Deputy: I mean, he’s (Treviño) a politician, so he’s looking for anybody to pay his campaign. It’s easy for any cartel member who holds millions of dollars, who has an unlimited budget, to come and buy their way into the sheriff’s office.
Interviewer: Is it your opinion, violent Mexican drug cartels and factions, are they able to produce resources and payoffs to county law enforcement to stay off the radar? Would it be your guess or your observation…that Mexican cartels have an influence in Hidalgo County politics and/or law enforcement?
Deputy: Well, it do, yeah it sure seems that way sometimes because they do have the money, they have the funding.
Interviewer: Ok.
Deputy: So…for example, Emmanuel Sanchez, a deputy in the sheriff’s office. He belonged to a cartel on this side of the river that was connected to a cartel on the other side. And Emmanuel Sanchez provided a lot of money to Lupe’s campaign. Now, there’s probably no paperwork because he probably, you know, provided it in cash but he was caught with a million dollars coming back from Florida, and he was caught by Georgia.
Cooked statistics, a sheriff who uses bodyguards, and deputies pressured not to fight or report crimes…what’s really going on in Hidalgo County, and why?
The federal crime grants, while a small part of the overall federal budget, play a large role in linking the federal government’s priorities to the actions that local law enforcement agencies take. Better crime stats often lead to more and larger federal crime grants, as Treviño himself noted in February 2012 when Secretary Napolitano visited his county. The Obama administration has been particularly interested in making the U.S.-Mexico border appear to be safer than ever. Both President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have used the statistics coming from counties like Hidalgo to assert that the border is safe and getting safer.
The federal grants are supposed to encourage local law enforcement to aggressively fight crime. But in the case of Hidalgo County, Texas, according to one deputy, something else is happening. Real drug cartel violence goes unreported and real spillover crimes go unsolved, according to the whistle-blowing deputy.
And despite what President Obama says, we really don’t know if the border is secure or not. Not when Hidalgo County pressures its deputies not to find or fight crime.
Deputy: Spillover violence has been here since the beginning, and it’s just getting worse. It’s getting out of hand. They’re not putting their foot down on it. And it’s just, it’s getting out of hand.
So preventative action doesn’t normally occur from the deputies because their supervisors really look down towards that. The reason why is they’re always getting, I guess, bitched at. They’re always getting after. If a deputy causes trouble or goes looking for trouble and finds it and making an arrest or something and then the supervisor gets involved. Well he has to report it to his captain, he has to report it to his lieutenant that night, he needs to report it up the chain of command, you need to write a memo of what happened that night. And then it’s gonna come back down to the supervisor the following day (mimics supervisor griping at subordinate). So the supervisors usually, they kind of look down to, they don’t like the pursuits, they don’t.…Anything that’s gonna, like, bring the attention of the administration to the sergeant on patrol, they’ll cut it off quick.
Interviewer: So any prevention activities, as a law enforcer, anything that you do preventative to fight crime before it occurs, that would become a reflection or a statistic that the sheriff would not want to reflect, is discouraged by immediate supervisors.
Deputy: Exactly. Yes.
Interviewer: Because the immediate supervisors then don’t want the attention from the sheriff so that it looks like there’s less crime. Is that correct?
Deputy: Exactly.
Hidalgo County is just one of the 23 counties on the U.S.-Mexico border, and according to its crime analyst and a whistle-blowing deputy its crime statistics have been faked to keep the federal grants coming. The cooked statistics also help keep up the administration’s story that the drug war raging in Mexico has not spilled over into the United States.
In Part Three of our exclusive report, we’ll look at an unsolved crime that crossed the border — and how the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s office treated it.
Watch the PJTV report here.
I awake to find good citizens Throwing stones at the firemen!?? Why not a ribbon cutting ceremony declaring our boarders null&void? We are being INVADED! No borders,no country! Our good men and women are fighting a tsunami,quick call the aclu to drag the the sheriffs into court!
It’s all part of education.
Smart students do what the teachers, mentors, role models teach them. When the role models in the educational institutions/government are destructive criminals, lying, cheating, and threstening gangs, smart students follow the lessons of these “betters”. Get gold stars/promotions and do not get thrown out of the “school” for “disrespect”..
