Jerome Keeonta Corley

Deadly force

DEA agents posing as Los Zetas cartel members conducted a sting that implicated eight current and former U.S. servicemembers in a drug running, arms dealing and contract-killing scheme. The leader was so enthusiastic he bought a knife especially to carve a Z into his target's chest. When the trap was sprung at an unnamed warehouse on the north side of Laredo, Corley, a cousin of the leader, was the only casualty. The others received federal indictments.