largest amount of fentanyl being smuggled in a truck
through the Nogales, Arizona, port of entry on Jan. 26.
A Mexican national was arrested after
officers found nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl valued at approximately $3.5
million and almost 395 pounds of methamphetamine valued at $1.1 million. That
amount of fentanyl had the potential to kill 56 million people, based on the
DEA’s estimation that ingesting as little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl,
equivalent to a few grains of salt, can be fatal.
But cartels are also using the large groups
of asylum-seekers, mostly from Central America, to tie up Border Patrol
resources in areas along the border.
“In many instances, criminal organizations
are saturating areas with large groups with the belief that they can smuggle
narcotics or other contraband into the United States while Border Patrol agents
are occupied,” CBP said in a statement on Feb. 11.
Border Patrol agents have encountered more
than 58 groups of 100-plus people so far this fiscal year, compared to 13 in
all of fiscal 2018.
Remote Border Areas
A civilian group in Arivaca, Arizona, sets
up hidden trail cameras on the border in a remote area where
it’s rare to see Border Patrol, and the fence, where it exists, is merely
four-strand barbed wire.
Arizona Border Recon’s trail camera footage
is eye-opening—groups of eight to 10 people crossing the border in camo gear,
humping backpacks, and trekking purposefully northwards, deeper into the United
States, in carpet shoes to hide their tracks.
The group’s founder, Tim Foley, said that
in an average two-week period, one camera on just one of the hundreds of
branching trails picked up 400 illegal aliens and 100 drug mules—all led by
“coyotes,” or smugglers.
Cartel scouts sit on the mountaintops on
both the Mexican and U.S. sides, as if they are air-traffic controllers,
ensuring safe passage through.
“About a year ago, our cameras quit picking
up the burlap sacks with the 20 kilos of marijuana, but now we’re seeing that
they’re running a bigger camouflage pack than the regular illegals,” Foley said
in December. “It’s better made. More space in it. They’re running meth,
heroine, cocaine, fentanyl.”
Foley hopes to add to his eight trail
cameras and continue to pass information on to Border Patrol.
“Cartels are basically the Hispanic version
of ISIS,” he said. “We’ve got enough of our own bad guys. We don’t need to
import more.”
National Emergency
President Donald Trump signed an executive order three weeks after taking office,
instructing federal law enforcement to go after cartels.
“These groups are drivers of crime,
corruption, violence, and misery,” the order states. “In particular, the
trafficking by cartels of controlled substances has triggered a resurgence in
deadly drug abuse and a corresponding rise in violent crime related to drugs.
Likewise, the trafficking and smuggling of human beings by transnational
criminal groups risks creating a humanitarian crisis.”
On Feb. 15, the president announced a
national emergency after Congress failed to provide the $5.7 billion he was
asking for to erect 234 miles of fencing requested by the Department of
Homeland Security.
Congress provided $1.375 billion toward
border fencing, and Trump intends to supplement that with $6.1 billion of
reappropriated defense funds.
“We have a State of Emergency at our
Southern Border,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Feb. 25. “Border Patrol, our Military and local Law
Enforcement are doing a great job, but without the Wall, which is now under
major construction, you cannot have Border Security. Drugs, Gangs and Human
Trafficking must be stopped!”
Louderback said he supports Trump calling a
national emergency to get more border fencing in place.
“The saying is, you build a 10-foot wall,
you provide an 11-foot ladder. I got that, and many of us do. Can we inhibit,
slow, and catch … by putting in infrastructure in certain places on our
southern border? The answer’s absolutely yes,” he said.
“Are there going to be folks that tunnel
under? Certainly. Are there going to be ones that climb over? Certainly. Is
there going to be fewer? Absolutely. The expectations are, when you put the
infrastructure there, that you’re going to do a better job of controlling that
piece of real estate.
“If you’re able just to walk across, that’s
not operational control of our border.”
‘El Chapo’
The recent trial and conviction of Joaquin
“El Chapo” Guzman provided an insight into the Sinaloa Cartel.
Guzman oversaw the smuggling of narcotics
to wholesale distributors in Arizona, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New
York, and elsewhere, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The billions of illicit dollars generated
from drug sales in the United States were then clandestinely transported back
to Mexico, the DOJ said.
“Guzman also used ‘sicarios,’ or hit men,
who carried out hundreds of acts of violence in Mexico to enforce Sinaloa’s
control of territories and to eliminate those who posed a threat to the Sinaloa
Cartel,” the DOJ said in a statement.
