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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Five arrested in fatal ambush of a drug cartel member in Webster County

Court documents say five people set a man up to be ambushed and killed early Monday morning in rural Webster County.

The suspects allegedly armed themselves, settled into hiding places, waited for their target to arrive and then pounced.

So much planning went into the scheme, according to the sheriff, that the group scouted locations and even met up the day before to practice.

It was probably right to be cautious.

The victim, according to authorities, was a player in a drug cartel that was bringing meth from New Mexico up to the Springfield area for distribution.

Four southwest Missouri residents were charged with murder Tuesday morning after they allegedly orchestrated the killing of 24-year-old Oscar Martinez outside of a home south of Fordland. Martinez was allegedly coming to collect a $40,000 debt owed to a drug cartel.

Brooke Beckley, 19, Anthony Donovan, 19, Nathaniel Lee, 18, and Joshua Applegate, 17, were charged with first-degree murder after authorities say they killed Martinez and fled the scene before being tracked down by law enforcement hours later.


Yovanny Aroldo
A representative with the Webster County Sheriff's Office confirmed Wednesday morning that a fifth suspect in the case — 21-year-old Yovanny Aroldo — was arrested Tuesday night in Lawrence County.

Webster County Prosecutor Benjamin Berkstresser said Tuesday afternoon he anticipates the fifth suspect — later identified as Aroldo — will also be charged with first-degree murder.

"I believe he was part of the planning committee to set up this ambush murder," Berkstresser said.

Anthony E. Donovan
Authorities say Aroldo led law enforcement on a lengthy car chase Monday before fleeing on foot in Lawrence County.

The probable cause statement used to charge four suspects on Tuesday describes how and why they allegedly plotted the killing.

According to the statement, Beckley met with Donovan last week at the Econo Lodge hotel on North Glenstone Avenue in Springfield and told Donovan she owed about $40,000 to a drug organization based in New Mexico that was operating in Springfield.

Nathaniel A. Lee
Beckley said she could not pay the debt, but two men from the organization were on their way to southwest Missouri to collect, the statement says.

Beckley allegedly told Donovan she had found a way to buy herself some time in repaying the debt. She said she had worked out an agreement that if she killed one of the New Mexican men that were coming to southwest Missouri — Martinez — then she would get more time to pay the debt and possibly get the debt lowered, according to the statement.

Donovan and two other men, Applegate and Lee, agreed to help Beckley kill Martinez, according to the statement. In exchange, Beckley allegedly agreed to pay Donovan $6,000.

Joshua H. Applegate
The statement says a meeting was set up between Beckley and the men from New Mexico at Lee's residence on Hackberry Lane south of Fordland at 12:30 a.m. Monday.

When Martinez arrived at the Webster County residence and stepped out of his vehicle, Donovan, Lee and Applegate opened fire, according to the statement.

The suspects then covered Martinez with tin siding and fled the scene before deputies with the Webster County Sheriff's Office arrived, the statement says.

The statement says Martinez died at the scene.

Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole said the suspects carefully planned out the killing, and even practiced the day before.
Brooke D. Beckley

Cole said it was a neighbor who called 911 after hearing the shots.

On Tuesday afternoon, Cole said authorities had obtained search warrants for Aroldo's phone, and they were trying to glean information that way.

Cole said several agencies are assisting in the investigation including the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, the Greene County Sheriff's Office, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.


Cole said he might ask the U.S. Marshals Service to assist in finding Aroldo.

Berkstresser, the prosecutor, said he is aware that people from the southwestern part of the country have been selling meth in Webster County, but this is his office's first direct contact with individuals who identify with the cartels in Mexico and New Mexico.

Authorities said the fifth suspect — eventually identified as Aroldo — likely came to southwest Missouri from New Mexico with Martinez to carry out cartel business.


Source Springfield News

71 comments:

  1. Aroldo looks Salvadoran.

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    1. He looks like that kid that blows up toys in Toy Story part 1 movie!

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    2. He looks like someones future girlfriend (prison bitch), he will learn how to clean someones cell, laundry and cook.

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    3. lol @ 9:00 you are so right

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    4. He looks like some one who will not see freedom for some time now. He is fucked.

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    5. If they did kill a cartel member, they should be given medals and set free. Maybe a free vacation in Mexico !

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    6. looks like he wanted his partner dead

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  2. These kids are going to be brutally murdered in prison by cartel associates. Fucking idiots. They couldn't come up with 40 g's between all of them? lol

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    1. That's what happens when I female speaks, boys listen!! Damn shame can't break that cycle!!

