EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The slaying of an El Paso, Texas, trucking company owner offered disturbing proof Mexico's bloody drug war is spilling into U.S. cities, police say.
Jose Daniel Gonzales was shot to death in his front yard a few months ago. Police told The Washington Post Gonzales knew the man who ordered his death and the man who shot him.
As a matter of fact, both Gonzales and the man behind the slaying turned out to be ranking drug traffickers from the notorious Juarez cartel across the river as well as informers for the U.S. government.
"So this is how these people end up in our country," said El Paso police Lt. Alfred Lowe, the lead homicide detective in the Gonzalez case. "We bring them here."
A gangland-style slaying is no big news in Ciudad Juarez, reputedly the bloodiest city in Mexico, where more than 1,300 people have been killed this year and only a handful of cases have been solved.
But, local leaders in El Paso boast how safe their city is and most of this year's 12 homicides have been solved.
The Obama administration, the U.S. Congress and leaders in the Southwest states are using billions of dollars and thousands of agents to keep the chaos from crossing the border.
But, to fight the drug traffickers, federal agents have brought Mexican cartel members north of the border, to use them to gather intelligence and build cases.
