Mexican army nabs a teen sibling cartel assassination team
The war among Mexico’s seven drug cartels — and between the cartels and the Mexican government — is intensifying and becoming more gruesome; the preferred form of cruelty by drug cartel assassins is to capture enemies and behead them; decapitations emerged alongside another gruesome tactic — dumping the bodies of rivals in vats of acid; cartel goons have moved away from that method, however; the latest move by the cartels is to employ kids as young as 14-year old as assassins; Mexico police last night has captured one such youngster and his 16-year old sister; the two are implicated in four assassinations
The Mexican army has detained a 14-year-old suspected of working as a killer for a drug cartel, an army official said today (Friday).
The much-rumored alleged young assassin nicknamed “El Ponchis” was captured late Thursday at the airport in Cuernavaca with his 16-year-old sister as they were trying to catch a flight to Tijuana, said the official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case.
Fox News reports that the boy was brought to the office of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office in Cuernavaca early Friday and told reporters there that he participated in at least four decapitations. The source said his sister was accused of getting rid of the bodies.
“I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn’t, they would kill me,” said the teen, who appeared calm and showed no remorse.
No formal charges had yet been filed.
The sister told reporters that they planned to cross the border to San Diego, California, where their mother lives.
The two were suspected of helping the South Pacific Cartel headed by Hector Beltran Leyva, brother of Arturo Beltran Leyva, a top drug lord who was killed by Mexican marines in Cuernavaca a year ago.
Hector Beltran Leyva’s fight for control the cartel has caused a major spike in violence in Morelos, a state just south of Mexico City, and in neighboring Guerrero state, where the resort of Acapulco is located.
Rumors that have circulated for weeks of a killer named El Ponchis as young as 12 years old.
