13-year-olds arrested in death of DEA agent

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Two boys, both 13, have been arrested in connection with the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in an apparent bungled robbery attempt, Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez announced Sunday.

DEA Special Agent Timothy Markey was shot to death on Friday while on vacation visiting a popular Roman Catholic shrine in Tegucigalpa.

FBI and DEA agents helped Honduran authorities track down the two suspects, who police describe as seasoned gang members.

The jailed suspects were identified as Erlan Colindres, who has escaped three times from correctional centers, and his bodyguard Manuel Romero.

"They are dangerous offenders, despite their young ages," said Alvarez at a news conference.

Honduran authorities are struggling to combat high rates of violent crime, much of it involving ruthless youth gangs, known as "maras," concentrated in urban areas.

The Mara Salvatrucha and rival Mara 18 have about 100,000 members and control poor neighborhoods in Honduras' principal cities using violence, threats and extortion.

President Ricardo Maduro, whose own son was kidnapped and killed in 1997, took office in 2002 promising to eliminate such gangs, but the groups have proven to be resilient.

On a two-day break in the Honduran capital, Markey took a cab from his hotel to visit the Basilica of Suyapa, a shrine to the country's patron saint, where he was confronted by two assailants, according to testimony from his taxi driver.

Shot twice, Markey was rushed to a nearby public hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police tracked the suspects down in the Nueva Suyapa neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

Colindres had taken refuge in a gang house nicknamed "Little Hell" by neighbors, authorities said.

Police found a gun buried under the dirt floor of the residence.

Markey began his DEA service in September 1989 and was assigned to the General Watch Unit at the El Paso Intelligence Center in El Paso, Texas, at the time of his death.

Honduran authorities said the U.S. agent had been training Honduran police involved in drug interdiction efforts.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press

this is what happens to kids that dont have video games and computers..... they go bad and start shooting people...

I KNOW, THEY SHOULD HAVE SOMTHING TO BLOW OFF STEEM.

Holy shit!!! I've never heard of anything like that happening before I wonder what the hell made them do it?

Shit, bad news. There was another terrible indicent that happened in this country a few months ago, if I'm not mistaken.

It sucks that shit like that happens in third world countries.

Yeah, the 3rd world countries are alot worse than the more advanced richer ones.

and that my friend is what makes them a 3rd world country..lol

COME TO SAN ANTONIO...STUPID SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS HERE ALL THE TIME.

THEY SHOULD JUST EXECUTE THESE TWO LITTLE FUCKS.....AND WHILE THEY'RE AT IT.....INVITE ALL OF THEIR FRIENDS TO COME HUNG OUT AND EXECUTE THEM AS WELL.

yeah that would be funny

and do it on tv as well would be a bonus

well fuk it just ppv the event and make it a party









(sorry everyone...was just testing the SUAD post count method) lol

seems to really help out alot.

LOL.....MAN......STOP RIPPING ME OFF.


I BELIEVE IT WAS THE GREAT GEORGE CARLIN WHO SAID SOMETHING ABOUT TELEVISED EXECUTIONS AND PPV A FEW YEARS BACK.

ppv shit is long over due.........and public punnishment as well.......


motivation to not break the law is so feeble most do it cuz to get in jail is better where they are now....


lotta things we outta adopt to give that lil kick in the ass to the wanna be thugs.lol

THIS KINDA SHIT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE NOT JUST IN3RD WORLD COUNTRIES BUT IN OUR OWN BACK YARD ON A DAILY BASIS.

NO SHIT.....MAN, THEY'RE FUCKING EVERYWHERE IN THIS TOWN. LIKE THE DAMN PLAGUE.....SOMEONE SET OF THE PSUEDO-MACHO, CHEWIE PERSONIFIED, UBER TOUGH GANGSTA CLOWN ALARM OFF AND THEY ALL CAME HERE. I SAW PROBABLY 12 OF THOSE GUYS IN MY STORE LAST NIGHT ALONE, AND THAT'S ON THE GOOD SIDE OF TOWN.