Cartel threatens Arizona sheriff deputies
The more effective Sheriff Mark Dannels’s border team is, the more it disrupts the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel’s operations.
Recently, the cartel put a hit out on Dannels’s top border guys, the Cochise County sheriff said. His county sits in southeast Arizona and shares 83 miles of remote desert land with Mexico.
“We had real good information … from a federal agency, that said there were two guys that were going to cross and they were going to kill one of us,” Det. Jake Kartchner told The Epoch Times.
“We never knew which one of us it was.”
He said a breakdown in communication between the sheriff’s office and the federal agencies allowed the men to evade authorities.
“But they did know we were after them,” he said.
Kartchner said he continues to operate as usual, but with his “eyes a little more open.”
“I’m not going to quit doing my job because they whine about it.”
He said there’s been “a few different instances where we’ve received information that the cartel is wanting us out.”
Human smuggling is rife in Cochise County and illegal aliens are paying the cartel $7,000 to $9,000 each to get across the border, according to Kartchner.
They’re almost all young, single men dressed head-to-toe in camouflage clothing and doing everything they can to avoid law enforcement.
The cartel recruits drivers via messaging apps out of the Phoenix area to come down to Cochise and take a load of illegal aliens to Phoenix for around $1,000 per person, Kartchner said.
Between the Border Patrol and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, about 16,000 illegal immigrants are detected each month in the county, a huge increase that began as President Joe Biden took office. Two years ago, the county recorded an average of 400 to 500 illegal aliens per month.
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Joe Biden has greatly enriched the drug cartels and endangered US law enforcement. His open borders policy is an impeachable offense.
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