Alleged Mexican Cartel Member Admits To Killing 30 People Across U.S., Police Said

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**Frazzled**

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Alleged Mexican Cartel Member Admits To Killing 30 People Across U.S., Police Said
Published June 13, 2013
Fox News Latino

Everyone knows that smoking kills. But in the case of on confessed cartel hit man, it also helps catch killers.

Authorities in Central Florida said DNA from a cigarette butt found inside a soda can helped detectives solve a 2006 murder and possibly a slew of other murders after the suspect, Jose Martinez, admitted to the gruesome murder and as many as 30 more slayings.

Sheriff's investigators from Florida’s Marion County charged the 51-year old Martinez with premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of Javier Huerta and Gustavo Olivares-Rivas after traces of his DNA were found inside a Mountain Dew can. The can had been left inside of a Nissan Titan 4 pickup where the bodies were found on Nov. 8, 2006.

Martinez, who claims to be a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel, said that he killed the two men because they stole 10 kilograms of cocaine “from another guy."

"If I didn't do the job, someone would
the remorseless Martinez said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Capt. James Pogue with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Latino authorities have confirmed 11 of his murders. All of them were done for an unidentified Mexican drug cartel.

The people Martinez killed supposedly were also working for the cartel but went rogue and instead decided to keep huge loads of cocaine for themselves, Pogue said.

So Martinez would track them down, lure them using a ruse such as offering them work and then force them at gun point to come up with the money they owed the cartel.

But even after collecting the dues, said Pogue, Martinez killed them – because he feared if he let them go, one of them could possibly later identify him.

“To find a criminal of this caliber, and the way it was done, it’s something else,” said Pogue. “The way we were able to track him down is through DNA from a fingerprint he left on a Mountain Dew can in one of the victim’s trucks.”

Martinez was recently arrested in Yuma, Arizona, and then extradited to Alabama, where he was wanted on first-degree murder charge. It was there that he admitted to killing the two men, and then confessed to the other murders.

"I've killed over 30 people,'' he said, adding that he began his murder spree when he was 16 years old.

Saying only that it was time to pay for all the things he had done, Martinez did not reveal who hired him to commit the double homicide.

For the two victims in Florida, Martinez told investigators that they did masonry work and he posed as a new home buyer who wanted an estimate on some housework. Martinez then pulled out two 9mm handguns with 15-clip magazines and made Olivares-Rivas call his wife to retrieve money from a backyard safe.

After torturing Olivares-Rivas, Martinez made the two men tie each other up and then shot them, he told police. He claims to have retrieved $170,000 from the home of Olivares-Rivas and another $40,000 from the pickup.

Martinez claims to have remembered smoking cigarettes but thought he had cleaned up all the butts before he left the car.

Pogue said in his confession, Martinez did not reveal many details on his cartel work.

“He just said he worked for them, but he didn’t really say his actual occupation, or how close he was to them, or which cartel he actually worked for,” said Pogue. “He didn’t want to give us any names.”

Pogue said Martinez is originally from Mexico but has legal status in the U.S.

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**MeanGreenStompa**

So now the Mexicans have taken the jobs from the Sicilians... Outrageous!

**AlmightyWalrus**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
So now the Mexicans have taken the jobs from the Sicilians... Outrageous!

Hardly outrageous, they simply made them an offer they couldn't refuse!

**MeanGreenStompa**

I remember Bristol getting a bit crazy for a while with serious crimes, stabbings and shootings, a while back. Turns out the yardies were being displaced by somalians and east europeans who'd just rolled in from places where, if you want something, you take a machete to someone to get it, the yardies themselves had turfed out the old english criminals back in the early 80s and had it their own way for a while.

New monsters to replace the old ones, as long as they keep it mostly internal and kill their own kind, I see it as the nature of the business they're in. When they affect civilian population, the state should roll up it's sleeves and liquidate them.

I should really be in charge of things, you know...

**MrDwhitey**

This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

**xole**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

Man, this guy is a stone cold killer. Do they have the death penalty in Florida?

**Lint**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

**dogma**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

And here I thought it was the fault of the murderer. Clearly I was mistaken.

**MrDwhitey**

Clearly you were. I know people in real life who have experienced this type of thing, and 100% blame the users.

**kronk**

I blame the people getting murdered. They should have had guns.

(first!) Obviously, I'm being silly.

**MeanGreenStompa**

kronk wrote:
I blame the people getting murdered. They should have had guns.

I'm sending an elite squad of armed teachers to respond to this.

**dogma**

MrDwhitey wrote:
Clearly you were. I know people in real life who have experienced this type of thing, and 100% blame the users.

People that have experienced a traumatic event can't be trusted to make rational assessments regarding blame, as they often look for places to lay it without regard to the actual involvement of the potential target.

I won't deny that the people who create the market for illegal drugs are partly responsible, but to focus on them while denying the agency of a hypothetical murderer is absolutely ludicrous.

**MrDwhitey**

Can I stop pretending to be someone else to agree with you wholeheartedly for a moment?

**Frazzled**

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
MeanGreenStompa wrote:
So now the Mexicans have taken the jobs from the Sicilians... Outrageous!

Hardly outrageous, they simply made them an offer they couldn't refuse!

I wonder if they needed an H1B visa...

**Breotan**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

Guns don't kill people. Doobies kill people.

**Frazzled**

Dobermans kill people.

Corrected your typo

**Relapse**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

That's where the cartels get their funding, so there's more truth in that statement than you think. The users own a good portion of the blame.

**Ouze**

Relapse wrote:
That's where the cartels get their funding, so there's more truth in that statement than you think. The users own a good portion of the blame.

While I won't disagree with that, I also hasten to add that I think the problem will eventually be significantly lessened as more and more localities start to legalize marijuana as a way to shore up their dwindling oh man you know what would be sweet we should totally order a pizza bro.

**purplefood**

It's entertaining how Whitey was parodying Relapse and Relapse didn't realise...

**Relapse**

purplefood wrote:
It's entertaining how Whitey was parodying Relapse and Relapse didn't realise...

I realized, but it's not entertaining. It's sad Whitey and others here doesn't realize how true his statements are. I talk to Mexicans every day who have to deal with their families that are terrorized by cartels in Mexico. These Mexicans have nothing but contempt for the users funding the cartels and they have no hesitation in saying so.

**dogma**

MrDwhitey wrote:
Can I stop pretending to be someone else to agree with you wholeheartedly for a moment?

Fair enough, it also says a great deal about the validity of your actual point that I bought that hook, line, and sinker.

**SagesStone**

dogma wrote:
MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using marijuana.

And here I thought it was the fault of the murderer. Clearly I was mistaken.

You know, if they hadn't stolen the drugs they wouldn't have been killed.

**Lint**

MrDwhitey wrote:
This is 100% the fault of people using any drug besides marijuana.

There now I fixed it so everybody can agree and get along.