Fascinating Story - Army Special Forces Sniper Turned Hitman and His Criminal Boss
12-21-2014, 10:52 AM
I've quoted some of the best bits, but the whole article merits reading. TLDR - Army vet with 20 years experience and special forces training can't hack it in civilian life, ends up doing security work in Iraq. Hooks up with a South African guy who ran a multi national criminal empire, goes to work for the guy doing anything and everything. South African gets caught, fingers his employee (and everyone else he could possibly think of) as a hitman for hire to get a lighter sentence. DEA sets up a sting operation and the hitman is arrested in Thailand, now in USA and looking at life in prison.
Lesson to be learned here - no honor among thieves. If you are involved in crime and one of your coworkers gets caught, they will 100% for sure inform on you to get a lighter sentence. The only way this doesn't happen is if you are the Russian or Mexican mafia/cartel and can potentially murder someone's entire family back in Russia or Mexico.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/...-bars.html
Lesson to be learned here - no honor among thieves. If you are involved in crime and one of your coworkers gets caught, they will 100% for sure inform on you to get a lighter sentence. The only way this doesn't happen is if you are the Russian or Mexican mafia/cartel and can potentially murder someone's entire family back in Russia or Mexico.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/...-bars.html
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The hit was set for Liberia and, the Drug Enforcement Administration said, the plans were elaborate; the hired killers asked their employers for sophisticated latex masks to make them look as if they were of a different race and plotted to escape aboard a privately chartered jet. In a more shocking twist, at least for the gunmen, the supposed cartel members employing them were, in reality, D.E.A. agents setting up a sting.
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According to the federal agents, Mr. Le Roux was an enterprising criminal who had overseen an empire in illegal guns and drugs that spanned four continents before he turned on Mr. Hunter in an attempt to get a lighter sentence after his own arrest
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Not unlike many veterans, Mr. Hunter made a difficult discovery when he got home: It was hard to find civilian work he liked and that made use of the skills he had developed over two decades in uniform.
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Other authorities also had their eyes on Mr. Le Roux, who is believed to be in his 40s. In July 2011, the United Nations accused him of spending $3 million, including almost $1 million in militia salaries, in violation of an arms embargo in Somalia, adding that one of his partners was also involved in a plot to cultivate hallucinogenic plants at a secret compound near the Ethiopian border.
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“Le Roux’s businesses were huge,” said Lachlan McConnell, a security contractor, now based in the Philippines, who is facing charges of helping Mr. Le Roux with the painkiller scheme. “He had operations in Manila, Hong Kong, Colombia, Africa, Brazil. It was guns, gold, drugs, you name it. It was big, really big.”
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And so began a brainstorming session for the hit; Mr. Gogel and Mr. Vamvakias proposed using “machine guns, cyanide or a grenade,” according to the indictment. By midsummer, Mr. Hunter had also emailed the agents a wish list of military hardware: two submachine guns with silencers (he asked for “something small”), two .22-caliber pistols (“these are a must”) and a .308-caliber rifle with a scope.
"Me llaman el desaparecido
Que cuando llega ya se ha ido
Volando vengo, volando voy
Deprisa deprisa a rumbo perdido"