It would make for a good movie too.
But the truth is, it's not funny because evidence is pointing to a very big and scary cover up.
Some day, I hope to be able to share the information that is being gathered on this case, but until then, we'll be looking at the very obvious.
Take for example the fact that Falcon Lake had previously never experienced any "pirate" attacks until 2010.
The first attack coming in April 30, 2010, but that news didn't make a big splash, and to me, it was like Sheriff Sigi was upset it didn't cause the effects he wanted, so he tried again TWICE in May, and when that didn't work, he tried again April, with his final attempt, the Hartley's, finally hitting the mark.
Here are those stories according to Texas Monthly (which got it's news from the Monitor):
But that's not all. Sheriff Sigi said the following back in May of 2010:April 30: Five people in two boats were fishing on the lake and visited Old Guerrero, a Mexican city abandoned when the reservoir was created in the 1950s. The group was taking pictures of the church and other submerged buildings at the site when four heavily tattooed men appeared in boats and climbed aboard the fishermen’s vessels. The intruders claimed they were “Federales” — Mexican federal police — but had no uniforms, troopers said. (Note the importance of pointing out they were heavily tattooed men. The scarier the better, even though the last thing these drug cartel members want is to be identified through their tattoo's. A very reliable informant tells me that it is very rare for Zeta's to be tattooed because then it is harder for them to deny any involvement if they are caught. The only one's that are more than likely to be heavily tattooed are the MS13 and other gang members that operate for the Zeta's. However, it is very unlikely that MS13 or gang members will be found on boats. Who knows though? If there can be pirates on speed boats on a lake, there can be gangsters too.)
May 6: Three fishermen were about a quarter of a mile from Marker 14 on the north side of Salado Island, above some submerged ruins, troopers said. As they were fishing, two men in a boat quickly approached and pointed AR-15 assault rifles toward the anglers. One of the gunmen boarded the boat, looking for cash, drugs and firearms. One of the attackers chambered a round in his assault rifle and said he would shoot the men if they did not give him money. (Why would they be looking for drugs? Mexico supplies the drugs, not the US. Again, drugs = criminals, so I classify this as another attempt to make the enemy look scarier)
May 16: Law enforcement officers received a report that a vessel carrying five armed men had approached some boaters. Investigators have not found the boaters to obtain details about the incident, which apparently occurred on the U.S. side of the lake. (Naturally, since no one knows who the boaters were, you just have to suck it up as fact, right?)
And six weeks before May 16 or 19, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo “Sigi” Gonzalez said the first suspected cartel pirate hijacking he heard of occurred when a group of fishermen had their boat stolen and were left naked on the Mexican side with only a cell phone to call for help. (Well I'll be damned! I thought the first incident happened on April 30th and they were able to make it back, albeit a little short on cash. Fabricating much Sheriff Sigi?)
Amazingly enough, exactly just that happened on September 30, 2010 when Tiffany and David Hartley were chased by "pirates" and David Hartley was supposedly shot in the head and his body to this day has not been retrieved because "we can't even go" over there."It makes me nervous that these things are happening. It irritates me because we can try and do more if the federal government would provide more funding," said Gonzalez. "I dread having to even think of having a fisherman resist, shot in the head, and we can't even go retrieve the body."
If that's not surprising, later that same day, Sheriff Sigi goes into details about what more than likely happened to the body. This is what he predicted:
While, personally I don't believe that David was ever shot to begin with, assuming he was, then it is no coincidence that Sheriff Sigi was once again correct in his predictions. No body was ever found!"I don't think we're ever going to find him," Gonzalez said late Thursday. "We can't go over there, obviously, and I'm thinking that if the Mexican authorities have not gone to look for him, the people that did this would - if I were them - have cut the vest and let him sink, or I would have pulled the body out of the water so there'd be no evidence ... before the Mexican military gets there."
Then, that weekend, a private investigator, Raul G. Reyna Jr., from Edinburg, Texas tries stealing some of the spotlight and Sheriff Sigi doesn't like it. He warns the private investigator:
Reyna needs to be careful about nosing around too much in this case "because he’s going to come up missing a head."
In his comments, he also adds:
Now, the article that published the above quotes from Sigi is dated Sunday, October 17, but in there it says "this past Saturday", which I'm sure they didn't mean "yesterday" because more than likely the paper was written on Saturday, October 16 or around that time. Which means, the Saturday they are referring to is Saturday, October 9, 2010."If we know there’s no body to be found, why should we risk more people searching? Why should we risk having people out there searching and getting beheaded when we can’t find a body?
