Gabriel Cardona: Teen Hitman For Drug Cartel (Photos)
Over a year long period beginning in June 2005, there were seven murders committed in Laredo, Texas that had investigators suspecting a death squad was at work. They caught a break when Noe Flores was gunned down. The shooter left a fingerprint on a discarded cigarette box and that clue led police to Gabriel Cardona and Rosalio Reta.
According to Detective Garcia, children as young as 13 are being recruited in the U.S. by the Mexican drug cartels to form murderous sleeper cells. The teenagers receive six-month military-style training on a Mexican ranch and are groomed to become homegrown assassins.
Both were paid $500 a week to be available for killing jobs. When they carried out a hit they were paid $50,000 and received 2 kilos of cocaine. The cartels put the teens up in safe houses around Laredo and they drove around town in a Mercedes-Benz.
Cardona and Reta are serving prison sentences for murder and have provided authorities with the specifics of their recruitment and training.
There are rumored cells in Dallas and Houston. The cartel has chosen to recruit young teens because they are able to move freely between the U.S. and Mexican border.
Rosario Reta mugshot below.
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This is just unbelievable. Young Hispanic men are such hard working, virtuous people. White Americans have to be behind this. I hope Anderson Cooper is on this case. He’ll get to the truth.
This is no different than teaching kids to strap bombs on, and blow themselves up. These cartels need to be treated as traitors and terrorist. Government needs to use the Military, and take these guys out, because if they don’t watch the assassinations begin on their part. Government officials will start falling like flies.
And don’t stop in Mexico, go all the way into South America, and Come into the United States.
Stop pussy footing around and take care of business.
Or you can keep ignoring it, and people will die anyway. Either way people die!