A witness at the trial, Alex Cifuentes, who
said he used to be Guzman’s right-hand man, told the court that Guzman paid a
$100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
On Feb. 21, the DOJ announced indictments
against two of Guzman’s sons—Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez,
28—on drug conspiracy charges.
“The rise of the cartel power, their
ability to penetrate our border, their ability to move fluidly and silently in
any different direction with a 10-minute phone call to make massive changes in
what they’re doing, to reroute a load, to reroute humans. … This is the kind of
flexibility and the kind of enemy that we’re actually dealing with here,”
Louderback said.
“You know who doesn’t want border security,
who doesn’t want a wall? And that’s certainly your drug cartels, that’s
certainly your MS-13, that’s your rapist, that’s your drug dealers, and sadly,
some Democrats that do not want a wall.
“They don’t want operational control of our
border. And that’s very sad. It’s tragic and it’s sad. It costs American
lives.”
Louderback said the problem exists in every state, but the solution has to start with
border security. Once the United States has control over its southern border,
it will take full cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement
to decimate the cartels.
The
6 Main Cartels Active in the US
The DEA identifies six cartels that traffic
the most drugs into the United States: Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco Nueva
Generacion (CJNG), Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, and
Beltran-Leyva Organization (BLO).
The Sinaloa Cartel maintains the most
expansive footprint in the United States, while CJNG’s domestic presence has
significantly expanded in the past few years, according to the DEA. Although
2017 drug-related murders in Mexico surpassed previous levels of violence,
U.S.-based cartel members generally refrain from extending inter-cartel
conflicts domestically.
Sinaloa Cartel
·
Based in the
state of Sinaloa.
·
One of the
oldest and more established drug trafficking organizations in Mexico.
·
Controls drug
trafficking activity in various regions in Mexico, particularly along the
Pacific Coast.
·
Exports and
distributes wholesale amounts of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin,
and fentanyl.
·
Has
distribution hubs in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago.
·
Illicit drugs
primarily smuggled through crossing points along Mexico’s border with
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas.
Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)
·
Based in the
city of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco.
·
The most
recently formed of the six and one of the most powerful and fastest-growing
cartels.
·
Rapid
expansion due to willingness to engage in violent confrontations with Mexican
government security forces and rival cartels.
·
Drug
distribution hubs in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Atlanta.
·
Smuggles
illicit drugs using various trafficking corridors along the southern border to
include Tijuana, Juarez, and Nuevo Laredo.
·
Manufactures
and/or distributes large amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and
fentanyl.
Juarez Cartel
·
Operates in
the Mexican state of Chihuahua, south of west Texas, and New Mexico.
·
One of the
older Mexican cartels.
·
Endured a
multi-year turf war with Sinaloa Cartel, which, at its height in mid-2010,
resulted in many drug-related murders in Chihuahua.
·
Supplies drug
markets primarily in El Paso, Denver, Chicago, and Oklahoma City.
·
Mainly
traffics marijuana and cocaine, though recently, it has expanded to heroin and
methamphetamine.
·
Recent
significant increase in opium cultivation.
Gulf Cartel
·
Based in the
state of Tamaulipas
·
In operation
for decades
·
Traffics
mostly marijuana and cocaine, but has also recently expanded into heroin and
methamphetamine.
·
Smuggles drugs
mostly into south Texas between the Rio Grande Valley and South Padre Island.
·
Maintains a
presence in Atlanta, and holds key distribution hubs in Houston and Detroit.
Los Zetas Cartel
·
Base of power
is in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
·
Formed in
early 2010 after splintering from the Gulf Cartel.
·
Currently
divided into two rival factions: the Northeast Cartel (Cartel del Noreste, or
CDN), representing a rebranded form of mainstream Zetas, and the Old School
Zetas (Escuela Vieja or EV), which is a breakaway group.
·
Smuggle drugs
primarily into Texas between Del Rio and Falcon Lake.
·
Traffic
cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana.
·
Key
distribution hubs in Laredo, Dallas, and New Orleans, and a known presence in
Atlanta.
Beltran-Leyva Organization (BLO)
·
Asserted
independence after a split from Sinaloa in 2008.
·
Remnants of
the cartel operate in various parts of Mexico, including the states of
Guerrero, Morelos, Nayarit, and Sinaloa.
