Gabriel Cardona (Picture), Teen Hit Man for Mexico Drug Cartel
Posted Mar 13, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
Gabriel Cardona (pictured above), of Texas’s Laredo, is a teen hit man for Mexico’s drug gang Gulf Cartel. Gabriel Cardona, now 22, has been sentenced life in prison without parole. He was convicted of committing killings both in USA and Mexico during 2005 and 2006.
Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez, 22, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Cardona-Ramirez aka “Pelon” aka “Gaby,” a hired assassin or “sicario” for the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, was convicted in August 2008 of conspiracy to kidnap and kill in a foreign country in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 956. The charges stem from the kidnapping and murder of two Laredo youths, Jorge Alfonso Aviles, 19, and Inez Villarreal, 14, from a Nuevo Laredo nightclub on March 30, 2006. [Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole @ Backgroundnow.com]
Gabriel Cardona who once had eyelids tattoos beneah his eyelids was the point-man for a three-man crew of teenage sicarios operating in the U.S. His friend Rosalio Reta became an assassin at a tender age of 13. They were paid $500 a week each as a retainer, to sit and wait for the call to kill. Then they were paid up to $50,000 and 2 kilos of cocaine for carrying out a hit. Links: CNN & Chrom.com
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