Posted on 05/05/2010 4:36:42 AM PDT by dennisw
Mexican soldiers have seized an arsenal of gold-plated and diamond-encrusted weapons believed to belong to the Valencia gang, allies of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel and, it seems, fans of hip-hip excess.
Showing just how flamboyant gang members spend much of their ill-gotten wealth, pictures show how most of the 31 'pimped' pistols found in a raid on a home in western Mexico had gold or silver-plated grips or were glittered with diamonds.
Three of the assault rifles are almost entirely gold-plated and there was even a silencer plated with gold. One particularly image-conscious gangster has made his pistol unique by adding rows of gaudy red and green jewels and a Ferrari logo.
Identification documents were found at the home on the outskirts of the western city of Guadalajara in the name of Oscar Nava Valencia.
The Attorney General's Office said he is a leader of the Valencia gang who has worked with Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.
On Mexico's southern Pacific coast, the Mexican navy announced that a Mexican fishing boat and its five-member crew had been captured while transporting nearly 5,300 pounds (2,400kg) of cocaine.
The 78ft boat was detained on April 27 in international waters, after local authorities received information from U.S. officials. They found 105 bales of cocaine in hidden compartments in the boat's fuel tanks.
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The acessory every well dressed gangster cant be without...
This should be a gun porn ping!
Ah, yessssss.......I’m absolutely positive that they bought all those firearms legally in US gun shops, pimped out exactly as shown. (sarc)
Do TX, NM, AZ and CA gun shows have fancy guns like those for sale?
A girly-pink sparkle-glittered Kalashnikov with the “Hello Kitty” logo would be more discrete and tasteful.
A girly-pink sparkle-glittered Kalashnikov with the “Hello Kitty” logo would be more discrete and tasteful.
Kalashnikitty is fine as far as it goes, but if I were a nasty mean druglord I would prefer:
http://www.savingadvice.com/images/blog/hellokittygun1.jpg
http://www.riflegear.com/blogimages/KittyRifle.jpg
Chantal Esteves admitted in court she signed several money orders knowing the money was derived from the criminal activity of her husband. Chantal Esteves kept a large collection of Prada shoes costing between $500 to $1,000 a pair, according to authorities. Vicente Esteves kept about 100 Rolex watches. Federal authorities say the Esteves' lavish lifestyle included cash expenditures in excess of $5 million over a seven-year period.
Vicente and Chantal Esteves' NJ home was appraised at more than $2 million. The fortress-like home featured a 30-seat home movie theater and backyard volleyball court.
According to authorities, the drug ring supplied drugs — imported from the Dominican Republic through Atlanta — to New Jersey, Florida, Georgia and other states.
Vicente Esteves also is named in a 36-count federal indictment that alleges that lawyer Paul Bergrin met with a Chicago hitman to try to arrange the murder of a witness who was to testify against Esteves in the drug case. That murder never happened, prosecutors said, because the hitman contracted by Bergrin was a government informant.
Those are awesome!
And if I were (e.g.) a Russian Mafia boss, killing someone with a Kalashnikitty or a My Little Pony Glock would be a much more impressive statement that if I had used one of those Liberace-gay diamond-encrusted weapons.
Patton: They’re ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.
So what gun show in the US did they get these from?
The firearm as a work of art is a very old tradition. Much of the European aristocracy possessed jewelled and intricately carved firearms. Old muskets and dueling pistols were commonly “blinged” out . . . usually a little more tasteful than these, but essentially the same thing.
I would be embarrassed to have a pink gun! I sure hope nobody ever gives me one as a gift—
This makes no sense, given that most Mexicans demonstrate such subtle elegance when customizing their vehicles.
wow, those are some ugly guns! Worshipping the god of death and murder..the devil himself..who has aweful taste!
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