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PRISON GANG CALLS HIT ON DE FORD, MASSO BUSHWACKS HER IN P.I., SAENZ HOUNDED BY CHEEZMEH
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />State and county law enforcement authorities are investigating an apparent call for a hit by a prison gang on an assistant Cameron County District Attorney and a Texas ranger investigator who they feel are responsible for convicting one of their leaders and putting him in the state penitentiary.<br /><br />According to law enforcement sources, prison authorities in Hunstville intercepted a letter from a Mexican Mafia chieftain who was tried last year by Ass. D.A. Ma<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9sMkHnr_60uBnVkjOxLCCin8nLsevYSi3bTa0LmxxuWVS9aSEHCFNOfPHw-4QoYFlTZBk-T-qCjfBMOYIRiPcFTpbK2PTXNIncZ1sAaz2_a4OhTBGnd-_VuWqROnAZVtU-D7fQl93RKI/s1600/maria+de"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 331px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 233px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742845822576239810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9sMkHnr_60uBnVkjOxLCCin8nLsevYSi3bTa0LmxxuWVS9aSEHCFNOfPHw-4QoYFlTZBk-T-qCjfBMOYIRiPcFTpbK2PTXNIncZ1sAaz2_a4OhTBGnd-_VuWqROnAZVtU-D7fQl93RKI/s400/maria+de" /></a>ria De Ford and an unnamed Texas Ranger that resulted in a lengthy prison sentence for the prison gang leader.<br /><br />The letter sent by the Huntsville prisoner was written in code and the message was written in graffiti but authorities were able to identify the message that "Rinche and the ADA" must be "taught a lesson."<br /><br />When prison authorities intercepted the letter, it was addressed to another gang member who had recently been released from jail after serving his sentence for unrelated offenses. Suspiciously, that same released gang member had reportedly attempted to reach De Ford by telephone, ostensibly to thank her in person for not demanding the court him a more lengthy sentence.<br /><br />The payoff for the hit, according to sources, was to be some $250,000 for both De Ford and the Ranger.<br /><br />Cameron County DA sources say that the gang member released called De Ford on her private cell phone and once at the courthouse office number on Harrison Street and actually got to talk to her telling her that he was at the time inside the courthouse and wanted to meet her personally and talk to her to express his gratitude.<br /><br />"Maria immediately called the sheriff and the Rangers and they looked for the man," they said. "Eventually, when they found him, he said he knew nothing about the hit."<br /><br />However, the Ranger in question who had been the investigator in the case traveled to Huntsville to interview some prisoners and learned that the going rate for a hit on a lawman by the gang was $250,000, too much of a coincidence for comfort.<br /><br />However, even though the sheriff and the Ranger made the evidence available to Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos to see whether grounds existed to prosecute the conspirators and thwart the plot, the DA has declined so far to pursue the matter.<br /><br />"I would think that if someone threatened to put a hit out on one of your assistants or on a Ranger, the DA wouldn't hesitate to act on it," said a law enforcement source. "Maybe Armando is too caught up with his own legal problems and didn't give this information the importance it deserved."<br /><br />He would not say whether the sheriff's department had provided surveillance or other protection to De Ford, who is one of three Democratic candidates for D.A.<br /><br />Contacted as she made the rounds of the courthouse during early voting, De Ford said she could neither confirm nor deny and directed questions to the sheriff's department. A spokesman said he could not comment on the status of any investigation.<br /><br />Whether Villalobos or De Ford want it or not, voters in Port Isabel have told the <em>Rrun-Rrun</em> that Carlos Masso supporters are passing out fliers there indicating that De Ford has the endorsement of Judge Leonel Alejandron, Villalobos and Cameron County Democratic Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa.<br /><br />Alejandro, a sitting judge, is prohibited by law from endorsing any candidate, and Hinojosa, the chairman of the party would not take sides with candidates from his own party for the same position. To have Villalobos openly endorsing a candidate for DA over the other two candidates â€" Masso and Luis Saenz, who were also on his staff â€" defies belief.<br /><br />Meanwhile, streetwalkers for a group called Cheezmeh continues to paste fliers against Saenz on car windows warning voters to "Beware" of supporting the former DA. The group, which is openly supporting Masso in the race after veiling their preference for him over the other candidates, recently ran the same ad in the newspaper and in their Facebook page.<br /><br />Recently, they sent campaign workers distributing the fliers in north Brownsville neighborhoods.<br /><br />Saenz has not openly responded to the group's charges, though local blogs, including this one, have pointed out that the principals in the group have either been convicted of theft in the past are are currently being accused of deceiving people with immigration problems and filling out immigration forms for a fee when they are not certified to do so. Their accusers also charge them with violating RICO statues, the act which punishes the operation of a continuing criminal enterprise.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1028095221006534120?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/prison-gang-calls-hit-on-de-ford-masso.html

