wonder how much the judge got paid?
Posted on 11/20/2018 12:00:08 AM PST by blueplum
The meeting between top Mexican federal police officers and the head of the violent Beltran-Leyva drug cartel took place at a quiet ranch in central Mexico. The officers, including then-Cmdr. Ivan Reyes Arzate, told the cartel leader of an informant in his operation who'd been arrested in Miami and was providing information to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, leading to the seizure of several boatloads of narcotics on the open seas, according to testimony Thursday in a federal courtroom in Chicago.
The officers then identified the informant and handed his photo to an irate Arturo Beltran-Leyva. Within days, the informant was kidnapped and murdered, authorities say.
The details of the 2008 meeting outside Mexico City came at a dramatic, daylong sentencing hearing in federal court in Chicago for Reyes Arzate, who pleaded "no contest" earlier this year to charges he leaked sensitive information to the cartels about U.S.-led drug investigations.
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He was/is "cartel".
I think there are very few "police" in Mexico, though many may wear a uniform.
Once you go South of our border everyone with a badge has their hand out.
The plea deal virtually required a light sentence. The DEA and the Feds in general do not want the details of the case aired publicly. The price of US law enforcement being able to operate in Mexico is to accommodate the corruption that permeates Mexico at every level.
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Interesting. How did Arzate and that so called crooked Mexican cops “meeting with cartel butchers get used and wind up being turned over to Chicago Feds for trial ?
Chicago is Sinoloan territory. The Mexican cartels have pushed everybody else into being minority players.
USSA = Banana Republic.
Reason Number 17: Public safety will not or cannot protect its informants.
wonder how much the judge got paid?
According to the title of this article, they gave this guy a prison.
Imagine what he can now do with it!
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