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3/2/2011

Mexican Cartel Beheads Man in United States

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:32 pm



This stuff will never cross the border. Whoops …

A man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel, according to a police report released Wednesday.

Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy stole 400 pounds of marijuana from the cartel, which sent men to kidnap and kill him, according to the Chandler police report.

. . . .

Cota-Monroy’s body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple of feet away.

“It was a very gruesome scene,” Chandler police Detective David Ramer said Wednesday. “Anytime you see a headless body stabbed multiple times, obviously that’s gruesome. And this is a message being sent — not only are they going to kill you but they’re going to dismember your body, and ‘If you cross us, this is what happens.'”

This happened back on October 10. And we’re just hearing about it.

UPDATE: To be clear, what we are just now hearing about is the definitive connection to a Mexican cartel. DRJ writes to note that the beheading was reported back when it happened, and a cartel connection was suspected. It is now clear.

16 Responses to “Mexican Cartel Beheads Man in United States”

  1. Appropriate musical accompaniment for this story…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9rbM0jEcE

    Gazzer (1b7d21)

  2. Nappy put a lid on this pretty well, don’t you think?

    PatriotRider (323a62)

  3. I balme Bush. And Palin. And teabaggerz. And especially the Koch brothers.

    JD (306f5d)

  4. Considering the victim and accused suspects are (and were) illegal immigrants, I can’t help but think this is going to add a lot of strength to Arizona’s immigration laws. A lot of the opposition to it was the claim that the extreme violence in Mexico was not happening here. No longer.

    Also, I’ve read a number of articles explaining that these gruesome acts are often used as warnings to the surrounding population – whether involved in drugs or not. It’s how they gain control of turf. The suspects may have had more in mind than just kidnapping and eliminating the victim.

    Dana (9f3823)

  5. This happened back on October 10.

    You mean around the time Obama told people to “punish your enemies”?

    Must be Palin’s fault.

    malclave (1db6c5)

  6. Barack Obama’s America is becoming fabulously third worldy quite fast I bet overseas they look at us with wonder at all we’ve squandered.

    happyfeet (ab5779)

  7. As a reminder, President Obama last year speaking next to Calderon during a state visit, called the tough immigration law a “misdirected expression of frustration over our broken immigration system.”

    Dana (9f3823)

  8. __________________________________

    beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment

    The veneer of civilization varies from time to time, place to place. The following wouldn’t make me wonder if that veneer can become way too thin if a nation like Mexico (et al) were an otherwise generally always prosperous, always well educated, always nicely evolving type of society, devoid of, for example, the infamous cardboard shantytowns south of the US border.

    mexidata.info:

    Human sacrifice was widespread in the Mesoamerican civilizations. The term Mesoamerica refers to the area that was occupied by several civilizations in pre-Columbian times, an area that includes central to southern Mexico and much of Central America.

    Some contemporary Mexicans are reticent to recognize that human sacrifice existed among the cultures of Mesoamerica. As a result, a far-fetched explanation has been cooked up to explain it away.

    I’ve been told by some Mexicans that this or that Mesoamerican culture did not practice human sacrifice, and what they were actually engaged in was advanced medical techniques that the Spaniards misunderstood. However archaeological and historical evidence is all quite clear that human sacrifice was practiced in Mesoamerica. The Spaniards reported it in their chronicles.

    The archaeological record is replete with evidence of human sacrifice. There are depictions of it in Mesoamerican artwork. And archaeologists have found the skulls and skeletons of the sacrifice victims.

    Mark (411533)

  9. this has far less to do with a mexican culture of “human sacrifice” than a slovenly and enervated American culture what is failing pitifully absolutely everywhere you look

    happyfeet (ab5779)

  10. Weren’t they getting on Governor Brewer’s case, for making these sort of claims, I recall,

    narciso (bf58f6)

  11. Yes, narciso, and she had to back away from them.

    Interesting timing of this story’s release: President Calderon and President Obama are scheduled to meet in D.C. this Thursday.

    In an interview with El Universal newspaper published last week, Mr. Calderón lashed out at what he said was the U.S.’s lack of cooperation in Mexico’s effort to curb drug cartels. More than 34,000 Mexicans have died in drug-related violence since Mr. Calderón took power in 2006 and sent out the army and federal police to recover large areas of Mexico where drug cartels held sway.

    U.S. “institutional cooperation ends up being notoriously deficient,” Mr. Calderón said. He also lambasted what he said was the disarray in U.S. interagency cooperation. He said the U.S. should help Mexico deal with the violence unleashed by drug trafficking by lowering U.S. drug consumption and cutting the flow of arms, many of which end up in the hands of cartel gunmen in Mexico. But Mr. Calderón said the U.S. hasn’t been able to make progress towards either goal. “Instead, the flow [of arms] has increased,” he said in the interview.

    It’s always easier to look anywhere but under your own nose.

    Dana (9f3823)

  12. is 34,000 a lot? Maybe now but in 5 years? Nah. The good old days.

    Mr. Calderon and president bumblef should enjoy them while they last.

    happyfeet (ab5779)

  13. Meanwhile, the double-dipping police chief/safety manager is in the middle of a kerfuffle wherein he is alleged to have inflated kidnapping stats to grab federal funding. Aided and abetted by the hapless Phil “irregardless” Gordon.
    http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/local/phoenix/harris-packs-up-his-office-3-2-2011
    He will be gone by week’s end. Good!

    Gazzer (1b7d21)

  14. This is clearly a bad scene, and totally the fault of George Bush and Fox News, as anyone left of Scoop Jackson will tell you.

    But i am pretty sure that if youre the kind of desperado who not only hangs out with people who sell weed in 400 pound bags, but you steal said weed from them, the world is prolly a better place without you.
    Buh-bye. I’ll save my sympathies for honorable people like murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

    Mike D (cfd823)

  15. The “tough immigration law” was designed to have absolutely nothing to do with immigration, legal or otherwise. It merely gave sheriff Arpaio more people to torture and occasionally kill, by picking up people with brown skin (usually American citizens) on the streets of Phoenix and taking them to jail without charges or habeas corpus.

    If it had had any relevance to illegal immigration, it would have gotten respect.

    Fiona Mackenzie (c6f29c)

  16. Fiona go kill yourself thanks.

    Obama (984d23)


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