REPORT: Los Zetas Sleeper Cells Here in USA
Sleep well: the southern U.S. border is secure
Another under-reported story from along our secure southern border. This time, two to four years after the fact.
“There are sleeper cells in the U.S. [Los Zetas] are here, they’re here in the United States.”
–Det. Robert Garcia, Laredo (TX) Police Department
A random story from along our secured border.
From CNN’s Police: U.S. teens were hit men for Mexican cartel :
Rosalio Reta and his friend, Gabriel Cardona, were members of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors. The third was arrested by Mexican authorities and stabbed to death in prison there three days later.
In interviews with CNN, Laredo police detectives and prosecutors told how Cardona and Reta were recruited by the cartel to be assassins after they began hitting the cantinas and clubs just across the border.
When did all of this take place?
In 2005.
Over a nearly one-year period starting in June 2005, the border town of Laredo, Texas, saw a string of seven murders. At first glance, the violence looked like isolated, gangland-style killings. But investigators started suspecting something more sinister.
When was it reported?
For CNN, 2009. Local media organizations reported in 2007.
Both teenagers received six-month military-style training on a Mexican ranch. Investigators say Cardona and Reta were paid $500 a week each as a retainer, to sit and wait for the call to kill. Then they were paid up to $50,000 and 2 kilos of cocaine for carrying out a hit.
The teenagers lived in several safe houses around Laredo and drove around town in a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz.
Despite the sensational details–there are many more–of the story, how many readers are aware of this story?
Something to ponder while waiting for more information on the “Texas Ranches Seized by Drug Cartel” story.
ALSO at DBKP:
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* REPORTS: Texas Ranches Seized by Mexican Drug Cartel; Violence Spills over Southern Border-UPDATE
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by Mondo Frazier
image: The G manifesto
h/t: LBG
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