‘He Never Came Back’: Woman Claims Zetas Cartel Kidnapped Her Husband From Their Texas Home
- Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:51am by
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Armando Morfin, 30, who his wife claims was kidnapped by members of the Zetas cartel. (Source: The Monitor)
Almost two months ago, three armed gunmen broke into a McAllen, Texas, home and kidnapped an American citizen in broad daylight.
Armando Morfin has not been seen or heard from since.
However, Morfin’s wife, Marina, who was home with her 4-year-old daughter on the morning of the March 30 abduction, is speaking out and has revealed to The Monitor that the assailants personally identified themselves as members of the notorious Zetas cartel. Authorities never mentioned this important detail.
“When I got out of the room with my little girl behind me, that’s when I had three guys in my living room pointing guns at me, yelling at me, telling me not to move and that they were from the Zetas,” she said.
More from The Monitor report:
The three gunmen who stormed into Morfin’s home March 30 were highly skilled and organized, she said. They wore matching camouflage outfits that included caps and face masks and spoke only in fluent Spanish.
“They told me who they were and they told me not to look at them, so I closed my eyes,” Morfin said. “I was so scared. I really thought they were going to kill me.”
The mother of three tried reasoning with the men, telling them she owned nothing of worth.
“We’re not coming to get anything,” they told her. “We’re coming to ask your husband a couple of questions.”
Armando Morfin, 40, was not at home when the alleged Zetas arrived at the home because he was dropping his 8-year-old son and one of his 4-year-old twin daughters off at school, according to The Monitor.
The home of Armando Morfin where he was abducted. (Source: valleycentral.com)
When he got home, Armando was caught by complete surprise.
“Next thing I know, I hear him coming and he gets off the car,” Marina Morfin said about her husband. “And that’s when he opens the door and yells out loud, ‘What the (expletive)?’”
A struggle ensued, she explained, but eventually the men overpowered her husband.
“He tells me not to yell, not to cry and not to call the cops — that my husband would come back in a half hour to untie me. And that’s it. He never came back. I had to untie myself,” she told The Monitor.
Armando Morfin was then dragged out of his home and thrown into the back of the family’s minivan. The vehicle was found later found by an irrigation worker, torched in a field near La Blanca, the report said.
The motive of the kidnapping remains unclear, however, multiple law enforcement databases list Armando Morfin as a “criminal associate of the drug underworld,” according to The Monitor. Further, public records indicate that he was sentenced to eight years for a second-degree felony of possession of marijuana in 1999 – meaning it is possible the incident is drug-related.
Still, why police decided not to reveal that the kidnappers may have been members of the Zetas cartel is still a mystery.
Meanwhile, the drug cartel continues to haunt the Morfin family.
Fearing that the Zetas would come back for her and her family, Marina Morfin and her children left Texas. Now almost two months later the wife and mother is still pleading with her husband’s captors to release him so he can be reunited with his family.
“Please, just let him go,” she said. “I don’t know what he’s done wrong that they had to take him away. Just let him go. He’s sick. He’s more use to us than to them. His kids need him. His family needs him. I need him.”
The Morfin family is offering a cash reward to anyone with information that leads to Armando’s location, according to The Monitor.
The Monitor also correctly points out that more than 66 percent of home invasions resulting in deaths since 2010 are connected to drug trafficking.
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Comments (48)
janmil200
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:52pmSo sad to read of this tragedy. Such a nightmare these people in the southwest must live with. God help them. God help us all.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:07amProbably staged it so he wouldn’t have to pay child support.
Report Post »lapitup
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:43amOk; Time to move. Sell your land to a old Marine that has an arsenal of weapons. Next time they brake in to that house. They will have quite a surprise awaiting them.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:50pmWhat is this? Don’t travel to Mexico so it would be easier to find you at home, right?