·
Most prominent
subgroup, Los Guerreros Unidos, operates independently due to its role in the
heroin trade.
·
BLO subgroups
rely on their loose alliances with CJNG, the Juarez Cartel, and Los Zetas for
access to drug smuggling corridors along the southern border.
·
Primarily
traffics marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
·
Distribution
hubs in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta.
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Married
Couple Executed, Teen Daughter Raped by Cartel Gunmen in Tijuana
25 Apr 20197
2:52
A married couple in Tijuana reportedly
involved in the drug trade was executed while their 17-year-old daughter was
raped after being lured into a trap by cartel gunmen.
Jaqueline and Andrés Martínez were summoned to a meeting on
April 10, with an associate they were allegedly involved with in the drug trade.
Prior to driving to a residence in colonia Pedregal de Santa Julia, the couple
picked up their 17-year-old daughter at school and had her join them. Upon
arrival, they were met by cartel gunmen. The couple was immediately separated
from their daughter so she could be taken into a room and raped by two of the
men, according to a new report and Breitbart law enforcement sources. The
cartel gunmen originally started to strangle the daughter with a piece of rope
but later decided to let her live, prior to the rape. The couple had their
hands and feet bound and forced into the trunk of their car. The couple was
then executed with at least one gunshot each to the head, according to a report.
After cartel gunmen finished raping the 17-year-old, they
ordered her to leave the property and take the vehicle she arrived in. She was
told that her parents were in the trunk. The daughter drove away and eventually
stopped at a gas station in a traumatized state. She asked for help and told
the station attendants that her parents were inside the trunk. The station
summoned the police, who noticed blood dripping from the rear area of the
vehicle. Police discovered two deceased adults partially covered in blankets,
according to recently released information by the state attorney
general’s office.
Jaqueline and Andrés Martínez were married for approximately 20
years and owned a wholesale merchandising business. They were also involved in
trafficking drugs into the United States, according to the state attorney
general’s office. Once investigators located the residence where the double
murder and rape took place, the cartel gunmen had already fled.
Breitbart News reports extensively about
the ongoing cartel violence in Tijuana with shocking numbers of homicides to
include a record-breaking year in 2018, which totaled 2,518. By comparison, San
Diego tallied 35 the same period.
A recent study released in March by the
Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice (El Consejo Ciudadano
para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal) listed Tijuana as the deadliest
city in the world per capita, based on its 2018 registered homicide count. The
bloodshed is generally related to turf wars involving Cártel Tijuana Nueva
Generación (CTNG), aligned with El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, against
the Sinaloa Cartel.
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.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com.
EXCLUSIVE: Cartel
Hitman Behind Mexican Border Beheadings Unmasked
12 Apr 20194
3:05
Breitbart News learned the identity of a hitman responsible for
performing numerous beheadings and dismemberments throughout the border state
of Nuevo Leon on behalf of the terrorist-led Cartel Del Noreste, a faction of
the Los Zetas.
Known by the
nickname “El Negro Cadereyta,” Jesus Enrique Flores Ramirez is a top lieutenant
with the CDN under the command of Hector Raul “El Tory” Luna Luna, the cartel
boss behind the 2008 grenade attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Nuevo
Leon. Law enforcement sources consulted by Breitbart News identify Flores
Ramirez as the man who led a CDN group in Monterrey linked to at least 16
dismemberments.
Under orders
of El Tory, CDN hitmen
carried out 16 executions in a six-month span, where they left the remains of
their victims in public places next to poster boards or banners with threats
directed at rivals. Law enforcement sources say the moves are
meant to terrorize rivals and intimidate independent drug distributors into
exclusive collaboration with the CDN. The executions were ordered by El Tory
through his right-hand man in direct contact with Flores Ramirez. By
controlling local distributors, the CDN is able to control drug prices in the
Monterrey Metropolitan area.
Earlier this
year, detectives with the Nuevo Leon’s State Investigations Agency tracked down
Flores Ramirez and his top hitmen, David Ricardo “La Galleta or Cookie”
Martinez Lopez and Samuel Eduardo “El Sammy” Luna Escobar. State detectives
were able to identify the men in a Chevrolet Aveo previously used to kidnap and
kill two lookouts from the Gulf Cartel.
