I’ve been casually following this story for the past couple of days, and now seems like the time to blog it.
The first reports were that a man had been killed, and a sheriff’s deputy injured, in a shootout. Eventually, it came out that the man who was killed was a truck driver, who was hauling a load of pot; the driver had apparently flipped and was making the delivery as part of a “controlled buy” when he got shot.
Then it came out that the truck driver was cut off by three SUVs. The occupants then got out and shot the crap out of the truck. So this wasn’t a one-off deal; it was an organized hit.
Now, it turns out that this was probably a Zeta cartel operation. And it was all over 300 pounds of pot.
You just never know when things are going to go pear-shaped, do you?