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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.

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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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The Mexican drug cartels murdering U.S. informants on American soil

Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter July 28, 2009 11:00 am PDT

El Paso, Texas – Mexican drug cartel known member Jose Daniel Gonzalez was killed on American soil in El Paso, Texas. Gonzalez, police said acted as an informant for U. S. Government provide vital information on the family of Mexican drug cartel. There are modes of operation, the drug routes and privileged information known to the senior members of the cartel. Evan if Gonzalez was an active informant was under American protection agencies of law enforcement of powerful Mexican drug cartels were still able to attack and kill Gonzalez.

According to Alicia A. Caldwell with the APNewsBreak reported today that the eight bullets that killed outside his home Gonzalez just doors from the main house of the city of El Paso police. The rain of automatic gun fire was shot at close range and left small doubt about its message.

Gonzalez, a Juarez cartel lieutenant shot his cul-de-sac stage this spring, come to light. According to reports Gonzalez has done work for U.S. officials as a confidential informant.

Sources close to the investigation told the Laguna Journal. This can be justified in the first murder carried out by the Mexican cartel hit men although there have been other alleged murders in Phoenix, New York and other parts of the States. The federal government suspects that his murder is the first time that the killers of a drug gang violence in Mexico killed a ranking cartel member on American soil.

Report Caldwell said experts told him that murder is a growing boldness of the posters on this side of the border that will likely lead to more deaths.

“They shot him near,” said Police Chief Greg Allen. “Whoever he wanted to make sure you knew it was revenge.”

Alerts sent to the police last year warned that Mexican drug lords, including the head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has publicly given permission to hit men across the border in search of goals.

“There is a growing number of (cartel) leaders living in the United States, probably to escape the law or their enemies in Mexico, making it one of the risks increased in In recent years, “said Stephen Meiners, an analyst for Latin America tactic by Stratfor, a global intelligence company based in Austin, Texas.

“There is a possibility that this could get out of hand,” he said.

Shannon O’Neil, a Latin America expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, said he knows of no other high-level assassinations in the United States, but fears that it will not the last.

“We started to look more boldly near the border on the Mexican side and American side,” said O’Neil. “Once these organizations firmly established in Mexico and the United States, will kill all levels.” Gonzalez, a legal immigrant of 37 years who lived with his family in a deadlock in an expensive neighborhood, was killed May 15, 2009 in front of his spacious house. His wife, Adriana Solis, and the couple’s two children shortly after they fled.

Two federal agents and a local official told The Associated Press that Gonzalez was the presentation of information on the activities of cartels The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which in recent years has taken a more large cross-border investigations of drug trafficking. An official said that federal investigators monitored the activities of Gonzalez and his whereabouts.

The officials spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case. In a statement sent to the AP, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said, “ICE’s policy is to discuss and review issues relating to confidential informants.”

Cartel gunmen affiliated with the violence, and fatally, disciplined low-level drug traffickers based in the U.S. United States, but, El Paso police said Gonzalez was a lieutenant of the Juarez Cartel, which traffics marijuana, cocaine and heroin. The poster was one of the most perilous in Mexico, but has recently lost some standing because of arrests, deaths and infighting.

Los Angeles Times reports that El Paso police have not yet official reason for the murder of Gonzalez, but the chief Allen said detectives are working on the assumption that a colleague found that the cartel it was to discuss illegal activities with federal agents.

Allen, who lives behind the house and heard the firing of Gonzalez’s court, told the AP that he and other local authorities knew Gonzalez was involved with drugs in the past, but had no thought that was both a gangster and informant ranking Mexican federal government. He is mad, not a single case was reported that his department must now solve a local murder is considered.

cooperation as crucial to the success of federal and state agencies that fill El Paso, one of the largest in the country, border towns and a major inland port.

The week after the murder during a tense meeting of a multi-agency group called High Intensity Drug Trafficking, Allen said he told federal authorities that their cooperation in the future depends of them to keep their information department of their business.

“How can that happen in your neighborhood?” Said Allen told those present.

The bullets that killed Gonzalez were fired at close range so that three could have traveled through his body and lodged in the stucco wall of a neighbor and a parked car. A bloodstain still marked the street where neighbors sat down to watch the children play. Now, in addition to Allen, the people living in the neighborhood of Rancho del Sol are too frightened to speak publicly about Gonzalez and his family

Aldo Valderrabano lives around the second home of Gonzalez, 1800 low. – square two-tale house used to live in a small over a mile away. Gonzalez said the family went to the 5000, 3300 square foot house that appears in the name of Solis, a few months after he mysteriously lost three fingers last year.

Solis Valderrábano wife visited the hospital and said Solis would only say that the fingers were lost “in an accident.” She had no other apparent injuries. The family has not been seen since the shooting, although Police spokesman El Paso, Javier Sambrano said investigators are in contact with them. He said Solis and her children are left in an unknown place, “a movement that has its own”.

Gonzalez appears in commercial records only contact the new King (“King of New” in Spanish) transport company, which shares an address with your home. Federal Express packages the company has continued to rise on the porch of Gonzalez for several weeks after the shooting. Records show the company has annual sales of about 000.

It also appears that the only contact address for Gonzalez Auto Parts, letters and colors and care Transport Gonzalez. Neighbors said they saw no evidence of any activity related to these companies at home.

Valderrabano said Solis told him that the family was from Villa Ahumada, Mexico, a small town south of Ciudad Juarez has been virtually taken over by the fighters of the cartel in recent months. Gonzalez said a family food stand in Ciudad Juarez, a city of about 1.1 million adjacent to El Paso and is now occupied by the Mexican army in the government’s fight against the drug gangs.

