Authorities bust local auto-theft operation

An auto-theft ring of 13 people was broken up Friday following an investigation by local, state and federal agencies.

[Lone Ranger]

I would like to thank the law enforcement angents for their dilligent work and dedication to help rid us of this group of thugs. Thanks Agian!

[Lowlifes]

The Times should print the pictures of these lowlifes. Congrats to the law enforcement agencies for geting them off the streets.

[News Hound]

As usual just half the story. Where are the photos of these criminals? Anyway thanks to El Paso's finest for another job well done.

[pathetic]

Losers. Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty? You all sound like a bunch of elderly nobodies with no life but reading "news" online.

You're not the judge and jury, thank God. We have things called due process and courts for that. Some of these people are likely guilty, but you have no idea which and to what extent.

Keep your mealy mouthed pro-law-enforcement-agency anti-due-process comments to yourselves until the verdicts have been rendered. You're horrible Americans.

[pathetic]

By the way, dummies. The mugshots are available via a link right at the top of this story. Maybe "Newshound" can learn to click through to a separate page one day?

[EP Tonight]

pathetic wrote:

Losers. Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty? You all sound like a bunch of elderly nobodies with no life but reading "news" online.
You're not the judge and jury, thank God. We have things called due process and courts for that. Some of these people are likely guilty, but you have no idea which and to what extent.
Keep your mealy mouthed pro-law-enforcement-agency anti-due-process comments to yourselves until the verdicts have been rendered. You're horrible Americans.

Your right, innocent until proven guilty. Remember buddy this is freedom of speech. EVERYONE has the right to voice there opinion, so don't say keep your mouth shut. If thats the case, why are you voicing your opinion? You seem very interested in this crime, why? You sound like there your buddies and your hurt cause they got caught. Funny.

Due process will take place and the JURY,(like you or me) will take part in handing out the final verdict. These idiots, got caught and will be charge by law. Apparently they never learned, thou shall not steal.

NEXT!!

[pathetic]

EP Tonight wrote:

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Your right, innocent until proven guilty. Remember buddy this is freedom of speech. EVERYONE has the right to voice there opinion, so don't say keep your mouth shut. If thats the case, why are you voicing your opinion? You seem very interested in this crime, why? You sound like there your buddies and your hurt cause they got caught. Funny.
Due process will take place and the JURY,(like you or me) will take part in handing out the final verdict. These idiots, got caught and will be charge by law. Apparently they never learned, thou shall not steal.
NEXT!!

LOLZ. Typical El Pasoan. If I see the flaw in the logic of commenters, I must be buddies with the defendants. Hint, dummy: I live in Houston - never been to El Paso in my life - though I hear it's a sh*thole.

Next!

[pathetic]

EP Tonight wrote:

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Your right, innocent until proven guilty. Remember buddy this is freedom of speech. EVERYONE has the right to voice there opinion, so don't say keep your mouth shut. If thats the case, why are you voicing your opinion? You seem very interested in this crime, why? You sound like there your buddies and your hurt cause they got caught. Funny.
Due process will take place and the JURY,(like you or me) will take part in handing out the final verdict. These idiots, got caught and will be charge by law. Apparently they never learned, thou shall not steal.
NEXT!!

Please take some time to learn the difference between "your" and "you're" - you might look less stupid. Also, it's "chargeD" by THE law. Did I tell anyone to "shut their mouths"? NO, stupid.
I specifically addressed the fact that some of them are likely guilty, but that calling them "criminals" implies a guilty verdict has been delivered.

[aunt]

some of these gentelmen are innocent. If you dont know the difference of fact or fiction then dont open your mouths. So many people belive everything they read or hear and judge them without knowing the truth. To me these type of people have no knowledge. The truth will come out on some of the gentlemen that they had nothing to do with these charges. And to all the newspaper, and news stop making them all look like thugs or lowlifes. Some off them are good kids that are doing something with their life, not what you make them out to be drug dealers, auto thefts...

[cabeza de vaca]

hang them all!!!

[Family member]

I agree.. some of these young men out of all ten are inoccent and good people...
so not judge before you know all the facts and who was really involved and who was doing harm... put yourself in the position of the people accused maybe they are innocent and they where just in the wrong place at the time... you never kno.. just dont judge.