The reason I believe this also, asides from the above mentioned reasons, is because I've done a search and every post that has this news story has no comments in regards to the beheading of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas on October 13, 2010. Neither in the news article or in the comment section, and you know those anti-immigrants, racist, xenophobic, and/or Tiffany supporters would not have let that one go. And because it is a news article, I find it odd that they would not mention his beheading when it very clearly relates to what Sheriff Sigi is warning about.
Which brings us to Sheriff Sigi's other predictions: The beheading of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas.
It may be possible that Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was set up to be beheaded, and I'm not going to beat around the bush with this one:
I strongly believe Sheriff Sigi had something to do with it!
Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was very adamant that nothing in Tiffany's story was adding up. There was no body. No jet ski. No witnesses (besides an unreliable good Samaritan. My words, not his.). So it's very possible that he was on to something and Sheriff Sigi didn't like it.
In short, he wasn't being "careful about nosing around too much in this case", and like Sheriff Sigi predicted, he ended up "missing a head".
Let us see what other predictions the Sheriff has in store for us:
3/31/2009 - "Gonzalez, who heads the Southwestern Border Sheriff’s Coalition, said it’s only a matter of time before a shootout breaks out between cartel members and federal, state, and local law enforcement.
...We are looking for help in catching the bad guys who are coming in, sir, and also protecting the citizens and residents who are already living in our counties so that they not get kidnapped and not get extorted, not have their homes invaded, that they not get tortured and things like this."
And no wonder he makes it sound so dangerous here on the border. Look at what he's asking for for his local agencies: "$500 million a year for 5 years was the figure that we looked at as being actually something meaningful that would provide the resources"
Is Sheriff Sigi crying wolf? Why shouldn't he?
According to the Boston Review: At War In Texas by Tom Barry, " Sheriff Gonzalez has so much border-security funding from DHS and DOJ that each of his deputies is assigned two vehicles, a patrol car for regular duty and a new SUV for overtime border-security operations." Later on, Mr. Barry goes on to say that "Border sheriffs enjoy virtually unlimited overtime-pay accounts, new fleets of vehicles, and the latest security technology."
Of course, Sheruff Sigi doesn't want to use that "latest security technology or new fleets of vehicles cuz the boogy men pirates might put a dent in 'em.
Most importantly, Mr. Barry notes that, "in Zapata County, Sheriff Gonzalez has so much border-security funding from DHS and DOJ that each of his deputies is assigned two vehicles, a patrol car for regular duty and a new SUV for overtime border-security operations."
Holy crapoly! No wonder Sheriff Sigi is making all these predictions that mysteriously are coming true!
But back to his predictions, and sorry these are not coming out in order, iammetx is too lazy to place them in order, but don't worry, they all happened in 2010.
Apparently there was an incident back in March 2010 with an "armed" Mexican helicopter flying over U.S. airspace and hovering over homes.
According to the Sigster, this was a Mexican Marine helicopter because it hovered over the homes of CBP agents and surely they know what they were looking at.
Oddly enough, the only people who could confirm this actually happened were, according to the Sigi, a deputy, a local news reporter, and a federal officer who, the sheriff said, "has since been muzzled by higher-ups".
Uh-huh.
Asides from that, they had pictures! Albeit a bit blurry, but they claim you can actually see where it says Marina on it. Here's one that they provided, although you can't really tell where it actually is. It could have been taken in Mexico for all we know:
Which oddly enough looks exactly like this helicopter photo taken in 2009:
Here's another one compared to that one:
Especially with his prediction of "it's not the first time and it won't be the last."
Surely enough, he was right, again. Too bad the link to that article will never be found complete, as it was scrubbed from the Internet like most news articles involving the Sigster.
However, I was able to find a forum where you can see a little bit more of that article where it clearly states:
"Border Patrol spokesman Jason Darling says the Mexican military is conducting operations near Zapata along the Rio Grande."
Chucks!
It is little wonder that Sheruff Sigi didn't go into detail about the fact that a long-standing agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada allows for temporary incursions for medical or law enforcement purposes.
But what can you expect from someone who's stomping his foot down in order to pocket $500 million every year for 5 years under the guise of border security, right?
Well, here are some of his predictions that are yet to come true, so let's keep an eye out for this guy:
And come to think of it, there has been a lull in Sheriff Sigi's diatribe."Osama Bin Laden can come across border and not get caught"
"Be careful of the lull before the storm"
I wonder what he's planning next? Blaming Osama bin Laden for another 9/11 on the border?
All I know is that before 2010, we didn't have so much commotion here on the border, and all of it coming just from one county and one Sheriff, the Sigster.
Let's just hope he keeps it at 2010 and shuts it at 2011, but we'll find out pretty soon as we continue to investigate this case.
Until next time...