But, while in El Paso, Valderrabano said, Gonzalez and his family were very nice. . Children in families often played together

“They were very silent, we had no problems with them,” said Valderrábano

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Mexico and the U.S. join forces against drug cartels in Mexico

By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. August 1, 2010

The 22-month multi-agency investigation called “Project Deliverance” resulted in the arrest of more than 2,200 people and the seizure of $ 4 million in U.S. dollars, 1262 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.5 tons of cocaine, heroin, £ 1410, 69 tons of marijuana, 501 weapons and 527 vehicles.

announcing the latest arrests,

“The operation has been cross-border our largest and most successful effort of law enforcement to date targeting these deadly cartels, “said Holder. “Our goal was to attack not only the operations of the cartel, but networks of individuals in the United States, the key cartel distribute drugs in our country and the smuggling of cash and guns out of it.”

The latest wave of arrests, Holder said, describing how some 3,000 American agents and officers were deployed in 16 states. The action led to the arrest people and the seizure of more than 90 kilograms of heroin, more than 2900 kilograms of marijuana and other illicit drugs. More than a million were also seized, he said.

Project Liberation has so far resulted in criminal charges against more than 2,200 people, including Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, the alleged leader of the organization of drug trafficking Castro-Rocha. He also led the seizure of more than 4 million. Tons of Cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine and more than 500 weapons, said Holder

Head also congratulated the Mexican government for its role in supporting law enforcement and the joint efforts of both governments. More than 300 U.S. agencies including the FBI and DEA, are part of the working group.

Recently, the Mexican drug trafficker arrested Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel his death during an operation of the Mexican army.

which are also challenges long-standing notion that Mexican government officials at the highest level helped the Sinaloa cartel win the war against drugs. Coronel was the No. 3 of the band led by Joaquin “El Chapo “Guzman, Mexico’s drug lord most wanted.

According to the Mexican authorities of the attack was purely an operation in Mexico. But, the application of state law- States recognizes that the U.S. Intel plays an vital role. But, the Mexicans insist that unlike other recent attacks targeting drug lords were based on U.S. intelligence, Mexican authorities said after a month of work intelligence, the Mexican army was concentrated in Colonel in his mansion on the outskirts of the scale of Guadalajara, Mexico.

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The most powerful medicine the world has had fantastic success when soldiers killed the drug lord in a shoot, and his death will probably mean more violence as factions fight for smuggling cocaine and methamphetamine empire corridors he had left.

“I am absolutely convinced that this will impact the ability to … Sinaloa federation to go their drugs, at least in the small term, “said Dave Gaddis, deputy head of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.” They need time to rebuild. “

Continue the attack Friday, soldiers killed Coronel’s nephew, Mario Carrasco Coronel, in a shooting in the suburb of Zapopan.

Ministry of Defence said in a statement that Carrasco Coronel was one of the possible successors of his uncle. The soldiers opened fire, wounding one, before he was killed, the department said.

greater colonel, who had a reward of millions of United States in the head, is considered one of the founders of Mexico’s methamphetamine trade, the construction of laboratories illegal in the country and the smuggling of drugs into the United States. Methods and controlled cocaine trafficking routes that stretched from the Pacific coast of Mexico coast and the interior of Arizona.

Head said the latest attack on the drug cartels here in America was only part of an ongoing effort by the U.S. government.

“Without a doubt, these detentions and seizure operations are closed drug cartel and impact on the ability of traffickers to go drugs to the United States, “said Holder. “These operations have a significant blow against the cartels, but make no mistake: we know that the success of this operation was, it was just one battle in what is an ongoing war will continue to address these perilous cartels wreak havoc on both. sides of the border, and we will continue to target them with every means available to the federal government and state and local partners. “

Obama promised to increase security when he recently met with Calderon, Mexican President Felipe.

Eric Holder United States Attorney General has welcomed the release of project he says has led to Mexican drug cartels and smuggling of drugs, weapons and money across the border. This means to go to Mexico fulfill the promise of Presidents, the President of Mexico at its last meeting in Mexico.

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El Paso Police arrest U.S. Welding, youth and the U.S. informants Mexico as Cartel Assassins

Mexican cartel drug orders to strike on U.S. soil

By Michael Webster:. Syndicated Investigative Reporter

According to court documents Ruben Rodriguez Dorado hired Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, and Christopher Duran, 17, and an unnamed 16-year El Paso juvenile, to assassinate El Paso resident and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informant Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana. The three were arrested Monday and 16 years was arrested Wednesday and charged with capital murder in the May 15 murder of Gonzalez, who was shot eight times outside his home across the top of the ear of El Paso auto shooting El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen home.

The chief said he was working in his garden when he heard several gun shoots. Investigators said Aguayo, also a senior cartel in Mexico, ordered and paid for by the coup.

Rodriguez, like Gonzalez, was an informant working with the INS and U. S. Customs Chief of Police of El Paso, Greg Allen said.

adlegedly Apodaca was the man shot and is based in Fort Bliss in El Paso, where a member of the Artillery Brigade Air Defense 11 and acts as a Patriot launcher crew member .

The Border U. S. Fire Report (USBFR) has learned that a warrant was issued for a fourth man, 33, Jesus Aguayo Salas, in a capital murder charge. The U.S. Border Fire Report was informed by the authorities Salas believes in Mexico.

González lived in El Paso with a visa given by the ICE, Allen said. He is believed to be the first cartel member killed in the rankings Anyone U. S. information on the fate of Aguayo Salas, is questioned to call police at (915) 832-4400 or 911.

Allen had said many times in the past, it was believed that violence in Mexico does not extend to their city. After the coup of the police chief was surprised that the federal government had not informed the department that the federal government had not only an asset of smuggling Mexican drug cartel and members operating in the region of El Paso but that Gonzalez was a supervisor of the Mexican drug cartel executives. Gonzalez was really an informant for ICE, Allen said Tuesday. He started working for the agency sometimes after fleeing Mexico and trying to cut ties with the cartel in 2008, but investigators believe he resumed his duties as supervisor of the smuggling operations after confronted by the leaders of the cartel.

A senior official of the government police said above that the main reason that the local police were not informed of the operation of high sensitivity was the police department of El Paso is known as a sieve drain.