[free your mind]

aunt wrote:

some of these gentelmen are innocent. If you dont know the difference of fact or fiction then dont open your mouths. So many people belive everything they read or hear and judge them without knowing the truth. To me these type of people have no knowledge. The truth will come out on some of the gentlemen that they had nothing to do with these charges. And to all the newspaper, and news stop making them all look like thugs or lowlifes. Some off them are good kids that are doing something with their life, not what you make them out to be drug dealers, auto thefts...

WOW!! are you serious? no knowledge of the illegal activities?? i highly doubt that keep believing your relatives did nothing wrong, but it is hard to disprove the fact of knowledge with 5 kilos of cocaine laying around. you know how much that is? about 11lbs. yeah, and your relative is probably a drug addict as well.

[UTEP]

Pathetic is mad becuse utep; the sh**hole, beat the s**t out of Houston. Go Miners!! lets release these innocent people in Houston. And don't be crying when another Hurricane hits you. Remember what El Paso did for your homeless.

[Dario Rivas]

I think the white guys are innocient! down with the MexicanZ!

[UTEPsux]

So because someone is from Houston they're a fan of Cougar High? LOL. UTEP SUCKS dude. Didn't they lose to UAB?

LOL!!

[UTEPsux]

I do know a few of those guys, by the way and I think the cocaine was found at the house, not the warehouse. If I understand correctly, most of them were gear heads who liked working on cars - most of the cars were OLD hondas and acuras - and they got the parts from ebay and suppliers in california who got JDM parts from Japan. They all pooled their money so that they could share this rather large warehouse and they would do motor swaps on hondas. I never heard anything about theft going on and I saw the parts they are claiming to have a value of $500K. NONSENSE!

It was all JUNK! They found 2 cars there - did they say whether they were stolen? No.

Connections to "la linea"??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....wow the hysteria over the drug wars in MX has reached a new high. I would put good money on saying that at least half of those guys have not been to juarez for over 6 years.

On the cocaine though, one of the guys did mention that he KNEW of someone that was dealing. Hell, who in El Paso doesn't? 5 kilos does sound like a lot though. But I know for a fact that some of those arrested were not guilty of theft OR dealing drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were just there working on their own cars at the time. This was HARDLY a professional business, people.

I expect that some will be exonerated after having to fork over loads of cash for a lawyer and having their lives threatened to be ruined.

[free your mind]

Family member wrote:

I agree.. some of these young men out of all ten are inoccent and good people...
so not judge before you know all the facts and who was really involved and who was doing harm... put yourself in the position of the people accused maybe they are innocent and they where just in the wrong place at the time... you never kno.. just dont judge.

come on? i do not no care how much innocence you claim. maybe the people that worked for the businesses are not involved. but anyone who had been to the shop or worked in the shop knew about the drugs and stolen cars. it is nieve to think otherwise.

[UTEPsux]

BTW the white guys WERE the guilty ones. Always acted kind of shady but I then again I didn't see my friend who was arrested for over a year as I no longer live in el paso.

[UTEPsux]

UTEP wrote:

Pathetic is mad becuse utep; the sh**hole, beat the s**t out of Houston. Go Miners!! lets release these innocent people in Houston. And don't be crying when another Hurricane hits you. Remember what El Paso did for your homeless.

That was Katrina in New Orleans you idiot. That guy was right. El Paso seems to be full of real idiots.

[UTEPsux]

free your mind wrote:

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come on? i do not no care how much innocence you claim. maybe the people that worked for the businesses are not involved. but anyone who had been to the shop or worked in the shop knew about the drugs and stolen cars. it is nieve to think otherwise.

Not true. I had been to the shop, albeit over a year ago, and all the parts and cars in there were junk. It was literally FULL of old motors and transmission casings. Very few valuable parts like body panels or wheels. More details need to be released before I can believe that there was any kind of "chop shop" going on there. When I saw it they didn't even have torches or an organized system to store parts. It was just a huge mess that had been accumulated over YEARS of swapping honda parts for people who wanted their little rice burners to go faster. One of the guys who ran the Plan B thing was definitely not involved in theft unless things changed A LOT over the past year or two. The two white guys wouldn't surprise me though.