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Cartel Hitman Lived in Small-Town Ohio

Edgar Campos-Barraza arrested in Sandusky, home to Cedar Point

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 25, 2012 5:42 PM CDT

(Newser) – You never know who your neighbor might be. In January, authorities arrested an alleged assassin employed by the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico who had been living in the small town of Sandusky, Ohio, for 10 years, reports CNN. Edgar Campos-Barraza, also known as "El Cholo," is accused of being a hit man for the Sinaloa Cartel. He was extradited to Mexico earlier this month from Sandusky, best known for its Cedar Point amusement park.

"Nothing shocks me anymore," says a Border Patrol spokesman. "The I-80 and I-90 corridor is an active narcotics area."

Sandusky is famous for Cedar Point amusement park, and Mexican hitmen apparently like it, too.
Sandusky is famous for Cedar Point amusement park, and Mexican hitmen apparently like it, too.   (AP Photo/Cedar Point)
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Reader70271189
Apr 25, 2012 9:24 PM CDT
I worked at Cedar Point one summer a long, long time ago.  There was plenty of evil in Sandusky, but who knew?
myflap.blow
Apr 25, 2012 6:58 PM CDT
"Hitman arrested" - but after discovering he's a mexican cartel member, they loaded him up with military assault rifles and gave him a ride home.
Scaramouche
Apr 25, 2012 6:31 PM CDT
Cue the new rash of Hispanics being suspected of all manner of ill by white neighbors in 3, 2....
 

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