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    2. Did you read the part about possibly getting the debt lowered, apparently Martinez was a bit shady and needed killing...to lower the debt...

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    3. Oh right, like you and threr of your friends can pull together 40 grand with a days notice.. You're probably 50 and still struggle to pull together $20 to share a pizza with three friends - forget about 40 thousand -_-

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  3. Here we go again.... What state is this and what large or medium city is nearby???

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    1. Learn to read. MISSOURI.

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    2. Is always on the details compa, you just need to read and understand the post. Webster County Missouri

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    3. Boy that's a twist.It's usually the 1 that owes the debt is scared for their life not the 1 collecting.I wonder if 1 of the cartel associates wanted Martinez dead?[maybe for keeping some of the debt collection for himself?]

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    4. You need to read the entire post and read between the lines.

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  4. Great story, just the tip of our iceberg!

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  5. Good post Tex, and timely. Goes to show that murders are also comitted by whitey, and to assume, as in ohio, that cartels do all the killing is foolish.
    The cartels seem to me to be much more precise and "clean" in their business, at least north of the border..
    Kids, please stay away from that s__t.

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    1. Yeah it is a good story and I don't know if they are lucky or not, is hard to know if someone will be looking for a little pay back.

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    2. In spanish there is a saying that translates to "in the mafia everything gets paid for"

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  6. Wow you know cartels operate everywhere but to see a young American girl in this kind of situation should frighten teens away from this shit...you never know what or who you are dealing with. I'd say killing a cartel associate wasn't the smartest idea.

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    1. Oh no my friend, you will be surprised to know how many young women can be as evil as this one in the underworld.

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    2. Well, the Hickory Street murders in illinois, where 2 sweet little ladies lured two big football players and got them "tied up to play rough with them" but their boyfriends came in to do the "rough playing" instead of the girls, killing the brothas and started to cut them up to make stew...
      That steals the cake, they were NOT RACIST FOLLOWERS OF THE RACIST CLOWN, THEY JUST FOLLOWED HIM...

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    3. So many Pawns in this game of Chess. Easy come, easy go.

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    4. Behind every evil woman is her pimp pushing for shit...
      --women fack up for "love", men fack up for "friends", i love for both to leave me tha fack alone...

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    5. Maybe the latino cartels will think twice next time.

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    6. Yeah if you really believe young america"white"girls are so sweet and cant be as evil or more than any other woman..this isnt little house on the prairie dude.

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  7. Wow they fucked up lets see how long before the turn up dead hahaha pinches guero pendejos!!

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  8. The werita would have to sell her butt to pay back that money. And if she didn't have the 40K how will she pay 6K?

    Crazy people.

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    1. That's exactly what I'm wondering. I think she never intended to pay back the $, probably blew it herself on drugs for herself.

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    2. That was my first thought too

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    3. I couldn't agree more. More than likely she had half of the payment, which she would use to expend for the hit. This story has a very sad ending as she's not the one in danger, but her family. There's nothing she can do to help them from the inside, and I doubt very seriously that the authorities are equipped with the manpower to be effective.

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    4. 10:01 they owed for the drugs, the middle man got the drugs for maybe 4 000.00, also, people get "invited to party" and All of them vet charged for the party, not their share, but the whole party, individually, I have seen the operation in action, these "operators" need to be put out of business ASAP.

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    5. @9:12 Cartels are not stupid, no one wants to go to jail for a long time, especially over a measly 40K. The Cartels will not put a hit on the innocent family that lives in the U.S.
      Ohio was a one off. And if you do not think that LE (Law Enforcment) will not retaliate, you are dead wrong. Stop watching Narcos on Netflix.

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  9. So is it Mission Accomplished or Mission Failed? They did succeed in killing the Cartel Member (1 scum bag off the streets) but then they got busted. So what is it?

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    1. Its one more win for the illicit drug trade. Violence is getting closer every day. At least in the U S anyone can buy a ton of weapons for "Self defense".

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  10. pinche guero lo mataron un naco, creo esta naco es de cartel sinaloa. Lo mataron para 40 mil. Estan locos. Ahora van estar cerrados para siempre.

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    1. hablas todo mocho guey

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    2. Matar un naco gets a bunch of young misled white youngsters the naco got indebted to him for drugs, gets them about 20 years cut in half, minus time served...
      The hardest part will be getting used for lunch in prison, that broke lady will find out what getting broke means in prison, same for the boys, they gonna grow up a little in the prison stretchomatic and get out real skilled in the trades of trafficking and killing with impunity, such a sloppy murder speaks of innocence, really...
      --kindergarten is over for the guys, welcome to College...
      --Now, what kind of a pendejo sells $40 000.00 worth of drugs on credit? meth? Addicts can't come up with $4.00 for the morning dose, and you wanna "sell" forty thousand on the installment plan to somebody that is eating the store?
      --That is really needy hungry brokeback roughriding...
      Let my people go!