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was informed by the Mexican authorities were aware of the situation and where Gonzalez informed the U.S. authorities. The same authorties said they were surprised to learn that the head of Allen remained on the circuit.

Apodaca, Duran and Rodriguez were arrested in each of the millions in bonuses. Bonds in 16 years has not been established so far and can not be because he is a minor. It is believed that El Paso prominent criminal lawyer, Joseph path (Sib) Abraham was contacted by at least one of the accused. Attorney Russell M. Aboud has been retained to represent defendant Rodriguez a known member of the Mexican drug cartel. An attempt to contact counsel for comment when outstanding at the time of writing.

El Paso police told reporters that Apodaca, who is stationed at Fort Bliss, said it was paid 000 cash to kill Gonzalez. Police also said that Duran said he drove the getaway car.

Allen said Apodaca and Duran paid “a honestly high amount of money … Low, 000, or in this region.”

court records show that Mexico Juarez drug cartel Gonzalez wanted to die because they thought it was a government informant or had changed their allegiance to a rival cartel, and had provided information authorities of the partners leading to the arrest of a senior member of a poster known as “El Tigre”.

First Nations Gonzalez became suspicious of him after cartel lieutenant Pedro “El Tigre” Arana Sanchez was arrested in 2008 and a cartel storage facility was raided by Mexican authorities, El Paso’s lieutenant Alfred Lowe police said.

When contacted, spokesman Leticia Zamarripa ICE declined to comment on the case.

Recently, but, said A / P as a matter of policy, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not confirm nor deny the identification of confidential sources of information “at he said.

According to an arrest warrant obtained by USBFR, Rodriguez Dorado made a statement to police confessing that plotted and organized assassination Gonzalez Galeana. Rodriguez Dorado allegedly hired three people to murder.

Documents say that two murder suspects identified Apodaca as the shooter, and Duran admitted driving the getaway vehicle after Jackson Apodaca allegedly shot the victim.

Golden Rodriguez has admitted that he was a member of the cartel middle of “The Company” and was ordained by the cartel to find Gonzalez Galeana after a Mexican newspaper reported Gonzalez Galeana was an informant.

investigate Gonzalez Galeana through license plates and would have paid the bill for the victim’s cell phone to try to get your address, according to the affidavit.

Just before the murder, Rodriguez Dorado and the other suspects allegedly met at the home of a family member of the victim. The accused had also called store tactics, hours before the murder. The store sells the same brand of ammunition found at the scene of the crime.

The affidavit Gonzalez Galeana visited the residence of his family members prior to the murder. Rodriguez Dorado and the other suspects allegedly followed Gonzalez Galeana at his home East El Paso where the shooting took place about 10:20 p.m.

Immediately after the shooting, the suspects have gathered scattered elsewhere. Police were able to locate Rodriguez Dorado through a witness and cell phone records.

Paso police said he did not reckon the violence of the death drive because the coup was not on the lawn. They said this type of violence that took place everywhere. It is the drug cartel related, but “strictly drug trade as usual.”

Rodríguez Dorado is a permanent resident of the United States and two young suspects are U.S. citizens, police said.

Apodaca father told reporters that he did not “believe a word of what the authorities say about his grand-son.

“He could not … he can not,” said Dave Jackson

The 16 year ancient boy was arrested Wednesday by police in El Paso and accused of being part of the assassin hit selection paid that killed Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana a member of the intermediate level of Juarez cartel in May at his luxury home in El Paso.

The arrest was the fourth child for the death of Gonzalez Galeana.

The boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, was charged with murder capital.

“It was part of a surveillance team that followed (Gonzalez Galeana) to the East Side for the purpose of him being dead, and (the child) is paid for their participation,” said spokesman Officer Chris Mears police told reporters.

Mears said he could not reveal whether the boy was arrested in a house or a school, because the information could lead to their identification. Only the Socorro school district is currently in session.

Americans sweep the charges against Mexican drug cartels: But, few in custody

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According to federal figures typical of massive coordinated actions only produced eight defendants arrested in the areas of Chicago and Atlanta last week. Earlier this year, according to reports, another 10 children accused of level, all email clients or organizations have been charged separately in Chicago. Five defendants, all of New York, wholesale distributors or logistics coordinators posters, have been charged separately in Brooklyn. None of the heads of Mexican drug cartels have been arrested as a result of these accusations. In total, 58 people were charged in the investigation coordinated between the attorneys U. S. in Brooklyn and Chicago, but few have stopped.

All but one of the defendants face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted of the charges against them.

The sealed indictments seek the forfeiture together more than $ 0.8 million of income for drugs. In addition, more than 32500 kg of cocaine were seized, including about 3,000 pounds seized during the investigation of Chicago, about 7500 kg seized in the investigation of New York and 22500 kg were seized prior related activities of the Federation. attacks details as charges of 64 kg of heroin and more than $ 0.6 million in cash during the investigation.

In one of the sealed indictments in Brooklyn, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is accused of being the leader of the violent Juarez cartel, which operates in the Juarez-El Paso corridor, a major drug smuggling routes to the Mexican border along U. S. in the southern United States. The DEA estimates that about 90 percent of the cocaine entering the United States through Mexico. The Juarez cartel would have received several tons of cocaine into Mexico from the Colombian cartels and the Norte del Valle Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a Colombian paramilitary organization and drug trafficking. Prosecutors said the Juarez cartel maintains its power through corruption and by numerous terrorist acts, including kidnappings and murders.

Three of the alleged leaders were charged in both Brooklyn and Chicago. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia and Arturo Beltran Leyva, who is apparently one of the drug traffickers in Mexico’s most powerful, it is argued that current and former leaders of a union of organized crime known as “Sinaloa Cartel” and “Federation.” Each of these is designated as a priority or CPOT organization established by the Working Group organized crime drug enforcement (OCDETF).

