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Monday, March 4, 2024

Wife Of Former DEA Agent Killed In Cartel Shootout In Mexico

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat




An American woman who was killed by a stray bullet during a gun battle between warring drug dealers in Tulum earlier this month had relocated to Mexico because she was worried about crime in her native Los Angeles, according to her husband.

Karl Perman, a former DEA agent, told Fox News Digital that he and his wife of nearly 15 years, 44-year-old Niko Honarbakhsh, had been splitting their time between their home in Beverly Hills and their condominium in Cancun over the past five years.

“We were aware of the State Department advisory and we were aware of … reportings of crime in this area [of Mexico]. But honestly, our opinion was, take a look at Los Angeles,” Perman told the outlet last week. “So, actually, I feel many times, depending upon the neighborhood, safer in Cancun than I do in Los Angeles.”


Former DEA agent Karl Perman (right) said his slain wife, Niko Honarbakhsh (left), had been concerned about the crime rate in her native Los Angeles. 


Honarbakhsh, 44, was killed by stray bullets during a shootout between rival drug dealers in Tulum, Mexico. 


Honarbakhsh was shot dead at a beach club in Tulum on Feb. 9. Facebook / Mia Restaurant & Beach Club


The State Department’s travel advisory issued last year for the state of Quintana Roo, which is home to both Cancun and Tulum — where Honarbakhsh was shot dead at a beach club on Feb. 9 — urges Americans to “exercise increased caution due to crime.”

“Criminal activity and violence may occur in any location, at any time, including in popular tourist destinations,” the advisory warns. “Travelers should maintain a high level of situational awareness, avoid areas where illicit activities occur, and promptly depart from potentially dangerous situations. While not directed at tourists, shootings between rival gangs have injured innocent bystanders.”

Perman, who works in the private energy sector and is often away on business, said his wife felt safer living in Cancun and was more worried about violence when she stayed in Los Angeles, especially after a harrowing close call last summer.


Honarbakhsh had been enjoying a solo getaway while her husband was away on business when she was killed. 


The grieving husband recounted how Honarbakhsh called him while he was away on business and said she was being chased by a knife-wielding maniac while walking their two dogs, Coco and Skylar, on the University of California at Los Angeles campus.

Honarbakhsh escaped unharmed and was able to call the police.

Earlier this month, Perman had been traveling for work to Florida, while his wife decided to drive from their condo in Cancun to the popular resort town of Tulum about two hours away and stay at an Airbnb for a short getaway with her dogs.

Perman said on Feb. 9, he was on his way to Mexico via Dallas, when he got a call from a friend saying he heard that an American woman matching his wife’s description had been shot at the Mia Beach Club in Tulum.


Perman said last summer, his wife was chased by a knife-wielding man while walking their two dogs, pictured on the UCLA campus. 


Perman and his glamorous wife had been married for nearly 15 years.


By the time he reached Tulum, the local police headquarters and the morgue had closed for the night, so he headed to the beachside crime scene.

A security guard let him in and Perman said he saw his wife’s hat and their dogs’ vests discarded in the sand. He also found the family car in the beach club’s parking lot.

After speaking to the guard and reviewing security footage that captured the deadly incident, Perman said, he was able to piece together what happened.

The video reportedly showed an alleged drug dealer arriving at the club, spotting a rival and opening fire at him. A chase and a shootout followed, during which two stray bullets struck Honarbakhsh.

One of the alleged drug dealers, a citizen of Belize, was also killed. He was found to be in possession of cocaine and pills.’


Three weeks after her death, Honarbakhsh’s killers still have not been apprehended. 


Quintana Roo prosecutors said Honarbakhsh was caught in the crossfire and had no connection to any illicit activity, contrary to a local report falsely claiming that she was romantically involved with the slain man.

A trio of suspects in the shooting had been identified, but none of them has been arrested so far.

Perman lashed out at the Mexican authorities’ response to his wife’s killing.

“The main thing was nobody was helpful at all, at any level, until I actually, you know, kind of stood in their station demanding assistance and then making calls,” Perman said. “The main thing is I just want people to be aware that you kinda gotta use your own voice and make it heard.”

