{"id":299,"date":"2008-11-30T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:07:34","slug":"gunrunners-land-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/gunrunners-land-of-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunrunners&#8217; land of plenty: How cartels buy firearms at Texas gun shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gunrunnerfrontpage22.jpg\" alt=\"Gunrunner&#039;s land of plenty\" width=\"250\" height=\"436\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gunrunnerfrontpage22.jpg 250w, https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gunrunnerfrontpage22-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Express-News Reporter Todd Bensman wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\">outstanding article<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s paper about Mexican drug cartels buying assault weapons in Texas to battle rivals and Mexican police.<\/p>\n<p>Bensman&#8217;s story showed how cartels hire people with clean criminal histories to buy firearms at Texas gun shows and gun shops.<\/p>\n<p>Bensman traced the path of several guns found at the scene of a police killing in Mexico. The guns were bought in Laredo, Texas, and Bensman found the purchaser, Ra\u00fal Alvarez Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez denied having anything to do with the cartels but he bought a new house shortly after he sold the guns. He also hired a cartel lawyer when federal investigators began looking into the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Bensman&#8217;s story included interesting details about Alvarez: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nuevo Laredo brothel owned by the mother of Ra\u00fal Alvarez Jr. seems out of place amid the rows of broken-down bordellos that crowd the city\u2019s pink-walled &#8220;Zone of Tolerance,&#8221; or Boys\u2019 Town. Prostitutes amble up and down the uneven gravel streets strewn with garbage picked over by skeletal dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Danash Mens Club is newly built in the garish likeness of a medieval castle. It\u2019s all bright lights outside and shiny gold dance poles inside on a main floor covered over by plush, red cushioned seats.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Alvarez explained that drug syndicate operatives prefer the Danash to the other zone brothels for what are to him obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the best girls,&#8221; said Alvarez, whose rail-thin body and boyish features make him look far younger than 29.<\/p>\n<p>But even though the narcos often take the girls away for days at a time without paying, they otherwise let him and his mother operate the family business without too much meddling.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what Alvarez did with the guns would help the ATF move one step closer to the smugglers. It would be illegal but tough to prove if Alvarez had fronted for a cartel contact from the club. Alvarez must have sensed trouble for himself when an ATF agent called, especially when the agent told him during an initial phone call &#8220;there was a mess down in Mexico&#8221; involving some guns Alvarez bought.<\/p>\n<p>He hired a Laredo lawyer known to defend drug-trafficking suspects and then refused to talk further to the ATF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express-News Reporter Todd Bensman wrote an outstanding article in Sunday&#8217;s paper about Mexican drug cartels buying assault weapons in Texas to battle rivals and Mexican police. Bensman&#8217;s story showed how cartels hire people with clean criminal histories to buy firearms at Texas gun shows and gun shops. 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