many people over the preceding three years. So he called the American police in Laredo and said he had information for them. He was back in the United States within forty-eight hours. “I didn’t want to die, I didn’t want my family to die, for a mistake that was made when I was thirteen years old,” he says. “I didn’t get caught. I turned myself in . . . Ain’t nobody caught me, no cops went into arrest me. I turned myself in. I just wanted all this to stop . . . I don’t want to live that life anymore. I couldn’t keep on going like that.” He made the right call. Years later, as court evidence,
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