The Sun
GANG members reportedly killed a man and left his body parts hanging on a Christmas tree in warning after he was selling drugs for a rival gang in a town near the Mexico border.
Three men and a woman were arrested in Juarez, Texas, on Monday for the brutal killing of the unidentified man.
The victim, a man in his 20s, was dismembered with most of his remains left on the sidewalk in plastic bags under a miniature Christmas tree.
Other parts of his body were placed on the tree in the style of ornaments.
The four people arrested are known members of a criminal gang that the police did not name.
The suspects arrested were identified as Misael G.Q., 33, Brisa Lizbeth G.R., 22, Emanuel C.P., 28, and Edwin G.B., 32.
They have previously been arrested for drug offenses, migrant smuggling, and assault.
The group was found carrying bloody knives and a machete in a backpack when taken into custody.
The suspects reportedly told police that they targeted the man for selling drugs in their southeast Juarez neighborhood, which lies only 16 miles from the Mexican border.
Police Chief Cesar Omar Munoz said that there have been several drug-related murders this year.
He said the murders were linked to a gang called the Aztecas and another which he did not identify.
Sinaloa and La Linea, both founded in Mexico, are the major drug cartels operating in Juarez, KRQE reports.
Homicides in the town have reportedly shot up in the last three years as these cartels have begun to pay their associated gangs in drugs instead of cash.
There have already been 1,363 reported homicides in Juarez in 2021.
This story first appeared in The Sun
