Posted on 11/10/2007 10:49:57 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Court records describe how Zetas gave money, instructions to hit men
LAREDO – Rosalio Reta killed his first man at age 13. He didn't like it much, he told police. The guy was tied up and kneeling. Mr. Reta just had to pick up a pistol and shoot him in the head.
Rosalio Reta "He told us that wasn't his style. There was no challenge," said Webb County Assistant District Attorney Jesus Guillen, who successfully prosecuted Mr. Reta for murder. "He preferred to run surveillance on a victim, pick the right moment and surprise him. Like he was playing Grand Theft Auto."
By July 28, 2006 – one day after his 17th birthday – when Laredo police charged him with the contract killing of Noe Flores in Laredo, Mr. Reta had been involved with 30 murders, Mexican and Texas investigators believed. All were on behalf of the Zetas, the ruthless enforcement arm of Mexico's Gulf Cartel drug smuggling operation.
His trial last summer for the Flores killing offered tantalizing glimpses into the shadowy workings of the Zetas and the inroads of cartel violence into this border city.
Court records revealed a portrait of a group of young American killers who were well-paid to do one thing: kill people the Zeta leadership in Nuevo Laredo wanted dead. And they highlighted a group of young killers who followed orders from Mexican drug lords with ruthless efficiency while often behaving like teens with poor impulse control.
Mr. Reta sought his own extradition for the murder. He called a DEA agent and Laredo homicide Detective Roberto Garcia from a prison in Mexico, saying he wanted to stand trial in Texas for two homicides.
He told U.S. investigators he feared reprisals from the Zetas over a botched hit in Monterrey – a grenade attack on....
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‘Rosalio Reta “
Sounds like more mexican refuse to me. Anchor babies like that are even more dangerous than illegals.
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What? Laredo’s crack Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar told Glen Beck that Laredo should stop getting bad PR because it didn’t have such a bad drug problem.
Incidentally, his brother is running for Sheriff of Webb Co., in which Laredo is located. I wonder if he thinks there is a drug problem, and if not, why is he running for Sheriff? Inquiring minds want to know.
Texas ping
These young American killers wouldn’t happen to be anchor babies, would they?
This is why I want the death penalty. These stupid kids will never change. They make it unsafe to be a guard & we pay too much to keep them alive. They have no regard for life & therefore should just forfeit their own lives.
We may never know, but I'm sure some of them are. Whatever the case, Rosalio Reta is still a murdering little punk.
"We talked to him for hours about what he had done, and he never once showed any remorse," said assistant district attorney Guillen of Mr. Reta. "He told us he liked the killing. It didn't make him sick," Mr. Guillen said. "He liked it."
"The funny thing is, as you talk to him, you start liking him. He's just a 5-3, scrawny little kid. He's bright, engaging and funny. He comes from a good, hardworking family of nine kids. Nothing in his background screams out 'criminal.'
Ping to a little light weekend reading...
Nonsense. There's plenty there if they want to look. How many illegal aliens did he help get in here?
This is the kind of kid you wouldn’t think twice about opening your door to, just a scrawny little kid who if he said he was being chased by the bigger kids, you would say, “Come in here and let me close the door. Then I’ll call the cops.”
It really sucks when you can’t even protect scrawny little kids.
If he hasn’t been arrested for it, where’s the evidence?
Nonsense. There's plenty there if they want to look.
No kidding! The first sentence in the article should've clued them in: "Rosalio Reta killed his first man at age 13."
How many illegal aliens did he help get in here?
Hey, AuntB, give the little twerp a break. Rosalio takes pride in his murdering rampages. He's not some low level criminal who provides an escort service for illegals.
:-D
Huh. I didn’t see anything about “American youths” in there.
You'd have to read the entire article to see that part.
Familiy values / Rio Grande.
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