3 illegals buy semi-automatic rifles in TX for drug cartel in Mexico arrested they

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they used fake ID’s. Border Patrol agent down.

Trio Busted Buying Guns For Drug Cartel: ATF

Friday, March 18, 2011

In my opinion:

Fort Worth, Texas -- Ruben Ramirez, Romeo Ramirez and Ernesto Manzanarez are illegal aliens from Mexico. They were arrested and charged with being aliens unlawfully in possession of firearms. They used fake ID’s to buy 4 semi-automatic rifles that cost around 3 grand from a gun store.

After the arrests the rifles were obtained by the police. The authorities also confiscated about 5 grand found in their car and about 2 grand on Ernesto Manzanarez’s person. Mr. Manzanarez told investigators that the notorious Zeta Drug Cartel gave him $10,000.00 cash to buy guns for the cartels use in Mexico.

Luckily the Manager of the gun shop called the Feds and reported them. When they came to pick up the guns the feds followed the illegal aliens and arrested them.

“The Zeta Drug Cartel was founded by former Special Forces soldiers in the Mexican Army, the Zetas are one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels. Once the enforcers for the notorious Gulf Cartel, the Zetas branched out last year and formed their own drug-trafficking organization, according to American drug agents.”

The Zeta Drug Cartel killed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Special Agent Jaime Zapata, and wounded U.S. Agent Victor Avila in Mexico on February 15, 2011. LINK

The weapon that murdered Agent Zapata was sold in Texas and was smuggled into Mexico. The Feds offered a $5 Million Dollar Reward for any information leading to the arrest of the people responsible. So, far they have arrested 3 men who bought and smuggled the weapons into Mexico that killed the Border Patrol agent and wounded the other.

The Mexican government has put up a Reward of 10 million pesos for any information about the ambush and murder. The two agents were believe to have been targeted as they were driving in a Chevy SUV. “Mexico's drug cartels frequently set up roadblocks and ambushes to steal large SUVs and pickups.”

It’s said that Agent Zapata and Agent Avila were deliberately attacked in an attempted assassin by the Zeta drug cartel.

“Dallas is believed to be a “command and control” center, a hub where the Zetas and another cartel known as “La Familia” coordinate drug shipments throughout the United States, according to drug agents.”

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Trio Busted Buying Guns For Drug Cartel: ATF
$3,000 in semi-automatic rifles were destined for the Zetas, federal agents say
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Three-Men-Busted-Buying-Guns-For-Drug-Cartel-ATF-118246884.html


$5 Million Bounty Offered for ICE Agent Killers
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/5-Million-Bounty-Offered-for-ICE-Agent-Killers-118937319.html

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Brains'll only get ya so far, an' luck eventually runs out - Thelma & Louise...
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Mexico Zeta drug gang leader 'El Lucky' arrested
12 December 2011 - A key leader of Mexico's powerful Zetas drug cartel, Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga, has been arrested in the state of Veracruz, say officials.
Hernandez Lechuga, alias El Lucky, was allegedly a founding member of the cartel and ran its activities in Veracruz, Puebla and Oaxaca states. Security forces had placed a 15m peso (£700,000: $1m) bounty on his head. At least 40,000 people are thought to have died in drugs-related violence in Mexico in the past five years.

Mexico's navy said marines had captured Hernandez Lechuga in the Veracruz town of Cordoba, where the Zetas have been battling another powerful cartel, the Sinaloa, for control of the lucrative drugs market. President Felipe Calderon also announced the capture on Twittter.

Some 50,000 troops and federal police are actively involved in tackling the country's drugs gangs, with top leaders being targeted. Mr Calderon says 22 of the 37 most-wanted drug lords have now been accounted for.

