Former D.O.J. Special Agent Steve Duncan describes David Barron and his Assassin [25:16-30:18]

Two. So remember, number one is how they became the middle chingon chief assassin for the AFO. David, David, David, David was tasked by Ramona Rianos Felix to kill certain people that were going against the Adianos Felix organization to locate and kill anybody. Associated with their rivals, Chappel Luzman, Miles Ambada, Amaro Corrillo, Weddle Phama. So there were, you know, once there was a war between the Adianos and Chappel Luzman. And it was over a personal thing that happened in the mid 80s. And the Adianos at the time couldn't do anything about it because Chappel's associate was hooked up with some very heavy people. And so they waited till they took control of Tijuana and that this individual Ria Lopez showed up at Miles Ambada's birthday party at Club Britannica 1990. And Ramona got the okay from that Humming and executed him out in front. So that was an old beef, basically Ria Lopez stole an adina from the ranch in Sinaloa when she was a teenager back in the early 80s. And they saw it as a rape situation and they couldn't do anything really about it. They did report it to the police. But they waited, they bided their time, but they don't forget the Adianos, they don't forget who has crossed them. And if you're part of the family, that's crossed them, they'll kill you too. And so that's just the way they ruled by terror. And when Ria showed up to Miles Ambada's birthday party at the Iberianos for throwing form at Tijuana, they killed them. And so that started the war between Chapel Guzmán and the Adianos. They tried to have meetings to iron things out, but they were both so bloodthirsty, they kept trying to kill each other. And eventually the Adianos were at war with everybody with all the other cartels in the Mexican Federation, the Juarez cartel, the Sinaloa cartel. And so it was them against everybody else. Christine's was a turning point, just like the murder of Kiki Camarena was a turning point in 1985, that caused the arrest of the La Familia cartel and never based in Guadalajara, Born in Sinaloa. It was a turning point. They had to geographically split their organization. And they got along, they still got along, although they were geographically split, they were still the Federation. But 1992, when Chapel attempted to kill the Adianos, Felix Brother and their brass that Christine's discotech in Puerto Vallarta, that sealed the war between the Adianos and Mayo and Chapel. And so David became that guy that saved the Adianos at Christine's discotech. He was there as an enforcer. He had done some murders for the Adianos and he had done it well and very efficiently. And so when he saved their butts at Christine's discotech, when the dust settled, Ben Hamine took him aside and said, you're my guy, you're going to have my enforcement squads because obviously I'm at war with Chapel and Mayo. They're taking his side and eventually Model Correo did, you know, Wettelbaum. And so they had to beef up security and David was the guy to do that. They gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars to recruit brave people like him. And so he recruited from the Logan Heights gang, the gang that he was from. He also recruited from the Mexican Mafia and he also recruited from, you know, good Mexican Mafia soldiers that he and others close to him had met in the prison system. Wow. And you kind of led into the next question is just the fact that, you know, how did David, but on influence and convinced the other people he just mentioned, you know, the Logan Heights members to cross the border actually worked for the, for the AFO and then become paid secarios and assassins for them. I mean, just the fact that you could say he was charismatic at one point, you knew how to talk to people. Is that what he used to convince him to go south or was it that the, that the AFO was paying a lot of money at the time? You know, it's all of those things, Jello.