Overall, the Brooklyn four-and eight indictments charged in Chicago, between 1990 and December 2008, Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia, Arturo Beltran Leyva and others were responsible for importing the U.S. and distribution of about 200 metric tons of cocaine, larger quantities of heroin, and smuggling of bulk U.S. to Mexico more than $ 0.8 million in cash receipts from the sale of narcotics in the United States and Canada.

“The charges announced today are the result of a radical effort to stop domestic and international traffic of drugs through the states of Mexico / United States and in our communities “said J. Benton Campbell, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “We will apply all available resources to win this battle.” Mr. Campbell expressed his appreciation and gratitude to the Working Group of the ICE DEA in New York agencies to research the Eastern District, and the help provided by the ICE and DEA in Miami , Houston, Mexico and Colombia.

“These allegations are some of the most vital charges of drug conspiracy never came back to Chicago,” said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. “They charge two large organizations international supply with the importation of several tons of cocaine and large amounts of heroin to the United States, often to customers in the wholesale distribution of Chicago, as well as customers in other cities. Defendants have used nearly every way imaginable transport to go large quantities of these drugs and the funnel large amounts of money in Mexico. I applaud the efforts of the DEA investigators who have worked hard to place these files together. “Mr. Fitzgerald also thanked the agents of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division in Chicago and US Attorney Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for your help.” Charges today are a new attack on the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels, “said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. “Our relentless investigations penetrated deep into widespread criminal organizations, connecting street operations in U.S. communities like Chicago and New York, drug lords in Mexico over the head any errors, .. with our partners in Mexico courageous, we will break the cartels and their leaders continue “

” The security forces in the Americas are working more closely than ever and the creation of a united Europe without frontiers crime against the drug cartels, “said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE John Morton. ” This is an vital step in the distribution infrastructure of criminal organizations. “

According to one of the charges in Brooklyn, between 1990 and 2005, Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and Arturo Beltran Leyva and Hector Beltran Leyva, Jesus Zambada Garcia Villarreal and the leaders of the Federation, conspired to import over 120 metric tons (264,000 pounds) of cocaine to the United States through agreements of cooperation and coordination that the Federation forever. The members of the Federation of shared transportation routes and obtained their drugs, drugs of various organizations Colombian drug in particular, the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel. For example, in 2004, two shipments totaling 22,500 kilograms of cocaine were seized by the US Coast Guard off the coast of Mexico. The indictment alleges that the defendants used “rogue” or hired killers, who have conducted hundreds of acts of violence in Mexico, including killings, abductions, torture and violent collections of drug debts, under his leadership. ” / P> The indictment alleges that Chicago, in about early 2008, Arturo Beltran Leyva split his alliance with Guzman-Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and the Federation due to various issues, including control of drug routes lucrative U.S. and customer loyalty wholesale drugs, including the alleged leaders of a cell distribution in Chicago. The office of allegations that Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia, with seven other key employees, including its two son, Alfredo Salazar Guzman (Guzman Loera son) and Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla (son of Ishmael Zamada-Garcia, to be held in Mexico), under the coordination of their activities trafficking drugs to the importation of several tons quantities of cocaine from Central America and South America through Mexico and the United States using various means of transport, including the Boeing 747 cargo planes, submarines and other submersible vessels and semi-submersible, container ships , motor boats, fishing boats, buses, cars, tractor trailers and cars

Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia would have coordinated their activities and trafficking of cocaine to heroin to wholesalers across the United States, including a cell distribution in Chicago in which 16 people were charged today sealed indictment. On average, the cell of Chicago would have received between 1,500 and 2,000 kilos of cocaine a month, sometimes, getting all or Most of this amount of Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia and factions of the Sinaloa cartel under their control while achieving a significant part of this amount of Arturo Beltran Leyva cartel. In Chicago, the charges allege that large quantities of cocaine and heroin were distributed to customers in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Vancouver, British Columbia. and other places

Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and factions of the Sinaloa cartel allegedly used various means to escape their control enforcement and to protect their drug distribution activities, including obtaining firearms and other weapons, corruption, violence and threats of violence “- – Next page>, intimidation and threats of violence from members of the police, rival drug traffickers and members of their own drug trafficking organizations. Prosecutors said Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and his son, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, discussed obtaining weapons from the United States and the use of violence against government buildings in the United States and / or Mexico in retaliation for the execution of each country its drug laws and to perpetuate their activities with drug trafficking.

In another indictment of Brooklyn, the brothers Luis and Esteban Rodriguez Olivera-paid with the chief of the gringos, an organization of drug traffickers who shot to fame in the Federation. According to court documents, the Gueros operated a narcotics supply route that originated in Mexico spread to Texas, then divided into several areas, including metropolitan New York. Between 1996 and 2008, whites would have imported more than 100,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States. The DEA estimates that between 2004 and 2006, the organization was responsible for sending more than 2000 kilograms of cocaine in New York alone. In January 2006, Mexican authorities seized approximately 5200 kg of cocaine from the organization in the United States.

Tirso Martinez Sanchez said one of Brooklyn to charges of being an organizer and leader of a organizing massive international drug importation, distribution and transport is responsible for the distribution of multiple tons of cocaine to the United States United States. Martinez-Sanchez organization allegedly imported cocaine to the United States from Mexico through the California and Texas, and transported the cocaine to land large distribution centers, including Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. In addition to coordinating the distribution of cocaine from his own organization, Martinez-Sanchez would also transported and distributed narcotics for members of the Juarez cartel and the Federation.

