Deaths of 3 El Paso-area men in Kentucky linked to drugs

El Paso Times ^ | November 11, 2003 | Associated Press

[FITZ]

Three Texas men whose bodies were found floating in the Kentucky River near Lexington, Ky., in April were murdered because of a drug deal gone bad, a Kentucky State Police detective testified Monday in Fayette County District Court.

Detective James Devasher said Juan Manuel Moreno, 29, of Fabens; Cruz Rincon Alarcon, 37, of San Elizario; and Manuel Armendariz, 49, of El Paso, were killed April 27 in a house in north Lexington before their bodies were thrown into the Kentucky River.

Devasher testified at a preliminary hearing for two of the suspects, 37-year-old Audencio Alkabala-Sanchez and 22-year-old Luis Alberto Alkabala-Sanchez. District Judge Maria Ransdell ruled there was enough evidence against the pair for the case to be heard by the Fayette County grand jury.

[FITZ]

Drug lord murders. No big loss anyhow.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Drug lord murders. No big loss anyhow.

Not really, but how many innocent people are being taken down with them? Drug smuggling alone is reason enough to close the borders, but Washington has its collective head in the sand.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Actually, they were most likely mexican illegal aliens who just happened to sneak into Texas.

Just here to do the work "no one wants to do"...

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Alkabala? Thats a surname I've never heard.

[Old Sarge]

Try spelling it "al-Qabala", and you're on to something...