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| $1 Million Dollar Bounty for AZ Sherriff's Head: Mexican Drug Cartel | |
| 2010-08-02 | |
| PHOENIX - He's been at the center of the discussions and controversies surrounding illegal immigration enforcement in Arizona for quite a while. On the day parts of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there's a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel. The audio message in Spanish is a bit garbled, but the text is clear. "It's offering a million dollars for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head and offering a thousand dollars for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel." A man who wants to remain anonymous says his wife received the text message Tuesday evening. It also included an international phone number and instructions to pass the message along. "She showed it to me..I was kind of disgusted..I reported it to the Sheriff's department yesterday..they said they were going to direct the threat squad on it." Lisa Allen of the Sheriff's office says they believe the message originated in Mexico. Although the Sheriff has received numerous death threats in the past, they believe this threat is credible because of its timing. "Arpaio gets threats pretty routinely, but obviously with this heightened awareness of his role in the immigration issue we've got to take this one a little bit more seriously with a million dollar contract out on him," said Allen. But she says what really concerns investigators is how quickly the message may have been spread. "It's going so many different places that our folks are looking at it and thinking well at any given point in time it could land in front of some crazy person who thinks I can do that." As for Arpaio's reaction to the threat, "It's a little bit like water off a duck's back for him, but you never know if it's that sense of false bravado with him..you just can't read it, I'm sure he's concerned, I'm sure he's concerned for his family more than anything else," said Allen. The Sheriff's office says investigators are trying to trace exactly where the text message came from, but because it did originate from an international number, that will be difficult too.
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| Posted by:Phavinter Elmavinter8460 |
| #7 A while ago when we had Mexican bandito's we sent a certain general to go kick some Mexican butt. Why we are not repeating the effort amazes me. Petraeus is otherwise occupied. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-08-02 21:45 |
| #6 Cyber Sarge the iraqi and the afghan kick the pink asses of your boloni sandwich raised moron army think of what the mexican will do to your MTV little soldiers expecially the females one |
| Posted by: hunterkiller 2010-08-02 20:12 |
| #5 A while ago when we had Mexican bandito's we sent a certain general to go kick some Mexican butt. Why we are not repeating the effort amazes me. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-08-02 19:03 |
| #4 Every socialist leader needs brownshirts as enforcers. Has Obama finally found his? |
| Posted by: Omolush de Medici1656 2010-08-02 18:58 |
| #3 Ironically as all get out, it would be far more effective to offer a smaller bounty, one that the typical pendejo could wrap his brain around. $5,000 actually sounds bigger to them than $1m. Another irony is that a lot of them are no longer motivated by gold, because they have no experience with it, and no idea of what to do with it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-08-02 18:51 |
| #2 Assuming someone took them up on that, how the hell would they claim their bounty? I mean, the cops can't find the cartel and would you agree to a "secret meeting" with them to claim your million bucks? They would just as likely shoot you to save the million bucks. I don't think they will find a lot of takers for their bounty. It would be too hard to collect. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-08-02 18:11 |
| #1 If it's validated. If it is, the left will ignore it as it ignores all real history. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-08-02 16:13 |