I’m beginning to believe, since our govt isn’t willing to stop this mess at the border (as we certainly have the ability), specific agencies of the govt must be facilitating it by their lack of action or are flat in on it and I just don’t know what to do about it or how to help fix it. Voting just isn’t enough.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:39pmThis isn‘t the first Mexican drug cartel story I’ve read where they came into the U.S. and kidnapped people (usually illegal aliens from Mexico, but sometimes turned American citizens), and even murdering Americans, including a couple beheadings.
But don’t worry! The border fence is “basically complete” at 5%!
I’m sure, positive that if state police had serious run-ins with Mexico’s drug cartels, or citizens, they would NEVER come into American and MURDER people, using ATF guns and bombs. No, that’ll never happen! Oh, wait, two border guards were shot with ATF guns by drug cartels.
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:04pmI don’t understand 1 thing. I say put our military on the boarder to stop the terrorists. when I bring it up in conversation people say there is a law against that. REally, we can’t post soldiers on teh border to deter people from crossing into the country. I say so if China, India, Russia, or any other country for that matter send a billion people strapped with drugs and guns to the US, we have to let our border patrol and police forces stop them from entering? Why do we have a Department of Defense? police can handle those already in the country, but what law states our troops can’t stand on the boarder to prevent people from entering.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:56pmThe banks in New York and London that depend on billions of dollars in deposits from the drug cartels every year would never allow it:
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Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
By Michael Smith – Jun 28, 2010 11:00 PM CT
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
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Depending on how much drug cash is flowing through the banks, then you could conceivably be talking about collapsing a big bank and setting off a banking panic around the world if those deposits of drug cash were ever to suddenly dry up.
For all we know, recycled drug money may be an essential ingredient that props up the U.S. economy.
Report Post »eagledown
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:00pmSounds like they came for pay back, dealing with the devil never ends well.
More evidence that we have Mexi-gang-ghanistan on our southern border. Nice to know the fence is complete, and Homeland Insecurity is doing a fine job. I’m sure this was an isolated incidence and the purps are currently in custody. (*with tongue firmly planted in cheek).
These Zeta’s make Al Qaeda look like girl scouts.
Iran + Hamas + Venezuela + Mexico + Drug Cartels = A well organized armed insurgency within our borders.
I feel like we are sheep being led to slaughter.
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:29pmThe blaze should add a “agree” button. Good post Eagledown.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:50pmBack when the War on drugs was started all they had to do is close the borders and ck all incoming merchandise but no they knew better. Then when crime in the USA was falling like a stone in the 80′s they brought in all new equipment and more police Why? to get ready for the next push to bring this nation down. NAFTA. crime rose like it was on a Saturn 5. Who suffered? we did. Then the illegal, quote immigration was in full swing. Remember we had the Green Card program for years an it worked fine. But all of a sudden nothing could stop the influx of the illegals. Then we has Aztlan pop its ugly head, Mexicans wanting to take back The South West. So they can make it like the rest of the Narc o State of Mexico. Sounds really good to me. All they had to do is close the border between Mexico and the USA, but no they had a better Idea let this continue and bring this nation down from within. With all the other crap it is possible, not probable but possible. This includes the 80 thousand Somalia mohommedists refugees that have begun their rape and pillage campaigns in the North East. and South East of the USA all directed by the mosques and Imams sent in by the Saudi Arabian King, Abdullah. under Wahhabism a dysfunctional base for mohommedism.
Report Post »Time to awaken America and look around and see how the Commies and Socialists are trying to enslave you. Just for good measure try the Chipping that is going on now on a volenter basis only.
We have to keep our faith and Lock and Loa
ContinentalArmy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:50pmPoliticians are all for the money! Stop the money and end the sorry ass crooked Politicians! The People are going to have to stand their ground on their own and to hell with Govt. intervention! Close the Border by any means necessary, since this Corrupt Admin. won’t do it!! This is the Peoples Country Not the sorry ass Politicians!!!
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:41pmUhhmmmm Texas, gun friendly, protect your house, etc. In Texas this is no excuse. Texas does not prevent people from protecting themselves. At a minimum we should be reading about a shootout. If you live in Texas and do not carry, what is wrong with you.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:14pmGlad they got that border sealed, whew!
