Wolf Boys by Dan Slater

Wolf Boys by Dan Slater

Author:Dan Slater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster


THE PRIOR JUNE, WHEN GABRIEL was arrested for the Bruno Orozco hit, the DEA busted Richard Jasso’s drug warehouse in San Antonio. The trouble, for Richard, started when the DEA arrested Richard’s Cuban buyer in Miami and, unknown to Richard, turned the Cuban into an informant. The Cuban had been a trustworthy client; so, when the Cuban told Richard that he’d recently been ripped off and needed more cocaine to pay the debt that he owed to Richard, Richard agreed and loaded up 227 kilos. The Cuban, wearing a DEA wire, picked it up. When the Cuban returned the following week with $6 million and an order for another four hundred kilos, Richard had been out partying the night before so he asked his brother-in-law to meet the Cuban at the warehouse. At the warehouse, Richard’s brother-in-law found an arresting team of DEA agents.

Richard fled to Mexico, and his name came out in the ensuing indictment. Since he was supposed to be at the warehouse when it got busted, Richard’s Mexican supplier, a Sinaloa affiliate, posed questions. The loss of 627 kilos, more than $10 million in coke, fell on Richard. It didn’t help when his brother-in-law became a government snitch. But the supplier forgave Richard, then gave him $200,000 to open up a new line of transport, and started him off with two “look” shipments of fifty kilos each. Trying to cut costs, Richard hired inexperienced drivers, and both loads were seized. Richard’s prior successes now meant nothing.

The supplier offered Richard one last option: move to Monterrey, handle business from there, and earn back the lost money. Richard mulled it. An unknown Mexican city? Constant supervision? Leaving his family? It might’ve been smart or it might’ve been stupid. He could make money or he could turn up dead. He decided to return to Texas, where he sold off some old trucking equipment and used his last $15,000 to buy a load of cut-rate weed, which he moved to San Antonio but couldn’t sell. He looked for transport work with people he’d partnered with in the past. But they knew he was hot. They knew about his brother-in-law, the snitch. They liked Richard, but they all claimed no longer to be working, and gave him their backs. In just a couple of tumultuous months, everything he built had vanished. He was twenty-one.

In truth, the transport business was getting tougher for everyone. The battle for Nuevo Laredo had driven up cocaine prices by 25 percent at the border, as more blood than ever had to be shed to move a brick through Mexico. But prices in Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York didn’t adjust much for market fluctuations at the border. Runners like Richard, the middlemen, took the biggest hit in a down economy.

Richard had a wife and children. He needed money. He needed a fresh start.

Fortunes dwindling, he decided to approach his old associate, Gabriel. He heard Gabriel and some other boys from Lazteca, like Wences, had made inroads with the Company, handling enforcement work.



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