COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—The more effective Sheriff Mark Dannels’s border team is, the more it disrupts the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel’s operations. Recently, the cartel put a hit out on Dannels’s top border guys, the Cochise County sheriff said. His county sits in southeast Arizona and shares 83 miles of remote desert land with Mexico. “We had real good information … from a federal agency, that said there were two guys that were going to cross and they were going to kill one of us,” Det. Jake Kartchner told The Epoch Times. “We never knew which one of us it was.” He said a breakdown in communication between the sheriff’s office and the federal agencies allowed the men to evade authorities. “But they did know we were after them,” he said. Kartchner said he continues to operate as usual, but with his “eyes a little more open.” “I’m not going to quit …
Cartel Put Hit Out on Arizona Sheriff’s Border Team, Detective Says
January 6, 2022
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