I can recall an operation in which the Mexican military was the distinct bad guy.
It seems that numerous loads of weed amd coke were coming North. The goods were paid for, not in money but in other goods. The payment was made in military weapons.
Here's the short version of the story: The particular Cartel producing and transporting the drugs was an OTM (Other Than Mexican) Cartel. They paid the Mexican military to guard their shipments as they passed through their country into ours. The drop-off point for the drugs was in a tiny town in extreme Northern Baja California in a little house that had been abandoned some years earlier. The drugs would come North out of the little town and the payment would be placed under the floorboards of the house.
We worked the case in conjunction with the Federali and the Judicial (State Judicial Police) of Baja California. After we had seized the drugs on our side, the Mexicans (accompanied by ourselves) raided the little house and discovered the weapons where they had been hidden. The weapons discovered were M-60's and M-16's. We, later, discovered that they had been stolen from a National Guard armory deep in the interior of our country.
This operation was meant to be a sting but, in the end, no one was stung except the Cartel. The Mexican Army had already received their pay-offs and were out of the picture. The Federali and the Judicial had absolutely no was to prove that anyone in the Mexican Army had taken payment for their part in the affair.
Needless to say, that was the last time that little town and that little house was used in that Caretl's part of the drug trade. The bonus for us was that three law enforcement agencies began to solidify ties with each other that are stronger today than ever before.
The Mexican Army? Well, those cats are still guarding the drug shipments ... only now they're daring to traverse the Line in order to do it.
V/F
Agent Nowhere Man
