VIDEO: Arrest In U.S. Consulate Slayings

Friends of Ours ^ | 03/30/10 | Friends of Ours

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A senior member of the U.S. and Mexico binational Barrio Azteca prison gang has been arrested in connection with the brazen assassination of U.S. consulate workers in Juarez, Mexico earlier this month as reported by Dudley Althaus for the Houston Chronicle:

In separate incidents minutes apart on March 13, gunmen attacked two similar cars leaving a child's birthday party in Juarez. They killed consulate employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, who worked at the El Paso County jail. The couples' infant daughter was unharmed in the back seat of the car. Jorge Salcido, the Mexican husband of another consulate employee, was killed minutes before Enriquez and Redelfs in a similar attack. Two of Salcido's young children, who were riding in the back seat of the car, were wounded. Although the investigation continues, Mexican officials quickly blamed the Azteca gang for the killings. U.S. federal, state and local police raided the El Paso homes of suspected Barrio Azteca members on March 18, arresting dozens of men on outstanding warrants. * * * Founded inside the U.S. prison system by El Paso street gang members, the Barrio Azteca has members throughout Texas, the U.S. southwest and parts of Mexico. Barrio Azteca is closely allied with the Juarez Cartel, which has controlled smuggling routes and local street sales in the city, which borders El Paso, U.S. and Mexican officials say.

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And this person will be a hero for the rest of his life in Mexico’s prison system (if he doesn’t bribe his way out first) because Mexico is one of those uncivilized countries with no death penalty.