“Break the perilous cartels and stem the flow of drugs, weapons and money across the border of South West is a priority for the Department of Justice, “said Attorney General Eric Holder. “Cartels, whose leaders are accused are presumed today that multi-channel networks drugs on our streets and what invariably follows more crime and violence in our communities. Accusations today demonstrate our firm commitment to end the leaders of these criminal organizations where you are. We will continue to support our partners in Mexico to dismantle drug cartels insidious. “

” Realizing that neither of our two countries can earn more than the drug dealers on their own, we built the bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico that allows us to combine our resources and legal research to dismantle these transnational drug organizations and bring to justice the leaders, “said Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora of Mexico.” We can only protect the right of societies to live in peace and harmony through our trust governments and shared responsibility. “

The cases in the Eastern District of New York are prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Lawyers Goldbarg Andrea, Claire Kedeshian, Bonnie Klapper, Stephen Meyer, Walter Norkin, Patricia and Carolyn Pokorny Notopoulos.

The cases were investigated by the DEA, ICE and the Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation, in collaboration with Colombian and Mexican law. Additional support was provided by the U.S. Attorneys Offices in Milwaukee, Miami and Houston. The Criminal Division Office of International Affairs of help in these cases. Research efforts have been coordinated with the Special Operations Division, consisting of agents, analysts and lawyers of the Section of Narcotics and Perilous Criminal Division (NDDS), DEA, FBI, ICE, the Office of Alcohol, Snuff, Guns and explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service. Internal Revenue Service and any person named in the indictment sealed today were also charged by law firms across the U.S. from other countries and NDDS

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The Mexican drug cartels threaten U.S.

Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter May 26, 2008 2:00 p.m. PDT

While the wages of America’s war against drugs and terrorism, with costs to the taxpayers billions of organized crime gangs here in the United States were merged with the Mexican drug cartels, the threat to U.S. interests an international crime cartel that emerges is more serious every day.

Groups like the Sinaloa, Juarez, Tijuana, Gulf cartel, has virtually taken over law enforcement and high-ranking Mexican government in their host country and are perilous and vital actors on the international stage, leading their criminal activities across borders and threatens the stability and interests of the United States. In other words, are a major threat to the security of this nation.

Further evidence of this growing threat comes from the powerful Mexican cartels, which is already responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States and are increasingly able to operate above the law, to buy or even to kill government officials are expected to work with U.S. enforcement of the law to prevent crime.

What is worse, cartels have formed alliances with American gangs, giving these drug cartels a deep reach of American life and through this alliance with our gangs, which gives them control over most of drug trafficking 0-0000000000 of America, the largest in the world.

These posters have become a global society of international crime of illegal franchises around the globe.
The ability of these Mexican drug cartels to operate with total disregard for the law on both sides of the border – trafficking in drugs, weapons, human beings, terrorism, prostitution and money laundering now threatens to destabilize the U.S. economy and our way of life, especially in poor areas and in our projects and our neighborhoods.

With the corruption of our government officials and the buy of legitimate businesses and undermine U.S. companies, these criminals who are threatening to delay the food small progress as a nation we have done in regard to minorities and strip poor children of Americans, and in the case of Mexico, could impede the reform there indefinitely.

Federal authorities point to Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for border violence by having cemented ties to gangs and prison as Barrio Azteca in El Paso, the U.S. side of the border. Azteca like many other drugs, the U.S. retail strips they get from Mexican cartels and their gangs. One of the most perilous. Mexican gangs also run their own distribution networks in the United States, which produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. They even ignored the Colombians several times both to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and even Afghanistan.

These same gangs often work as cartel surrogates or performance on the American side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas are known as “Los Zetas have hired members of various gangs at different times, including El Paso Barrio Azteca gang, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13 and Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos to continue their efforts criminal. Perilous Gangs Mexican />
The list of crimes the new international criminal organizations are involved in is long. It’s drug trafficking, people and chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. They make billions of dollars of fraud against banks, businesses and governments. That ruin life, undermine economies and reduce confidence in the political and economic reforms and widespread corruption and violence. In summary, we have become a threat to international security.

Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Drug Caucus, in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, based in Washington, said: “Obviously, we need to design a new foreign policy to deal with these criminal groups – to place out of business and in jail. “

But what we really need is a policy of defense of the country that stop the flow of trade through illegal in this country permanently.

In a speech to the United Nations, President Clinton acknowledged the growing threat of international criminal groups, such as Mexican drug cartels, and called for greater efforts to fight against these organizations. So we had this problem a long time.

A ranking House Republican has requested a hearing on the basis of recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the United States joined with the Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorist networks abroad.

The Representative Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and the sub-committee of the Non-Proliferation, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document – first reported by The Washington Times – highlights the vulnerability of the nation is when fighting the war on drugs and “terrorism. br />
Senator Grassley also said: “These efforts must achieve several objectives:. Dismantle major criminal groups, stiffen the penalties for their involvement in international crime, and promote international cooperation to counter the actions of criminal elements “

U.S. policymakers should take concrete steps to address the enormous challenges of today in Mexican drug cartels. We Americans must protect our borders and keep these perilous elements out of the country. We must strengthen intelligence capabilities against groups and their leaders.

We must work with Mexico and other countries to strengthen their legal systems and police forces.

We must improve our ability to control the flow of money to prevent criminal organizations that abuse the United States, Mexico, financial institutions and banking systems. And we need to raise the consciousness of Americans the fantastic threat posed by these posters and forge a united front to bring them to justice.

The political corruption scandals in Mexico, the cruelty of bronze Mexican drug cartels and U.S. streets flooded with drugs to meet the demand of billions of dollars – all are the product of ruthless criminal organizations willing to trample the life and dignity in their eagerness to ill-gotten gains.

Such as Mexico, Colombia and other countries that the U.S. should start dealing with us is presented as a new political threat of international criminal activity. But, we see the impact of international crime on our streets every day in wasted lives and violence drug break our separate cities.

Soon, if the U.S. does not take much action on the current type of carnage Mexican kidnappings, assassinations and beheadings Gangland style drug cartels can become commonplace here in America.

As the most powerful nation on earth, the United States have an obligation to lead the world to develop a robust response and internationally. As to the form of President Bush’s first coalition to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, it is also necessary that the new president takes office in January 09 to start working with Congress and law enforcement to challenge the threat posed by cartels of the new international crime that are right on our southern border.