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:47pmI know, those poor helpless hungry oppressed illegals just looking for work are the only thing those racist republicans want to build that wall for. They just want to oppress the poor even more by making them fill out paperwork and apply to enter like everyone else. They do so their rich banker, oil barren, land owning friends can make more money.
LOL, being sarcastic to sound like a Liberal about as hard as it is to listen to them speak.
Report Post »Inlandmar2
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:08pmIt doesn’t make any difference if this guy was a suspected drug trafficer or a preacher. The fact of the matter is that the United States was invaded by a foreign military force and our government refuses to do anything about it.
Report Post »highndry
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:02pmOur government has become so wimpy and confused, they probably couldn’t get a response if they did try a false flag attack. Could we please worry about this on our own border before we fight other countries wars?
Report Post »freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:44pmUS Gov. advises you not to travel to Mexico (parts of it moreso than others) and understandably so. My guess is tourism has decreased dramatically, thereby, decreasing the capability of “in nation kidnappings.” So they are in dire need of funds so they are moving their operations north bound. So what does the US Gov say about these actions? Warn against going to Texas or living there?
Report Post »freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:59pmi don’t know about the dire need of funds.. joke.
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:43pmLooks like it is time for Obama to stick up another warning sign. Obama is the sorrest President we have ever had. Nov elections cannot come soon enough for me. I wish all these prolems on you people who live up north who believe Obama when he says that the border is as secure as it ever has been. These cross border criminals will eventually reach you in your northern sanctuary, and then I bet you will be crying like a baby for the government to do something.
Report Post »FreedomWitness
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:47amThis dude, as the saying goes, sleeps with the fishes!
Report Post »Roberto G. Vasquez
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:06pmI live on the border and this kind of thing happens all the time. Almost never is it reported by the national media.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:27pmIt’s not just the border. It’s been going on for years. But the national press doesn’t report it. The local press is afraid of retaliation.
Report Post »RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:43amLay with dogs you fleas. But if he was a Mexican-American conservative he would not be peddling dope for the cartel plus his wife would have come out of the daughters room with a blazing shotgun. Too many Hispanics still anti-gun Democrats. Vote Republican folks!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:36amIt may be time to man up…
Like it or Not: Mexico is America’s Next Afghanistan http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/12/12/like-it-or-not-mexico-is-americas-next-afghanistan/ via @laborunionrpt
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:02pmWAY overdue a reckoning!! But then again La Raza would be very aggressive in their protests. We invade Mexico LA and San Diego would burn!!……..
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:40pmWhere are you going to get the money from to accomplish this though?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:17pmCEMERIUS. They could burn down all of California for all I care, but if they DID… there would have to be a second reckoning… along with, or right after the first as you mentioned.
KID. We don’t have the money right at this minute, but with a Romney POTUS win (we do have your support right? Lol)… we can work that lack of funds in a positive direction. I don’t know if Romney would be a go on this action (family reasons), but I think it’s coming at some point. We know Ron Paul wouldn’t be a go for this action either. as with the rest of the left.. candy-ass reasons.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:22pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:17pm
but with a Romney POTUS win (we do have your support right? Lol)… we can work that lack of funds in a positive direction.
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Romney has already said that he‘s not gonna’ quit spending though:
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Report Post »“Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.”
http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/23/the-complete-romney-interview-transcript/
WyoSagebrush
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:26amIf you play with the drug lords, as Morfin seems to have, you’re going to get burned. “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.”
Even so, just another reason for the border fence!!
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:44am@WYO.
