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Author: Corrupt U.S. Government official operating illegally with Mexican Drug Cartels for profit
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Sept 19, 2009 2:00 PM PDT
As an ICE official he invested cash in global drug deals endangered the lives of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement by selling secret U.S. Government information to Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC’s) and ran huge cocaine shipments to Spain via US ports. Feds say he joined cartel full time after he retired from ICE.
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. anti-drug complex was arrested by DEA agents last month and is behind bars in Florida awaiting the results of a Federal Grand Jury investigation. Cramer was arrested and jailed after U.S. Government officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling vital information in law enforcement databases to a vicious Mexican Drug Cartel.
Cramer, as a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, held front-line posts both in the United States and in Mexico in regards to the War on Drugs. Cramer sometime later was investing in drugs and trafficking as a full partner in Mexico’s murderous drug cartels. According to records made available to the Laguna Journal, he led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and others as the attaché officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara Mexico and worked with the U.S. Mexican Embassy in Mexico City and U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara and other Mexican cities.
According to documents obtained by this writer while employed as a high ranking U.S. law enforcement agent in Mexico, Cramer was also allegedly operating illegally by serving as a sort of secret agent and a full blown business partner of some of Mexico’s richest and most blood thirsty drug lords. According to federal investigators he was operating as a key Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who operated freely moving back and forth from Mexico to the U.S. He was allegedly “a secret ally of drug lords,” reported the L.A. Times.
A Mexican Drug Cartel boss “convinced Cramer to retire … and start working directly for (him) in drug trafficking and money laundering,” the complaint says. Cramer continued to sell secret documents that he obtained from active U.S. agents. This is a troubling aspect of the case still being investigated, the official said.
The charges underscore the corruptive might of the cartels, which have bought off Mexican politicians, police chiefs and military commandos. Drug lords have reached across the border with increasing ease, corrupting U.S. border inspectors and agents to help smuggle cocaine north. In 2006, the FBI chief in El Paso was convicted of charges related to having concealed his friendship with an alleged Mexican drug kingpin.
Cramer stands out because his rank and foreign post made his work especially sensitive, officials said. Stunned colleagues described him as a well-regarded investigator who spoke fluent Spanish and operated skillfully in the array of U.S. and Mexican agencies at the border when he ran the ICE office in the action-packed border zone of Nogales, Ariz., his hometown.
“It came as a complete shock,” said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada in a telephone interview. “I have been in law enforcement at the border 42 years and I have seen some weird things, but I have never stopped to be surprised. You have to be watchful and mindful. The cartels have touched local, state and federal agencies.”
Estrada worked with Cramer at the Nogales police in 1979, and encountered him periodically as Cramer rose through the federal ranks.
About five months ago, Cramer showed up at the sheriff’s office in the small county on the border, Estrada said. He applied for a job as a county detention officer, which pays about ,000 a year, Estrada said. In contrast, Cramer’s federal rank probably commanded a salary of between 0,000 and 0,000, plus benefits, officials say.
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Estrada, surprised, told Cramer that working as a jail guard would be “quite a drop,” the sheriff recalled.
“He said he wanted to keep being active, go back to his roots, keep busy,” Estrada said. “So we place him through … polygraph, background checks. We didn’t find anything suspicious.”
“The suspected criminal activity that Cramer has really been charged with occurred in 2007 while he was working as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to a sealed criminal complaint issued on Aug. 28 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami,” noted the Arizona Star.
“Cramer’s duties as the ICE attache in Guadalajara included serving as a liaison with Mexican police,” the paper noted. “But the investigation revealed that he worked for ‘a very high-level drug lord,’ the federal official said. In a dark twist on the trend of former federal officials going into private consulting, the government veteran became a full-time adviser to traffickers after retiring from ICE in January 2007, Court documents reveal.”
Cramer allegedly advised traffickers on law enforcement tactics and pulled secret files to help them identify turncoats. He charged ,000 for a Drug Enforcement Administration document that was sent to a suspect in Miami by e-mail in August, authorities say.
“Cramer was responsible for advising the (drug traffickers) how U.S. law enforcement works with warrants and record checks as well as how DEA conducts investigations to include ‘flipping subjects,’” or recruiting informants, according to a criminal complaint filed by a DEA agent.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in Miami said Wednesday that she could not comment, but said that cases begun with complaints usually go before grand juries.
