BajaGeoff
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What the????
This does not make any sense....am I missing something here?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20080305-1139-mexi...
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Taco de Baja
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"He was extradited in September 2006 and pleaded guilty to the cocaine charge in June 2007 in San Diego. "
And now he's out? While some Crack-head gets 10 years for possession of a couple of rocks.
There has to be more to this than is being released or reported.
Crime obviously does pay when you are a ex-drugkingpin. 
Or, maybe he's reformed....
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Bajagypsy
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I'm sure he found god......
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bancoduo
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He was sentenced to life in prison Maybe GWB gave him amnesty.
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Hook
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He's a mole?
He's dead meat in Mexico after talking and this is a way of sentencing him to death?
He's agreed to assist Calderon in taking down the cartel challenging his family business??
This makes no sense...................
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Woooosh
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I can't believe there were no pending charges against him. Surely the bodies he's strewn around Mexico over the years should at least get him a
littering charge.
Bet you dollars to donuts the CIA secretly embedded an RF chip in him so they can track his every move by GPS. Then the Mexican Miltary can catch him
again someday and the courts will let him go again.
[Edited on 3-5-2008 by Woooosh]
[Edited on 3-5-2008 by Woooosh]
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DENNIS
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This has to be asked to the highest source. We NEED an answer to this decision.
How do we go about this inquiry?
Who can suggest a method for this?
I'm stunned by this report.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
Bet you dollars to donuts the CIA secretly embedded an RF chip in him so they can track his every move by GPS. |
That's insane. Do you think this guy's running around robbing gas stations? He's probably spending the rest of his life in Aspen or Rio.
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Martyman
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Apparently he had evidence on some other people which got him his walking papers.
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elgatoloco
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Here is the COMPLETE story from the Rueters website.
Mexican ex-drug boss released from US prison
Wed Mar 5, 2008 5:51pm EST
(Adds details of sentence, release)
MEXICO CITY, March 5 (Reuters) - A convicted Mexican drug cartel boss is free and back in Mexico following his release on parole just weeks after he
began serving a U.S. prison sentence, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Wednesday.
Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 58 and the eldest of a clan of brothers who ran Mexico's Tijuana cartel, was deported on Tuesday and crossed to
Mexican soil at Ciudad Juarez, entering from El Paso, Texas.
"He does not have any pending charges in Mexico so he was freed," a source in the Mexican Attorney General's office, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, told Reuters.
Arellano Felix was the boss of the Tijuana cartel when he was arrested in 1993 in Mexico and sentenced to 11 years for drug possession and using
illegal weapons.
He remained in prison for two more years while authorities arranged his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted for selling cocaine to
an undercover U.S. agent. He was extradited in September 2006 and pleaded guilty to the cocaine charge in June 2007 in San Diego.
He received a six-year sentence, which he began serving in January, and was paroled on Feb. 1, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons said. A U.S.
official said Arellano Felix received credit toward his U.S. sentence for time served while awaiting extradition in Mexico. Because his case dates
back to 1980, he was eligible for parole under laws that were on the books at that time, the official said. Since then, parole has been eliminated for
criminals convicted of federal crimes in the United States.
U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said Arellano Felix's case "reflects the conclusion of a cooperative effort between the U.S. and
Mexico to ensure that he faced justice for crimes he committed on both sides of the border."
Arellano Felix's younger brothers, Francisco Javier and Benjamin, are behind bars in the United States and Mexico, respectively. Another brother,
Ramon, was killed in a shootout with police in 2002, and a fifth, Francisco Eduardo, is a fugitive.
The family, notorious for ruthless killings and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal narcotics into the United States, has been weakened by the
loss of its top leaders, but authorities say it is still doing business.
Suspected cartel operatives this week fought police in a five-hour shootout in Tijuana, a crime-ridden city across the border from San Diego.
The border city has seen a spate of violence in recent weeks as drug traffickers locked in turf wars with rival gangs react to increased police
surveillance under President Felipe Calderon's army-led crackdown on drug gangs across Mexico.
Drug-related violence killed more than 2,500 people last year and about 300 so far this year. Calderon sent thousands of troops and federal police out
to drug hot spots a year ago.
On Tuesday, five youths were tortured, sprayed with bullets and dumped in an empty city lot in Tijuana in what appeared to be the latest grisly drug
gang killing. (Reporting by Anahi Rama and Randall Mikkelsen; Writing by Cyntia Barrera Diaz; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Eric Beech)
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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The Gull
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USA doesn't have a drug or crime problem
Americans punish drug cartel leaders with incarceration for almost a month, in real hard core cases, before we release them back to Mexico.
You see, Mexico has the drug and crime problem.
The ugly Americans, like it so they can maintain their xenophobic posture and hatred of Mexicans.
The US really doesn't hate all Mexicans. The US actually likes the ones that are exploited for their willingness to work for less wages than an
American, just as long as they don't urinate in the landscaping in the parking lots of our Home Depots and make an eyesore of themselves while waiting
to be hired for the day.
Drug problem in the US? No way. Ship it south where it belongs.
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Woooosh
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Softs drugs are the problem? So legalize them, tax them, set up treatment centers and put all the gangssters and narco-cartels out of business in one
fell swoop. Won't happen. They won't go away - they'll just move onto something else because crime is all they know.
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wilderone
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This is very upsetting. They let him go. One of the most influential people in north america contributing to the proliferation of drug trafficking.
There are billions of dollars spent on combatting the WAR ON DRUGS and they let him go. All hell will break loose in TJ now. More bodies will found.
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Iflyfish
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Very expensive this Whack a Mole War on Drugs and taxpayers. It really isn't about stopping the game, it is very lucrative for all involved. Read
Burrows Naked Lunch for a fine read on addicts and those who make a living chasing them.
Iflyfish
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
Americans punish drug cartel leaders with incarceration for almost a month, in real hard core cases, before we release them back to Mexico.
You see, Mexico has the drug and crime problem.
The ugly Americans, like it so they can maintain their xenophobic posture and hatred of Mexicans.
The US really doesn't hate all Mexicans. The US actually likes the ones that are exploited for their willingness to work for less wages than an
American, just as long as they don't urinate in the landscaping in the parking lots of our Home Depots and make an eyesore of themselves while waiting
to be hired for the day.
Drug problem in the US? No way. Ship it south where it belongs. |
Why do you show so much hatred toward
your homeland
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Capt. George
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just spent three months on mainland mexico, Ugly American??
?how about Ugly Mexican? plenty of them out there....and me theeenks you got the, who hates who, bass-ackwards. Gringo, can you just pleeeze keep
sending us your greenbacks and stay home.
Mexico does not hate all Americans, especially the ones (in the millions) that are, and have been, supporting Mexico.
Do Mexicans get a clear title and deed when they buy property in the States? Do we receive equal treatment in Mexico? Not by a longshot...
Exploited?....one of Mexicos largest incomes, salaries sent back home from the "wicked" United States of America...How about Social Security
checks...know any Americans getting checks from Mexico?
gimme a break.
cap'n g U.S. of A.
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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