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El Paso News From DEA Agent To Convicted Criminal: The Story Of An El Paso Family, A Kid From Juarez And A Murder-for-Hire Plot

Posted on August 1, 2025
This is the story of the “street urchin,” as he was labeled by the news media, who became the center of carefully weaved made-for-movie complot between an El Paso law enforcement family and a 13-year-old boy from Juárez. For the gleeful crime novelists, news media headlines and the movie producers, the story oozed with everything about Mexican corruption. But in the end, it was an El Paso DEA agent who ended up in prison.

For Salvador Martinez his story begins like many other stories of aspiring law enforcement agents seeking adventure from a television show he watched as youngster. For him, it was the Miami Vice television series that ran from 1984 through 1989. But on the day that the FBI arrested him, Martinez was not the suave Miami […]

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