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   "Trump - Inmate Number P01135809"  wrote in   
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   > Democrats are in bed with the drug cartels and taking a cut of the   
   > money to let them deal drugs in the USA.  Kill all drug dealers and   
   > their families.  Kill every last one of them.   
      
   A convicted drug trafficker linked to the Sinaloa cartel who worked for   
   the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was gunned down Thursday morning in   
   an industrial stretch of Willowbrook, according to authorities and court   
   records.   
      
   Eduardo Escobedo, 39, was one of two men killed in the 14200 block of   
   Towne Avenue, according to officials from the Los Angeles County Medical   
   Examiner and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The other victim   
   was Guillermo De Los Angeles Jr., 47.   
      
   Around 8 a.m. Thursday, sheriff's deputies responded to an industrial   
   area filled with warehouses, including a truck yard, pallet storage   
   facility and a church. Escobedo and De Los Angeles died at the scene. A   
   third man was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening gunshot   
   wounds.   
      
   "It appears that there was some type of gathering or party at the   
   location from last night to early this morning," Lt. Omar Camacho told   
   KABC-TV Channel 7 at the scene.   
      
   Escobedo, whose nickname, "El Mago," translates to "The Magician,"   
   served four years and nine months in federal prison for conspiring to   
   distribute more than 10,000 kilograms of marijuana and laundering drug   
   proceeds. He was released in 2018.   
      
   Raised in East Los Angeles, Escobedo rose to become the primary   
   distributor of marijuana in Los Angeles for Guzman's oldest son, Ivan   
   Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, a prosecutor said at a 2014 detention   
   hearing. He laundered the proceeds in part by buying exotic cars and   
   shipping them to Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa and the cartel's   
   stronghold.   
      
   Escobedo was also alleged to have ordered the death of a rival   
   trafficker who was gunned down in his Bentley on the 101 Freeway in   
   2008. While Escobedo was never charged in the murder, his brother and   
   another man were convicted and are serving life sentences.   
      
   Escobedo was born in the United States, his lawyer, Guadalupe Valencia,   
   said at the detention hearing. He attended Garfield High School, where   
   he met his wife, and later graduated from a continuation school,   
   Valencia said.   
      
   In July 2011, Escobedo, then 27, was arrested leaving a stash house   
   where police found a ton of marijuana, Adam Braverman, an assistant U.S.   
   attorney, said at the detention hearing. Torrance police, which served   
   the warrant, said the stash house was in the West Adams neighborhood.   
      
   In October 2013, Escobedo was caught on a wiretap speaking with Guzman   
   Salazar about smuggling more than five tons of marijuana through a   
   tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border, Braverman said. Authorities seized   
   2.7 tons of cannabis from a courier working for Escobedo, according to   
   the prosecutor.   
      
   Guzman Salazar remains one of Mexico's most wanted men. One of his top   
   lieutenants, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, nicknamed "El Nini," was   
   captured by the Mexican National Guard earlier this week in Culiacan.   
   Justice Department officials are seeking to extradite Pérez Salas, who   
   is charged in two U.S. jurisdictions with conspiring to traffic   
   methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine; laundering money; retaliating   
   against witnesses; and possessing machine guns.   
      
   Escobedo was also helping Guzman Salazar launder money through the   
   purchase of sports cars that were shipped to Culiacan, Braverman said.   
   Federal agents determined that Escobedo used a false name to buy two   
   Lamborghinis from a dealership in Newport Beach.   
      
   Braverman said Escobedo was stopped by the Irwindale police driving one   
   of the cars, a $175,000-dollar Murcielago. The Lamborghini was purchased   
   with a series of cash deposits just beneath the $10,000 threshold that   
   triggers a bank reporting requirement, according to a warrant for the   
   car's seizure.   
      
   Agents listened on a wiretap as Guzman Salazar asked Escobedo to   
   purchase a Nissan GTR and make $50,000 in modifications, Braverman said.   
   Mexican authorities seized the Nissan in Culiacan in 2014, as well as a   
      
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