The “betters” in the USA are the guardians of the law and rights of ALL THE STUDENTS, even the dumbos, the ignoramuses, the guns and religion, the bourgeoisie. Who still think its the right thing to respect the law and rights of others, even those who do not agree with them without injuring them. Who trust the guardians of their rights and laws to actually guard them. Just showing they really are the “booboisie”.
The “best and brightest” licensed as intelligent by university credentials know the guardians of the laws, rights and customs of Americans are people in the Legislatures/Congress, Judiciaries, and Executives of local, state and Federal Governments. They’re the ones to respect. These “best and brightest” cheer them onward to whatever depredations they decide. And provide propaganda for the dumbos out there in red state flyover country who haven’t got onto the bandwagon.
These best and brightest know the most important of the guardians in a criminally destructive, lying, cheating, law breaking government is the capo di tutti capi and his consiglieri.
Our mistake is that we let ourselves believe our President naturally would want a strong country. Obama wants the border to keep on being porous. He wants to tear us down make the US
just one of the guys.
G.W. was just as guilty of everything you assert. Dont make the mistake of assuming this is just a democrat issue. Hell, GW even had political prisoners. Remember Ramos and Compian?
Everybody needs to wake up. Bush Sr was the original NWO advocate and the game is a long way down the road. Unless we all of a sudden wake up and get a backbone we will first lose our currency, then our freedom, then our Nation and then we will be just one cog in the World Federation or the New World Order.
This is not a Democrat plan nor a Republican plan, it is a Universal Plan by a vast number of Traitors within our nation. The Federal Reserve is the tool they are using to bring this about.
If we wish to foil this scam first we must abolish the Fed and make it over as part of the U.S. Treasury, no longer can it be a Privately owned Closed Corporation who answers to nobody except the International Bankers who own it.
Wake up America, or in the next ten years the nation will be lost forever…
You have to go farther back than HWBush. FDR was the first to really manhandle the Constitution and introduce “entitlements”. He re-routed America’s course, he and his super-rich friends.
This is an explosive report, and I suspect mostly accurate. But people who don’t live down here don’t know what this area is like and cannot comprehend how much it’s changed over the last twenty years.
The thing about Hidalgo County is this. Highway 281, which leaves Edinburg and travels to San Antonio, is a major trucking route. There is a border control station just south of Falfurias, about 100 miles north of here, where vehicles and passengers are inspected. But that station is easy to avoid by taking the back roads around it. Besides, all the cartels need is a tip on when the station will be closed or minimally staffed, and that information can be bought rather cheaply. People don’t understand how simple it is for a cartel, whether drug smugglers or human traffickers, to move undetected from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio or Houston, and from there it’s home-free.
The largest trucking station in the country is in Laredo, which is a couple of hundred miles north-west of here. Most of the violence occurs on the Mexican side of the border in that area. Entire towns have been emptied, as the cartels try to protect their main conduit to the US. The same is true for El Paso, which is way further north-west. New Mexico, Arizona and California have similar problems.
Everything is kept quiet about Hidalgo County though. Why? Because it’s the safest route. No problem down here.
Cops, even sheriffs, can be bought. The mafia figured that out a long time ago. The cartels knew it from the beginning.
The American people need to have a serious discussion about whether they want secure borders or not. The thing about the border, however, is this. People have been migrating back and forth across the border for hundreds, thousands, of years. There is no way to stop that. There is a way to make cross-border travel safer though.
I don’t think Sheriff Trevino is the problem here. It goes much higher than one sheriff in one county. It goes to the abject failure of the federal government to secure the borders and reform immigration law.
If you look at every democraticly controled district across the southern border you will see that the crime has droped between 5 to 20% in the last 3 years…this isnt just a hildalgo county issuie…this is wide spread across the entire southern bordered….CORUPT CORUPT CORUPT
More and more it looks like we have a criminal organization in charge of Washington. Open borders so that drug runners can come in, guns to the cartels, law enforcement agencies helping to laundry drug money, over 20 Solyandra type scams, former Democrat politicians stealing $1.6 billion dollars, the quid pro quo’s with money bundlers. The Democrat Party used to be a political party but now by its actions it’s a criminal organization and fast becoming communist with it’s 79 ‘socialists’ in the House.