Report Post »Ive said this a million times, as a Texan,a fence wont do it, shoot them as invaders,which they are, and it will end the incursion……
SgtB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:48amLet’s put you in prison for a decade for possession of a cigarette or a bottle of Budweiser and see what kind of friends you make while contemplating how the entire nation and their justice system has taken away your Liberty and placed you in a cell with real criminals who will and have killed, raped, and maimed people. Let’s face it. The “war on drugs” is an arrogant and ignorant action of a police state and public. It has never stopped drug use and it has increased not only the number of inmates in our prison system, but the number of violent criminals that are released from that system. If I ever went to jail for years for an “offense” that left no one harmed (monetarily or physically), you can be assured that upon release, I would not give two f@#ks about you or your children’s safety. Nor would I care about your property rights. And just to remind you, this is coming from an Marine Corps Veteran who is not unfamiliar with taking responsibility for his own actions and did take an oath to defend the Constitution so that you can have the protection, Liberty, and freedoms that it assures.
I find it a travesty that so many people in this nation would use their vote to usurp the Liberty of others and undercut the Constitution that protects us all.
Report Post »highndry
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:05pmBLAZEBANNED, I am with you all the way. Mexico is waging a slow war with us with their poverty and crime. We are losing bad.
Report Post »kickthecan
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:09pmSGBT– You are almost there. Think for a minute how many government jobs would be unnecessary if that “plant” was decriminalized. The powers that be, now and in the future, will never allow that to happen. You’re talking DEA, most of the DOJ, HSA, Border Patrol, city, county, and state police, and on and on with the alphabet soup. There is simply too much money and power involved for any of them to “do the right thing”. Money is power, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Report Post »TAKE_AMERICA_BACK
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:24amIt makes me sick to read about trespassers coming to our country and committing crimes against our people. And our government is not doing anything about it. Bush didn‘t do anything about it and Obama isn’t doing anything about it either. I believe that most of our politicians don‘t care about America’s sovereignty at all and no matter what happens in November, the status quo will likely remain. We need to start electing people that put America and Americans first. Unfortunately there are so few candidates that fit this profile.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:38amYou mean, like Ron Paul?
Report Post »TAKE_AMERICA_BACK
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:14pmYes. He’s one of the few
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:21amRemember that we used to have this very same problem on the border with Canada too:
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Report Post »“Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was a major rum-running port in the early part of the 20th century. In 1916, the State of Michigan, in the United States, adopted Prohibition. Alcohol was smuggled from Ohio until Prohibition became national in 1919. From then on, the City of Windsor, Ontario became a major site for alcohol smuggling and gang activity.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running_in_Windsor
lukerw
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:16amPlay with the Devil… and get Burnt!
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:37amYou mean like taking away man’s free will and putting men in prison for almost a decade because they are in possession of a plant? Hardly seems right. But I guess you’d say the same about Sgt. Guerena after he was shot 50+ times in his own home during an unannounced SWAT raid to issue a search warrant because his brother was in possession of a roll of commercial sized saran wrap.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:06amThe photo says he’s 30 years old, the text says 40 years, which is it?
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:50amDetails, details. Looks 40 to me.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:01amFast and furious is working well ,,,,,,,,,, thanks Eric
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:21amIf they weren’t complicit this could be seen as an act of war. When is the U.S. going to get serious and start protecting it’s citizens by securing the southern border ??? .. Yes I didn’t think so.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:18pmI agree. Billions on security at airports to feel up grandma and little kids. Mounting cameras in cities around the country. Hiring DHS “advisors” at the cost of millions to develop security “strategies.”
Report Post »BUT, PLEASE, JUST WALK RIGHT IN ACROSS THE BORDER, NO ‘PAPERS’ REQUIRED?
It’s INSANE!
Want our country back
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:00amMexico has had over 50,000 murders by these gangs in the past few years…..and shhhhhh, the border is safe according to this administration….
Liberals do you speaka da English…. can you hear me now, 50,000 people murdered but your boy says everything is Okey Dokey. You need to wake up and get the facts and then make informed decisions. GOP2012
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:26amagree. none is so blind as he who refuses to see. The admin has done nothing and before we know it this cartel will be commiting more of these murders here. I cannot understand how people can be so blind to this especially our leaders.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:58amOur politicians, media and law enforcement tremble in fear of them.
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