Perman also bristled at having to defend his wife’s reputation in the face of baseless rumors claiming that she was not a US citizen and had been dealing drugs around Tulum for several months.

“It seems like every time there’s an American that’s killed here, the spin is they were doing something wrong,” the widower said.



Fox News  New York Post

131 comments:

  1. Goes to show that with money any ugly fat pig can get a hot woman as a wife.
    Then DEA says they don't get paid enough???

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    1. Every law enforcement group claims to not make enough money the average city cop is making over 100k a year in the united states

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    2. They should investigate the husband since 9 out 10 is always the ones closest to the victim.

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    3. She alright nothing special .... I bet he was hitting that big as- on a nightly basis don't need Viagra for that

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    4. I would of spanked that shit like 5 times a day all freaky

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    5. 12:24 right?! Something tells me he caught her cheating or something...theres no.way a DEA agent doesnt know cancun is on dispute for couple of years already... crazy fucks out there. Saludos

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    6. @12:13 Complete bullshit. How do you get through life, kid?

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    7. 12:13 a cop making 100k a year, where at? Maybe a captain, normal cops don't make near that. I got my high school and 2 years of college, where do i apply for that, LOL. They are making about 50k a year at most. Also, in Mexico they don't move a finger when it comes to people from the US, cartels dont act dump. When cartels kill people, first they know who is the people they are going to kill.

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    8. Cops in my county got their wives to increase our city’s take Tax % in order to get more police funding and better pensions, 70% Mexican population so nobody votes

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    9. 100k isn't hard to make especially if u work OT .... Plus u don't need college to make 100k just work hard

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    10. Lolol🤣🤣😂😭😭🤣🤣 ur crazy .... OINK OINK 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽

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    11. JoinLAPD.com 100k+

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    12. 1:43; Class act! The way to speak you speak of someone recently deceased.

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    13. Orlando cops make that after a few years. Times have changed bud

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    14. Former Dea agent with homes in Beverly Hills and condo in Cancun? Somethings off. Over 100k a year goes to property taxes alone. How’s that work & obviously a 100k in plastic surgeries. Dea? Yeah ok

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    15. Think about it a house in Beverly Hills ….. u can make 300k not enough for a house there ….. come on guys use ur imagination where was the money coming from

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  2. @connor would you smash?

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    1. @12pm yes I would destroy her make her eyes roll back

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    3. Connor, post pics of the hot chicks you pick up at night with you ripped jeans, backwards hat, and sunglasses hanging from the back of you shirt.

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    4. I would hit that so good it would make her confess all her sins

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    5. Theres just something about bottlerats they are just so gross IMO.

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    6. @3:12pm fake - Weinie, what are you he/she/it?

      Canadian girl💋

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  3. That dude has the worst taste in clothes, my God...

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    1. What are you the fucking fashion police 😆. He looks sharp in that pic where he's holding a drink, like a gangster. Idk about them skinny jeans though. That shit threw me off. 🤣 He probably dressed like that just to keep his trophy wife happy at the time.

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    2. Sol are you heading to the outlet mall this afternoon to grab some skinny jeans? Apparently they are a key tactical necessity when pursuing trophies.

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    3. Come on Sol. You probably dress just like this fat clown. Let's see a pic of you in your best clothes.

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    4. 1:35 you better have that wap between your legs if you're wanting to see me. Think Cardi B in case that reference goes over your head. 🤣

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  4. She was beautiful sensual woman .RIP

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    1. Wifey was going to divorce fatDEA boy and take half his coin for her and her Mexican BF! Of course, he'd have the connects to have it done and cover it up with the local authorities! $$$$$

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    2. Her family needs to get the American FBI involved! Will be easy to tell if the dude who was shot with her was her BF! Then he is Big Number Uno suspect!

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  5. Belize boy, where you at?

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  6. That foo was definitely corrupt af.

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  7. They lived in Beverly Hills its safer then L.A..

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    1. 12:18 I'm with you..I had to read one paragraph twice, the wife said she moved because Los Angeles is dangerous, but yet they live in Beverly Hills, two separate cities.