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HERMINIA IN HER ELEMENT: ELECTIONS MUST BE HERE
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<div><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>She revels in her fame (or is it notoriety?).</div><br /><div>Herminia Becerra, who calls herself a friend of the poor people and whom others say is the dark side of political activism and call her a politiquera, lives for these moments.</div><br /><div>Early voting has started, and the outrageous eightysomething is now sporting a long red skirt stitched with the political logos of her candidates this time around. She is neither apologetic nor bashful of her role in the elections.</div><br /><div>"The people help me at elections because I have helped them for more than 50 years when they have had problems," she speaks forcefully, not just for the sake of the listener, b<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOCAA4CFaG-noXeiBQDYuhokGvMrXpC_5HZsVZAnFfDfTs2ZlWDP-3XA-xWCO1yvil7cqWAOYhrnAVwYOlhTjMm0BZILVXDaBuSoQ36wsRl-b2nvr9j-yKbF92wo_kbo0b1sTvGrhkEE/s1600/herminia.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 215px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742830858076170274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOCAA4CFaG-noXeiBQDYuhokGvMrXpC_5HZsVZAnFfDfTs2ZlWDP-3XA-xWCO1yvil7cqWAOYhrnAVwYOlhTjMm0BZILVXDaBuSoQ36wsRl-b2nvr9j-yKbF92wo_kbo0b1sTvGrhkEE/s320/herminia.bmp" /></a>ut for the benefit of those passersby who might be on the way to cast their vote at the county building at the elections office.</div><br /><div>She shrugs off the suggestions raised in the past by her detractors that she sells votes for money by saying that more than once her accusers have dragged her into court only to have their plans stymied.</div><br /><div>During the last go-round, when she helped Ernie Hernandez beat Ruben Peña in the runoff election for commissioner of precinct 2, investigators for the Peña camp sought her whereabouts fruitlessly to bring her to testify at the courthouse. After that proved unsuccessful, she loudly chided Peña for going to the homes of those she "helped" to cast their mail-in ballots (most in favor of Hernandez) by calling him a "<em>lloron</em>," or cry baby.</div><br /><div>Now, accompanied by fellow political activist (or politiquera) Celia Aguilar, she shouts out from her foldi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizw7FPeKkCNsQYIbns6aWRDHjDbJq9AHGRCE_4wgj17D8iXXo-fdM8mJpIEHS9jZaaNMQao2ASLhOY-nkIicXL-FB9upMVKJQQT-H6R3CfAjBObT2iE3IPV7Bus_iRNaEAjljEoGluaJo/s1600/herminia1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 136px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742830614304068498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizw7FPeKkCNsQYIbns6aWRDHjDbJq9AHGRCE_4wgj17D8iXXo-fdM8mJpIEHS9jZaaNMQao2ASLhOY-nkIicXL-FB9upMVKJQQT-H6R3CfAjBObT2iE3IPV7Bus_iRNaEAjljEoGluaJo/s320/herminia1.jpg" /></a>ng chair in front of the county courthouse: "<em>Si no votas, no te quejes."</em></div><br /><div>She is not shy about naming the candidates of her choice this time around, and although she won;t admit to getting paid to promote their candidacy, she suggests that favors from them once they get into office will suffice.</div><br /><div>Campaign signs for Erin Hernandez Garcia, Carlos Masso, Sofia Benavides, Carlos Masso Omar Lucio, among others are stitched on her wide skirt.</div><br /><div>"<em>Yo misma lo cosi</em>," she said proudly and twirls to show off her handiwork. "<em>Has de ver como se arden los demas</em>."</div><br /><div>for her part, Aguilar is a one-candidate promoter. She said she is there at the behest of Rene Oliveira, now in his 28th year in office.</div><br /><div>"I don;t look as if he's been there too long," she said with her practised stock answer. "If you go to a surgeon would you rather go to one with 28 years of practice or to someone who just got his medical license?"</div><br /><div>There, is of course, no arguing with a politiquera and Aguilar seems to be poised to inherit the role that herminia doesn't seem ready to relinquish.</div><br /><div>Recently, before early voting, Becerra fell ill and was hospitalized for a fungus infection to her bronchial tubes. She vowed then she would be there when the "votaciones" began. Apparently, she has made good on her threats. </div><br /><div><em>"Yo le ayudo much a la gente, mijo</em>," she says earnestly. "<em>Eso les da envidia</em>."</div><br /><div>Aguilar, obviously relishing the attention Becerra attracts, claims that Herminia and she have hit it off grandly.</div><br /><div>"<em>Ya me adopto</em>," she said beaming.</div><br /><div>Just as Herminia an Aguilar are in front of the courthouse, there are many others in front of the early voting sites all across Cameron County communities trying to sway the voters to cast their ballots for their candidates. It's fairly much a South Texas tradition that will probably last while Becerra and Aguilar are around.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7532546757770931711?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/herminia-in-her-element-elections-must.html





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