The two men were returning to the small, one-story house in Northeast Austin from Alabama. Hidden in the back of their SUV was $110,000 in carefully wrapped bundles, money authorities said came from cocaine sales.
But responding to an informant’s tip, federal drug agents found the men in the parking lot of a bar in Baton Rouge, La., where they searched the truck. As the officers pulled out the cash, the men grew terrified.
“I wish you would put me in jail,” one of them said, according to a criminal complaint. “They are going to kill me over this missing money.”
According to court documents, the money was destined for an Austin resident the couriers had reason to fear: Jose Procoro Lorenzo-Rodriguez, who authorities say is a local leader for Mexico’s brutal La Familia cartel.
The raids that followed revealed that La Familia, a quasi-religious, hyper-violent group born five years ago in the mountains of Michoacán, used Austin as a base of operation to funnel large quantities of cocaine, marijuana and especially methamphetamine to places such as Atlanta and Kansas.
But in addition to providing a glimpse of the cartel’s operations in Austin — at least four autonomous cells stretching from Round Rock to South Austin — the investigation revealed a crucial clue:
The men at the top of the Austin organization hailed from the same small Mexican town.
Let’s give them military grade weapons and see what happens.
Eric Holder must not have received the Austin memo. Big Sis still thinks the borders are safer than ever,. Could it be the gangs just mover further inland?
In Nogales, Arizona Mexican drug smugglers were bringing drugs into the U.S. for the cost of a quarter!
They dug a tunnel between their Mexican side and parking spaces in Arizona.
They parked false-bottomed trucks over the right spots.
They opened up the street plug they had made and filled their truck.
They replaced the concrete plug and drove off.
How easy is that?
Unfortunately they have been operating in Teaxs for years now, and other states too. Some of the worst and baddest prison gangs in state and federal are run by mexicans from mexico, and with the backing of the Cartels. But our borders are secured right? So they must have used their magic carpets.