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    2. Although Beverly Hills is it's own City, it's surrounded by the city of los Angeles. Just like West Hollywood and the city of San Fernando. As far as Tulum being safer, I wouldn't know because I don't live there, but Los Angeles County has seen an uptick in crime. Follow home robberies and home invasions in upscale neighborhoods like Beverly Hills, Encino, and Santa Monica to name a few.

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  8. Sounds like karma. Man does it look like they lived a lavish lifestyle

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    1. It’s because of people like you that “karma” doesn’t exist..

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    2. Vamos a ver cómo terminas y el karma todo regresa

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  9. DEA agent living in Beverly Hills. Someone took the plata.

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    1. You’re an idiot, this guy was making serious LEGIT money..

      https://www.fintechnews.org/gignet-names-karl-perman-as-chief-security-officer/

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    2. Yep. He appears to have been a long time cyber security executive. Not much info on his DEA background. Resume just mentions law enforcement briefly.

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    3. Yeah he's got a crazy resume

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    4. It doesn't make sense how a former DEA agent could live in Beverly Hills and Tulum. He's as dirty as a pig in shit.

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    5. 210 if you can expose his dirty laundry then be our guest. You obviously know something we all don't.

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  10. Great article, Sol… I had no idea she was such a bombshell, WOW… Sad story none the less 🦉

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  11. So sorry for her senseless death. What happened to the dogs? I hope they made it.

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    1. They got sent to China.

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    2. The dogs probably ended in someones tacos, un buen taco de suaperro 👍

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  12. Heheheh Hollywood to Mexico what can go wrong.
    In seriousness, illl save that ass and buried the rest.

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  13. They worried about crime but went to Mexico! Seriously why not a small country city. Che perro no traías nada

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    1. You cant put her in small town, she requires lots of attention and accommodations.

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  14. Smells real fishy. Hes only a DEA agent but lives in Beverly Hills and has condos in Cancun? Sounds fishy! Bet he was dirty. Very low crime in Cancun but she happens to get shot? I bet she was leaving him or was cheating and he had her taken out .

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    1. He’s not only ex-DEA dumbass.. look at the comments above

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  15. This story sounds fishy af. DEA agents should know that Quintana Roo hasn't been safe for at least the last 5 or 6 years. You leave Beverly Hills and go live in Mexico? Mexican media also reported that she was involved romantically with one of the drug dealers involved in shooting. This might be correct. She probably left America because she wanted to get away from fatso DEA and be with boyfriend. Another thing that's weird is that she got shot two times with stray bullets. That never happens. People who get shot with stray bullet only get hit once. This evidence shows me that the shooter intended to kill her too. Maybe he knew that she was the targets girlfriend. Bad interview by Fox News. They didn't even try to ask any tough questions. Just awful.

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    1. Tulum is actually supposed to be a really nice place; AMLO even opened an international airport there last year….

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    2. Mijo you did not read the whole article, instead you jump the gun. What's with youngsters theses days.

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    3. 1:33 you need to grasp guns and rifles, Automatic AR-15 will spray bullets, even hitting people twice.

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  16. This DEA agent is a joke. He has a house in Beverly Hills and a condominium in Cancun. He obviously has some serious money. Why did he open a Go Fund Me page for his wife's memorial? Shouldn't he have enough money to pay for this? Check it out:

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/niko-honarbakhsh-memorial

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    1. 1:42 looks like all money raised will go to some sort of animal charity?

      Personally I'm not a fan of any of these go fund me's

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    2. 10:51 he could always donate his wife's insurance money to an animal charity instead of asking Joe public to cough up. Always the same these people with money, asking others to cough up so they don't have to. Bob geldof, Bono, prime example

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    3. Your right why do a GoFundMe, if he has money 💰, to splurge.
      Reminds me of greddy landlords. Case in point. These landlords a couple have had a 8 unit one bedroom for over 30 years, we all know, the complex has no mortgage, except property taxes and upkeep, still they charge their long time tenants and new $1,800 a month talk about making money. They want more when they have alot.

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    4. 12:37 let's not forget Donald trump...and yes the ppl with money ask others to pay their bills and when someone who needs asks them,they reply with "get a job ".🤣

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  17. ‘had relocated to Mexico because she was worried about crime in her native Los Angeles, according to her husband’ lmao you can’t make this shit up LMAO.

