By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Investments in the drug cartel world apparently know no bounds. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western Texas District announced Tuesday the indictment of 14 members of Mexico’s Los Zetas cartel for laundering money by purchasing, breeding and racing American quarter horses in the U.S. Those indicted included Los Zetas leader…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities have arrested a high ranking member of the Zeta drug cartel in connection with the massacre of 49 people whose dismembered bodies were recently found dumped on the highway between Monterrey and Reynosa, near the entrance to San Juan. Reuters reports that Daniel Elizondo, the leader of the Zetas drug…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. likes to think that it contributes positively to many countries. In Mexico, that’s not always the case. ATF reports that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities between January 2007 and December 2011 were traced back to the U.S., USA Today reports. The paper reported that many weapons were recovered…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It’s all fun and games til your toy purchases may be supporting international drug cartels. An 18-month investigation of L.A.company, Woody’s Toys Inc., by Homeland Security’s ICE and the DEA’s Southern California Drug Task Force yielded video of employees receiving bricks of cash in fast food chain parking lots, among other incriminating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have busted U.S. Border Patrol agent from El Paso and his girlfriend on charges of buying high powered weapons and ammunition to smuggle into Mexico, the El Paso Times reported. Agent Ricardo Montalvo, 28, and his girlfriend, Carla Gonzales-Ortiz, 29, were arrested on conspiracy, firearms and smuggling charges, the…
Mexico’s Violence Our Problem Too, Ex-FBI Agent Says: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
By Mariano Castillo CNN Mexico has landed some hard punches against the drug cartels that have stirred violence in parts of the country — at least on paper. In 2011, against just the notorious Zetas cartel, Mexico ended the reign of 16 leaders who ran cartel operations at the state or national level. Thugs with…
By Nick Miroff and William Booth Washington Post. MEXICO CITY — When U.S. special agent Jaime Zapata was shot dead one year ago on a notorious stretch of highway in central Mexico, he was driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban, built to exacting government standards, designed to defeat high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines….