The Cold War may be over, but America still has enemies in the world. Emerging international crime cartels are simply the latest. The United States can not afford to ignore this problem, but must start as a response to foreign policy as hard as taking a stand against criminal groups in the country.

More than 1,500 people were killed in Mexico so far this year, according to the press in Mexico. Most of the killings took place in states that are centers of drug trafficking and organized crime. In a single day last week alone, Mexico recorded 40 executions. These murders are the most violent of episodes that are believed ordered by Mexican cartels with some of the victims are U.S. citizens.

Editor Penny Starr CNSNews.com reports that a report from the Department of State U. S. About “unnatural deaths” of U.S. citizens abroad says that Americans have been victims of 126 homicides or “executions” in Mexico between Jan. 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007. A total of 667 American dead in Mexico by “against nature” causes during this period. See the report “unnatural deaths”

The State Department says the report “is based solely on cases reported by American citizens to our posts abroad,” which leaves open the question of how complete or accurate it is.

Many of these killings took place just on the southern border of the United States. Twenty-nine took place in the city of Tijuana, just south of San Diego, California.

The two deaths described in the report of the State Department as “executions” were in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders the United States. One of these executions were reported to have occurred Jan. 21, 2007 in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. See

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The report notes in particular the violence in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, saying. “Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped and / or murdered in Tijuana in 2007″ See travel alert

Mexican Drug Cartel bosses and U.S. Agent plead guilty

 

By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Oct 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM PDT

 

Federal court documents show that the Arrelano Felix Organization (AFO) also known as the Arrelano Felix Family is a criminal enterprise based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. For more than 20 years, the AFO has shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana to the United States; laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds; kidnapped, tortured, and murdered numerous persons, including informants and law enforcement personnel; and paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials. The cartel nearly collapsed in 2002, after Ramon Arrelano Felix was killed by the police, and Brother Benjamin was taken into custody. But, the cartel has since seen resurgence in strength, power, and violence.  And, with the recruiting of U.S. Government agents and others, the cartel continues to be a major player in all organized crime in Baja California.

The remarkable thing about this case is one of the defendants is a high ranking current or former United States Government agent with ICE, small known fact that has not been brought to the attention of the public by U.S. Authorities. One high ranking Mexican official pointed out that they (the U.S. Government) may not realize it themselves.
Duarte was close to, and worked with, another corrupt U.S. ICE official Richard Padilla Cramer. ICE officials conspired as they murdered, or caused others to be murdered, as they invested cash in global drug deals endangering the lives of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement.  Furthering the danger, they sold secret U.S. Government information to Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC’s) and to the Mexican Government and ran huge cocaine trafficking operations. Feds reported Cramer joined the cartels full time after he retired from ICE. A former U.S. Government internal affairs agent who wants to remain anonymous told the U.S. Border Fire Report that defendant Armando Martinez-Duarte, was Cramer’s boss at ICE, may still be an employee of ICE and has been for years.  The internal affairs agent claims that it is possible Duarte is acting covertly as a double agent.

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 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 this reporter, he led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and others as the attaché officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara, Mexico.  Both Duarte and he, worked with the U.S. Mexican Embassy in Mexico City and U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara and other Mexican cities.

United States Attorney, Karen P. Hewitt, announced today that, within the last week, Jesus “Chuy” Labra-Aviles, Efrain Perez, Jorge Arrelano Felix, and Armando Martinez-Duarte pled guilty in United States District Court to charges arising from their leadership of the Arellano-Felix drug trafficking organization (AFO).
The defendants entered their guilty pleas before United States Magistrate Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo, subject to final acceptance of the plea by United States District Court Judge Larry A. Burns, at the time of sentencing. The details of the defendants’ pleas are not known but here is what we do know:

Jesus “Chuy” Labra-Aviles: On October 15, 2009, Labra-Aviles pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and agreed to forfeit million. Under the plea agreement, the United States will recommend 40 years of imprisonment. As part of the plea, Labra-Aviles admitted that from the 1980s to 2000, he was a senior partner in the AFO who frequently joined with Benjamin Arellano-Felix and Manuel Aguirre-Galindo to invest in and distribute large shipments of cocaine and marijuana. Labra-Aviles also admitted that he served as an organizer and leader of the AFO and that AFO members paid millions of dollars in bribes to law enforcement officers, government officials, and military officials. Sentencing for Labra- Aviles is set for January 4, 2010, 9:30 a.m., before United States District Judge Larry A. Burns.

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Armando Martinez-Duarte: On October 16, 2009, Martinez-Duarte pleaded guilty to conspiring to conduct the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity. As part of his plea, Martinez- Duarte admitted that from the 1990s to April 2002, he was a federal law enforcement officer in Mexico who was paid by AFO leaders to leak information about AFO investigations, intervene with other law enforcement officers on the AFO’s behalf, escort and protect AFO members and drug shipments, and help place certain individuals in ranking law enforcement positions in areas under AFO control. Sentencing for Martinez- Duarte is set for January 11, 2010, 9:30 a.m., before Judge Burns.

Efrain Perez: On October 19, 2009, Perez pleaded guilty to conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and conspiring to invest illicit drug profits. Perez also agreed to forfeit million. Under the plea agreement, the United States will recommend 30 years of imprisonment. Perez admitted that from the 1990s to June 2004, he and Ismael Higuera-Guerrero, the top lieutenant to the Arellano-Felix brothers, were responsible for receiving large drug shipments in Mexico and smuggling them into the United States, coordinating the distribution of drug shipments within the United States, collecting drug proceeds, and policing Tijuana for enemies, suspected informants, and uncooperative government personnel. Perez also admitted AFO members killed numerous persons in furtherance of the enterprise. Sentencing for Perez is February 8, 2010, 9:30 a.m., before Judge Burns.

