The order was chilling: pay cash to take down a top U.S. border chief.<\/p>\n
A Latin Kings gang member, in the country illegally, allegedly put a bounty on<\/p>\n
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino \u2014 and thought Snapchat would keep it secret.<\/p>\n
Federal investigators say the threat against Chief Gregory Bovino was not an isolated burst of online bravado,<\/p>\n
but part of a growing pattern that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem now calls \u201cunprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n
When a confidential source tipped authorities on October 3, 2025,<\/p>\n
ICE\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations unit quickly traced the Snapchat messages to Juan Espinoza Martinez in Burr Ridge, Illinois.<\/p>\n
The screenshots showed a $2,000 bounty for tracking Bovino and a $10,000 payout \u201cif you take him down,\u201d<\/p>\n
with the ominous tag \u201cLK\u2026on him,\u201d signaling Latin Kings involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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