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Saturday, July 25, 2026

The "crystal-like substance" the FBI found inside the van of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo " the 52-year-old who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston earlier this month " was not an illicit drug, according to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, the Harris County District Attorney's Office and a lawyer representing Salgado Araujo's brother. "We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado's van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance," Garcia said on social media, without revealing the source of the information. "As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado's name has failed."

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Last week, the FBI, in an affidavit seeking a search warrant, wrote that an agent spotted plastic bags inside Salgado Araujo's van and suspected that they contained methamphetamine.

FBI Special Agent David McNeilly, who filed the search warrant application, wrote in the affidavit the three "small clear plastic bags are consistent with how users of drugs package controlled substances for distribution, manufacturing, and possession."

The application for the search warrant was made public a day after it was filed in court on Tuesday " unusually fast for federal agents, who don't typically publicize such information before a search has been completed.

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The regime requires a substantial force of poorly trained, badly led, roided-up, violent thugs more than willing to do its lying and killing. They even have a blueprint - youtu.be - albeit one with far nicer uniforms. But, then, those guys had Hugo Boss in the design shop, not Junior's recycled hunting costumes.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-25 12:24 PM | Reply

FBI Special Agent David McNeilly is another malpariso the next administration must deal with on 20 Jan 2029.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-25 12:49 PM | Reply

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