A Chilling Message From The Cartels: Billboards With Hanging Mannequins Warning Cops To Choose...

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Source: Daily Mail / KHOU Houston

+Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them

+One reads 'silver or lead' in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels' bribes or die

+Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north

By Meghan Keneally

Published: 16:11 EST, 23 May 2014

Two frightening incidents of vandalism in El Paso near the Mexican border in Texas have been interpreted as warnings from drug cartels.

In both instances, a mannequin wearing a suit and tie was tied to a billboard with a noose and messages were scrawled over the placards.

Local station KHOU reports that one of the signs reads 'Plata o Plombo' which translates to 'silver or lead', a threat used commonly against police officers effectively warning that if they do not accept the cartel's bribes then they will be shot.



'This symbol has historically been used by Mexican drug cartels to threaten or intimidate Mexican citizens, business owners and government officials; however, we have never experienced this in El Paso,' local police said in a press release about the vandalism.

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Border residents fear message on mysterious billboards

EL PASO, Texas -- El Paso police are investigating two mysterious billboards that appeared just off I-10, each with a mannequin hanging from a noose. .

“It’s not an advertisement,” said Mike Mons, regional manager for Lamar Outdoor advertising.

The first vandalized billboard off I-10 had Plata o Plomo in large black letters which translates into silver or lead. It is usually a warning targeting police or government officials in Mexico. The warning: work with a cartel and take a bribe or get a bullet.

The hanging mannequin was dressed in a suit and tie.

“This symbol has historically been used by Mexican drug cartels to threaten or intimidate Mexican citizens, business owners and government officials; however, we have never experienced this in El Paso,” said police in a statement released to media.

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[Ex Lurker]

1. Cartel cash flow is down due to the wave of MJ legalization

Keep it up and drain the swamp entirely.

[AllyCat]

5. That's what I was thinking

If we legalize marijuana and possibly a few other drugs, we will take their power.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Problem is, they have tons of cash now.

If we end the war on some drugs tomorrow, they have plenty of money and influence to divert into other organized criminal endeavors.

Like the gangsters of the prohibition era didn't go away when we made alcohol legal again.

[EC]

21. If they really have all that cash

why don't they just divest into something legal? It's stupid to stay in an illegal trade when you have liquid assets to invest.

[billhicks76]

25. Whose Fault Is That?

The ones who supported the drug war to begin with. They created this. It's never to late to right a wrong.

[AtheistCrusader]

26. Oh I totally agree. Today if not sooner.

I just hope people are being realistic that we have a long row to hoe to get past the fallout, even if it ended this second.

[billhicks76]

27. Cops

Cops used pot to get into people's cars and homes. And they used it as a forfeiture cash cow. That short term thinking has made them despised as a profession that should engender respect and pride.

[Uncle Joe]

20. I agree, but this also when they become most dangerous

as a cornered and wounded animal.

[KansDem]

2. Better do what they want...

Or they may not use American banks to launder their drug money anymore.

[wcast]

8. Your post made me laugh out loud!

Too much money being made from those in power, including the banks.

[mackerel]

10. I was going to say that this is when the Feds should step in

and then I realized you're right the Feds prolly won't do anything. Too much good money involved.

[myrna minx]

13. Citibank's new slogan: Silver or Lead

[johnfunk]

15. "Bank of America. Life's better when we're connected to cartel silver!"

[Laelth]

3. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[AngryAmish]

4. The spice must flow.

[bemildred]

17. +1. nt

[4_TN_TITANS]

6. Take bribes, get shot, OR

Legalize them out of existence. I guess it's safe to assume that the illegal trade is taking a hit (no pun intended).

[Sunlei]

7. a suit and tie!

[Android3.14]

9. Suit and tie? That wasn't aimed at police

That message was aimed at U.S. policymakers, I'd bet.

[7962]

11. One was in Blue jeans too, so who knows. But the border areas better watch out!

[Scuba]

12. The War on Drugs is a huge success ...

... just not for us.

[Helen Borg]

19. Imagine what addiction rates would be

Without all the money spent on the war on drugs! That is their argument.

[bemildred]

16. Well, at least they used dummies. nt

[Helen Borg]

18. Let them bark...

[msongs]

22. the DEA crowd will lose their jobs if pot is legal. the DEA crowd doesn't like that at all nt

[Doctor_J]

29. So will pharma salesmen

Legal mj = plummeting demand for oxy and so forth.

[toby jo]

23. This'll spread all through TX next, no doubt. Corruption's a goddam maggot.

Billy Bob and his militia will be running for the hills.

[happyslug]

30. The hill country is where the money is?

Those militia people will go where the money is, they take bribes faster then others.

[Tom Ripley]

24. "oro o plomo" is a better offer

[Codeine]

28. What's in YOUR wallet? nt