So this Mexican guy I know, I had him over tonight for dinner and some convo. He is an American but born in a field down on the border of Mexico/Texas so he is really Mexican in spirit and having none of the advantages of one born here, speaking perfect English with no accent. He hangs on the streets to get day jobs and knows all of the illegal aliens from across the border, who follow the pipeline up the West Coast to a better life here in America.
I had shown him the photos of these two men in Home Depot. Tonight I asked him, don't you think it is unusual for 2 guys who look like this to enter a home without welcome, ravage it for 20 min and then not tape up the baby but everyone else and end up taking him when they leave?
I said look. this guy is spiffed, in leather pants, knee high boots. He doesn't look like a hoodlum! The other guy has on a fatigue coat and jeans. And then, what does this tell you about the crime, and what really happened there that day....
He said he thinks they got paid by the cartel to do the job. Sent up to finish some business and it's all about drugs. They searched for 20 min and didn't find what they wanted. They immediately taped up the family except the vulnerable one, the child, so if they couldn't find what they were after, they would have leverage to make someone cough it up. All well planned.
He said what they were wearing tells him they had plenty of money, and they dress like major cartel dealers, all fancy, down to the boots and fatigues being right in style with these semi-affluent Mexican hoods. They always have style about themselves even though they are the lowest of their breed.
He said that is the way they play, they are not stupid. And that the dad of the little boy, or whoever wronged them will have a connection to these people and will know how to get in touch with them to get his little boy back after paying the debt.
He said the mother probably has no idea what has gone on with 'owing' someone. The father or one of the elder sons or maybe a relative, whoever is connected to these guys, would never tell the mother what is going on. It isn't how they do things.
I made him Swedish pancakes and sausage and it was well worth the effort. I learned that there is most likely a LIVE connection previously established between the cartell and someone in the family or close to them.
And one more thing. I said, do you think this little boy is still alive. He said he thinks they will hold the little guy somewhere until they get what they are owed. The threat to kill the boy in Mexico was only made to scare the one who has done a dirty deal with whoever, and get back what they are owed.
He said they are close by. Even if over the border. They are smart, and if they are going to do a job, they will do it the right way. That is what they get paid so highly for. If the person who owes them doesn't contact them and make good with his debt, give it a couple of weeks and then they would kill the child. They are cruel people and #1 want what they are owed, but this is their business, and will hurt the person with what means the most to them - their Achilles heel, so to speak, never to see their little boy again.
He also said if the father sat there in the yard, head in his hands in grief, he knew he had screwed up. That told him allot. It was interesting how my friend kept going back to the father. The father. He said in Mexican families it is the father, always the father who is in the know and knows the in's and out's of everything going on.
And I think LE has it pegged down to the gnat's eye. I just hope they aren't down across the border.
PS: This is a subjective post, only written to help see this case from another perspective. What I learned did give light to what might possibly be the case about what happened and why, and how it could possibly be resolved. xoxoxox