Arizona-based Green valley News and Sun added: “He is accused of negotiating cocaine shipments from Panama to Spain while he was working for ICE out of the Guadalajara office, according to the criminal complaint filed.“ The complaint also says Cramer and the smuggling organization invested about 0,000 in a 660-pound shipment of cocaine. The cocaine was shipped from Panama and went through the U.S. en route to Spain, where it was seized in June 2007.”
The U.S. government information he allegedly sold to the MDC’s “allegedly helped the Mexican drug lord conduct an internal hunt for [...] informants and so called turn coats and could have led to murders of U.S. informants and whose families were to be kidnapped in retaliation, one government official said who insisted on remaining anonymous.
The paper added: “Negotiations broke down between Cramer and the head of the trafficking organization that was looking for someone to blame for the losses in Spain. A fourth informant finally approached American law enforcement and told them he spoke with Cramer on a push-to-talk phone.
Mexican Drug Cartels and other drug traffickers use the Direct Connect for immediate communications that is offered by push-to-talk devices. The push to talk keyboard gives the MDC’s a better way to instantly communicate with friends, family and colleagues,” By combining Nextel Direct Connect with text messaging, Sprint customers have two of the most efficient ways to get business done wirelessly.”
The Java nabled Motorola Clutch i465 meets Military Specification 810F for low pressure, high and low temperatures, dust, shock, vibration and even solar radiation, featuring VGA camera, 1.8-inch screen with 128 x 160 pixels resolution, GPS, Bluetooth, and Group Messaging that allows for instant text communications with a large group of up to 20 people.
“Motorola Clutch was designed to give serious texters and talkers multiple ways to get the word out,” said Rick Gadd, vice president for Motorola Mobile Devices. “With a full QWERTY keyboard featuring shortcut keys, IM-style texting and push-to-talk technology which works like a verbal IM, Sprint customers are able to keep in constant contact, no matter how they prefer to communicate.”
While Cramer trained at a state law enforcement academy in Tucson with considerably younger cadets, a delicate DEA investigation of a Mexican drug ring active in Miami accelerated after more than two years in the making.
Working with four informants, agents had run across evidence implicating Cramer in corruption, the complaint says. In 2007, a cartel informant showed agents documents — four from the DEA database, one from ICE, two from the state of California — supplied by an American in Mexico named “Richard,” according to the complaint.
Agents identified the American as Cramer.
On Aug. 19, the DEA arrested Cramer at his house in a gated community in Sahuarita.”
On Sept. 4, Cramer was extradited to Florida from Arizona to face drug trafficking charges, where he currently awaits trial.
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Mexican Cartel soldiers shot in the Arizona desert Los Zetas, an official said shoot to kill Americans in retaliation
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soldiers shot in the Arizona desert Los Zetas, an official said shoot to kill Americans in retaliation
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Research Report July 8, 2010 at 24:30 PDT
One of my informants who called me John in the previous news, I recently called on the cell phone he gave me at the last meeting a month ago. He said his chief of Los Zetas leader of a Mexican drug cartel wanted to meet me and give me some vital information about the war against drugs known as raging in the border. A date and time fixed for the meeting in a public place.
Mexicans during this meeting, I met was shaved clean with a military-style “high and tight” small cut appeared to be about, I reckon about 35 years, claiming to be an officer in the organization Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico. He told me directly that he believed two of his men were killed recently in the Arizona desert by U.S. officials and would take revenge. First he said he thought his men were killed for opposing the cartel drug gang. He said that he and his men had killed several gang members recently they thought was responsible for killings and other recent attacks in the region. This bloody confrontation took place south of the border of Arizona. The shooting killed 21 people. The violence occurred between the villages of Saric and Tubutama along a corridor of notorious smuggling. Nearby is the city of the altar, as I reported in the past and more than a decade was an vital stop for traders headed to the border with Arizona. World Net Daily reported that while Americans celebrated the weekend of Independence Day, news of an armed clash near the border between Arizona and Mexico, competing with something the ancient “Wild West” days, not getting much attention. This has probably missed: the rival drug gangs in Mexico has jumped to 12 miles outside of Arizona, leaving 21 dead. At least six people were injured. Los Zetas official said that “now I reckon my men were killed by vigilante madman loose in America, my soldiers ambushed in the night, from a distance with rifles High power in America. It is our burden of stolen drugs. “He said:” This is a warning to groups such as their men were ordered to shoot and kill Americans is armed and roaming the desert. ” He added that the murder of his men was not properly considered by the Pinal County Sheriff.
