Thanks to the housing crisis and an increase in foreclosures, Texas homeowners have yet another worry to keep them up at night. The Mexican drug cartel's presence could be increasing in leafy North Texas neighborhoods. A Dallas County constable says he has helped both the Dallas Police and the DEA take down 40 drug homes in peaceful, middle- to upper-class north Dallas neighborhoods in the last three years.
"They'll do whatever it takes to get into your neighborhood and hide," says Constable Ben Adamcik.
The tanking Mexican economy is driving the drug cartels north to Texas, says Adamcik, where they are getting great deals on foreclosed homes and hiding inside nice neighborhoods where no one would ever suspect drug activity. That's where police are going in to find huge caches of high-powered weapons, bullet proof vests, silencers, and pounds of cocaine, ecstasy, ice, and marijuana for major drug profits.
Not all the operations are Mexican cartels; Adamcik has shut down domestic operations as well that were so well organized one was harvesting marijuana in three houses, and had a "harvest#mini_module
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