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05-31-2014, 11:10 AM #1
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Mexican Drug Cartels in America: Plata o Plomo (Silver or Lead) Warning Comes To Amer
Mexican Drug Cartels in America: Plata o Plomo (Silver or Lead) Warning Comes To America
By: Jay Syrmopoulos May 29, 2014
Update: According to court documents, a Las Vegas man admitted painting the ominous messages and to cutting a hole in a fence to access a billboard.
Court documents say, Ryan Edward Jean, 25, voluntarily admitted to cutting a hole in a chain-link fence to unlawfully access property to access the south central billboard and painting the warning.
Surveillance video showed Jean entering the property through the hole in the fence, and climbing up the billboard around 2:15 a.m.
Jean told investigators it was a political statement that people were dying because of the drug war, according to court documents.
Fingerprints gathered at the far east El Paso billboard matched Jean’s and he was subsequently arrested, court documents stated.
Jean was arrested at the El Paso International Airport before boarding a plane. He denied any connection to the cartels during a police interrogation.
El Paso- Ominous messages were painted on billboards last week in the border city of El Paso, Texas, reminiscent of the deadly warnings by drug cartels that are commonplace in neighboring Mexico.
One of the massive signs read “Plato o plomo” (silver or lead), a phrase used by cartels to indicate you either take a bribe or a bullet. In addition, a mannequin dressed in a suit and tie was hung by its neck from the bottom of the billboard.
The hanging mannequin, although startling, was a toned down version of a cartel practice of hanging real dead bodies over highway overpasses, often meant as a warning against working with law enforcement or running afoul of the cartels that provide most of the drugs in America.
A second billboard defaced was a Drug Enforcement Agency billboard offering a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and capture of Rafael Caro Quintero. This one had the words “DYING FOR DRUGS” emblazoned upon it with a mannequin dressed in jeans and a shirt hung from it.
Phil Jordan, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who ran the El Paso Intelligence Center said, “Whoever did this went through a lot of work to get this accomplished,” according to the NY Daily News.
“This is possibly a message to someone who hasn’t cooperated with the cartels. But even if it’s a hoax, something like this is going to make the El Paso population uneasy, given that the city is not far from the killing fields of Mexico.”
Jay Syrmopoulos
Jay Syrmopoulos is a journalist and political analyst living in Winona, Minnesota. He received his Bachelors in Political Science from Winona State University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Global Affairs from the University of Denver. Jay is a liberty activist dedicated to exposing the facade of reality by shattering the left right paradigm.
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05-31-2014, 12:09 PM #2
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Now, how can this be spun into "less border security necessary?" It will be ignored until someone from the population causes a conversation about it.
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05-31-2014, 12:44 PM #3
Update: Las Vegas man vandalizes El Paso billboards
Updated: Tuesday, May 27 2014, 12:30 PM MDT
By: Jamel Valencia
EL PASO, Texas - A Las Vegas man has been arrested in connection to the two El Paso billboards that were vandalized.
Ryan Edward Jean, 25, was arrested on Sunday by the El Paso Police Department's Homeland Security unit.
Fingers prints left at the scene led police and FBI investigators to Jean, according to police sergeant Chris Mears.
On May. 22, a mannequin hanging from a rope around its neck that was attached to a billboard in far east El Paso and another in southcentral El Paso were spotted by motorists.
The billboard in far east El Paso had a message in Spanish that read: "Plata-O-Plomo," translated literally means "silver or lead." But the meaning is much deeper "pay or die."
The second billboard on the 5200 block of Gateway East, near Copia Street read "Dying for Drugs," also had a mannequin hanging from the sign in a noose.
Police investigators dusted for prints and followed tire treads.
Investigators discovered that Jean was in El Paso and had plans to fly back to Las Vegas, according Mears.
Jean was arrested at the El Paso International Airport before boarding a plane.
After an interrogation, police believe Jean has no connection to the Mexican drug cartel or movie production.
They believe Jean was making a political statement.
He was booked into the El Paso County Jail on two counts of graffiti, two counts of criminal trespass and one of criminal mischief.
His bond was set at $21,800.
An investigation is still ongoing.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/features/...l#.U4TqPPldV6Y
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05-31-2014, 12:46 PM #4
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Vandalized Texas Billboards May be Cartel Threats
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05-31-2014, 02:37 PM #5
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"They believe Jean was making a political statement" They made that statement without adding but further investigation is pending, or something of that ilk, bond for making public threats set at 21,800 dollars? Insanity in full bloom, is'nt it? From Las Vegas, that does not mean he is pro-America? Who are his friends, where do his relatives live? So, for 2180 dollars, he is gone!! Make it known he is gone, then what, sneak back? This case leaks like a leaky bucket, does'nt it?
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05-31-2014, 04:08 PM #8
Authorities say he was in El Paso for a gathering of graffiti and street artists.
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05-31-2014, 05:46 PM #9
Man In El Paso Paints Cartel-Style Threats, Hangs Mannequins To Alert To Drug Dangers
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A Las Vegas man admitted to police that he painted drug cartel-style threats and hung two mannequins from El Paso billboards in an effort to show that people die because of the drug trade into the United States, according to ...Fox News Latino - May 30, 2014
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