Cartel Put Hit Out on Arizona Sheriff’s Border Team, Detective Says

Detective Jake Kartchner with the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office border unit, stands at the U.S.–Mexico border fence that was slated to be replaced with a 30-foot fence before President Joe Biden halted all border wall construction in January 2021, in Cochise County, Ariz., on Dec. 6, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—The more effective Sheriff Mark Dannels’s border team is, the more it disrupts the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel’s operations.

Recently, the cartel put a hit out on Dannels’s top border guys, the Cochise County sheriff said. His county sits in southeast Arizona and shares 83 miles of remote desert land with Mexico.