C&P from a recent email
I received this e-mail from a friend and fellow resident of Santa Cruz County. He is trustworthy and honest. I believe the content to be true. It gives me great cause for concern. I have sent a copy of this to Senator Kyl's office and
Senator McCain. Unfortunately McCain must be contacted through a mail "form" and it's questionable if anyone will read it.
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> friend who recently retired from border patrol.........
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> As you know, one of the local ranchers was murdered in Douglas two weeks
> ago. His funeral is tomorrow. I received three messages similar to the one
> below from different officers within the Rangers and law enforcement.
> Yesterday afternoon I talked to another rancher near us who is a friend of
> ours and whose great grandfather started their ranch here in 1880. These
> are good people. He told me what really happened out at the Krentz ranch
> and what you won’t read in the papers. The Border Patrol is afraid of
> starting a small war between civilians here and the drug cartels in Mexico
> .
> Bob Krentz was checking his water like he does every evening and came upon
> an illegal who was lying on the ground telling him he was sick. Bob called
> the Border Patrol and asked for a medical helicopter evac. As he turned
> to
> go back to his ATV he was shot in the side. The round came from down and
> angled up so they know the shooter was on the ground. Bob’s firearm was in
> the ATV so he had no chance. Wounded he called the Cochise County Sherriff
> and asked for help. Bleeding in the lungs he called his brother but the
> line was bad so he called his wife but again the line was bad.
> Several ranchers heard the radio call and drove to his location. Bob was
> dead by this time. The ranchers tracked the shooter 8 miles back towards
> Mexico and cornered him in a brushy draw. This was all at night. The
> Sherriff and Border Patrol arrived and told them not to go down and engage
> the murderer. They went around to the back side and if you can believe it
> the assassin managed to get by a BP helicopter and a Sherriff’s posse and
> back to Mexico . So much for professional help when you need it.
> One week before the murder Bob and his brother Phil (who I shoot with)
> hauled a huge quantity of drugs off the ranch that they found in trucks.
> One week before that a rancher near Naco did the same thing. Two nights
> later gangs broke into his ranch house and beat him and his wife and told
> them that if they touched any drugs they found they would come back and
> kill them. The ranchers here deal with cut fences and haul drug deliveries
> off their ranches all the time. What ranchers think is that the drug
> cartels beat the one rancher and shot Bob because they wanted to send a
> message. Bob always gave food and water to illegals and so they think they
> sent the assassin to pose as an illegal who was hungry and thirsty knowing
> it would catch Bob off guard.
> What is going on down here is NOT being reported. You need to tell people
> how bad it is along the border. Texas is worse. Near El Paso it’s in a
> state of war. 5000 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez last year and it’s
> over 2000 so far this year. Gun sales down here are through the roof and I
> get emails from people wanting firearms training.
> Something has to be done but I don’t hold out much hope. These gangs have
> groups in almost every city in the US . Please read below. This is serious
> business. The Barrio Azteca and their sub gangs are like Mexican
> Corporations and organized extremely well. If this doesn’t get dealt with
> down here you guys will deal with it on your streets.
DED
