Breitbart-
WASHINGTON — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuesday evening that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) provided actionable intelligence to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials to successfully capture a boss of the Sinaloa Cartel Plaza known as “El Pato.”
“We will not allow cartel gangs who target Americans to roam freely, whether in the U.S. or across the border in Mexico. Our team at NCTC is on the watch preparing for the moment to strike,” Gabbard said in a Tuesday evening statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release. “For more than two decades, NCTC has led the Intelligence Community in synchronizing information that can be turned into actionable intelligence for operators around the world to act on to go after those who threaten the safety and security of the American people. Now, thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we are surging resources against cartels and gang leadership, disrupting their networks, and working alongside our Mexican partners to make communities safer and protect American lives.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which Gabbard leads, announced on Tuesday the arrest of Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Boss Leonardo Daniel Martinez Vera, who also known as “El Pato,” in Juarez, Mexico, on October 15, 2025, stemming from U.S. intelligence officials at the NCTC helping authorities locate him. The release states that El Pato is “allegedly responsible for leading a wide range of illicit activities, including drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and murder.”
The ODNI release notes that the NCTC provided “timely and accurate location information to Mexican authorities” as the Mexican law enforcement officials “raided two houses of interest in search of El Pato.” more here
El Pato means the duck in Spanish. Obviously, this cartel Sinaloa crime boss didn’t duck very well when he was caught. He’s one very unlucky duck, put him away in a supermax prison forever or better yet execute him.
geoff, or as we used to say, “F*ck a duck!”
(I still say that if something becomes unrepairable.)
Get these Kingpins first then it will be easier to grab up the next level down etc. etc. as they fight with each other to climb their Food Chain while exposing themselves in the process.
In HS back in the late 60’s we used to yell at opposing HS football and basketball teams that they sucked ducks or blew goats. And it was mutual they would also yell it back at us.
Now do something to stop bosses from running cartels from federal prisons.
Vance/Gabbard 2028
Tulsi is a Babe………
Well son of a bitch, there goes that 10% for the Big Guy. Democrat and Republican establishment politicians better tighten their belts, shits starting to get real.
And they got The Duck outta there!
Tulsi is such a class act. PDJT couldn’t have picked someone better. Sure, someone might have been more experienced and the like, but Tulsi has character and backbone. She’s the one, alright.