Jorge Aureliano Felix: On October 21, 2009, Felix pleaded guilty to conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and conspiring to invest illicit drug profits. Felix also agreed to forfeit million. Under the plea agreement, the United States will recommend 30 years of imprisonment. Felix admitted that, like Perez, from the 1990s to June 2004, he ranked as a top AFO lieutenant. Sentencing for Felix is set for January 11, 2010, 9:30 a.m., before Judge Burns.

According to federal officials the guilty pleas by Labra-Aviles, Perez, Felix, and Martinez-Duarte bring to eight the number of high-ranking AFO leaders who have been convicted since 2006 in the Southern District of California of federal drug trafficking and racketeering charges.
“These four guilty pleas of top leadership figures in the Arellano-Felix Organization are the product of outstanding investigative and prosecutorial work over more than a decade. In achieving this success, we appreciate the cooperation provided by the Government of Mexico during the extradition process. But our work does not end here. The U.S. Attorney’s Office remains committed to seeking justice against all drug traffickers attempting to exploit the southwest border,” said United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt.

“With this guilty plea today, all agencies involved in this investigation have dealt a significant blow to the leadership of the Arellano Felix Organization,” said Special Agent in Charge Ralph W. Partridge of the DEA San Diego. “This should send a message to the traffickers that with the outstanding cooperation of the Mexican government, there is no place to hide, they will be brought to justice.”

FBI Special Agent in Charge Keith Slotter commented, “Today’s guilty pleas are a result of thoughtful investigative work and cooperation between law enforcement agencies and we are pleased with the efforts of the prosecutors to see justice brought to these individuals.”

“The plea agreements announced today deal a significant blow to the Arellano-Felix organization and demonstrate law enforcement’s resolve to continue to investigate and prosecute drug trafficking organizations,” said Leslie P. DeMarco, Special Agent in Charge of IRS – Criminal Investigation’s Los Angeles Field Office. “IRS-Criminal Investigation brings in its financial expertise to narcotic investigations to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations. We specialize in following the money in these illegal operations, enabling increased criminal prosecutions and asset forfeitures.”
Case Number: 97cr2520-LAB
DEFENDANTS:
? Jesus “Chuy” Labra-Aviles
? Efrain Perez
? Jorge Aureliano Felix
? Armando Martinez-Duarte
SUMMARY OF CHARGES AND PENALTIES
? Conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841 and 846 (punishable by at least five years and up to 40 years in prison and a million fine)
? Conducting, and conspiring to conduct, the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962 (punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a 0,000 fine or twice the yucky profits)
? Conspiracy to invest illicit drug profits, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846 and 854 (punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a 0,000 fine).

4 why amphetamines is more perilous illegal drugs in the U.S.

drug use is one of the chronic problems of most common drug in the United States today, with figures to reach as high as 12.8 million Americans regularly use illegal drugs. Among all these illegal drugs, but, amphetamine use a high rank in the top of the most perilous. Statistics show that the United States ranked sixth among countries still subject to heavy use of amphetamines.

Some people do not realize the dangers of methamphetamine. This has led many addicts to live a lie. They reckon they are in control of their addiction to this perilous drug. But, even small amounts of amphetamines can cause serious hurt to your mind and body. Read on to find out why amphetamines are considered the most perilous drugs illegal in the United States.

1. The use of amphetamines can cause a serious addiction. Amphetamines are considered drugs of Class II Substances Control Act of the United States. This essentially means that the drug was harmful at high risk of drug abuse, even if used only once. It can cause serious physical and psychological dependence. Amphetamines, but, are still considered clinically useful for some diseases (such as ADHD). But because of the apparent dangers of regular use of this drug, amphetamines can be used legally only by prescription in the very small /> 2. Misuse of stimulants can cause heart attacks. One reason why this drug is well loved among college students and truck drivers because it helps them stay awake, because of its stimulant effects. The danger, but, lies in the fact that, because it is a stimulant, increases heart rate and amphetamines in blood pressure. It also causes arterial spasm and reduced blood flow to the heart, increasing the risk of heart attacks.

3. Amphetamines, mixed with other drugs, making perilous cocktails of drugs can lead to serious physical and mental hurt and even death. Most people who engage in regular use of illicit drugs is rarely adhere to a single drug. Amphetamine, for example, could use the drug with ecstasy, cocaine or heroin. But, this poses a serious threat to drug users. Mixture of amphetamines is growing very effects of the drug up to six times, putting more pressure on your heart. In addition, by mixing the drug with alcohol can weaken your kidneys and strengthen the hangover.

4. The use of amphetamines may have adverse effects on their psychological health. Chronic use of this drug has been shown to cause psychosis in many users, forcing them to be delusional and hallucinating even make repetitive actions. In some cases, those who used amphetamines regularly develop anxiety or mood disorders and even sexual dysfunction.

Drug abuse continues to be a rather serious problem not only in America but in other parts of the world. The best way to tackle this problem is to find out more about these substances, such as amphetamines and its dangers. Only then will people realize the hurt that these drugs can cause. With the above information, we can help many people away from what is considered the most perilous illegal substance in the United States.

The Mexican cartels operating in the U.S. with a street gang

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operating in the U.S. by gang

By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter unionized. July 27.2010 at 21:00 PDT

The Mexican cartels have crossed the international border into the United States to kill people, including the United States and its scope extends to the north, east and west through our nation. MDC ordered the murders of drug dealers, gang members in America, the U.S. consulate employees, Detention Director Sheriff El Paso County, the agent of the DEA informant, and the ICE U.S. military personnel. MDC is also responsible for the removal of many Americans on American soil and taken to Mexico for Americans to be tortured, mutilated and killed with small or no reprisals the U.S. government.
street gangs in major cities are now directly linked to Mexican drug cartels (MDC). Drug smuggling and human trafficking in the United States through the corridors of known and unknown smuggled across the southern United States. Application of the law states that they work and do the dirty work for the cartels in exchange for drugs. This dirty work that murder, drug distribution, and collection of debts to the MDC by other gangs and drug dealers nationwide.

federal authorities point to Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for border violence on both sides of the Mexican border U. S. and beyond, having cemented ties to U.S. street gangs and prison in the United States. Many of these gangs operate in cities like El Paso, Tucson, San Diego and Los Angeles, some, such as Barrio Azteca in El Paso, operating on both sides. Azteca and other U.S. retail drug groups who often come facade of Mexican drug cartels and Mexican drug cartel gangs. Mexican gangs run their own distribution networks in the United States, which produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. They even ignored the Colombians several times both to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and even heroin from Afghanistan. These bands allow the dissemination and application of long-range cartels.

LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek wrote about the FBI’s 10 Most Fugitive Jose Saenz, a native of Los Angeles, who raped and executed his former girlfriend, the mother of his two years of age, and, horribly, she left her ravaged body lying in the bedroom of her grandmother. It was just one of his many crimes. See the surveillance video that accompanies the sight of the execution of his fellow Oscar Torres horrible band MDC member of Los Angeles and hired assassin Saenz a house in a suburb of Los Angeles.

Barrio Azteca in accordance with the law provided for the implementation of Juarez cartel in the street to carry out kidnappings and beatings of both sides of the border. In contrast, Barrio Azteca get wholesale prices or drug cartel’s face and manage the sales of drugs at street level.

These same gangs often work as cartel surrogates or performance on the American side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas are known as “Los Zetas have hired members of various gangs at different times, including El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13, Pistoleros Latinos Harrmanos and many other criminals to continue their efforts. perilous Mexican cartel gangs

A Mexican army officer, who insisted on remaining unnamed, said that Barrio Azteca is now on the operation and in connection with the Zetas, along the Mexican border Arizona.
Mexican officials said American intelligence noted the involvement in the killings by the Aztecs, the Consulate of the employees Lesley A. Enriquez and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, who have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, when gunmen opened fire on his sport utility vehicle after leaving a birthday party.
husband Jorge Alberto Salcido, an employee of the consulate of Mexico, was also killed by armed men to leave the same event in a separate vehicle.
The governor of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, where Ciudad Juarez, said recently that the Mexican authorities are studying the possibility that it may have been attacked Redelfs for his work as a jail detention officer of the County of El Paso.
“Until we have other information, it is a line of research we want to go,” said Governor Jose Reyes Baeza. “As part of the investigation, other tests will until we can share with the U.S. government … to clarify the reason for this unfortunate crime.”

General Germain Redondo Azuara said he believes many of the drugs grown in Afghanistan finds its way through the smuggling routes into markets in Europe and the United States where they are sold by members gangs. At the same time millions of dollars and Eros are used to finance terrorism and terror, not only in Afghanistan but around the world. Most of these trafficking organizations that feed the terrorists terror network also help fund the Taliban attacks in Afghanistan. Part of this illicit cash provides operating capital for international terrorist Osama bin Laden and others.

Colombian drug cartels and the Mexicans are now believed to work with the international terrorist threat is most prevalent in the organization in the United States as an agent of the DEA money and murder Mexico. Tijuana cartel [s]
These new organizations combined international drug trafficking are complex organizations with highly defined command and control structures that produce, transport and / or distribute large quantities of illicit drugs in Afghanistan. global terrorism and drug trafficking cartels
A high ranking ICE says Mexican drug cartels (MDC) are ideal for terrorists because they are active in all regions of the country and dominate the illicit trafficking drug at all levels, both in Mexico and the United States. Because this new alliance MDC Mexico are expanding their operations dramatically in order to gain market share more drugs. Colombian MDC are cocaine and heroin traffickers dominant, especially in the northeast, but, are increasingly more for developed countries from Mexico to relinquish control to protect themselves from detection of the order of the Mexican cartels and the transport and distribution of cocaine and heroin from South America in the S. U. They also distribute cocaine and other drugs. Many other Mexican drug cartels and their gangs and criminal groups are active in the United States, the world’s largest users of cocaine and heroin.
Other reasons for terrorism have opted for the Mexican cartels that control the wholesale distribution and transportation of illegal drugs on all areas of the western hemisphere, exerting unrivaled control over transportation and distribution Wholesale cocaine, Mexican heroin, Mexican marijuana, methamphetamine and ice. And now believes that the use of the same bands smuggle terrorists in the United States through the corridors of smuggling. His work laid the land transportation routes and distribution networks that can provide well established drug markets in LDCs primary and secondary schools in these areas. are still expanding their influence throughout the world.
police say they are working or allies of the Aztecs with the online application group, which has also worked for the Juarez cartel led by the Carrillo Fuentes clan.
FBI agent Samantha Mikeska, who investigated the Barrio Azteca for more than eight years from the Office El Paso office said that four of the five leaders of the gang are in prison. The only exception is Ravelo.
Ravelo is suspected of direct operations in Ciudad Juárez and Aztec maintain contact with senior members of the Juarez cartel, Mikeska said.
According to a DEA report of the Barrio Azteca was organized in El Paso, Texas, the county jail in 1987, he went to the street and the Department of Justice Criminal Justice Barrio Azteca prison -. prison gang, which has offices in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico has historically been linked to -..
Juarez cartel Barrio Azteca members is estimated at 3500 in and outside the prison system

members have been reported in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California , Oklahoma, Idaho, Washington, Kansas, Illinois, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York Utah. Participate in the implementation of the rules of the Juarez cartel in El Paso, Texas and southern New Mexico
. El Paso Barrio Azteca accept shipments of narcotics in the United States, streams and transports (usually in secret compartments) for the destination cities in the S. U. In some cases, have also been implicated in the smuggling of foreign exchange in Mexico, where it is then washed. Barrio Azteca has also been involved in support groups in the smuggling of foreign operating in the United States as Barrio Azteca alliance to a poster for simple access to drugs, finance, and. protection of local education authorities Mexicans “

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