U.S. teen admits to beheading 4 for Mexico drug gang | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

U.S. teen admits to beheading 4 for Mexico drug gang | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "Mexican troops captured a 14-year-old U.S. citizen said to have specialized in beheadings as an assassin for one of Mexico's most vicious drug gangs. His pay: $2,500 a killing.
Soldiers detained Edgar Jimenez late Thursday at an airport outside Cuernavaca, 50 miles south of Mexico City, as he prepared to board a flight to Tijuana. Officials said he was accompanied by a sister and was heading to his native San Diego, where his mother lives.
Presented to the news media Friday morning, Jimenez said he had beheaded at least four adversaries of the so-called South Pacific Cartel, a remnant of the Beltran Leyva crime syndicate. The small, mop-haired boy known as El Ponchis, or 'The Stoner,' said he committed the killings while stoned on marijuana and at the orders of the gang boss in command of the Cuernavaca area. Authorities said he was caught with two cell phones that held photographs of tortured victims.
'I didn't know what I was doing,' Jimenez said, according to media accounts, but added that he was paid $2,500 per killing. Army officials accused Jimenez's sister, identified as 19-year-old Elizabeth, of also working for the gang. Neither has been formerly charged.
Jimenez said he was sorry to have gotten involved both with Mexican gangsters and with killing people. If he beats the charges, he said, he'll change his ways.
'I didn't join,' he said of his gangland career, which reportedly began when he was 12. 'They pulled me in.'"