Texas Rangers Investigate Driver Death
Smuggler Killed by Gunshot After Bailout
Good morning, friends.
Breitbart wins the spot news sweepstakes this week— on the back of an anonymous law-enforcement tip about a police chase in Kinney County that ended with a bailout, and the death of the driver Thursday night.
Breitbart reports that Texas Rangers have been called in to investigate. Apparently, the driver of the car involved in the chase stopped to let the illegal aliens out, and then started away again, only to crash.
Deputies from the Galveston Crew, assisting Kinney County as they have for months now were on scene— reporting they found the suspect “dead behind the wheel, with extensive head trauma,” according to Breitbart.
That’s the kind of language law-enforcement uses when they don’t want to seem prejudicial in a case where an investigation is pending. At first glance at the facts being reported, it seems like the suspect might have taken his own life with a pistol that was recovered from the car. Apparently blood and brains were all over the interior.
However, it’s also possible that the driver might have struggled with one of the aliens who might have shot him, and he was able to still get the car moving before expiring. Or the driver may’ve accidentally shot himself while trying to handle a weapon and drive at the same time.
Texas Rangers routinely conduct investigations involving possible murder in rural counties like Kinney County.
Breitbart also notes that authorities have not released any information about the driver’s identity or nationality. That leads to speculation that the driver may have been an illegal alien himself. There has been a small increase in illegal alien drivers returning to the border to drive for the cartels. It’s a fair assumption to make that they are trying to pay off whatever debts the cartel says they owe by doing so.
Breitbart closes out their reporting by noting another armed smuggling incident last week in El Paso, where an armed subject shot a Border Patrol Agent several times in the chest.
The agent’s body armor saved him, and he fired back, wounding the smuggler.
Kinney County saw multiple high speed pursuits last week. It’s not immediately clear to us where this one occurred.
At least one of the chases last week ended on Fort Clark Springs with a bailout in front of the hotel. 8 illegal aliens were captured, including the driver, Friday.
All indications are that the Breitbart chase is one that happened out in the County, away from Brackettville, Spofford, and Fort Clark Springs. We’ll try and follow up with the Sheriff after Martin Luther King day for any particulars he might be able to release, though it seems the case is firmly in the hands of the Texas Rangers and personal experience tells us it’ll be weeks before there’s any information available from DPS.
It’s worth noting, the Ranger who would ordinarily be investigating the case, Christopher Ryan Kindell, has been terminated, for his actions during the Uvalde School Shooting.
Kindell is challenging the termination, and consequently remains in a gray area, while that process is followed.
Presumably, a Ranger from a neighboring area is conducting the investigation.
It’s been a little while since we’ve linked to any reporting by Todd Bensman.
He has a recent banger, documenting Mexican State corruption and involvement in the illegal alien traffic in Eagle Pass and how American Policies make it irresistible and perhaps inevitable.
The piece documents the involvement of Coahuila State Police in the mass migration of aliens, and how they used convoys of minivans to move thousands of warm bodies, each of them worth several thousand dollars apiece, at the very least.
Many use the word “cartel” when referring to the organized human trafficking rings that are running the border crisis— but like so many things along the border— the actual truth— the literal definition of things— becomes murky.
Cartel in this case, could’ve been replaced with “authorities” and one would not have missed a beat.
It appears that Bensman’s source for much of the reporting is a Mexican Federal Immigration Officer, speaking anonymously, and without censorship— adult language ahoy, as he describes the corruption.
The individual said the state police felt compelled to organize this operation in mid-to-late 2021 to capture irresistible profits that American policies made possible by enticing more people than ever before to cross through the region. For perspective, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents “encountered” 40,342 illegal border-crossers in fiscal year 2020. In FY2022, the number reached 480,931. In just October and November, the first two months of FY 2023, Border Patrol processed 90,482.
The police operation has charged every migrant $400 for just the final crossing, the individual said, meaning that a group of 2,000 could fetch $800,000 in a night, which helps explain the large group sizes.
A federal Mexican immigration officer, in uniform, corroborated the assertion that Coahuila state police substantially ran the operation when migrant traffic began its unprecedented surge. In explaining why federal immigration officers never tried to intervene, the officer pointed out what would happen if they did. In Mexico, federal immigration officers are unarmed.
“There have been times when three or four vehicles arrived, and I have been taken out of my vehicle with guns pointed at me and asked what am I doing here. I prefer to keep my distance. We are recommended a lot of discretion because that’s organized crime.”
Federal police and soldiers, meanwhile, “will tell you, ‘I’m not immigration. I didn’t see any immigrants. It’s not my problem.’”
The immigration officer whom CIS interviewed put all of this on the state police and its highest commanders, consistent with Mexican media reporting in recent years (more on this below).
“What has caught my attention is that there are commanders from the police that have tremendous cars, brand new trucks, and their salary is not enough. If you drive by Allende [a city about 35 miles from the border], you’ll see them driving their brand new Ford trucks and you’re like, ‘What the fuck?’”
—Todd Bensman, Analyst and Reporter @The Center for Immigration Studies
From there, Bensman goes on to break down how the operation worked, with Migrants being collected in Monterrey, or making their own way to the Piedras Negras area where they were stashed in abandoned factories and other facilities where they could be easily guarded.
Migrants are literally a commodity in the Cartel Economy of Mexico, with armed gangs all competing and stealing migrants from each other as though they were no more than physical objects— ambulatory stacks of cash.
If nothing else, one can deliver them to the various NGO’s where thousands of dollars in debit card funding from the UN and other organizations await. The funds can be quickly transferred to whomever their captors are, despite whatever routine precautions an NGO might take.
It’s a heck of a story— a tour-de-force, even, and well worth your time.
Here’s another link— check it out.
That should do it for now. We’ll see you again soon. We should advise, in-person court hearings scheduled for Tuesday in Kinney County have been canceled, after a stay was granted by the Court of Appeals in San Antonio.
Appointed Judge Todd Blomerth had scheduled in-person pre-trial hearings in Kinney County. Defense Attorneys have objected, and it seems the courts will be delaying things while they sort the objections out. The objections mostly all stem from the difficulty in locating defendants who are no longer in custody, and may have been returned to Mexico or other foreign countries by Immigration.
Judge Blomerth is a retired Judge from the Caldwell County area, near San Marcos.
His appointment was made by Judge Stephen Ables, who is the judge that administrates the judicial area that includes Kinney County. Judge Ables is based in Kerrville.
As always, this newsletter is an independent work product, put out into the world separately from our efforts at the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office, where we handle public information requests.
It should not be mistaken for any sort of an official communication by the County— indeed, any mistakes, errors, or other misdeeds are entirely our own.
Interesting information. Not good, of course; but interesting. Well, I mean the information is good but not good. Ok, so the reporting is good but the information is not good.........to hear. Maybe that sounds better.