WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> If there were beheadings, there would be
> decapitated bodies in the desert. If Arizona
> troopers were coming across these, they would be
> documenting them with photos and video. You don't
> think the Governor would be releasing these to
> make her case? If it were happening, we would see
> it.
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Authorities have determined a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel, in a gruesome example of drug cartel violence spilling over the border.
Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, stole 400 pounds of marijuana and some meth from a drug cartel while telling the cartel that the drugs had been seized by the Border Patrol, according to a Chandler police report released Wednesday.
The cartel found out Cota-Monroy had actually stolen the drugs and hired men to kidnap and kill him in Nogales, Mexico. But Cota-Monroy was able to talk his way out of being killed, saying he'd pay back the money and use his house for collateral, the report says.
But the house wasn't Cota-Monroy's and he fled to the Phoenix area, leading the cartel to hire assassins to go to Arizona, befriend Cota-Monroy and kill him.
Cota-Monroy's body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple of feet away. He also had apparently been bludgeoned and stabbed in the head, and had defensive wounds on his hands.
"It was a very gruesome scene," Chandler police Detective David Ramer said Wednesday. "Anytime you see a headless body stabbed multiple times, obviously that's gruesome. And this is a message being sent — not only are they going to kill you but they're going to dismember your body, and 'If you cross us, this is what happens.'"
Police said the cartel Cota-Monroy stole from is known as the PEI-Estatales/El Chapo drug trafficking organization, and that Cota-Monroy had been known to traffic drugs for his sister's lover, known as "El Jefe," Spanish for the boss.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/police-az-beheading-tied-858809.html