Breitbart
News accessed police reports linking Flores Ramirez to the kidnapping and
murder of 51-year-old Felipe de Jesus Ramirez Serrano and 17-year-old Jordan
Arcenis “Cocoy” Nunez Garcia. Negro Cadereyta allegedly arranged for the two
victims to unload a tractor-trailer filled with drugs, in reality, the job was
a ruse to capture the two men who were then recorded claiming to work for the
Gulf Cartel. Flores Ramirez and his henchmen allegedly beheaded and dismembered
the victims, whose remains were discovered in February at an industrial park in
the community of Escobedo.
Flores
Ramirez’s boss, El Tory,
currently controls the CDN in Monterrey and the border city of Nuevo Laredo. He was in
a Mexican federal prison beginning in 2010 but was mysteriously released in
mid-2018. Since assuming command of the CDN, El Tory ordered numerous
dismemberments in Nuevo Leon and the neighboring states of Tamaulipas and
Coahuila. El Tory previously issued direct threats to law enforcement using
banners, specifically targeting a state police building in Nuevo Leon for a
bombing.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an
award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart
management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing
director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel
Chronicles project contributed to this report.
GRAPHIC — Terrorist-Led Mexican Cartel Tortures
Citizen Journalist
13 Mar 20191
2:47
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Cartel gunmen working for a convicted terrorist
kidnapped, tortured, and humiliated a citizen journalist who recorded a recent
gun battle and dared to share the footage on social media. The attack is the
second of its kind in recent weeks where Los Zetas tried to scare locals into
silence.
This week,
gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas tortured an
unidentified man and spray-painted him. He was left in his underwear in the
streets of Nuevo Laredo as a warning to all residents to not record or
photograph cartel gunmen.
The man
claimed to be the individual who, over the weekend, used his cell phone to
record a fierce gun battle between Mexican soldiers and the CDN. As Breitbart
News reported, Mexican soldiers killed six CDN
gunmen during the clash.
Earlier this
year, Los Zetas tortured another man who they stripped and spray-painted with a
message warning other citizen journalists to not document violence.
The CDN
faction of Los Zetas has absolute control over the local news outlets in Nuevo
Laredo and is able to suppress coverage of cartel violence. The faction also
employs misinformation tactics to blame the consequences of criminal violence
on officials. The tactic even duped United
Nations officials into critiquing Mexican military forces. In
addition to using the media for political gain, the CDN faction has leveraged
local news outlets into praising their so-called charity work.
Currently,
the CDN faction of Los Zetas is led by convicted terrorist Hector Raul
“El Tory” Luna Luna, the man behind the 2008 grenade attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Monterrey. Since assuming operational control
of Nuevo Laredo, El Tory has been linked to numerous gruesome executions where
victim’s bodies were dismembered and placed inside ice chests as a warning to
rivals. El Tory’s gunmen were also tied to numerous attacks and threats on law
enforcement, including a warning they would bomb a state police building in
Nuevo Leon.
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.
GRAPHIC:
Cartel Dumps Tortured Bodies Along Mexican Border City Highway
27 Jan 2019441
1:59
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Gulf Cartel gunmen dumped the bodies of three
victims along one of the highways in this border city. A large deployment of
police forces responded to secure the crime scene. The violence comes at a time
when rival factions of the Gulf Cartel continue their fight for control of the
border region.
Early morning motorists moving
the Libramiento highway called authorities upon spotting the three bodies.
Tamaulipas state authorities rushed to the scene and set up a perimeter while
forensic investigators documented the crime scene and collected the bodies.
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The cartel gunmen
wrapped one of the victims in a blanket, a second one plastic, and a third was
dumped tied and semi-nude. All three victims showed signs of torture, law
enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart News.
The discovery of the three
bodies along the highway in Reynosa follows almost a dozen similar cases of
executions where the victims were dumped along rural roads near the city. As
Breitbart News reported, Reynosa residents witnessed a
rekindling of violence where the two rival factions of the Gulf Cartel that
have an ongoing power struggle set off fierce firefights involving dozens of
armored vehicles with gunmen carrying machine guns, grenades, and .50
caliber rifles.
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.
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Eight-Time
Deportee Accused of Trafficking $850,000 in Meth, Cocaine
15 Jan 201957
2:17
Police arrested an illegal alien in Utah, who had been deported from
the U.S. eight different times, for allegedly trafficking $850,000 in meth and
cocaine.
Jose Olegario Lopez, a
44-year-old Mexican national from the state of Sinaloa, was traveling with his 16-year-old
son on Saturday when Utah County officers pulled him over for suspected traffic
violations.
