traffickers but the cartel didn t need to rely on others. it could handle the money itself. so monsalve was a crucial piece of the puzzle, because he was the brains behind the stores and he could speak directly about the norte valle cartel. however, monsalve did not cooperate. monsalve just told us to pounce. he didn t want to talk, and he sat in jail. with monsalve not speaking to us, we needed to look for other links to the cartel. one of those links was monsalve s right-hand man called hector. hector had managed monsalve s drug operation in the united states. and we knew that monsalve had dispatched him back to colombia to assist in laundering the money back there and had day to
ran over her several times to make sure she was good and dead. he was a bad boy. he had killed two people or ordered the death of two people here in new york. and he was the cartel s representative in queens for receiving shipments of cocaine and laundering the money back to colombia. and he lived here in the united states. so we issued an arrest warrant for monsalve for murder, money laundering and drug trafficking. but at that time monsalve had left the country and had gone into hiding. he was sort of like a phantas mu like a ghost. we had no belief that he would ever be coming back, because we had heard that he had moved back to colombia, period. but two years later in february of 2000, we received a tip from an informant who was living in
left with the child. and i dispatched an agent to follow her. so i decide i was going to try to get into the building and see if i can hear any noise. and if we did, let s just knock the door down and go get him. so i went into the lobby. somebody walks out past me. i turn around, and i said son of a bitch, i think that s monsalve. i m your cat. ever since you brought me home, that day.
monsalve is back at the building, and we have to arrest him. so i went into the lobby. somebody walks out past me. i turn around and i said son of a bitch, i think that s monsalve. and i go running up into the street, and i don t see him. so i go running to my car, because i want to go on the radio and tell the team that he s out, find him, look for him. i screwed up and i missed him already. and as i get to the car, i see a state trooper from the team out on the street with his gun drawn. he saw him, in fact. and what monsalve had done is gotten into a car with another person who was waiting for him. they started to pull out of the
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