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2023-03-10 Caribbean-Latin America

Amateur Hour Gone Wrong?: Mexico now says Gulf Cartel's kidnap of The Tummy Tuck Four 'could be directly linked to drug trafficking' - after DailyMail.com revealed the South Carolinians lengthy drugs rap sheets

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Nearly all were minor offenses...

Not for the cartel maybe.

Posted by Dron66046 2023-03-10 06:09|| 2023-03-10 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Looks like Frank G. called it yesterday. My compliments, sir.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-03-10 07:32|| 2023-03-10 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 No mention made of any previous "medical procedure" visits South of the border. Just curious.....

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-10 08:03|| 2023-03-10 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 They have extensive rap sheets including drugs.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-10 08:07|| 2023-03-10 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Trying to cut out the middle men?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-10 08:28|| 2023-03-10 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 “Manufacture” is a meaningless word cops use to upcharge dopers and make them seem more sinister. Same with “intent to distribute.” Manufacture makes it sound like they were running a Breaking Bad style meth lab. In reality it’s usually putting dope into a baggie or simply rolling a joint. Intent to distribute is even worse. Anything larger than some arbitrary amount is intent. Amounts separated into smaller quantities (better justification here) is intent. I take umbrage with the government assuming intent to commit a crime that has not taken place. The only crime committed is possession of contraband. Not defending dopers, but governments have far more power to abuse than a junkie. Hell it’s the government that protects junkies from regular people.

Posted by Lowspark 2023-03-10 08:28|| 2023-03-10 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 RETRO
Woman Busted for Smuggling Cocaine in Breast Implants

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-10 08:51|| 2023-03-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Lowspark, the private sector in the Probation departments make them alot of money also. If you can keep locking people up and giving them probation for "minor offenses" it's another cash stream for the government.

Posted by Chris 2023-03-10 09:30|| 2023-03-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#9 The Mexicans originally said the four were mistaken for Haitian drug smugglers, i.e. competition for Mexicans cartels. Many of us were also thinking the same thing. Why the hell would any American born ever cross the Mexican border, except for drug deals? It would be easy to verify if the woman came for a discount surgery. Have a doctor's appointment for a tummy tuck?

Too much is read into into these guys rap sheets. The Mexicans need them to be bad guys to deflect from the truth that Mexico is a drug smuggling super cartel with a flag and anthem and control our southern border.

Most black men have misdemeanor drug offenses on their records, esp minor marijuana convictions. When I was younger, 1/3 of all all black men were, at any given time, in the parole system, again mostly minor drug offenses. The truth will eventually come out.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-03-10 11:33|| 2023-03-10 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Matamoros is no medical tourism destination and hasn't been for decades. What is left of the town is a cartel staging center and prison (essentially the same thing).

Posted by Graigum Glusoting3890 2023-03-10 15:36|| 2023-03-10 15:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Even addicts are sometimes motivated by other stuff- the tummy tuck is feasible. Drug addicts, drug traffickers and alcoholics often multitask, but one of the tasks is always their number one priority. Kind of like Jefferey Toobin in a Zoom Meeting. The number one priority always takes precedence. No matter where they were going, they were buying some drugs too.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-10 15:45|| 2023-03-10 15:45|| Front Page Top

#12 If I had to place money on the better odds, I'd go Sam and Frodo before Haitians smuggling drugs into Matamoros.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-10 16:35|| 2023-03-10 16:35|| Front Page Top

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