But Lopez reportedly did not
stop the car, causing authorities to surround him until he was forced to stop.
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Officers who
initially searched Lopez found he had traces of cocaine on his body,
authorities said.
When
officers and a K9 conducted an
in-depth search of Lopez’s vehicle, they discovered multiple individually
wrapped packages. Detectives say they recovered 2.35 pounds of cocaine, worth
$106,000, and 16.7 pounds of methamphetamine, with an estimated street value of
more than $750,000.
Authorities
charged Lopez with two first-degree felony counts of possessing a
controlled substance with intent to distribute, one count of failing to respond
to obey an officer, and one class A misdemeanor charge of drug paraphernalia
possession, according to a press release from
the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
Lopez is
currently in custody and a judge ordered that he be held without bond.
Officials
say the son was not involved in the trafficking and they released him into the
custody of his mother.
U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) officials confirmed that Lopez is in the U.S. illegally and has been
busted for illegally re-entering the country eight times.
ICE
officials placed a detainer on Lopez, meaning that if he is released from
prison, ICE can take custody of him and deport him out of the U.S.
Lopez is not
the only eight-time deportee to make headlines. One judge threw the book at a
Honduran national who had been deported from the U.S. eight times, sentencing the
illegal alien to five years in federal prison.
GRAPHIC –
7 Human Heads Dumped in Mexican Border State
https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/09/14/graphic-7-human-heads-dumped-in-mexican-border-state/
14 Sep 2018446
Police discovered seven heads abandoned in an ice cooler Friday morning
in the rural community of Bácum, Sonora–sparking fears of an escalation in an
ongoing territorial cartel war.
Security
elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP) and investigators assigned
to the State Attorney General’s Office responded to a report of heads in a
cooler at approximately 4 am, according to local media. Authorities determined that all victims were
males between the ages of 25 and 40 and were believed kidnapped several hours
earlier in the town of Francisco Javier Mina.
According to authorities and
Breitbart Texas law enforcement contacts, the Friday morning executions and the
general escalation in violence in the region can be attributed to a territorial
dispute between “Los Salazar,” aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, and Cártel
de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This dispute began in 2017 as CJNG moved
into southern Sonora to challenge the Sinaloa Cartel’s dominance over routes to
the U.S. drug markets.
According to local media reports,
the small community of Bácum has registered 150 homicides.
Sonora Homicides per Year
2016 – 580
2017 – 693
2018 Year to July 31 – 653
Source: Mexican Secretariat of
National Public Security
In early
August, Breitbart Texas reported that the United States Consulate General in Hermosillo issued a security alert prohibiting
federal employees from traveling to the popular tourist locations of San Carlos,
Guaymas, and Empalme, Sonora, due to recent violent activity. Breitbart Texas
also reported that
more than 200 federal and state police personnel supported by elements of the
Mexican Army were deployed to Guaymas amid increasing violence.
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.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com
GRAPHIC:
Cartel Gunmen Carry Out Early Morning Hits in Mexican Border State
15 Sep 201856
CIUDAD
VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen escalated the number of executions in
capital city of this Mexican border state. Hitmen began a new tactic where they
are now raiding homes early in the morning. The raids are designed to surprise
their sleeping victims and kill them at point-blank range.
This week, Ciudad Victoria, the
capital of Tamaulipas, witnessed a series of executions where a group of
assassins arrived at the houses of their victims at dawn and used assault
rifles to kill them. The first execution took place in the Horacio Terán
neighborhood in the southern part of the city where 52-year-old Hortencia “N”
and an unidentified man died after being shot three times in the head.
According to information
provided to Breitbart Texas by state authorities, neighbors reported hearing
several gunshots at 6 a.m. so they called the authorities. By the time
authorities and emergency personnel arrived, the victims were already dead and
the gunmen escaped from the scene.
The double murder occurred at
about the same time that another group of hit men killed an ex-convict named
Ricardo “El Riki” Gonzalez Villanueva. According to information provided to
Breitbart Texas by authorities, the gunmen also caught the victim by surprise
at his home when two cartel hitmen entered and shot him multiple times in the
head.
Also this week, a group of
hitmen executed two men outside a house in the Luis Echeverria neighborhood.
The gunmen shot their victims with machine guns at close range before fleeing.
