DEA officials that are fully familiar and upset with the issue of the
murders, as well as the obstruction of the investigation of the threat
against the life of a DEA agent and his family, and admitted this to
me, are now following the political and personal agenda of the
United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas (Johnny
Sutton) by retaliating against me with a negative performance
appraisal. In addition to all of the above, there is also a First
Amendment violation here….
But if the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio has been dirtied in this alleged
cover-up, no one is lining up to take the hit. In fact, the spin out of Sutton’s office
is that a dangerous narco-trafficker, Santillan, has been taken off the streets due
to the diligence of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio. As far as the
murders in Juarez, well that ball has been thrown back into the court of the
Mexican government – with no mention of the U.S. informant’s participation in
those murders.
In late April, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced that it had cut a deal with
Santillan in which it dropped murder charges against him in exchange for a 25-
year sentence for pleading guilty to “conducting a continuing criminal enterprise.”
Sutton also dropped the murder charges against Mexican police comandante
Loya.
The San Antonio Express News reported the following in May of this year:
Federal prosecutors in El Paso and San Antonio have dropped murder
and drug-trafficking charges against Miguel Loya Gallegos, 35, a top
police commander for the Chihuahua state judicial police, accused of
supervising several of the killings.
… In a prepared statement, San Antonio-based U.S. Attorney
Johnny Sutton said Mexico has a superior interest in prosecuting
those responsible for the slayings.
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