By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Border Patrol agent with suspected ties to a Mexican drug cartel has been charged in the decapitation death of a man whose body was found floating near Texas’ South Padre Island, the Associated Press reports.
Authorities are investigating whether the 30-year-old agent, Joel Luna, is tied to a Mexican drug cartel that involves his two brothers.
The decapitated body of Honduran native Jose Francisco “Franklin” Rodriguez Palacios Paz was found in March.
Luna, who has been charged with capital murder and other crimes, is jailed without bond.
He is a 6-year veteran of the agency.
