Posted on 08/26/2010 3:38:02 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
EDINBURG — Six people accused of a February drug-related slaying faced capital murder charges Thursday morning.
The sextet of suspects are allegedly part of a local drug smuggling group that ordered a hit of one of their own after he allegedly stole a load of marijuana delivered to a customer in February, investigators said.
Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies found Gilberto Aguilar beaten and shot to death on Feb. 6 in a remote field north of Palmview.
Investigators believe Aguilar was kidnapped, beaten with brass knuckles and fatally shot after he stole a load of marijuana.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said his investigators were close to busting the drug smuggling ring, but evidence from the Texas Rangers and Department of Public Safety's local narcotics unit expedited the six arrests this week.
Deputies raided a house north of Palmview on Wednesday, where they eventually found Aguilar's suspected hit man buried in nine feet of concrete and dirt beneath a chicken coop.
Investigators believe the smuggling gang killed the hit man, whose name has not been disclosed, out of fear that he may have snitched on the group's operations and Aguilar's murder.
(Read more about the smuggling ring)
Charged with capital murder are Erica Sosa, 29; Oscar Cantu Perez, 23; Mark Anthony Garza, 20; Daniel Flores Gutierrez, 25; Luis Adan Alemán Marroquin, 20; and Homero Sosa Cantu, 64.
Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Luis Garza handed down the charges and gave each person an $850,000 cash surety bond.
If convicted of capital murder, each person could face the death penalty.
na... just a bunch of right wingers in a pot fight.
Two last names (Spanish names) = illegal alien. I count four in this bunch.
Danged Irish gangs are at ti again!
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I tried to tell that cholo that el jefe would't buy that "someone stole it from my car" excuse a second time.
Thanks for the ping SwinneySwitch.
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