Posted on 04/01/2013 2:22:23 PM PDT by Gorilla44
Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.
If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels' move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering.
Cartel activity in the U.S. is certainly not new. Starting in the 1990s, the ruthless syndicates became the nation's No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, using unaffiliated middlemen to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and heroin beyond the border or even to grow pot here.
But a wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. Cartel operatives are suspected of running drug-distribution networks in at least nine non-border states, often in middle-class suburbs in the Midwest, South and Northeast.
"It's probably the most serious threat the United States has faced from organized crime," said Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
As Cartels’ gain a foothold in America they will no long need to payoff big city Democrats, they’ll just kill them -it’s cheaper.
I think it is related to child sex trafficking... his wife was a psychiatric nurse and he was going after cases related to that...
Were the deaths of DA McLelland and Hasse related to their ‘exposure’ of the ‘good ole boy’ network in Kaufman County, Texas and the child kidnapping ring being run out of Child Protective Services?
Remember what happened to the late Senator Nancy Schaefer of Georgia after exposing the CPS... Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring and was murdered along with her husband shortly afterwards.
If anything is bigger than Texas... this is it...
Like we needed AP to tell us that our gun-running executive branch of govt already helped to arm. Ask the people of Arizona how it feels to get attacked by our own federal government crime bosses for trying to fight this organized foreign criminal invasion.
For a change?
Makes me think of those movies where law enforcement is completely compromised and filled from the top down with moles who carry out the bidding of their puppet masters.
We are “the world’s most lucrative narcotics market”.
Thank you, Left, for our loss of moral fiber.
Hey Gorilla...This shit has been happening for 30 years now...
Maybe this should be in breaking news huh?
And let’s keep them borders WIDE OPEN.
With all due respect to fire breathers...dopers....jbt boot lickers.....Lon Horuchi poster boys.....BLOATS....the latter being my crowd
I’m 55
I have heard this is soon to be the biggest crime wave....the worst drug ever....the most violent organized crime....since the 1960s
Whatever
No doubt the border is open to future libtard voters
But every threat I have seen is always the worst ever
And an excuse for more govt
More intrusion into our liberty
And bigger budgets for the JBT industrial complex
And one fact wrong
The guerilla pot growers in Kali are not cartels so much as homegrown Mex gangs like surenos and nortenos and so forth
Violent yes but south of border cartels no
Why do that here...they can grow master kush on a Sinaloa or Chiapas hillside with impunity
With all due respect to fire breathers...dopers....jbt boot lickers.....Lon Horuchi poster boys.....BLOATS....the latter being my crowd
I’m 55
I have heard this is soon to be the biggest crime wave....the worst drug ever....the most violent organized crime
Whatever
No doubt the border is open to future libtard voters
But every threat I have seen is always the worst ever
And an excuse for more govt
More intrusion into our liberty
And bigger budgets for the JBT industrial complex
And one fact wrong
The guerilla pot growers in Kali are not cartels so much as homegrown Mex gangs like surenos and nortenos and so forth
Violent yes but south of border cartels no
Why do that here...they can grow master kush on a Sinaloa or Chiapas hillside with impunity
Thank you, Left, for our loss of moral fiber.
And thank you, Drug Warriors, for making that loss a criminal profit opportunity.
The ‘biggest threat in organized crime’ huh? I guess it’s true, at least the Mafia and even the Russian syndicates had some decency and respect for the community. These Mexican cartels don’t seem to care who they have to kill to continue their march into the American heartland!
//I think it is related to child sex trafficking... his wife was a psychiatric nurse and he was going after cases related to that...
Were the deaths of DA McLelland and Hasse related to their ‘exposure’ of the ‘good ole boy’ network in Kaufman County, Texas and the child kidnapping ring being run out of Child Protective Services?
Remember what happened to the late Senator Nancy Schaefer of Georgia after exposing the CPS... Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring and was murdered along with her husband shortly afterwards.//
Thanks for info.
I think McLelland’s wife was a target also... not just in the wrong place at the wrong time...
The killer(s) needed them both, otherwise they would have done McLelland when he was alone like Hasse.
Why would they risk a remote possibility of other people in the house beside the two victims?
That would be messy and have possibilities of witnesses.
Why, if my impressions of the scene described are accurate, would Mrs. McLelland even open the door or go to the door at that time of night?
Why wasn’t McLelland being watched after the murder of Hasse?
Was he deliberately put in a security vacuum?
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