Thread: How boy from San Diego became cartel hitman PART 1,2,3,4

The Cartels' Grip (Part 1 of 4)

How boy from San Diego became accused cartel hitman

By Morgan Lee and Janine Zúñiga
9:08 p.m., July 13, 2011

Mexican soldiers showing San Diego-born Edgar Jimenez Lugo, 14, to news crews after his arrest in December. Marco Antionio Diaz Sierra

The top of the boy’s head barely reaches the shoulders of the men at his side as they exit a military pickup shortly before dawn.

He is 14 and small for his age — a thin figure draped in a sweatshirt with a concert tour logo. He has a fat lip, a swollen eye and abrasions on his neck.

Mexican soldiers in bulletproof vests and black masks stand the youth against a brick wall on a dark side street outside the federal prosecutor’s office in central Mexico. Cameras flash as someone holds a cellphone to the teen’s face.

His chest heaves and for a moment he looks as if he will cry.

"What is your name?" . . .

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/...edgar-jimenez/