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Drug trafficking De Leon gets 20 years, ordered to pay $42 million By PHILIP BALLI
cording to a ledger seized by law enforcement, distributed at least 12,500 kilograms of cocaine and had almost $42 million in drug proceeds was sen-
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A man involved in a drug trafficking conspiracy that, ac-
tenced Monday in a Laredo federal court to more than 20 years in prison. In addition to receiving a 262-month prison sentence, Os-
car “Shrek” De Leon, 39, was ordered to pay nearly $42 million following multiple convic-
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Zapata resident served
CONSUL GENERAL OF MEXICO IN LAREDO
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Man arrested for terroristic threats By PHILIP BALLI THE ZAPATA TIMES
Laredo police served a Zapata resident with warrants for his arrest Tuesday for two separate offenses. Juan Antonio Garcia, 49, was arrested and charged with terroristic threat of family for allegedly assaulting and threatening his wife and fraud, removal concealment writing for allegedly attempting to switch the price tags for three items at a Laredo Academy Sports and Outdoors store. On Nov. 25, Garcia was involved in a domestic dispute at a residence in the 3800 block of Santa Isabel Avenue in which he allegedly assaulted his wife and threatened to kill her. Officers responded to a 911 call made by Garcia’s wife, but when they arrived at the scene, Garcia was gone, according to Investigator Joe E. Baeza, LPD spokesman. The woman said that her husband arrived at the residence intoxicated and agitated, and that he fled the scene on foot shortly after the assault. According to a police report, Garcia struck her with an open hand to the right side of the face, causing her to hit a wall and fall to the ground. “She said she was pleading to the man to stop hitting her and that whenever she tried to get up, Garcia would push her down to the floor,” Baeza said.
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Consul General of Mexico, Miguel Angel Isidro, waves the Mexican flag after performing the traditional "Grito" at San Agustin Plaza, on Sept. 13, 2013.
Miguel Angel Isidro will focus on oil in Kuwait By MALENA CHARUR THE ZAPATA TIMES
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fter seven years as Consul General of Mexico in Laredo, Miguel Angel Isidro
leaves to serve as Ambassador of Mexico in Kuwait. Mexico’s Senate ratified his appointment in the second week of December. “My work in Kuwait will be different from what I did in
the United States. Here the work is focused on serving and assisting Mexicans. There it will be more political, more representative and more promotional,” he said. “Kuwait is mainly an oil state and Mexi-
co is seeking a better understanding of the experience that it has in the field.” One goal is to increase trade between the two nations,
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Police involved in 2011 migrant massacres By MARIA VERZA ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Local police in the city of San Fernando in northern Mexico were involved in the 2011 massacres of 193 mainly Central American migrants whose bodies were found in mass graves, according to fed-
eral prosecutors. The claim appeared in a memo sent by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office to the National Security Archive, a Washington D.C.-based research organization that solicited the information under Mexican transparency laws. It published the memo on its website on Monday and high-
lighted the similarities in the case to what happened with the 43 teachers college students who disappeared in southern Guerrero state in September. The students were abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel in the city of Iguala and handed over to the members of the Guerreros Unidos gang who
after killing them are believed to have burned their bodies and dumped the remains into a river, according to Mexico’s government. The case has generated angry protests in Mexico and abroad over the alleged involvement of police and corrupt officials. Reports have emerged of mayors
and police forces in cities in parts of Mexico being on the payroll of cartels. In San Fernando, a city of 60,000 inhabitants in Tamaulipas state near the Texas border, local police worked as lookouts for the brutal Zetas drug cartel, as well
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