Good investigative piece. Hopefully this whistleblower can get a wider hearing or at least a DOJ investigation will ensue (but I won’t hold my breath). Thanks.
I was working a fugitive case a few years ago, and worked with the drug task force guys down there.They themselves told me that they dont trust anyone in their own respective departments and are often ordred to back off cartel members by the the sheriff.
Sadly, this false reporting of crime statistics is not limited to Hidalgo County, Texas. I personally know that many law enforcement agencies across the country fudge crime statistics to keep the federal grant money flowing. For example: Most Uniform Incident/Offense reports have a front and a back side. The major included offense is listed on the front. There is also an indicated portion on the front of the form to list any associated or included lessor offenses, but most agencies will intentionally leave those spaces blank and include any other offenses in the narrative on the back of the form. Why, you may ask? Because the FBI only receives the FRONT portion to compile their national crime statistics.
Suppose there is a home invasion, a rape, and the theft of $5,000 in jewelry, guns, electronics, etc….The FRONT of the form will show Burglary Ist and the Rape Ist and Theft of Property Ist will be in the narrative on the BACK. Keeps the federal money flowing in…..Remember, the feds only get the front copy, not the back. This is by no means limited to Hidalgo County, Texas. Sad but true.
The border has turned into a full blown war zone. This should be getting more air time.
http://uselections2012blog.blogspot.ca/
Lupe Trevino…..hmmmm. Has anyone ever checked to see if this guy is an illegal alien. Don’t be surprised….there have been numerous cases around the country in the last decade of hispanic illegal aliens getting jobs in law enforcement, police, sheriff, etc. Somethings doesn’t add up here at all.
If Treviño is illegal than I’m Ann of Green Gables.
It’s more likely you’re a lefty concern troll. Bug off!
Please please please let Part 3 be about Joan Sebastian’s son. #10′s answer could have used a little nuance – “Trevino” is a well known Zeta-ian surname, seeing as you rarely have Trevinos outside of NE Mexico.
Get your foot off the idiot peddle.
RGV native here. If you like I can open a phone book and count the Treviños listed.
Uncommon…what a maroon.
No, I know its common in the RGV and upward in Texas. Yoou have a lot of Trevinos and Villareals (another example) in Waukegan IL which has strong communities from Nuevo Leon and Coahuila as well as from the Valley. What I was saying is that you dont see a lot of Trevinos in CA, AZ or other parts of the USA. And tragically, a lot of Zeta leadership shares that last name.
I am going to write Attorney General Abbott this and see if we can’t get an investigation going on Sheriff Trevino. Sounds like the man needs to go.
PJMedia is the finest collection of journalists in the country. This is the kind of stuff, that when an insider didn’t trust the government in the past, he would go to 60 minutes or any of the 3 major networks. No longer. This guy didn’t go to ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC or Fox, because they aren’t trustworthy. His life is on the line, and he trusted PJMedia.
With no TV media open investigation or DOJ pressure as is applied to Sheriff Joe Arpaio in AZ, the only change that can be expected is increased death and violence in Hidalgo County. US users insure the trend while they continue to buy the drugs and finance the cartel until the coyotes make more running Asian illegals than dope. The time is ripe to identify all enemies of the people.
There will always be a fresh supply of idiots like Robert and politically correct candidates like Trevino for Sheriff wherever the money flows and men hold party above their oath of office.and sell their souls for a fist full of dollars, pesos or ameros.
They neither know when their trespass will become terminally enforceable at the crossing of a line drawn in the dust nor that lines are being drawn while they sleep.
From Bug Drones to Disease Assassins, Super Weapons Rule U.S. War Game By David Axe August 24, 2012
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/future-warfare/
One of These Trucks Will Be the Army’s New $14B Ride By David Axe August 23, 2012
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/army-new-vehicle/?pid=1460
I think there is a heck of allot more like this, and allot in retired generals and their luxury staff benefits we do not see as well!