{"id":12505,"date":"2026-01-17T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:24:36","slug":"latino-gang-banger-busted-in-alleged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=12505","title":{"rendered":"Latino Gang Banger Busted In Alleged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order was chilling: pay cash to take down a top U.S. border chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Latin Kings gang member, in the country illegally, allegedly put a bounty on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino \u2014 and thought Snapchat would keep it secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal investigators say the threat against Chief Gregory Bovino was not an isolated burst of online bravado,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but part of a growing pattern that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem now calls \u201cunprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a confidential source tipped authorities on October 3, 2025,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations unit quickly traced the Snapchat messages to Juan Espinoza Martinez in Burr Ridge, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The screenshots showed a $2,000 bounty for tracking Bovino and a $10,000 payout \u201cif you take him down,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with the ominous tag \u201cLK\u2026on him,\u201d signaling Latin Kings involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order was chilling: pay cash to take down a top U.S. border chief. A Latin Kings gang member, in the country illegally, allegedly put a bounty on Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino \u2014 and thought Snapchat would keep it secret. Federal investigators say the threat against Chief Gregory Bovino was not an isolated burst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12507,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions\/12507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}