Bloodthirsty Mexican Drug Cartel Hitman is Actually 14-Year-Old American Boy
- Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:41am by
Meredith Jessup
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A 14-year-old boy was recently arrested and charged with murder as he tried to cross the border from Mexico to San Diego. According to police, Edgar Jimenez, aka “El Ponchis,” was earning $3,00 for each murder he carried out as a hitman for the Pacifico Sur drug cartel based in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Along with his 16-year-old sister, who reportedly dumped the headless bodies of Jimenez’s victims, the young teen admitted to authorities that he had decapitated numerous rivals of the Pacifico Sur cartel.
“I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn’t, they would kill me,” Jimenez told reporters. The young boy also claims that he was orphaned at age 12 and joined the cartel after one of the group’s leaders had threatened him.
According to CNN, the young boy is actually a U.S. citizen:
Analysts say Mexican drug gangs are increasingly recruiting youth into their violent turf wars:
“This won’t be the last time we hear stories of young children picking up arms and killing people because it pays, and because they think it’s cool,” said Sylvia Longmire, a former U.S. Air Force officer and senior intelligence analyst specializing in Latin America and Mexico’s drug war.
With his hands shoved into the pockets of his cargo pants, the 14-year-old told reporters that he was paid weekly in dollars and pesos. But in answering questions about whether he knew what he was doing when he allegedly participated in the killings, the teen said he was under the influence of drugs and unaware of his actions.
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retainnon15
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 6:29pmTeens are perfect to do this kind of acts. It is a shame but true. If we look at our own back yard and the same. The only different is in Mexico. As a parent we have faced the difficult times with out teen, the rebellion, in authority. We need to go back to old school in bringing up our family. And correcting our life style. What can I say I’m just a blue collar worker, making a living. Bringing up my family the best I can. (Christian Life.)
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 10:03amI Poison All My Lovers
Anna Russell
I went to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalyzed
To find out why I killed the cat and blacked my husband’s eyes.
He laid me on a downy couch to see what he could find,
And here is what he dredged up from my subconscious mind:
When I was one, my mommie hid my dollie in a trunk,
And so it follows naturally that I am always drunk.
When I was two, I saw my father kiss the maid one day,
And that is why I suffer now from kleptomania.
At three, I had the feeling of ambivalence toward my brothers,
Report Post »And so it follows naturally I poison all my lovers.
But I am happy; now I’ve learned the lesson this has taught;
That everything I do that‘s wrong is someone else’s fault.
Speak without Fear
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 2:06pmI have more sympathy for him………as he did for the peoples throats he slashed.
Try him……fry him.
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:09pmLater in life he will say it was the most informative years of his life……. Another Soros in the making!
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:05pmI think Mexico ought to do something about that leaky boarder. They have to put an end to all of those Americans sneaking across the boarder illegally, killing their citizens. Mexico shouldn’t have to tolerate this. I suggest Mexico build a wall to keep the illegal Americans out.
Report Post »American kids- sneaking across the boarder to do the jobs Mexicans just won’t do.
republitarian
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:03pmIs this a country we should have an open border with?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 12:07amRacist……….
Report Post »Jsh1284
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:26amRacist? I hope you’re not serious .. lol .. because the left uses the race card far too often. 99 percent of the time there is no racism to be found in their claims, either.
To say Mexico is dangerous is not a RACIST statement. it’s a FACT. The leaders of that nation leave their northern border unprotected because they want drugs and illegals to flow into America. I guarantee they are making money off of the cartels. No question! Furthermore, the cartels are horribly violent and dangerous in general. Drugs are the worst thing that has happened to America .. especially in recent decades. If it weren’t for them, liberals might actually be SANE!
Oh, did I mention the fact that illegal immigration is destroying this country from the inside out? Yeah, I guess we’re all just racists! I mean what’s MORE racist than wanting to close our borders (like almost all other nations) and protect our national security? HOW DARE WE look out for the well being of our republic?! Guess we should just let anyone in .. let them do whatever they want .. and allow them to generally bring down America! AT LEAST it would be in the best interests of EQUALITY and CIVIL RIGHTS, though!
Report Post »Jsh1284
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:29amYou don’t see a big problem with CANADIAN drug cartels btw, now do you? Sure, pot comes into the US from Canada but not on anywhere NEAR the scale that it does from our SOUTHERN border! It’s funny how those Canadians could easily rape us .. considering it’s the longest unprotected border in the WORLD .. but they DON’T!
Report Post »barlyman14
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:02pmcomming to acity near you the dream act
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:39pmThis is already going on in some of our inner cities with legal citizens. Lawlessness allows for such jungles to grow. And liberal compassion weakens the law, creating such lawlessness in areas where well off liberals don’t have to look.
Report Post »Andrew.TX.
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:02pmBS they made you do it if some one told me that I had to chose between killing ppl that did nothing wrong or they kill me I would tell them to shove it. The reason this happens is because no one down there is willing to stand up against the cartel. I live 20 mins. from Mexico I hear this crap all the time.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:18pmThe kid was 12 when this started. I call BS on YOU if you claim you would maintain that level of bravery at that age. Besides, these weren’t “innocents” that he was killing, or at least was told he was killing. They were drug RIVALS. If someone told a young boy, “That bad man needs to die, and if you don‘t do it for us we’ll kill YOU” I would cut that boy a lot of slack for not being able to sacrifice his own life.
Report Post »Andrew.TX.
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:25pmNot hard to do so i was taught the right way not the wrong way
Report Post »Andrew.TX.
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:30pmNot at all maybe with this one case there have been many ppl who just looked at a cartel and where killed! If mexico had the freedom we do you know like the right to bear arms it would not be a war over there ppl would be able to defend themselves!
Report Post »KEA
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:59amI dont believe he didnt know what he was doing. I was working 2 jobs at 14 and knew right from wrong. He knew it was wrong becuase he actively evaded police for quite some time.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:13pmKEA, you may have been responsible at 14, but you can credit a lot of that to your parents. We have no idea what his upbringing had been before he was “recruited”. It’s a hard call. If he had been under their control since he was 12 I don’t doubt his moral understanding was severely compromised. I also don’t doubt that evading the police was part of his “training”.
People who make soldiers out of children this young should be hunted down and exterminated. No trial. They aren’t citizens. They should be treated like illegal combatants on the battlefield and terminated.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:58amBTW… yes, I’m aware that THIS article says he was orphaned. A prior article I read on these two said they were caught trying to cross back over the border to go be with his stepmother in San Diego.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 12:08pmHere’s the link on that… They were trying to fly to San Diego to be with their mother.
Meredith, sorry for correcting, but this doesn’t make him an orphan. Murdering little b@$tard, maybe.
Used to be, they’d just line up at the border and hound you to buy their chicklets. Now they cut your head off!
Sick, twisted, and the best reason so far to build a wall, very tall, very wide, very deep.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:56amWhere are these kids’ parents?
He slits throats and his 16 year old sister buries the bodies?
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