Posted on 12/21/2006 5:41:18 PM PST by Kitten Festival
The Law: We doubt anyone's facing worse charges in U.S. courts than drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix. So why is the Justice Department hesitating to suggest the death penalty?
To put it delicately, this guy's a monster. Apprehended in August by the Drug Enforcement Administration in international waters off Baja California, Arellano was charged in U.S. federal court in San Diego on Wednesday in a string of grotesque crimes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The seven-count indictment covers crimes mostly connected to operating a continuing criminal enterprise. He's also charged with murder. But that seems only to scratch the surface of what this thug was capable of.
In his heyday, Arellano's Tijuana/Sinaloa cartel controlled about a quarter of all drugs — a Bacchanalia of cocaine, heroin, meth, marijuana, amphetamine — rolling into the U.S.
Arellano also trafficked in destruction. From the scariest drug lord to the lowest junkie, virtually every drug criminal throughout the U.S. Southwest or northern Mexico had an Arellano connection, and the cartel had all the discrimination of a plague.
For those who got in Arellano's way — including church leaders who condemned him, police chiefs who were out to arrest him or journalists who got too close to the truth — death was his answer.
Last summer, Arellano ordered the decapitation of three policemen whose heads were stuffed in a bag and deposited on a downtown Tijuana expressway.
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Works for me.
People should only know what has been going on in Tijuana in the past yrs. The Marxism, corruption, etc and their illegals.
The Felix Cartel is no different than the mafia only worse.
This also spills across the border to here in San Diego.
Arellano looks like a dead shark. Let's hope that gets literal.
Yep. That's exactly why this animal should be put down.
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