Posted on 08/29/2023 12:20:15 PM PDT by DFG
This is the moment a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker known as Taliban is dumped alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 200 kilograms of cocaine - and cash - from the Cartel.
Reinaldo Fuentes is seen bound and gagged with blood stains on the back of his head before his killers struggle to heave him - and the anchor - over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique.
The footage, shared to social media, shows Fuentes staring at the person recording the video. He is then dumped overboard and left to drown.
None of his kidnappers are identified but one is heard in the background of the video saying 'he has no way to save himself'.
In an elaborate - and poorly thought out - ruse, Fuentes, a middleman for the Venezuelan Cartel del Golfo, earlier had dumped a shipment of narcotics at sea and fabricated a fake coast guard pursuit to explain not bringing the drugs back to his bosses and kept the cash.
He then went back out on the water to collect the cocaine, repackaged it and took it to another Caribbean island.
But the scheme went awry when his henchmen snitched, leading to his watery demise on July 18 - a day after he was invited to a cartel meeting.
Veteran journalism Rafael Tolentino revealed Monday on 'Esto No Es Radio,' a daily morning show in the Dominican Republic, that Fuentes obtained a fake national identification document that allowed him to live under the name of Miguel Fulcar in the Dominican Republic, making it impossible for him to be detected by authorities.
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mmmmm, waffle dust...
Well look at that...
Clearly shot by someone with no experience, no craft, no love of cinematography. Shaky, unstable, much of the action takes place out of view. They even failed to get the shot of him going over and under, which was the whole point of this.
If there was any justice in the world the photographer and director should have been thrown in right after him.
Cocaine Shark
He chose ... Poorly.
There are some people here Id like to see....... Oh nevermind.
To The locker with him!
Agreed! The whole point was indeed missed. Disappointing
Who says there's no honor among thieves?.................
FAFO
The thief promised his captors MILLION$ to STAGE a fake "hit" where the video somehow manages NOT to show anything.
Nice try, captors you didn't fool ME and your BOSS is going to be PO'd.
He failed an IQ test. Never leave any witnesses alive.
“can’t fool the fat man, no you can’t fool me.
You’re just a 2 million dollar grifter, that’s all you’ll ever be.” (SPLASH, GLUG,GLUG)
Words of Randy Newman, slightly changed......
The note he left for his wife before he went to work that day: “You feed the dog and I’ll feed the fish”.
What a waste of a good anchor
If ya wanna hang out...
Keeps down the number of repeat offenders.
I think their main concern was to not show the faces of the executioners. Too bad, really, this could have been an excellent short film.
So, he survived?
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