North Carolina, United States
Alamance County Authorities, in North Carolina (USA), are investigating a shooting that took place in a house allegedly linked to a Mexican drug cartel, apparently involving an attempted robbery that killed two people, one of them a teacher from a nearby school.
According to a statement from the Alamance Sheriff’s Office, regarding the shooting that took place on April 8, in which Professor Barney Dale Harris and Alfonso Beltrán Lara died, authorities are looking for Juan Daniel Salinas Lara, who is weighing an arrest warrant for cocaine trafficking.
The shooting took place in a house linked to a Mexican drug cartel, which was identified by authorities as Jalisco Nueva Generación, according to local media.
Police seized two pounds (more than a kilogram) of cocaine and $ 7,000 in cash.
Sheriff’s Office detectives determined that the two dead were part of another criminal gang.
The investigation is open and there is an inmate, Steven Alexander Stewart, Harris’ brother-in-law, with whom he reportedly went to the house looking for drugs and money, the sheriff’s office said.
When police arrived on the scene on April 8, they found signs of a shooting and two people with gunshot wounds.
Harris, a Spanish teacher and basketball coach at the Union Academy Charter School in Monroe, was pronounced dead on the spot, and Alonso Beltrán Lara later died in the hospital to which he was transferred.
The sheriff, Terry Johnson, said in a press conference that Harris had a double life as he was allegedly involved in the “ dangerous and deadly drug world. ”
Police hypothesis
The police hypothesis is that he and his brother-in-law entered the house at a time when no one was inside and while there, Alonso Beltrán Lara arrived, from whom they tried to get information about where the drugs were. and money was saved.
Because he said nothing to them, they “executed” him with a shot in the neck, the bailiff said.
Later, other residents of the house and one shoot between them and the invaders, in which Harris received a bullet that took his life despite wearing a bulletproof vest.
“The vest didn’t work with the type of ammunition being used,” the sheriff said.
Investigators believe Harris and Stewart used tracking devices to find out the whereabouts of the house’s occupants before robbing the house.
Stewart, who was denied bail, appeared in court this week and is convicted of armed assault and murder.
Authorities have asked citizens to come forward if they have information on this matter.
According to the release, the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office may formulate additional charges for other individuals who may be involved.
In mid-March, the Justice Department heard that a large-scale DEA operation called “Python” resulted in the arrest of more than 600 members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), six of them in Carolina del North. . EFE