14-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Gets Three Years for Beheading Hostages as Mexican Cartel Hitman
- Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:15pm by
Buck Sexton
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A hitman for a major Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for offenses including murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. But this assassin is only 14 years old, and the brutality of his crimes — including beheadings – have shocked the world amidst the continuing carnage near the US-Mexico border.
Edgar Jimenez, nicknamed “El Ponchis,” (many have said it means “cloak,“ but really it is ”One who likes techno music“) is a U.S. Citizen, born in San Diego. He claims that at age 11 he was kidnapped and soon thereafter became a hitman for the South Pacific Cartel, a notorious drug smuggling syndicate that Mexican police say is responsible for hundreds of murders this year alone.
Jimenez’s sentence is the maximum he can receive, as he is under 16 years of age. Mexico has no system for trying juveniles as adults. The murder charges refer to the killing of 4 people whose mutilated bodies were found hanging from a bridge.
Jimenez claims he was forced, under threat of death, to carry out heinous acts of torture and murder. At the time of his arrest, Reforma Newspaper quoted Ponchis saying ”When I was 11, they picked me up. They said they would kill me … I’ve killed four people, decapitated them. I felt bad doing it. They made me. They said if I didn’t do it, they would kill me.” Time Magazine, however, paints a somewhat darker picture of the youth- one that points to Jimenez more as a brainwashed, stone-cold killer than a frightened child. Time reported on the damning evidence against Jimenez last December, writing that:
“Apart from his confession, Jimenez also posed in incriminating videos, which he had saved on his cell phone. In one, he squats in front of a group of gunmen wearing a baseball cap and holding a Kalashnikov rifle — looking like the gang mascot. In another, he stands by a prisoner who is hung up like a piece of meat with his shirt off and tape over his mouth. Jimenez hits him with a stick. Rumors have circulated that there are videos of El Ponchis chopping off heads, but no one seems to have seen them or have them.”
The use of underage assassins appears to be on the rise in Mexico, as they grow up in the midst of a bloody narco-insurgency. Juárez prison’s director of inmates, Oswaldo Hogaz, told Time magazine that “These kids are cheap, bloodthirsty, and they know the government can’t punish them much,” and warned that their use by cartels would likely increase as violence in Mexico continues to spiral out of control.
Jimenez and his sister were arrested by the Mexican Army last December at an airport on the way to Tijuana, where they planned to cross into the U.S. Jimenez’s sister is allegedly part of a group of girls called Las Chabelas, who dump bodies in plain sight to intimidate the population in and around Cuernavaca, which is a short drive from Mexico City.
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Comments (139)
LadyIzShy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:19pmwhy did heonly get 3 years?
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:29pmdon‘t give them another idea for a name ’Heonly”.. please
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:39pmThis is the kind of vermon illegal mexicans are dropping on our society
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:52pmIt said 3 years is the maximum he could get because he’s under 16.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:58pm3 years and this cockroach will be chopping the heads off our American children
Report Post »Citizen7154
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:13pmWhat a sociopath.
Report Post »muzikant
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:28pm@LADYIZSHY
Report Post »He only got 3 years because that is typical of Mexico. Their justice system is corrupt and messed up. If they tried to stop Texas from executing that illegal rapist-murderer – that tells it all. By the way, UN tried to do that, too(stop texas). Its funny, Europe and mexico laugh at us, like we are still a 3rd world country for having the death penalty, but look at their “UTOPIAN” societies. Thats why Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world to be in. They are too “UTOPIAN” for us. Europe, I read, plans to give the Oslo terrorist 21years maximum for 76 deaths. if that s utopia, keep it to yourselves.
LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 2:04amLike how they say, “US Citizen.” Sure technically, but we all know he was just another anchor baby that was immediately sent back to the hellhole that is Mexico, to do the same dirty work his parents did!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:27amsorry kid. you should get he death penalty.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:50pmThe courts once again are use the politics of race If a 16 years old white kid did this they would be charged as an adult. He77 theve handed out 20 years to 14 years bloods and krypts for shooting death. This little maggots beheaded people and yet 3 years…WTF
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:26pmDidn’t you read the article? Read it again.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 4:04pmThis system is screwed: 4 years?? I don‘t care if he’s 11 hang him in the town square and invite his parents. This is one person who deserves death by execution. I‘ll pull the trigger and I’ll send his parents the bill for the bullet.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:04pmGee, he felt bad cutting their heads off.
Report Post »Let’s invite him back to the U.S. and give him a free house, free schooling, and free healthcare…and while we’re at it, let’s give him a job as a government butcher.
Poor lad.
Bush must have done something to him.
xoke
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:37pmIt was Bush‘s fault I’m sure. :)
Report Post »johnsell
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:52pmSorry, but he doesn‘t qualify as he’s a U.S. Citizen………….maybe he can renounce his citizenship and then move back for here for all the benefits……………right?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:01pmChristians-see how they love one another [those" evil "muslims must be saying].
