Posted on 03/16/2024 10:05:27 AM PDT by Twotone
A woman wanted in connection with several brutal, gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested inside the United States.
On February 15, the combined efforts of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, the El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, and Border Patrol resulted in victory when agents arrested Mexican fugitive Michelle Angelica Pineda, sometimes referred to as La Chely, in a motel in eastern El Paso, Texas. American and Mexican law enforcement officials believe that Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of a drug-trafficking ring perpetrated by the violent street gang Artistas Asesinos, or Artist Assassins.
Inside the motel room where Pineda was arrested, investigators reportedly found a cache of weapons — guns, knives, and machetes — as well as drugs like Xanax, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Pineda was immediately transported across the border and placed in the care of Chihuahua state officials. She now sits in an unidentified Mexican jail.
Though her alleged leadership role among the Artistas Asesinos may sound bad enough, it's hardly the worst accusation against her. She and her fellow gang members also supposedly murdered five people, dismembered their bodies, and then offered some of their body parts to a Mexican folk saint known as Santa Muerte, or Holy Death.
"Pineda was known for her extreme brutality such as dismembering bodies, removing hearts, and placing the hearts in front of 'Santa Muerte' altars and statutes," the FBI said in a statement.
"Today’s deportation highlights the swift action of our agents and our significant partnerships by successfully taking a violent assassin off our streets and putting her back into the hands of Mexican law enforcement to be tried for her crimes," a statement from FBI El Paso Special Agent John Morales read in part.
Pineda is also suspected of participating in 20 other dismemberment murders in Juarez, which is just across the border from El Paso. One Mexican newspaper, El Heraldo de Juárez, reported that her alleged history of violence dates all the way back to when she was just 13 years old, describing her as a "young woman who grew up surrounded by violence."
Many Catholic leaders in the U.S. and Mexico have denounced Santa Muerte, a skeletal figure often associated with drug cartels, as, at best, "spiritually dangerous," and, at worst, demonic. Prayers to Santa Muerte "should be completely avoided," Bishop Michael Sis of the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, said in 2017. "It is a perversion of devotion to the saints."
Let’s bring more of these people into our country.
Let’s go Brandon!
Let’s go Democrats!
Huh!?.. And here I thought the border was secure..... Silly me.
Mexico sending only their best and brightest.
Was she released after being given an immigration court appearance date?
They post the videos these gangs make on the website Documentingreality.com If those videos were ever broadcast on primetime national TV completely unedited, that border would be closed tomorrow. People would be storming the White house with pitchforks and fire, what these gangs do is so horrific unless you are hardened to it, it will give you nightmares for weeks. These guys make ISIS look like teddy bears by comparison and they are HERE.
Lovely girl. She’ll steal your heart away.
Diversity is our strength.
“They aren’t sending their best.” - President Donald Trump
Bkmrk.
Trump has already answered the question “are they sending their best?”
Now with people like Pineda and Haiti’s “barbecue “ Cherezier hitting the scene who is going to answer the question “ are they sending their juiciest and flavorful ?”
successfully taking a violent assassin off our streets and putting her back into the hands of Mexican law enforcement to be tried for her crimes,"
Bet she is already back in the good ol' USA.
Probably not-Mexico is not NYC-if the federales want someone dead or in prison, escaping to the US or Canada-and not getting caught- is the only way they will not be going there, especially if public opinion is not in your favor. It appears that here was enough interest/outrage in Mexico to get everyone to work together to find and arrest this woman. Mexican prisons are not really easy to get out of, unless you have as much money and as many connections as El Chapo-he was kind of an evil Robin Hood to some people-this woman is just a drug queen and murderer-and apparently crazy, too...
Griselda Blanco’s surviving son, Michael-the youngest one who was maybe 9 years old when she was finally arrested-has given a lot of interviews and written about his life as the son of the Colombian godmother/cocaine queen-I saw somewhere that he is also writing a book.
He was raised in the Miami area-also saw his father shot to death in Colombia on his mother’s orders for kidnapping him after walking out on Griselda. He still lives in Miami with his wife and kids, and supposedly only makes money legally now-from interviews, a line of wannabe cartel boss clothing, etc, and legal weed. He also does not believe his mom was all bad-I suppose to him as a little kid, she was nice enough-probably spoiled him...
The Netflix series made her a lot more glamorous than reality.
Pablo Escobar allegedly said the only man he feared was a woman... Griselda Blanco.
I know that from the Netflix series.
I haven’t been watching this rendition of Griselda’s life, since I am not interested in Netflix-most of their stuff is dumb-but I did see one Telemundo had about her several years ago. They made her more glamorous than reality as well-like a cross between La Reina Del Sur and Senora Acero-two other madrinas/cocaine queens in telenovelas-rich, beautiful and bad-with hearts of gold, of course-but those women were fictional...
I like some of the nighttime telenovelas about the narco mafia versus the federales-they are more interesting than the US produced ones-certainly for adults only...
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