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  11. The family of these people better leave that state an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth they don't just go for the person if they can't get them they go after the family it's not how it use to be. They screwed up bad really bad

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    1. This is US NOT Mexico or Italy.I doubt they will be killed or their family.

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    2. Canadiana you mean they won't get kill? Like the 8 people who got murdered last week?

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    3. They're not gonna kill the family over 40 grand, or for the life of some low level, easily replaceable, cartel associate.

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    4. I would kill at least one person for that $40k. More than likely the mujer would get it. Two to the dome.

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  12. Between this and what's going on in Ohio, is there a possible trend with Americans associating themselves with cartels?

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    1. It's been that way. Allot of white people work for or with the cartels. they just keep a low profile

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    2. 10:45 nooo, güeeey, the baaad ugly mexican pushers have been selling their shit to the clouds in the american sky for the last 100 years...como hay gente pendeja, me cai...

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  13. A lot of young people end up in crime because they got no choice, but these kids got themselves into this mess by their own making ... must be the stupidiest group of kids I have ever heard of ... they will all be dead within 12 months in jail.

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  14. Simon Los gavachos se enredaron machin que pendejos la neta
    eran gente Del Walter white lmao

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  15. Thanks tex. Thanks to all at bb for all the hard work getting these stories out.
    Mn

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  16. He set up his partner to be killed so he can have the business. Seeing as how he got caught there is someone else behind him......

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  17. It's a Mexican drug dealer!
    Put it under community improvements!
    and fogitabouit!

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  18. That's what happens when the cartel sends kids who pluck their eyebrows to do the dirty work

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  19. Goes to show you, when white people think cartels in the US, they think tatted up cholos... With this incident and the other one where that entire family was killed, when white people think cartels in the US, they should think white people with the normal looking daughter, or family

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  20. Eh at least their not racist, free them!

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  21. What is all the fuss about? Besides these kids will not make good killers (that do not get caught)? Main problem to many involved and left alive. Really there is a much longer list of stuff done wrong when working inside US. And ripping off cartel you must kill all cartel involved. Would be like hitting a stash house and leaving someone breathing. Sloppy work, $40k not worth a life sentence. And we all know 1 collector's life is not worth a peso.

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    1. One killer would do 20 years, 4 killers get 10 years, out in 5.

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  22. Dial M for Murder

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  23. Young and foolish, so was I at times their age.

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  24. There seems to be some sympathy and understanding for these kids amongst some in the comments section. I wonder how the reaction of the same people would be if the murderers were Black kids instead of White kids.

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    1. The reaction would be totally different 6:19. Since the arrestees are white the concensus is "oh it was a mistake" or "they were doing us a favor by killing this scum". If the arrestees were black the same commenter's tune would be completely different. This kind of mentality amongst a certain racial demographics is the reason why Donald Chump is so popular. Hopefully this trailer trash receives nothing less than a life sentence but we all know that won't happen. They will be portrayed as misguided youth instead of hardcore killers. The victim will be portrayed as a "murderer" who came to collect or kill the female. The eyebrow plucker will probably get the most time since he sold out his Homie.

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    2. 6:19-I would say the same for me.Doesn't matter what colour they are they are young and vulnerable.

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  25. When you are dealing with tweekers you gotta roll about 4 deep. These paranoid mofos can't be trusted and you need as many eyeballs as possible watching your front, back and side to side. I guess this debt collector didn't know guidelines in the tweeker rule book. And which organization would be dumb enough to give some little girl $40k of product? Freaking rookies.

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  26. Cartel Lives Matter!
    CLM

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    1. And so do the people they kill so......do unto others as you would like done to you.Does that really ring a bell?I highly doubt it!

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  27. drugs turned 4 suburben white kids into killers,its no different than mexico except they get arrested.

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    1. Greed NOT drugs turned them into killers..the drugs were long gone but she didnt want to or couldnt pay what she owed.

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    2. These are not suburban, they are white trash hillbillies.

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  28. Well as a personal acquaintance I would like to say that the cartel could've cared less about this particular Mexican bcuz not only has nothing happened as a repercussion but 5 of the what turned into 6 teens are living it up in federal prison while the youngest is still fighting for his freedom in county jail nearly 2 years later

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