JUAREZ, Mexico (Fox San Antonio, September 17, 2018) - A video that has gone viral within the past two weeks warns of an escalation in violence along the Texas-Mexico border. The video which claims to be done by the “Artistas Asesinos” and warns of another faction of the Sinaloa Cartel that they will shed blood to control the major drug pipeline that is Juarez.
According to Mexican officials, the video is no joke as they are investigating deaths with the groups modus operandi.
The month of August, 2018 was the deadliest in Juarez so far with 182 homicides tied to the cartel war that uses the streets of Juarez, according to authorities, as a war zone.
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* Ciudad Juárez is a Mexican city on the Rio Grande, approximately 10 miles south of El Paso, Texas.
Cartel activities aren't limited to Juarez. A report from February 2018 stated, a Cartel drug distributor, met up with an undercover Washington State police officer to do a drug and weapon exchange. Cartel members were caught and arrested in an auto repair shop near Everett’s Evergreen Way. The Sinaloa Cartel is involved in exchanging massive amounts of guns, drugs and cash. Many times these exchanges and meetings can become extremely violent. The cartel has been distributing drugs in the Snohomish, King, Whatcom, Yakima and Franklin counties. During a raid officials seized eight more pounds of cocaine, two pounds of heroin, eighteen pounds of meth, and over 20 guns (some of military class). The cost of the contraband seized totals over three hundred thousand dollars.
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