El Chapo's Reportedly Deceived Suppliers To Buy Meth Ingredients
December 18, 2018 - 3:13 pm by Khaaliq Crowder FACEBOOK TWITTER
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More tea is being spilled in the trial of pseudo-famous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera. On Monday (Dec. 17), it was revealed in court that El Chapo went to the sister of a Colombian drug trafficker to cop methamphetamine for his Sinaloa drug cartel.
According to the New York Daily News, Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa was one of the witnesses called to the stand during the 61-year-old's criminal preceding in the States. Chapo is being hit with a laundry list of charges including money laundering, conspiracy, firearms and international distribution of cocaine, meth, heroin, and marijuana.
Cifuentes confessed Chapo went behind his back and made a deal with his siblings who are also involved in their illegal activities to be a source for methamphetamine so that he can turn a profit in his business.
Cifuentes said that Chapo neglected the fact that meth is extremely addictive and can damage the physical and mental state of young people who consume it and purchased from his sister and brother, the drug's precursor ephedrine.
"Don Joaquín knows I (didn't) like to f**k around with ephedrine," Cifuentes said in the courtroom.
It wasn't until after a plane that carried Colombian-imported cocaine crashed on it's trip to Mexican that Cifuentes' siblings came clean and admitted they took a deal with Chapo as it the ephedrine was also in the cargo of the aircraft.
Cifuentes escaped to Venezuela in 2010 around the time these incidents were going down and changed his mind regarding meth out of desperation for money, saying that "Hunger made me change my mind."
Chapo faces life in prison if convicted of all charges.
READ MORE: A Man Claiming To Be El Chapo's Nephew Threatens To Have Tekashi Mother Deported
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Tashonna Ward: 25-Year-Old Woman Dies After Waiting Hours In ER
The family of the 25-year-old Wisconsin woman are seeking answers following her tragic death earlier in the month. Tashonna Ward, a daycare worker whose newborn daughter died last year, passed away after waiting nearly three hours in the emergency room at Wisconsin's Froedtert Hospital where she sought treatment for chest pains and shortness of breath.
Ward checked into the ER at 4:58 p.m on Jan. 2, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. During the wait, hospital staff checked Ward's heartbeat and she underwent an x-ray, the latter of which showed that she had an enlarged heart.
She was sent back to the waiting room.
"I been here since 4:30 something for shortness of breath, and chest pains for them to just say it's a two to SIX hour wait to see a [doctor]. Like that is really f***ing ridiculous," Ward reportedly wrote on Facebook according to NBC News.
Ward left Froedtert to go to another hospital at around 7:30 p.m., but never made it. She collapsed soon after and was rushed back to Froedtert where she was pronounced dead.
"How can you triage someone with shortness of breath and chest pain, and stick them in the lobby?" Ward's cousin, Andrea Ward, said according to the Journal Sentinel. Andrea launched a Go Fund Me account to raise funds for her cousin's funeral.
A rep for Froedtert expressed condolences over Ward's death . "The family is in our thoughts and has our deepest sympathy," a rep for the hospital said in a statement. "We cannot comment further at this time."
Ward had previously been told that she developed an enlarged heart during her pregnancy. Her baby died last March after the baby's umbilical chord wrapped around the its neck.
Although heart disease is the leading cause of death among men women in the U.S., the risks are even higher for black women. According to 2017 statistics, nearly half of black women over the age of 20 battle some type of heart disease.
Black women are also at higher risk of dying from pregnancy complications. While there are several variables at play (like a lack of access to proper health care), the larger issue is that black women are often "undervalued," noted Dr. Ana Langer, director of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in an interview with the American Heart Association.
"[Black women] are not monitored as carefully as white women are," said Langer. "When they do present with symptoms, they are often dismissed."
Ward's family are reportedly scheduled to meet with the hospital next week. The hospital has received numerous online complaints over the years, many of which involve billing issues but also treatment and long wait periods.
A Yelp review posted last year warned patients not to believe the 23-minute wait time touted at the hospital. The woman and her ailing child left the hospital after waiting for six hours "without being evaluated other than a [five-minute] 'triage.'"
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Atatiana Jefferson's Mother Dies In House Where Daughter Was Killed
Yolanda Carr, the mother of Atatiana Jefferson, died in the same house where a Texas cop killed her daughter. A family lawyer announced Carr's passing on Thursday (Jan. 9).
"We just learned Yolanda Carr, the mother of #AtatianaJefferson, passed away in her home early Thursday morning," attorney S. Lee Merritt tweeted adding that Jefferson, 28, was killed by a Fort Worth officer "while serving as the caregiver for Ms. Carr who had recently taken ill."
The family has been left "devastated" by the loss. Further details surrounding Carr's death were unavailable at press time.
"This is why we call police brutality genocide," Merritt tweeted. "It is akin to a public lynching. It impacts the entire community. It is domestic terrorism under the color of state authority."
Yolanda's family is devastated. This is why we call police brutality genocide. It is akin to a public lynching. It impacts the entire community. It is domestic terrorism under the color of state authority. https://t.co/KyRtR7aG6X
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) January 10, 2020
Jefferson, who would've celebrated her 29th birthday this past Thanksgiving, was killed last October by Ft. Worth Sheriff's deputy Aaron Dean. Dean shot Jefferson through the window of her home while she was playing video games with her nephew. Police were responding to a neighbor's call about a door being open at the location when Dean opened fire on Jefferson. Dean resigned from the department after the fatal shooting. He has since been charged with murder.
A month after Jefferson was killed, her father Marquise Jefferson died of a heart attack, which his spokesperson said was a result of the death of his only child. "I can only sum it up as a broken heart," said Bruce Carter. "He had to go through so much just to get through the services as a father, and continually doing good to make sure that who he was in their relationship was something he could honor."
Carr, who was hospitalized after Jefferson was killed, responded to Dean's murder charge in an emotional video recorded from her hospital bed. "We're going to miss her this Christmas, but I'm so glad that they finally indicted that man on murder because he murdered my baby in my home," Carr said. "She wasn't doing anything wrong. My thought was 'Thank you Jesus,' even though I know we have a long way to go at least we got the charge on him."
Watch Carr's full message below.
The mother of #AtatianaJefferson has died in her home. This is her let public statement from her hospital bed after learning of Aaron Dean's indictment on the charge of murder. pic.twitter.com/UQg00Te48v
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) January 9, 2020