official Los Zetas, said: “I reckon there’s a cover-up by the Sheriff Paul Babeu protecting Americans who do the killing. If the right facts of this case is not publicly revealed and the guilty will not be prosecuted while the sheriff personally responsible. “ Los Zetas The agent even told me that” I have a lot of my soldiers Zetas published towards the viewing area of ??these groups and movements and is a matter of time before coming to our side. ” “At the moment we leave people alone and instructions to take medication or my foot and that means war.” Vigilante death squads roam the type of drug cartels Mexican drug runners bottlenecks, the hunt for armed drug traffickers. These patrols are heavily armed with automatic weapons, rifles, military style semi-automatic sniper, with 50 to night vision goggle and cal use of technology such as night vision goggles, sensors Vietnam low error Track and hidden cameras. The use of these sophisticated weapons and technology to make a real force to be reckoned very perilous, as they were patrolling in the desert of Arizona and many other places in the Mexican border U. S. Texas to California. Several volunteer groups in the United States say they see our border with Mexico. Many of them are known as the Minuteman organization or patriots. Some concerns are simply at the weekend and do not pose a major threat to the Mexicans and not try to stop, or the game of the Border Patrol. Most of which is the only place any suspicious activity and call it well.
Jason “JT” Ready
But there are other groups that are known by the authorities as a vigilante who are serious and perilous, and Jason “JT” Ready, who recently said publicly and through emails to be called by his people to come to the valley of Pinal County Vekol in camouflage clothing and place “a lot of weapons and ammunition.” />
writes about the “situation”
“narco-terrorists armed bring charges chemical warfare in our country. These raids should be treated no less serious than al-Qaeda nerve agent sarin smuggling terrorists into our population centers. “
According to the list of action is in place and his men are there to show the strength and solidarity of concerned patriots. NSM, groups constitutional militias, biker MC, national guard, army, groups of multi-state participation, etc. [sic] walk the line near Interstate 8 to show the world that line in the sand has been developed. It is a completely legal and the utmost professionalism and self-control is recommended. “We will block the narco-introduced in this region,” said Jason “JT” Ready, one of the organizers of the group.
Ready said volunteers come from all over Arizona, and even outside the state to support the effort.
“This is the Minuteman Project on steroids, “Ready said.” We have people with assault weapons. Let us use the moral, if not fatal. “
According to some reports has links Ready to extremist groups, including neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist movement. Ready denied neo-Nazi group.
But the Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said, “While I appreciate their support and offer to take up arms and patrols, it would not be useful, and would only cause a strain on already limited resources, and safety should be a priority. I do not question or were encouraged to come here. “
Arizona authorities have found two bodies near a border crossing recently, not far from the place where a member was killed in the police in April (MyFoxPhoenix.com).
According to the County Sheriff’s Office Pinal working with ICE and the Mexican Consulate to identify the man and say family members, including the caller information and documents in place ” suggests both men are now believed to Mexican citizens. Previously, authorities said the two were Americans.
Some researchers want to believe that this incident is probably the result of the ongoing battle between the cartels violent Mexican drug and not a stroke of American vigilantes. The researchers were unable to confirm whether the two men are part of drug trafficking or just what they were doing in the area.
The authorities believe that ‘ Sinaloa cartel is the control of the area of ??Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. How ever there are reports that the cartel Los Zetas drug has went into the area and are now challenging the Sinaloa cartel.
“A poster contest or others who stole the product from them and killed them,” said Babeu.
The autopsy of the bodies found in a brand of men’s shoulders compatible with the fulfillment of a fantastic package. Babeu said he could carry a load of drugs. Researchers are also studying if these men were involved in the murder of MP Purrol. Because they questioned dispatchers to send the place where someone was killed purrol.
“So they are familiar with the area. It’s not just people who watch television. The desert is similar in all remote areas of Arizona. Really knew that the member was killed, “said Babeu.
The Commissioner admits that the cartels are operating in your county and without the help of the federal government can not control.
