Loya, according to law-enforcement sources, oversaw the murder operations at
the House of Death in Juarez, dubbed carnes asadas (barbeques), and was
allegedly on the payroll of the Santillan organization.
The mass-murder machine run by Loya and his henchmen – including the ICE
informant and other Mexican state judicial police officers – came undone after
police under the charge of Loya pulled over a DEA agent and his family
mistakenly in Juárez. The crooked cops believed the agent was a competing
drug trafficker.
Had it not been for quick thinking on the part of the DEA agent – who used his
cell phone to get another DEA agent to the scene – and sheer luck, the agent
and his family may well have been brought to the House of Death, according to
Gonzalez.
“My overriding concern on this issue was and still is the DEA agent and his family
that were almost kidnapped and killed because of the way the case was
mishandled, and that seems to have been lost on almost everyone involved in
this,” Gonzalez told Narco News. “That is what caused this whole story to come
out in the first place, but many seem to be willing to forget about that.”
Web of Connections
The lead prosecutor in the Santillan case was Assistant U.S. Attorney Fielden,
who, though based in El Paso, reports directly to Sutton’s office in San Antonio,
according to law enforcers.
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