3 WORKING GIRLS SNAGGED IN HIGH DENSITY TRAFFICKING AREA OPERATION DOWNTOWN; COPS OVERTIME JUSTIFIED

By Juan Montoya

In response to the proliferation of working girls (and guys) who ply their wares (as it were) by the Colonial Hotel and the Cameron Motel downtown, the local chapter of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA, a task force that combats drug trafficking and money laundering, raided these locales, arrested three women, and prevented the torrent of drugs and stymied money laundering in downtown Brownsville.

Of course, the working girls who remained at large merely moved down the block a bit. But for one day, the site remains a lonely, desolate place, just as the customers who seek their services.

Our courageous law enforcement agents arrested three women Consuelo Reyes, 47, Maria Olvera Paz, 45, and Janelle Alexandra Gonzalez, 31, who may (or may not have been) involved in intense drug trafficking activities hustling johns at these places.

In keeping with the goals of the HIDTA, the program, conducted by the  conducted by the Brownsville Special Investigations Unit, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, kept these alleged purveyors of the poisons showing they were pro-active to prevent the distribution of controlled substances in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States.

According to the Obama White House website, the mission of the HIDTA is to "reduce drug trafficking and production in the United States by:

Facilitating cooperation among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to share information and implement coordinated enforcement activities;
Enhancing law enforcement intelligence sharing among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies;
Providing reliable law enforcement intelligence to law enforcement agencies to facilitate the design of effective enforcement strategies and operations; and
Supporting coordinated law enforcement strategies that make the most of available resources to reduce the supply of illegal drugs in designated areas of the United States and in the Nation as a whole."

With the arrest of these three women who we are sure were dealing in high volumes of drugs and engaged in money laundering, local residents may rest assured that law enforcement has put a crimp on these dastardly activities.

If not, then the arrests of these high-value targets justifies the funds spent to pay these law enforcement officers so they could arrest the defendants who may hustle their customers for perhaps $20 for a "date."

Come to think of it, perhaps sex can be considered addictive and a drug to be removed so as not to entice those weaker souls among us who may be tempted to taste a piece of strange stuff once in a while.

To put a perspective on the HIDTA operation, one of the women – Reyes – also faces an outstanding Cameron County warrant for failing to appear for a possession-of-cocaine case.

We're sure these women surely knew of drug cartel activities which distribute million of drugs in street value to poison our children and probably were just faking getting paid a few bucks per trick to conceal their multimillion dollar money-laundering activities. Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket.

Whew! We feel so safe now.