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    1. It’s far from funny… Dude was making a political statement more than anything. Newsom drove the whole state to shit…

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    2. Completely agree. Lmao nonetheless

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    3. 2:12 lol 😂

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    4. 2:12 like the naive idiots that post and always say that l.a is far more dangerous

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    5. 554 what are the crime stats for Tulum. L.A is shithole and I wouldn't doubt if it is more dangerous than certain parts of México like Tulum.

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  18. This guy is a walking Christmas wrapper.

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  19. Sounds FISHY, she was alone as he was on Buisness how weird this couple maybe had some marital problems and this guy did something to her now this my opinion who knows 🤔 .

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    1. https://www.fintechnews.org/gignet-names-karl-perman-as-chief-security-officer/

      He had a job down there...

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    2. We know this but we do the math, 3 houses, lots of travels and an expensive wife. We think its not enough legal money.

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    3. @1101 — you’re speculating with assumptions and of what little info you can find. I will admit that a lot of marital homicides occur when the husband/wife is away, but we really don’t know anything other than she being killed.. and him being ex-DEA with an executive securities job in IT..

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  20. Wouldn't a former DEA Agent know how dangerous Mexico has become. He went to do his own investigating, because the cops are inept, he could have gotten killed for snooping around.

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  21. He works for the cartel and was tired of his pneumatic wife.

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  22. Fake ass Nalgas . Make white women white again . Tired of them wanting to be cultured w that stiff bbl

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    1. Same thing applies to Black women bleaching their skins and wearing blonde weaves .example Boyance

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  23. Holy I should have become a DEA agent, what was his salary??? A place in Beverley Hills and Cancun and a Milf on his arm

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  24. She was making two backs with her Mexican cabana boy:
    "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." - Othello, William Shakespeare.

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  25. Estaba (la difunta) entre otras personas con 'El Belice'.
    Llegaron a dispararle al malandro y a ella también le tocó plomo.

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  26. https://www.google.com/amp/s/laverdadnoticias.com/amp/quintanaroo/Niko-extranjera-de-EU-victima-indirecta-estaba-con-un-integrante-del-crimen-en-Tulum-20240220-0204.html

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  27. Ain’t no way this man is living that heavy, from just DEA money… lmao. No fkn way.

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  28. Sad story of innocent lady dying. Is she what you narco fanboys call a buchona?

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  29. Offense, but she was not attractive, trashy looking with the fake additions. Just why

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    1. Well speak for yourself, you like ladies with fake boobs.

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    2. 800 😂 LoL

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  30. He’s probably smart enough to realize that she was getting tag teamed by hardcore gangbangers that were hung to below their knees every night that they were apart. I used to work for a guy that was a cocky, arrogant asshole that would talk down to everyone and thought he was better than everyone else. I was banging his wife behind his back for a couple of months at that time. She was pretty hot, an and would tell me that her husband had a micropenis smaller than her thumb, and she was so tight! One night I was with 6 of my buddies at a bar getting wasted, and he showed up and invited himself over to the group because he knew a few of us, and didn’t see anyone else he knew. We were all just talking guy talk and joking around. He got really loud and obnoxious after a couple drinks, he starts bragging about how he’s got a nicer house, beautiful wife, more money, and better life than anyone else there drinking with him, thinking it was funny. I was very drunk, so I tell him that I bet he goes down on his wife every night . He said yes, he loves going down on her every night because he was so good at it. I then say to him Oh, you do that every night? Tell me then, do I taste good? Everyone started laughing and it got louder and louder.. After he realized what I meant by that question, he stopped smiling, looked down , became quiet and his face turned red. He left a minute later, and the next day that I went to work, he fired me. His wife told me that he came home and asked her if she was cheating, but denied it. He believed her, but I still was tearing her up for another 5 or 6 months after that. I got tired of it and moved on, but she begged me to not leave her, but I told her that there’s plenty of other guys out there that will give her what she needs, I’m not the only guy with a huge dick.

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    1. Retarded story. You're just as bad as her douchey husband.