Report Post »4areason
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:22pmRose Ellen, your comment might make sense if somewhere in the article it claimed the boy was a Christian. Are you only interested in being an instigator or do you have any real concern for right and wrong? Please, for the good of mankind, think before you speak. As I said once before to you, “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and prove yourself one.”
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:16pmxoke – you forgot Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney and the rest of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy that had a hand in this, too. Feelings will be hurt!
Report Post »muzikant
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:30pmCalifornia is doing that already.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:22amhttp://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp enough is enough
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:03pmIn our world today, a human life is not worth much. Ask any American liberal or abortionist. If you can kill the unborn then it’s a short ride to killing the living. Ask any American liberal. Think universal health care.
Report Post »Erabin
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:08pmYep, that’s why the death sentence is legal in all those european countries where abortion is legal and the homicide rate is much higher than in the USA.
Or maybe you’re just full of ****. Yeah, that’s probably it.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:49pmYep! Death by government rationing of health care. That‘s exactly how it works in those socialist utopia’s…for all but the super connected wealthy who come to America for treatment.
Report Post »lawnman
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:56pmYou are right, blame someone for we live in a culture where we spend more on health care in the last two weeks of your life. Afraid of dying, do not kill babies but cut social programs. Believe in a god that does not exists. I do not want to pay for welfare or old people, but at least I don’t hide behind a god that will make it all ok after you die. Grow up and stop blaming someone for your little life.
Report Post »silkworm19
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 10:35amErabin,
You can’t compare killing via abortion with killing convicted criminals. First, aborted babies committed no crime, they should have their right to life protected. Convicted criminals have given up their rights due to their behavior. Executing criminals who have been charged, tried and convicted is not comparable to terminating the potential of innocent babies.
Report Post »adastra2005
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:52pmif he ever sets foot in America, please, someone kill him
Report Post »FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:53pmim on it
Report Post »OverFiend
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:52pmHe should be skined alive and then dipped in rubbing alcohol! and just think in 3 years he’ll be back here in the U.S. with us.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:02pmNo, animals like this is why we had slaves, since man doesn’t have the balls to remove them from the gene pool, the only solutions are crowed prisons, or slavery.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:31pmMaybe Americans should stop doing drugs and paying for sex. It’s all about supply and demand. How many Americans are fueling this evil when they light up or shoot up? The Mexicans have the supply down to a science with the help of Americans who push the crap. It all starts with the family. When people are abused and beat they leave and find a crutch in drugs or sex or both. As families break down, kids turn to gangs and the lure of fast money, except they always chase it until their dead or others are dead. As long as we think we can keep our vices under control we will continue leaving a window open for this epidemic to continue. What ever happened to the teaching of self control? Instead self indulgence is the motto of the human race. Pray for the weak, the lost and our enemies.
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:20am@ Colonial 10
There is no discipline in America any more. We Blazers are the extreme minority exception to the rule. The degeneracy of these recent generations will be what annihilates our country, and unfortunately there isn’t enough of us around to do too much about it.
Report Post »IM_UR_HUCKLEBERRY
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:55amOHIORIFLEMAN— I think you’d be surprise, my brother, just how many of us there REALLY are. If this country falls apart and it’s every man for himself, I think WE wil be the ones who come out on top. The low-lifes will eat each other, we will ban together and protect each other, (circle the wagons), because we are still human. And besides that, we are the ONLY ones who have been preparing for the inevitable.
Report Post »romadave
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:52am@swampy
Are you suggesting we should still have slavery as a means to contol those with inferior genes? That’s truly awful. I hope the mask of anonymity of the internet lets you sleep better at night for posting such nonsense. Please cut the racist slavery crap.
Report Post »I_AM_STILL_HUMAN
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:06amIM_UR_HUCKLEBERRY– you are “right on”. I’m with you. OHIORIFLEMAN, this guy is more correct than even ‘he’ realizes. We are the majority. Don’t believe what you hear and see on TV. Get outside your normal sphere and ask questions of strangers and you’ll find the same mind-set that ‘we’ have.
Report Post »contact me -just1oneofmany@hushmail.com-
I_AM_STILL_HUMAN
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:13amOOOOPS that should be just1ofmany@hushmail.com
Report Post »sorry
Pattondog
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:52pmwonder if this gives him extra credentials for the dream act passed in cali? seems right up the alley for the type of constituents the liberals like to have on their side. perhaps one day he willl even be able to participate in democracy and be able to vote. ughhhhhhhhh
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:02pmYes, he’ll be put to the front of the line.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:30pmpattondog……that would be the credentials this kid would need to be in big o`s citizen army. Make him a general. Three star general. Lotus.
Report Post »muzikant
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:34pmHe might even be Governor of California one day.
Report Post »I am soooooo glad i dont live in california anymore.
I am now preserving the South.
4X4in
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:50pmKnows to much, won’t be alive in six months!
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:47pmHezbula on the border???
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:47pmThis is a very common thing in Mexico. He is not the only kid doing dirty work for the cartel. There is many kids who have over 100 ‘bodies’ on there resume.
