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Fifth Person Charged In Hit On U.S. Drug Informant
A fifth person has been charged in Texas in a contract hit on a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant who had become a U.S. informant.
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EL PASO (September 19, 2009)--A fifth person has been charged in the contract killing of a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant who had become a U.S. informant, authorities said.
Police said in a statement released Friday that Orlando Rafael Benavente, 31, was arrested and charged Tuesday with capital murder.
His bond was set at $2 million.
Investigators said that the May 15 hit on Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informant and one-time smuggling manager for the Juarez drug cartel, was planned and carried out by a fellow cartel member who also was working with ICE.
Investigators said Gonzalez was targeted because cartel officials in Mexico believed he was an informant or had switched allegiances amid the gang's violent struggle for control of Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso.
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