Here’s a new twist in the violent drug war. A U.S. soldier is involved in this killing. Then again, nothing should come as a shock at this point. Border patrol agents are on the take. Mexican police are getting wiped out.
EL PASO - A U.S. Army soldier is one of three men facing murder charges in the killing of a Juárez cartel member who was a law enforcement informant.
Crimes Against Persons Unit detectives arrested Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, 30, Christopher Duran, 17, and Fort Bliss soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18. All men are being charged with murder.
Apodaca was in a camouflage uniform as he and the other men were escorted by homicide detectives and uniformed officers out of El Paso Police Headquarters shortly before 1 a.m. today to be booked into the El Paso County Jail.
The handcuffed men walked out quietly. One of them shook his head no when asked if he had anything to say. Another tried to hide his face from a video camera.
Apodaca was transported in the back seat of a patrol car while Dorado and Duran were driven away in the back of a sedan.
The three are accused of killing Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, who was shot eight times the night of May 15 as he walked up to the front of his upscale home in the 1300 block of Pony Trail Place on the East Side.
Gonzalez, 37, ran a trucking business and was a midlevel member of the Juárez drug cartel working as a government informant. A motive for the killing had not been released but police had previously said it was believed to be drug related.
In the investigation, detectives learned Dorado planned and organized the homicide. He hired Duran and Apodaca to commit the murder.
More arrests are expected.
The Gonzalez homicide is the first suspected cartel-related killing in El Paso since a war among drug suppliers erupted in Juárez last year.
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