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:47pmThere is only ONE way to keep this from happening in America. Secure America FIRST. Bring our troops home from ALL countries where our policies of freedom are NOT supported. STOP the SPENDING at the UN and for ALL the government departments that oversee our people, HUD, Welfare, Department of Education, etc. Let us return to freedom to start business without fear of new taxes and laws that kill our spirit. Elect ONLY Tea Party Candidates from either party! Let our government be comprised of people willing to listen to fresh ideas from either party and then vote on the best idea. Return to FREEDOM and get rid of ALL the good-ole boys who have compromised our nation into a communist way of life. Let those who really want a Marxist Communist way of life LEAVE, we won’t be discouraged.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:55pm@ramburner ~~~ I agree with you!
STAND AND FIGHT, AMERCIANS, NOW. Or, we perish from limp wristedness and wimpy, sin-sick souls.
BARF!!! Our FOUNDING FATHERS would throw up their toenails at this bag of wimps!
Gee whiz, AMERICANS.
GOD did not call us to be pacifists. JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF said, “I did not come to bring peace on earth but a sword…” Matthew 10:34-40
Check out Matthew 24, entire chapter. Does not speak well for pc now, does it?
JESUS also tells us in Revelation that HE will spew us out of HIS mouth because we are lukewarm!
Come on, AMERICAN CHRISTIANS. Kneel and pray and stand and fight.
Report Post »Erabin
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:31pmBut I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
See? I can selectively quote the bible as well!
How about you choose a religion more accommodating to your bloodlust? Buddhism is right out I guess, but how about worshiping the Norse gods? They had their fair share of axes and bloodshed, also transvestites and sex with horses. Doesn’t that sound right up your alley? Pray to Woden today and receive a free flagon of mead!
As an added bonus, you don’t have to keep riding on that single phrase where Jesus talked about violence and ignore all the instances where he tells you to love everyone like yourself and give your last shirt to the poor.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:57pmDon’t play with that two edged sword…you’re gonna cut yourself.
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:42pmIs this some kind of sick joke, a 3 year sentence for taking the life of 4 people. He gives them a sob story and they foolishly bought into it. Pathetic. Chances are, he enjoyed it and probably killed more than just the 4 people.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:45pmThis kid needs to die for his murders.
Report Post »GodsDotr
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:41pmAnd our government thinks it’s okay to let anyone from Mexico into the United States.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:40pmAs long as they have customers in El Norte, it will never end.
Report Post »trooper
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:39pmHe should be just fine after three years, I mean how bad is it really to cut someones head off anyway?
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:35pmMexico has no system for trying juveniles who are mass murderers. This sentence is a travesty. He’s going to walk away from that “juvenile prison” worse than when he went in, unless, of course, he gets murdered in there.
Report Post »Junter
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:35pmWhy head to TJ? There are plenty of other areas one can sneak across the border undetected. Although he may have had cartel contacts in San Diego.
Report Post »YesNdeedie
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:34pmI don’t care if he is only 14, this punk needs fried
Report Post »TankZ71
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:27pmThis kid is a sick freak! Murder is in his soul now! He will kill again.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:35pm3 Years? sounds like he has a lifetime of good hits left. What a country!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:35pmYes he is… and Mexico has no system for trying juveniles as adults? How weak! Maybe that’s why their country is such a mess with their youth running amok. Keep the trash in Mexico, we don’t need it here.
Report Post »a true texan
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:27pm…and our government sees no reason to secure our borders. No reason to worry nothing bad could ever cross over into our borders.
Report Post »What insane world do we live in. Some one wake me up please from this nightmare I’m having!!!!
Mary Just
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:26pmCowardly Americans just another example on why you cant let 40 million illegal aliens break into your country.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:57pmIf it were up to the law enforcement in Texas, there wouldn’t be any illegals coming through here. But the Obama administration basically wants them all in. They have orders not to arrest. Just look at what’s happening in Arizona. Don’t call Americans cowardly. if a shoot out would happen between illegal aliens and Texans, the Texans would be the ones in jail, and the Mexicans would be out the next day as victims.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:22pm3 years! Could we get the kid to make a gay slur? He would probably get more than 3 years for that.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:33pmSad, but so true.
Report Post »Thorkratos
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:22pmThis is a good reason for gators in the moats.
Report Post »TankZ71
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:21pmThis kid is a sick freak.
Report Post »AmeriWoman
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:19pmOMG thats outrageous!
I am shocked at this.
We live in some very sad times folks, very sad times.
AW
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:19pmWOW – I would fry for the same offense – I am white.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:27pmclaim you have some downtrodden ethnic heritage and the aflcio or naacp will get you off.
Report Post »Junter
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:36pmtoo bad, that means you’re a second class citizen according to the feds.
Report Post »Jas Kasalova
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:46pmYou are also not a brainwashed fourteen year old.
Report Post »Erabin
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:16pmYep, no black or hispanic people in prison or on death row. Not one.
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