Note that Babeu cartels control parts of the county with regard to remote areas of drug traffickers in the desert, here in western Pinal County. Our government has lifted the warning signs, even the citizens to be careful that n ‘ is a row known drugs, “said Babeu.
A spokesman said that when the 911 call came to the deputies immediately started a search but found two bodies shot to death after four hours of research. Because of this violence Babeu questioned President Barack Obama to send 3,000 National Guard troops at the border to help stop
“We can not patrol remote areas. We have a hard enough time just respond to our rescue “
officers found an automatic rifle next to one of the men who killed him. The couple has not yet been identified, but Babeu believes that one of the men was taken illegally in the United States for at least seven times.
During the call 911, a suspected smuggler injured revealed tantalizing familiarity with the shooting of a deputy sheriff of Pinal County, said the sheriff. The appellant is now suspected of being a drug dealer named 911 for the night after he and a colleague were murdered while walking along a trail of contraband in the southwest of Pinal County. He and his companion died in a remote area before <-! NextPage -> officers could find them. In trying to clarify your situation to a dispatcher, the alleged smuggler, said in Spanish that he was “by the sheriff who shot .”…
is a partial transcript of the call to 911 June 6 with a man identified as Omar the Pinal County Sheriff Department on Friday.
first phone call: (1931)Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your position? Hello? Do
you an emergency call How can I help
: Yes, somebody shot me, we ran
Dispatcher:. Where are you?
Call: Right here to 8 in this area
Dispatcher:. Where are you calling
: Right here, where he shot the sheriff, on this side. To the store, there is a small hill, if Please send a (sheriff), because some people want us to jump, glide and we killed someone
Dispatcher:. You said on the road 8 Call: Yes. At 8 the right of small hill on the way
calls: This is where it happened the last time Dispatcher shot the sheriff
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Do you draw calls: Yeah me and my partner. Because we want to glide
Dispatcher:. At that time
calls:?. Yes, now, now
Dispatcher: Where are you hurt
calls : Here in my stomach. I bleed a lot, I can not walk
Dispatcher:. You said that there is another person injured
calls:?. Yes, there is someone other, but I can not hear more
(phone disconnected) phone calls yet …
Dispatcher: Where is he now calls Babeu Sheriff large in Arizona, which spoke openly about their support for the controversial new immigration law of the State receives death threats, recently reported myFOXphoenix.com.
: Well, let him (the deputy) know go to 150, I’ve found where I am, I was selling melons here before. I know this place since before
calls:. I tell you to send (sheriff) and find me
(offline) calls
. Will you pick me? I can not say much more. I bleed a lot. Please! ( Moaning) (prayer) … just want to die Dispatcher />
Outside teams led law enforcement to investigate the threats are credible.
“I know that this threat, but, does not operate in dread or change my support and SB1070 requires the President Obama to secure our border with 3,000 armed soldiers in Arizona and start building the barrier once more, “he said.
” I’m always armed, and like all members of the police knows, we must always be aware of our environment and potential threats. ”
Pinal County is nearly 5.400 square miles and much of the desert is known as a corridor for drugs and human trafficking. U. S. Report on the border of Pinal County Sheriff Fire Babeu Paul called to question how the investigation of two Mexican citizens in the long dead. I wanted to question if they had identified and was suspected in the killings? He was the sheriff investigating the possibility that U.S. guards had shot and killed two Mexican citizens? It was a few days ago, no response to date. Google or click on related articles and video:
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Michael Webster syndicated survey reports were read worldwide in over 100 outlets in the United States and at least 136 countries and territories. Published in partnership with news agencies and services with subsidiaries in the global news media more than 350 in 136 countries. Many articles by Mr. Webster is published in six languages: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. With a dozen languages ??plotted for the near future.
Mr. Webster is the leading authority in the U.S. venture capital / equity financing. He served as a director in some of the largest funds of the Trade Union of the nation. A noted author, professor, educator, director of emergency, the fight against terrorism, war against drugs and the war against terrorism specialist, Business Consultant, editor of the newspaper. Radio News caster. Labor Law generalist, business agent for Teamsters Union, general organizer, union members and the claims representative members of files, NLRB Union Representative, the Union negotiator of the contract call workers’ compensation hearing, the representative of the board. Mr. Webster is managing this side of the table, as the former head of Federated Nevada. Mr. Webster published online journals and research reports for printing, news agencies and online.