The DEA Has An Armed Branch in Mexico to Steal Drugs, Kill Narcos
A group of corrupted agents using the powerful three-lettered badge for their own benefit.
TIJUANA, Baja California.— In November last year seven Mexican police officers, including local and state police and National Guard members arrived at a gate community in Tijuana. CCTV footage shows a convoy of the different law enforcement vehicles entering the residential area at nighttime. The pick up trucks arrived empty, but a few minutes later they are seen leaving the place with several black trash bags packed with drugs in the back cargo area.
A couple of days later alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel in Tijuana, under the leadership of the Arzate brothers -René and Alfonso-, shared the said footage on social media and accused the Cartel Arellano Felix, under Edwin Huerta ‘El Flaquito’, of using the police for stealing several kilos of cocaine belonging to the Arzate brothers.
A few weeks after the incident the Arzate brothers launched a hunt against all of the police officers involved, killing two of them, and hurting several others unrelated as retaliation.
But the intelligence to know the stash house location, mapping a way in and out and using Mexican law enforcement for it came from an unsuspected place: a group of DEA agents in California, according to Mexican and U.S. officials with deep knowledge of the DEA’s operations in Mexico.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been operating in Mexico for decades, helping in fighting the so called war against drugs. But as any other institution involved in the illegal drug trade in Latin America, it ended up ripping from its insides: a group of corrupted agents using the powerful three-lettered badge for their own benefit.
