Mexican drug cartels are allegedly enrolling kids through online platforms, especially through contacts made via multiplayer video games, the Associated Press reported, quoting Mexico officials. Assistant Public Safety Security Ricardo Mejía Berdeja on Wednesday raised a warning for all parents asking them to check up on their children after cases of such recruitment emerged in the country. The warning came about after Mexican authorities nabbed three teen boys between 11 to 14 after the latter was paid to buy bus tickets by a drug cartel operator.
Adding details about the case Deputy Security Chief Berdeja said, “The cartel recruiter had already brought bus tickets for three boys.” Luckily, the young boys were located before they could board an outbound bus from a southern state of Oaxaca, the Associated Press reported. These children met the recruiter on the online gaming…
