Chapters (110)
- Cover
- ALSO BY J. TODD SCOTT
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- PROLOGUE
- I
- II
- PART ONE
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- PART TWO
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
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- FIFTY-SEVEN
- FIFTY-EIGHT
- FIFTY-NINE
- SIXTY
- SIXTY-ONE
- PART FOUR
- SIXTY-TWO
- SIXTY-THREE
- SIXTY-FOUR
- SIXTY-FIVE
- SIXTY-SIX
- SIXTY-SEVEN
- SIXTY-EIGHT
- SIXTY-NINE
- SEVENTY
- SEVENTY-ONE
- SEVENTY-TWO
- SEVENTY-THREE
- SEVENTY-FOUR
- SEVENTY-FIVE
- SEVENTY-SIX
- SEVENTY-SEVEN
- SEVENTY-EIGHT
- SEVENTY-NINE
- EIGHTY
- EIGHTY-ONE
- EIGHTY-TWO
- EIGHTY-THREE
- EIGHTY-FOUR
- EPILOGUE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Excerpt from LOST RIVER
- LITTLE PARIS
- DILLON
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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In the numerous official assessments and inquiries in the days immediately afterward, DEA ASAC Joseph Garrison talked at length about the joint operation he’d been working with the Big Bend County Sheriff’s Department. That operation, code-named Arma de Plata, or Silver Gun, focused not only on corruption in the Terrell County narcotics task force—the Tejas unit—but also on the suspected cross-border movements and activities of one of the most feared and wanted narco-traffickers in the world: Juan Abrego Carrión, better known as Fox Uno. The fact that a man believed to be Fox Uno—identity pending—had been arrested alive on U.S. soil as a direct result of Arma de Plata was a major coup for both the DEA and the Big Bend County Sheriff’s Department. The extremely covert nature of the operation was troubling to some, but it had been necessitated by concerns about local border corruption—as proven by the involvement of at least some members of the Tejas unit—and ASAC Garrison only had to point to the numerous intel briefings he’d conducted and recent inquiries he’d made in Washington, D.C., to validate his version of the events.
SAC Don Chesney, next in line for DEA’s Chief of Operations, subsequently confirmed his knowledge of and support for the operation, and noted his thanks for the amazing investigative work of both his agents and the local deputies in the Big Bend.
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FOR A WEEK, people from news outlets from all over the world descended on Murfee.
When ASAC Garrison was finally made available to the media, he echoed the sentiments of his SAC, and went a step further: Fox Uno’s capture would not have been possible without the fine men and women of the Big Bend County Sheriff’s Department. More pointedly, Fox Uno, the infamous cartel leader who had shipped untold amounts of illicit drugs into the United States and who was responsible for thousands of deaths, including the most recent horrific attack on a busload of students in Ojinaga, was in custody only because of the foresight and efforts of one man: Sheriff Chris Cherry.
ASAC Garrison said he’d rarely met someone willing to risk so much, for so long, in the pursuit of justice.
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EFFORTS, HOWEVER, to interview Sheriff Cherry himself were met with a polite but firm declination.
In the only official statement put out by the department, the sheriff thanked the DEA for its long-running support and commended his deputies—specifically Deputy America Reynosa and Deputy Daniel Ford—for their hard work and dedication.
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IT TOOK A JOINT TEAM OF THE DEA, the FBI, the ATF, and the Texas Department of Public Safety more than four days to process the crime scene at the Far Six.
Over 275 rounds were fired during the brief but intense shoot-out.