CARTEL ENFORCER SENTENCED TO 28 YEARS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The man accused of acting as a cartel and forster
who admitted to ordering the killing of a Tijuana police
and dozens of others, was sentenced in San Diego's federal
court to twenty eight years. A man name is Edgar Pardeau,
also known as Kaiman, was indicted in twenty nineteen a
slew of federal charges as a as a leader of

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the group Los Cobels in California, Baja based branch of
the Cartel Jalisco. According to prosecutors, Lose Cobbels was involved
in a campaign of violence in the Mexican state, abducting
and killing purported enemies of Carteljlisco to maintain their rug
trafficking channels through Tijuana. Pardeah pleaded guilty as part of

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an agreement with prosecutors the two felony drug trafficking conspiracy
charges for his role in the scheme, which involved in
directing or threatening violence against the number of people in
the Baja California region. It's part of the agreement he
admitted to roles in a number of deaths between twenty
eighteen and November two, eight eighteen. I'm sorry September November,
including a Tijwan police officer. Cartel rivals who had information

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provided a Two law enforcement and former members of Cartel
Aliska who had joined other cartels. A group of chat
group Chat of Los Cabos, led by Herrera Pardo, discussed
well over one hundred murders. He was arrested and extradited
to the US in twenty twenty three. This cartel, Zakaria

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ordered brutal killings to instill terror. Of course, the cartel
he served earned its designation as a foreign terrorist organization
for a reason.