“I remember he told Omar, ‘Make sure he stays handcuffed and he doesn't leave,'” Alvarado said. The Zetas handcuffed Alvarado and took his truck. The commander's brother, Omar “El 42” Treviño Morales called Alvarado in late 2004 and told him to come to Nuevo Laredo. Eventually, he owed Treviño Morales $500,000. When one of those loads got seized, he was responsible for the costs. The traffickers were fronting him coke, giving it to him on spec and expecting to be paid in return. I was coming down once a week.”Īlvarado said the Zetas would sell him coke at $11,500 for a kilo and he could sell it in Dallas for $15,500 to $16,000 - more when he shipped it to New York.īut working with the Zetas was more dangerous than dealing drugs in Dallas, Alvarado learned. “He just kept throwing drugs at me,” Alvarado testified. Treviño Morales and his fellow Zetas cruised around Nuevo Laredo in convoys of pickups and SUVs with bodyguards wearing black military fatigues and armed with rifles, he said.Īfter a couple years of working for a Zeta commander named Ivan “El Taliban” Caballero Velazquez, Alvarado said, he went to work for Treviño Morales moving multi-kilogram loads of cocaine. It didn't take Alvarado long to figure out who his hunting buddies were, he told jurors. But when Dallas drug dealer Mario Alvarado met the Zeta while hunting white tail deer in the early 2000s near Nuevo Laredo, Treviño Morales was an up and coming trafficker, feared by his peers but not yet in charge. Today, Treviño Morales is believed to be the Zetas' second in command. But the man they recruited, who would become the most famous, the man whose name is now synonymous in Mexico with the Zetas and who was the target of the Drug Enforcement Administration investigation that brought this case to trial, was Miguel “El 40” Treviño Morales. One of the first Nuevo Laredo crime figures the Zetas brought on board was Mario Soto Flores, the scion of a local crime family. They also went to war against the west coast Sinaloa Cartel, which was trying to make its own inroads. But in 2001, when the prosecutors' story began, the Zetas were hired guns, a group of former Mexican army special forces who'd been dispatched to Nuevo Laredo to secure it for the Gulf Cartel. Today, the gang has split from the Gulf Cartel and is waging a bloody war against their former masters. Laredo trial offers window into Zetas See More Collapse Jury is ready to hear case in Zetas killings
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