Saturday, 13 June 2009
Drugs / After the big cities, the Mexican drug cartels have begun to push heroin also in deep
The Mexican drug cartels, having filled with heroin the big cities of the United States, are expanding their horizons going to push drugs in the 'heartland, the heart of the country, in places where until recently was only known to reports the New York Times.
An audible alarm bell is ringing for the authorities after the death of Arthur Eisel, 31, a Grove City, Ohio, a center of 32 thousand people in the shelter of Columbus, the main city of the state. Eisel was found in the bath house with a syringe next: killed by overdose. The same fate had been his two brothers that the desperate mother said''fell one after the other like pieces of domino ".
Given that all three brothers were typical youngsters Eisel "all american, religious, peaceful, passionate about football and respectful of their parents, their death has caused a stir throughout the country.
In Ohio, a state of the Middle West, infinitely far away from vices and perversions of metropolises like New York, Miami or Los Angeles, deaths from heroin overdose, from 2004 to 2007 (latest year for which statistics are available), it spread to 18 counties Falciano 546 people. From 2000 to 2003 were 376. The authorities have reason to worry.
The FBI now considers the Mexican cartels, the biggest threat of organized crime in the United States. Federal officials have told the Times that the Mexicans have taken over the traffic of heroin from Colombia and the Dominican, and intended to carry their traffic nell'America Deep, impersonating a deadly variety of heroin produced in Mexico and known as "black tar "(pitch black) because of its dark color and sticky consistency.
The signs, according to the FBI, are taking advantage of the economic crisis that hit also and especially Mexican immigrants who, unemployed, are easy prey for trafficking of drugs.
To confirm this, just two Mexican immigrant pleaded guilty to the death of Arthur Eisel, having supplied the heroin, and were tried on charges of manslaughter. Investigators have established that the two have begun to push the drug unable to find any other job.
One of the two Mexicans sentenced to 16 years in prison, told the Times: "Life in the United States has become hard. At first I was afraid to push heroin, but then I accepted because I have to keep my wife, my son and my relatives in Mexico. "
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