BBC News - Mexico Zeta drug gang leader 'El Lucky' arrested

See also:

Mexico navy catches a founder of Zetas drug cartel
December 12, 2011 —Mexican marines captured a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel Monday, the navy announced.
Marines arrested Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga in the city of Cordoba in the state of Veracruz, where the Zetas are fighting for control against a gang allied to the Sinaloa drug cartel, the navy said in a statement. Hernandez, known as "Lucky," was the leader of the Zetas for the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Oaxaca, it said. The federal government had offered a 15 million-peso reward, about $1.2 million, for information leading to his arrest. The Zetas organization was formed by a small group of elite soldiers based in Tamaulipas state, across the border from Texas, who deserted to work for the Gulf drug cartel in the 1990s. The Zetas began gaining independence from the Gulf cartel after their then leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was extradited to the U.S. in 2006. They finally split from their former bosses last year, setting off bloody fights throughout Mexico as they seek to expand south.

The navy didn't say if Hernandez was a soldier when he joined the Zetas in the 1990s or give any other details about him. Earlier Monday, the Mexican army said its soldiers battled suspected drug cartel members just south of the Texas border, killing 11 gunmen. One soldier was reported wounded. The clash began when soldiers on patrol were fired on Saturday from a building in the city of Valle Hermoso, south of Brownsville, Texas, the Defense Department said in a news release. The troops later seized the building, finding 11 dead gunmen and 73 rifles inside, it said. Two suspects were arrested. The wounded soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment. His condition was unknown. Both the Gulf and Zetas drug cartels operate in that area.

In Veracruz, a Gulf coast state bordering Tamaulipas to the south, unidentified assailants tossed a bomb into a building where a cockfight was being held early Sunday, state prosecutors said in a statement. One man was killed and nine others slightly wounded, the statement said. The wounded were treated at hospitals and released. State prosecutors did not specify what type of explosive was involved. They also did not say if they had arrested any suspects or uncovered a motive for the attack. Federal prosecutors also announced Monday that a judge sentenced five former soldiers to 25-year prison terms for aiding a drug cartel.

The rare convictions occurred in the northern state of Sinaloa, home to the drug cartel of the same name. The five included a major assigned to the military court system, three lieutenants and a sergeant. They were convicted of organized crime and assisting in drug trafficking. Prosecutors said in a statement the former officers gave "strategic military information and protection" to Alfredo Beltran Leyva, who was a leader of the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel before he was arrested in January 2008. Beltran Leyva and his brothers were allied with the Sinaloa cartel, but the two gangs split in part because of Alfredo's arrest.

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Cartel influence reaching into the US...
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DOJ: Sinaloa Cartel’s Influence Extends Well Beyond Border Into ‘Much’ of the U.S.
January 5, 2012 – The Sinaloa criminal cartel uses its control of drug corridors on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border to extend its influence well beyond the border area into “much of the United States,” according to the Department of Justice.
U.S. prosecutors have described Sinaloa as “one of the largest narcotics trafficking organizations in the world.” A member of the cartel, who is facing federal charges in Chicago, claims that he was allowed to traffic tons of drugs into the United States under an immunity deal granted by the U.S. government in exchange for information on rival cartels – a deal allegedly linked to the aborted law enforcement operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

In its Drug Market Analysis 2011 for Arizona, the DOJ’s National Drug Intelligence Center reports that the cartel “dominates drug trafficking routes in Sonora, Mexico, and also controls the drug trafficking corridors in Arizona adjacent to Sonora.” “The numerous Mexican organizations that constitute the Sinaloa Cartel, such as the Guzmán-Loera and Zambada-Garcia DTOs [drug trafficking organizations] control most drug corridors that cross the international border between Mexico and Arizona, including the Tohono O’odham Nation Indian Reservation and the Nogales POE [U.S. port of entry],” it says.

“The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimates that the Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated DTOs control approximately 90 percent of the drugs that cross the border into Arizona. The cartel also controls much of the illicit money and weapons trafficking along the Arizona–Mexico border and within most areas of the Arizona HIDTA [High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area] region. “The Sinaloa Car*tel’s wholesale distribution of heroin and marijuana extends beyond Arizona HIDTA counties to much of the United States,” the analysis adds.

“Local law enforcement agencies within the HIDTA region report that most of the marijuana and heroin that transits the Mexico–Arizona border area is destined for other domestic markets, including those in East Coast states such as New York, Georgia, and Florida, and Midwestern states such as Missouri and Iowa,” the report continues. “Additionally, the Sinaloa Cartel smuggles large quantities of drugs into the United States through California that members use to supply the Arizona HIDTA region as well as other domestic markets.”

