two people tried to ram vehicles<\/a> containing federal immigration agents near 39th and Kedzie in Brighton Park, agents ended up shooting a woman in one of those vehicles.<\/p>\nAfter that incident, court records alleged that Juan Espinoza Martinez sent out messages offering Latin Kings and others up to $2,000 for information on a senior Border Patrol official involved in “Operation Midway Blitz” and $10,000 for their murder.<\/p>\n
According to court records, Espinoza Martinez reportedly made the solicitations about Bovino to a law enforcement source, which was shared via the online platform Snapchat. A federal criminal complaint included a screen grab, reportedly from Espinoza Martinez’s account, showing the solicitation in the alleged murder-for-hire plot.<\/p>\n
Cell phone video obtained by NBC 5 Investigates shows the arrest of Espinoza Martinez Monday morning near businesses in Burr Ridge, according to sources familiar with the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officials had not responded to requests for comment by NBC 5 Investigates Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
But during an appearance on Fox News, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discussed threats made against agents. She said some had been given additional security.<\/p>\n
“We have had specific officers and agents with bounties (on them),” Noem said. “…it’s an extremely dangerous situation and unprecedented…”<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint also states that Espinoza Martinez included a picture of Border Patrol Commander Bovino in his alleged solicitation messages sent via Snapchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal authorities have charged an alleged member of the Chicago Latin King gang with a murder-for-hire plot against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,40983],"class_list":{"0":"post-283682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-nbc-5-investigates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115332208364145560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}