"Probably my Baby Blue. They can't get enough of it."
Posted on 02/14/2020 11:48:58 AM PST by CedarDave
A South Side Locos street gang member arrested on drug and weapons charges told members of an FBI task force that – in addition to drugs and cash – he had a machine gun and other firearms in his house because Albuquerque is “a crazy place” and “very violent.”
The agents were investigating a gang that was robbing street-level drug dealers when they raided the home of Manuel Humberto Bolivar, 21, earlier this month.
Bolivar, who is known as “Manny,” “Gino,” “G” and “Little Sapo,” was charged in federal court with possession of a machine gun, possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
After arranging for undercover drug purchases from Bolivar, agents conducted a predawn raid on his home in Southwest Albuquerque, finding 3 pounds of methamphetamine, almost $16,000 in cash, five pistols and two rifles, 96 fentanyl tablets, 155 packaged strips of suboxone, a bulletproof vest, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
A lower-level drug dealer had told agents that Bolivar was a “big-time plug” who had supplied him with drugs more than a thousand times. The lower-level dealer told agents Bolivar received drugs from an organization in Mexico.
Federal court documents identified Bolivar as a member of the South Side Locos ... The South Side Locos gang originated in Southern California and has factions in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada.
If convicted, Bolivar faces a minimum of 10 years to life in prison for methamphetamine possession, up to 20 years in prison for fentanyl possession, up to 10 years in prison for possession of a machine gun, and a consecutive sentence of a minimum of five years in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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Indeed ABQ can be a violent place, mainly along Central Avenue east of the University of NM (homeless people, petty thieves), in an area of SE ABQ known as the "International Zone" (formerly known as the War Zone"), and in areas of the South Valley southwest ABQ. You aren't likely to be attacked by gangs of 'utes like in the big cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc. but best not to be there after dark. Lots of the crime is drug related as stated in the article but other crime is domestic violence by people crazy on drugs, drunk or pissed off by an ex-girlfriend, etc.
Send him to New York or San Francisco?
[[If convicted, Bolivar faces a minimum of 10 years]]
Hmmm- a man who simply burned a homo flag got 16 years
The primary effect of the War on Drugs is to give criminals additional means and motive for violence.
"Probably my Baby Blue. They can't get enough of it."
Some guy names Stone was Swatted, bankrupted and possible nine years and all he did was jokingly speak ill of a doggie and got tripped up by “investigators” lying to the government. This guy should get the electric chair in comparison
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Faggotry is protected.
Fwiw, Canon USA chose ABQ as their site when looking for a place out West. Loco
I think this is well known, is it not?
In New Mexico so is late term and partial birth abortion,
True, NM is number 1 or 2 per capita in national crime statistics, especially auto theft and homicides.
Thank God the NM democrats got their red flag law pushed thru so fast. /sarc off
The 4 DOJ Stone prosecutors would probably ask for 3 to 5 years.
Breaking Bad takes place there! I’ve only been to Tuscon, Arizona, and it seemed like a dangerous enough place. I was only there for a couple of days.
Out by dark on OR in NY and CA.
There are seperate stints of time for each crime.
He faces a minimum of 35 years in prison.
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