According to the White House, the HIDTA is a federally funded program created by Congress through the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. It brings together federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies in task forces that conduct investigations into traffickers in areas identified as “critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States.” HIDTA-designated regions are located across the continental U.S. including the nation’s capital, as well as in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Why would they need more weapons when (you gotta know when to holder and know when to folder) Holder sent them 2.000 illegal weapons a couple of years ago
 
Fortunately, they bought those guns from a gun store, where they are a little more extra careful about who they sell to since it can come back and bite them in the butt. But the gun shows are another story. Their was a good story on one of the channels that regularly shows stuff like that. The only ones required to run a background check are the licensed gun dealers. The single individuals there to sell items personally don't have to run any sort of check. They bought 15,000 dollars worth of guns and were never even asked for a drivers license. And once outside, they were offered 3 times the amount they paid. And daveman, I have to agree with you. Holder, Obama, and everyine else involved in fast and furious needs to be in jail. That's where you and I would be if we had done it.
 
70% Of Guns Seized Traceable To US...
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Mexico Seized 68,000 Guns Traceable to U.S.
Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 (WASHINGTON) — The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States.
The flood of tens of thousands of weapons underscores complaints from Mexico that the U.S. is responsible for arming the drug cartels plaguing its southern neighbor. Six years of violence between warring cartels have killed more than 47,000 people in Mexico. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its latest data covering 2007 through 2011. According to ATF, many of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to ATF for tracing were recovered at the scenes of cartel shootings while others were seized in raids on illegal arms caches. All the recovered weapons were suspected of being used in crimes in Mexico.

At an April 2 North American summit in Washington, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the U.S. government has not done enough to stop the flow of assault weapons and other guns from the U.S. to Mexico. Calderon credited President Barack Obama with making an effort to reduce the gun traffic, but said Obama faces "internal problems ... from a political point of view." There is Republican opposition in Congress and broad opposition from Republicans and gun-rights advocates elsewhere to a new assault weapons ban or other curbs on gun sales. The Obama administration says it is working to tighten inspections of border checkpoints in the absence of an assault rifle ban that expired before Obama took office.

For more than a year, ATF has been reeling from accusations that some of its agents in Arizona were ordered by superiors to step aside rather than intercept illicit loads of weapons headed for Mexico. The Justice Department's inspector general and Congress have been looking into the Arizona gun probe, Operation Fast and Furious. The issue of gun control legislation hasn't been part of the Republican-led probe of Fast and Furious by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The number of all types of ATF-traced firearms manufactured in the U.S. or imported into the U.S. and later recovered in Mexico rose from 11,842 in 2007 to 14,504 in 2011, according to ATF. The figures for U.S.-sourced firearms were 21,035 in 2008; 14,376 for 2009; and 6,404 in 2010. Included in those totals, the number of rifles recovered in Mexico, submitted to ATF for tracing and found to have come from the U.S. rose from 4,885 in 2007 to 8,804 last year.

Read more: Mexico Seized 68,000 Guns Traceable to U.S. - TIME
 
If Mexico claims that the responsibility of stopping drugs from entering the USA, falls on the USA, why then does the USA not claim that the responsibility of stopping weapons from entering Mexico, is MEXICO'S?????? I would suspect that Mexico is very aware of how inept and corrupt they are so it behooves them to blame the USA for EVERYTHING!!!! And - expect the USA to do it for them.
 
Fortunately, they bought those guns from a gun store, where they are a little more extra careful about who they sell to since it can come back and bite them in the butt. But the gun shows are another story. Their was a good story on one of the channels that regularly shows stuff like that. The only ones required to run a background check are the licensed gun dealers. The single individuals there to sell items personally don't have to run any sort of check. They bought 15,000 dollars worth of guns and were never even asked for a drivers license. And once outside, they were offered 3 times the amount they paid. And daveman, I have to agree with you. Holder, Obama, and everyine else involved in fast and furious needs to be in jail. That's where you and I would be if we had done it.

Valid, unbiased link...... you know, that thing called backing up your "story" with factual evidence.
 

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