Posted on 05/06/2014 11:06:30 AM PDT by mgist
Three enforcers hired by Mexico’s biggest drug cartel flew from Los Angeles to Minnesota last month, kidnapped two local teenagers, and then tortured them for hours at a house in St. Paul in an effort to recover stolen drugs, according to court documents reviewed by the Star Tribune.
Acting under orders from the Sinaloa cartel, the three kidnappers were trying to determine who had stolen 30 pounds of methamphetamine and $200,000 from a stash house on Palace Avenue in St. Paul. Before the episode was over, they had issued death threats against the Minnesota pair and their families, demanding that they find the missing drugs or come up with $300,000 to compensate the cartel.
Two of the three enforcers are now in custody and federal indictments are expected as soon as this week. The case is the latest illustration of the stunning escalation of drug trafficking in Minnesota, which has seen a surge in narcotics dealing, heroin overdoses and drug busts, including a series of raids last month that produced 65 arrests.
Federal authorities who cracked the case say they are not surprised by the no-tolerance approach of the Sinaloa cartel, which has built a multimillion-dollar Midwest drug trade with brutal efficiency. What made this mission startling, they say, is that rather than using its own muscle, the cartel hired members of one of the most feared transnational gangs in the United States and Latin America — the MS-13 organization.
The incident is unprecedented in Minnesota, according to federal investigators, and signals the extreme measures cartels will use to make sure their local operations are not compromised.
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Legalizing will fix everything... /sarc
Too bad our _Resident doesn’t go after terrorists with the same vigor!
These invasions are a direct consequence of nonexistent immigration enforcement. Nonexistent immigration enforcement is due to greed and a power lust; the Democrats want absolute power thus import alien voters; Republicans want cheap workers for their corporate buddies. In addition knowing the foulness of American politicians one can be sure billions are being transferred into their pockets and off shore bank accounts.
My thoughts exactly.
“WaterBoarding”??????????????????
Good Thing Minnesota is such a tolerant state.
Everyone else might not tolerate such a thing.
But I guess if you’re weak and squeamish, you must be OK with it.
“Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.”
Just doing the torturing Americans don’t want to do.
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It is a shame, though, that this did not take place in West Chester Township, Ohio.
Torturing can be an act of love.
That’s also what the Marquise de Sade thought.
Did I read the article correctly.....the FBI raided the hosue with the three in it, they grabbed only one there and another got all the way to LA and the third is still loose? im sure the victims are thrilled to know the MS-13 torture guy that threatened their families is still at large. nice going FBI
Democrats have plenty of corporate buddies as well, maybe more than the Republicans.
Wow.
Two victims, ages 19 and 16. 19 year old is named Antonio Navarro.
You are probably right.
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