Posted on 02/01/2025 2:17:46 PM PST by DFG
A former Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputy in South Texas will spend almost four years in prison for his role in staging fake drug busts as a way to steal drugs from drug cartel members.
This week, 39-year-old Baldemar Cardenas went before U.S. Chief District Judge Randy Crane at a federal courthouse in McAllen, Texas, where he received a sentence of three years and ten months in prison for cocaine possession and distribution conspiracy. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, Cardenas pleaded guilty to the charge in April 2022.
Breitbart Texas had initially reported on Cardenas in April 2022 when he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge for his role in helping a group of drug traffickers steal drug shipments.
According to prosecutors, in 2020, Cardenas would help smugglers who would receive kilogram shipments of cocaine from Mexico. The group would then repackage the drugs and, in the process, cut or dilute the drugs to a purity level of just 1.5 percent. Cardenas would then tip off law enforcement.
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If he had ripped off cartel members, he would be in witness protection, or on the bottom of the Gulf of America.
Bring back the stocks, please.
I somehow think his prison time will be short if he ripped off the cartels, early release to the county morgue.
Deputy in Prison: Ultimate Survival
Might be a short series, though.
Season 1, Episode 1. Cancelled.
True, but think of the advertising...
Will he survive Season 1?
“Deputy in Prison: Ultimate Survival”
*evil grin*
Speaking of Survival Reality TV-does anyone have the
meme of that young guy with an evil grin standing
right behind two female contestants that were
horrified at what they saw?
I just love HIS evil grin!
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