Thread: Mexican Official Charged In NYC As Drug Trafficker

Mexican Official Charged In NYC As Drug Trafficker

By Jonathan Dienst

POSTED: 11:51 am EDT April 2, 2008
UPDATED: 12:16 pm EDT April 2, 2008


NEW YORK -- An elected mayor from Mexico was charged in New York for smuggling hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. over several years, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Drug Enforcement Agents and U.S. Marshals arrested Ruben Gil, the mayor of Izucar de Matamoros in Puebla, Mexico, for allegedly helping run the narcotics trafficking ring.

Gil was arrested as he tried to fly into Los Angeles but his name was on a watch list due to his alleged drug trafficking activity. Prosecutor said he had been helping run the drug ring for much of the last decade. Gil, 41, was elected mayor of Izucar de Puebla in 2007.

Investigators said Gil used tractor trailers to ship the drugs. DEA agents said they seized a drug shipment back in 2004 carrying 150 kilograms of cocaine. The truck had the name "Gil Moving and Storage" on it, according to court papers.

U.S. officials credited Mexican authorities with helping make the arrest. "The arrest of Ruben Gil ... is the result of extraordinary cooperation of international law enforcement partners," U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in a statement.

Gil was arrested in Los Angeles and flown to New York overnight. He is set to be arraigned Thursday in Manhattan federal court on the drug conspiracy charges. Gil does not yet have a defense attorney, according to court records and a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/15772456/detail.html

I wonder how many of our majors, elected officials are connected to the Mexican drug rings, especially in border states. I am absolutely convinced that a LOT if going on and some must feel a little hot under the collar right now.

Will his attourney need to speak Spanish? And what will they do to him? 18 months in a country club lockdown? Or maybe they'll just sweep it under the carpet, and you won't hear anymore about it.

This is the kind of thing that burns me up No wonder the jerks in D.C. want to keep the borders open. There's plenty of money to be made that way. And who was connection in the U.S.? I don't think it was just an area druglord.