Jacob Diaz

Hanging with the four decapitated bodies was a narcomanta, a banner which stated, This is what happens to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villarreal.

I was sick about that, says Diaz.

I liked Aviles, a lot.

But Ole said I had to get used to losing people.

It happens a lot in drug trafficking.

Later that month, on August 30, 2010, Valdez Villarreal La Barbe was captured by the federal police near Mexico City.

Five months later, on January 18, 2011, Jose Jorge Baltras Garza, aka JJ, the lieutenant and chief financial operator of Barbie's faction, was also captured.

Diaz and Ole arrived in the parking lot of a Target outside Orlando as the Florida sun scorched the asphalt.

They were early for the meeting with Domingo Mingo Rodriguez, Ole's cousin by marriage.

The DEA had recently collapsed Garza's operation, and Mingo, who had worked directly with Garza, was handing off his Ocala customers to Ole and Diaz and returning to Mexico.

Mingo introduced Ole and Diaz to a couple of black drug dealers, brothers he'd been working with.

Nathaniel and Casey Shuler had been distributing 20 to 30 kilos per month for nearly a year.

While standing in the parking lot, the men discussed prices, $29,000 per kilo, and quantity.

We started them off with 10 kilos on consignment, pronounces Diaz.

They wanted as many as we could come up with.

Before the meeting ended, Nate made a comment regarding one of their brothers.

He said his brother was the black sheep of the family.

He was a lieutenant at the federal prison just outside of Ocala.

The first deal went smooth.

The brother took possession of the product, and a week later, they handed over the cash.