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    2. fantasy story

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    3. Was this before or after you moved in your parents basement ? Just wondering mijo cause you sound like a 12 yr old telling us one of his fantasies is why I asked.

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    4. For sure Fantasy story gag me with a spoon.
      Grammar ok, but needs work on paragraphing and sticking to one topic.😂🤣😭

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    5. 7:05: You're in the wrong forum. Marvel Comics is on another site.

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    6. 7:05
      The Bondage Kinky site is 3 doors down then make a right.

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    7. I wouldn't mess with anybody's wife. That's a no no.

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  31. Did somebody say life insurance dea man knows how to make money

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  32. Gossipy Mexicans, prowling around, nosy bitches, for a donkey meat taco, will tell criminals who the neighbors are, then someone with information brokerage access probes their background.
    With credentials allowing him to go in country arm, the criminals stalked him, as for his wife, of course the pigs couldn't resist ruining he life.
    Mistake I'd say is living in Mexico as a foreigner, except to spit in the eye of AMLO.
    There's nothing to be proud of in narco-communist Mexico. Al inferno, urjete TRI, PRI, Malinche mugrosos...

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    1. Y si eres nacional también escupele a amlo :)

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    2. 8:48 oh yea, I like that “ spit in the eye of Amlo”

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      Are you on drugs. You don't make since how in the hell in ALMO put into this. I don't think you fully read the article.

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  33. This story is a little weird....retired DEA agent and Buchona looking like wife, who does not feel safe in Beverly Hills of all places and decides it's a better idea to go into Mexico? Sounds to me like she liked to live the lifestyle of the same people her once government LEO husband was trained to pursue. She literally looks like Vanessa Gurrola, 20 years her senior.

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  34. Nah man. DEA “retired” my ass. Beverly Hills home, a vacation home in Tulum? Yeah, it don’t make sense, but it does… most of these dudes knew how to make deals and stashed that money and now they own “private investigator firms” and shit. I do believe that this was not a hit though, she looks like she was getting everything she wanted from him, and maybe more… no reason to be shady at all, right?

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  35. Welcome to cancun. Tulum isn't much safer. Them cara de semita are crazy

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  36. To be honest all smells fishy...

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    1. 9:23 Azul of course he smells Fishy, he ate shrimp and lobster, and did not brush his teeth.

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  37. That’s the perfect way to get rid of a bitch of a wife that plans on taking you for half your shit and fuc*ing your young neighbor

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    1. Que inteligente eres.

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    2. Says the guy who will never have a woman…

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  38. Un sugar daddy está libre!

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  39. He worked in Mexico as security, this is such a bs alibi and what he's saying and doing is by the book. Let's see if he gets away with murder

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  40. He knows all the best killers just so happened to actually be working in that area

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  41. Come on! So obvious! Mr DEA had his wife and lover whacked! She was constantly down in Mexico cause she felt safer! What a fake story!

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    1. Did I miss something 🤔, where in da article does it say, she was having an extra martial affair?

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  42. ¿Who would move to Mexico? I’m but yo no me movería ahí hay que ser buey y tarugo jajaja

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  43. Mex Is ok to visit not live there

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    1. Your smart without reading the article.

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  46. She obviously went to Mexico to go meet with her Sancho who was probably involved in shady shit and had lots of money too. She was caught in the crossfire with her Sancho. She didn't go tulum just to get away.🤣🤣

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  47. she was having an affair or was leaving him... homie called a favor and they wacked her...its easier to lose some money but not half of it!!

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  48. Mmm 🤔 Tania casa en baberly hills y un condominio en Cancún??tania mucho dinero me sorprende que no sabían que toda esa área está caliente

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  49. Este hombre de viaje y la mujer de weekend solita con los perros ? En zona caliente ? Con drug dealers… Hahaha están bien pendejos los q le crean a esta gente…

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  50. I don't know about this story,Im thinking the hubby took advantage of the situation & took her out as an excuse to blame Cartels & stop paying for surgeries & vacations!Seems like waaay too much coincidence that an ex wife of a DEA agent gets murked in Mexico by stray bullets from a CARTEL of all things!

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