News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Witness says drug smuggler ran ring while working for police

Associated Press - January 15, 2008 11:15 PM ET

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - Five witnesses today testified a Mexican police commander was running a large-scale drug smuggling operation in Reynosa for the Gulf Cartel.

Although each pointed to Carlos Landin Martinez as the operation's leader, none had personally witnessed the former Tamaulipas state police commander committing criminal acts.

Landin Martinez is on trial in McAllen and faces ten federal counts of drug smuggling, conspiracy and money laundering.

The witnesses admitted participating in either bringing drugs into the United States or smuggling the proceeds back to Mexico.

1 of them, Francisco Camacho Barajas of Mexico City, told jurors that he worked for at least two men who smuggled cocaine for Landin Martinez.

Labels: , ,

posted by missionaryman | 9:33 AM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home