Mexican Assassins Untouched Because Of Fear Of Retaliation!
March 31, 2010 – As you know, one of the local ranchers was murdered in Douglas two weeks ago. His funeral is tomorrow. I received three messages similar to the one below from different officers within the Rangers and law enforcement.
Yesterday afternoon I talked to another rancher near us who is a friend of ours and whose great grandfather started their ranch here in 1880. These are good people. He told me what really happened out at the Krentz ranch and what you won’t read in the papers. The Border Patrol is afraid of starting a small war between civilians here and the drug cartels in Mexico.
Bob Krentz was checking his water like he does every evening and came upon an illegal who was lying on the ground telling him he was sick. Bob called the Border Patrol and asked for a medical helicopter evac. As he turned to go back to his ATV he was shot in the side. The round came from down and angled up so they know the shooter was on the ground. Bob’s firearm was in the ATV so he had no chance. Wounded he called the Cochise County Sheriff and asked for help. Bleeding in the lungs he called his brother but the line was bad so he called his wife but again the line was bad.
Phil & Rob Krentz
Several ranchers heard the radio call and drove to his location. Bob was dead by this time. The ranchers tracked the shooter 8 miles back towards Mexico and cornered him in a brushy draw. This was all at night. The Sheriff and Border Patrol arrived and told them not to go down and engage the murderer. They went around to the back side and if you can believe it the assassin managed to get by a BP helicopter and a Sheriff’s posse and back to Mexico. So much for professional help when you need it.
One week before the murder Bob and his brother Phil (who I shoot with) hauled a huge quantity of drugs off the ranch that they found in trucks. One week before that a rancher near Naco did the same thing. Two nights later gangs broke into his ranch house and beat him and his wife and told them that if they touched any drugs they found they would come back and kill them. The ranchers here deal with cut fences and haul drug deliveries off their ranches all the time. What ranchers think is that the drug cartels beat the one rancher and shot Bob because they wanted to send a message. Bob always gave food and water to illegals and so they think they sent the assassin to pose as an illegal who was hungry and thirsty knowing it would catch Bob off guard.
What is going on down here is NOT being reported. You need to tell people how bad it is along the border. Texas is worse. Near El Paso it’s in a state of war. 5000 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez last year and it’s over 2000 so far this year. Gun sales down here are through the roof and I get emails from people wanting firearms training. Something has to be done but I don’t hold out much hope. These gangs have groups in almost every city in the US. This is serious business. The Barrio Azteca and their sub gangs are like Mexican Corporations and organized extremely well. If this doesn’t get dealt with down here you guys will deal with it on your streets.
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I believe that the Tucson Border Patrol sector is one of the most heavily staffed in the southwest. Given this, I don’t understand how so many illegals and drug traffickers can get through.
Only a few weeks after the rancher was shot and killed, a county deputy was also shot after he intercepted a dope load near Casa Grande, AZ, which is a considerable distance north of the Mexican border. My question is, where was the Border Patrol? Were they not posted astride known smuggling routes? You can bet there will be no accounting for this lack of vigilance.
The Border Patrol could benefit from an operational analysis on how they use and deploy resources. One thing is apparent from the National Geographic TV series, “Border Wars”, the agency makes extremely poor deployment decisions. At several points in the program the viewers saw how thousands of dollars were wasted by agents tracking down a few illegals several miles north of the border. Not only were field agents involved but the operations also included expensive air support and rescue squads.
After all the effort and squander of time and money, only a few (normally less than ten) illegals were caught. These no doubt were returned to Mexico for another try only hours later after having been fed and rested and treated humanely (coddled) while in custody.
Adding to operational mismanagement, the Border Patrol allows resources to be drained in areas that yield marginal results.
1. The basic academy is way too long, at some 18 weeks for non-Spanish speakers. A private guard organization could likely do better training in six weeks or so. A long academy pulls agents from field duty for extended times.
2. The Border Patrol operates a cowboy tactical unit (BORTAC) that consumes resources and is rarely or ever effectively used.
3. The Patrol operates an expensive rescue unit called BORSTAR. Mostly what they do is rescue, feed and water illegals caught in the desert and bring them up to health standards needed for another go at getting across successfully on the nest try.
4. The Border Patrol operates training missions in foreign countries. Why a foreign country would believe them is uncertain given the agency’s lack of success along the Mexican border.
5. Their DC headquarters is bloated with enough agents to staff another sub-station in the Tucson sector. The mission of the DC staff is to cover and protect the hindquarters of senior management and to put the best face on any Border Patrol Fiasco should that become needed.
It’s a reality that the Patrol is restrained by a number of rulings from political hacks masquerading as judges. But, besides using resources more effectively, there likely are many legal ways enforcement could be enhanced were it not for the bureaucratic cowardice of Border Patrol senior leadership.
Any illegal Mexican, or OTM should be shot on sight coming across our borders, and any drugs should be burned on site. The only thing these people(sic)understand is Gratuitous violence and lot’s of it. And, the BP agents need to grows some stones and stand up to their PC bosses. hb AARP 3%er!
To learn anything close to the truth you have to read the little newspapers like the AZ Range news, various weekly’s etc. You also have to talk to the locals personally and quietly talk to various BP agents when they are off duty and not afraid of proffesional retaliation.