According to police sources, the executions are related to the territorial
disputes between rival factions of Los Zetas cartel called Northeastern Cartel
or Cartel Del Noreste and Old School Zetas or Zetas Vieja Escuela.
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
“Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas.
DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY DEMOCRAT POLS NEVER OPEN THEIR OTHEWISE
MASSIVE MOUTHS ABOUT THE MEX CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT IS NOW BORDER TO OPEN BORDER???
40% of all Federal Border Crimes are by invading Mexicans!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-la-raza-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-40.html
25 MINUTE VIDEO OF ACTUAL MEX INVASION. Illegals pour over
Texas rancher’s property.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mexican-invasion-25-minute-video-of.html
FOR EVERY ILLEGAL CAUGHT AT BORDER IT IS ESTIMATED THAT
ABOUT 8 GET THROUGH AND ARE LOOTING US NOW!
You
truly want wider open borders with NARCOMEX?
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC!
IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/highly-graphic-la-raza-heroin-cartels.html
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS REMIND
AMERICANS (Legals) THAT THERE IS NO (REAL) BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/americas-open-borders-with-narcomex.html
“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
JUDICIAL WATCH
THE GRUESOME MS-13 GANGS FROM LOS ANGELES: THEIR
MURDER, RAPE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/judicial-watch-deported-gangster.html
The illegal stabbed her to death with a screwdriver
and then ran her over with her car.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American
citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html
“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!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/01/michael-cutler-illegals-and-their.html
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.
A NATION DIES OF OPIOID
ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA,
RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-crisis-in-america-gets-worse.html
“The drug epidemic is the product
of capitalism and the policies of the capitalist parties, both
Democrats and Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of
the pharmaceutical companies, which have amassed huge profits from
the deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed
were not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin
and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in
2012. What are the numbers and profits now?
OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-war-on-america-chin
PRINCETON
REPORT:
American
middle-class is addicted, poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt
government for surrendering our borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then
handing the bills to middle America?
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/princeton-scholars-opioid-crisis.html
OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG
PHARMA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/us-big-pharma-plunders-american-with.html
“While
drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past
10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5
trillion.”
“Opioids
have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country.
Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to
quell their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”
Human Smugglers Leave
Pregnant Migrant, Unborn Child to Die After Fall from U.S. Border Wall
12 Mar 2020460
3:00
Mexican
cartel-connected human smugglers
abandoned
a pregnant Guatemalan woman at
a
border wall near Clint, Texas, on Saturday
night
and encouraged her to climb the 20-foot
barrier.
She fell and landed on her back,
causing
injuries that eventually took her life
and
that of her unborn child.
El Paso Sector
Border Patrol agents patrolling near Clint came upon a critically injured
pregnant woman who fell from the barrier according to her male companion, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reported. Doctors were unable to
save the unborn child as well.
“Despite the
best efforts of our Border Patrol agents and medical professionals, sadly more
lives have perished at the hands of human smugglers,” El Paso Sector Chief
Gloria Chavez said in a written statement. “Someone in Mexico guided this eight-month
pregnant woman from Guatemala to this section of the border and encouraged her
and helped her climb the steel mesh border barrier. We will engage our law
enforcement partners in Mexico to find those responsible for placing these
lives in danger.”
CBP
officials said the human smugglers encouraged her to try and climb the wall,
the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
CBP Acting
Commissioner Mark Morgan told reporters that the woman, identified by
Guatemalan officials as Mirian Stephany Girón Luna and her male partner
were taken to the border by smugglers and left them there in the darkness. He
said they were attempting to climb the barrier when she fell.
When Border
Patrol agents found the injured woman they called for an ambulance who took her
to a regional hospital.
“Tragically,
the mother and the child died from the injuries from the fall,” Morgan stated.
Guatemalan
officials reported that Girón sustained a cerebral hemorrhage, a pelvic
fracture, and internal organ injuries from the fall. They said she fell more
than 19 feet on Saturday.
Doctors
attempted surgery, including a C-section, to attempt to save both lives. After
multiple surgeries, the doctors declared both patients deceased, CBP officials
reported.
CBP told
reporters they have no record of previously encountering the woman at a port of
entry. She also was not part of the “Remain in Mexico” program.
Tekandi
Paniagua Flores, the Guatemalan consul in Del Rio, Texas, told the AP that he
spoke with Girón’s partner who is currently in Border Patrol’s custody.
“He said
that if he had known that the risks were this high, he would not have done it,”
Paniagua told the AP reporter.
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