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Detective Jake Kartchner with the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office border unit, stands at the U.S.–Mexico border fence that was slated to be replaced with a 30-foot fence before President Joe Biden halted all border wall construction in January 2021, in Cochise County, Ariz., on Dec. 6, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—The more effective Sheriff Mark Dannels’s border team is, the more it disrupts the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel’s operations.
Recently, the cartel put a hit out on Dannels’s top border guys, the Cochise County sheriff said. His county sits in southeast Arizona and shares 83 miles of remote desert land with Mexico.