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Feds: Latin Kings leader put out $10,000 hit on ICE commander in Chicago
CWB Chicago ^ | October 6, 2025 | Tim Hecke

Posted on 10/06/2025 2:49:30 PM PDT by PBRCat

Federal prosecutors say a Latin King gang leader offered a $10,000 bounty for the killing of a senior immigration enforcement officer after an ICE agent shot a woman in Chicago this weekend. A source familiar with the investigation identified the intended target as Commander Gregory Bovino, who has been leading the Border Patrol’s high-profile “Midway Blitz” operation in the city.

Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, known by the street name “Monkey,” is accused of offering $10,000 reward for Bovino’s murder and $2,000 for information about Bovino’s location.

Investigators linked Martinez to the communications through subscriber records and a phone number tied to his CashApp account. Surveillance teams later observed him driving a red 2014 Ford pickup truck registered in his name near the gang’s stronghold in Little Village.

The complaint states Martinez has the authority to order violent acts including murder and notes the gang’s long-standing reputation for carrying out “hits” against rivals and law enforcement.

Martinez is charged with murder-for-hire.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; chicago; democratcorruption; democratmayors; democratpartyrule; gangs; ice; illegals; juanespinozamartinez; latinkings; latinkingsrfairgame; peoplenation; vicelords

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The liberal enablers opposing ICE and DHS are helping criminals in Illinois!
1 posted on 10/06/2025 2:49:30 PM PDT by PBRCat
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“”””The complaint states Martinez has the authority to order violent acts including murder and notes the gang’s long-standing reputation for carrying out “hits” against rivals and law enforcement.””””

And Pritzker and the idiot mayor protect him and the other gangsters.


2 posted on 10/06/2025 2:53:13 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: PBRCat

Let’s put a 100k bounty on “monkey.”


3 posted on 10/06/2025 3:02:08 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: PBRCat

Money needs to rot behind bars.


4 posted on 10/06/2025 3:04:53 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Monkey needs to rot behind bars.

(Damn auto correct.)


5 posted on 10/06/2025 3:05:44 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: PBRCat

so why is he still breathing?


6 posted on 10/06/2025 3:08:22 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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,,, it’s the death penalty in Thailand for being caught with drugs. Start talking about it in the US and things will slow down. Legislate it and it will mean production will continue but distribution will get shakey. Any politician who goes against the idea may just be on the take.


7 posted on 10/06/2025 3:10:56 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: PBRCat

When you take the baby off the teat it cries and squabbles for a while.


8 posted on 10/06/2025 3:12:27 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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offering $10,000 reward for Bovino’s murder

But you first have to live to collect...

9 posted on 10/06/2025 3:21:44 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MV=PY

Amusing but probably once the Civil War II is officially designated as such, the side bets and hit bounties will be invalid.

“This isn’t ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
——Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) to Smokey in The Big Lebowski


10 posted on 10/06/2025 3:29:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: sit-rep

RE: so why is he still breathing?

I say that every day to the TV set when I watch “certain politicians” of “certain political persuasions” saying “certain things” on the news.
😉

(Nod to Hillary for style of innuendo.)


11 posted on 10/06/2025 3:32:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Perhaps the government should return the favor: $10K dead or alive.


12 posted on 10/06/2025 3:32:53 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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How can the gang leader guarantee that the payoff cash will be unmarked bills and nonsequential ones?

Maybe bitcoin? Or payoff in best seats tickets to playoffs, Superbowl and Taylor Swift concerts.

And we will later have to remember it should be “hitperson” rather than the old “hitman” in the news later.


13 posted on 10/06/2025 3:35:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37.....is accused of offering $10,000 reward for Bovino’s murder and $2,000 for information about Bovino’s location.

The complaint states Martinez has the authority to order violent acts including murder and notes the gang’s long-standing reputation for carrying out “hits” against rivals and law enforcement. Martinez is charged with murder-for-hire.

We need to employ the death penalty more often. This kind of stuff NEEDS to stop.

14 posted on 10/06/2025 3:37:04 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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RE: Let’s put a 100k bounty on “monkey.”

And specify that we mean that one in the gang, not the many on the Dem side of the aisle in Congress.


15 posted on 10/06/2025 3:37:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: metmom

It will have to be a Federal prosecution to impose a death sentence. The Democrats abolished the death penalty in Illinois.


16 posted on 10/06/2025 3:46:47 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: MV=PY

Better a Hellfire missile.


17 posted on 10/06/2025 4:25:36 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PBRCat

The post states they observed him in his vehicle but didn’t stop and arrest him? What did I miss here?


18 posted on 10/06/2025 4:42:32 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: reg45

I’d say a couple 105 shells from an AC130, but there’d probably be a little too much collateral damage.


19 posted on 10/06/2025 6:45:52 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: PBRCat

And the democraps cheer


20 posted on 10/06/2025 7:55:41 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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