{"id":2358194,"date":"2024-10-22T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-vows-retribution-after-marine-veteran-murdered-in-mexico-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T01:47:28","slug":"vance-vows-retribution-after-marine-veteran-murdered-in-mexico-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-vows-retribution-after-marine-veteran-murdered-in-mexico-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance vows retribution after Marine veteran murdered in Mexico &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-vows-retribution-after-marine-veteran-murdered-in-mexico-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican vice presidential\u2063 nominee J.D. Vance recently made strong statements at a\u200c rally \u200din Tucson, Arizona, \u2063promising to hold\u200c accountable the\u200c cartel believed to be responsible for the murder of Marine veteran\u200c Nicholas Douglas\u2062 Quets \u200bin Mexico. Quets \u2063was killed while traveling with \u200cfriends to Puerto Pe\u00f1asco, \u200dand his family expressed frustration at \u2064the lack of communication from U.S. officials in the days \u200dfollowing his death. Vance,\u2062 speaking directly to Quets&#8217; family, assured \u200cthem that &#8220;calvary is coming&#8221; and vowed that, under a \u200bTrump presidency, action would be taken against the cartel. Quets was a 31-year-old dedicated employee of Pima\u2062 County and a sixth-generation \u2064service member\u2063 with a strong military \u2063family background. \u2064His father called for \u200ba thorough investigation and prosecution of\u2062 those responsible, emphasizing the need for significant attention from\u2062 the U.S. government in light of the tragedy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance vows to &lsquo;kick the cartel&rsquo;s asses&rsquo; after learning of Marine veteran murdered in Mexico<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1835328\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) vowed before the family of murdered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Marine<\/a> veteran Nicholas Douglas Quets to &ldquo;kick the cartel&rsquo;s asses&rdquo; believed to be responsible for the Arizonan&rsquo;s murder in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mexico<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking to a rally crowd in Tucson Tuesday, where Quets had lived and worked until being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3198972\/family-federal-investigation-marine-veteran-murdered-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>gunned down<\/a> in his pickup truck Friday evening, Vance said he had just spoken with the father and brother-in-law of the Marine. Vance is also a retired Marine.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To the family of Nicholas &hellip; here is my solemn promise to you, while you&rsquo;ve been ignored by your own government for the last four days, in the midst of this unbelievable tragedy, I promise you that calvary is coming,&rdquo; Vance said to raucous applause. &ldquo;And when Donald Trump is president, we&rsquo;re going to kick the cartel&rsquo;s asses, and we&rsquo;re going to do it for you and for every person in this room.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3198972\/family-federal-investigation-marine-veteran-murdered-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>first to speak with<\/a> Quets&rsquo;s father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas, Quets and his brother-in-law, retired Air Force Capt. Phil Sweet, Tuesday afternoon, when they disclosed that they had not heard from any U.S. elected official in the four days since Quets&rsquo;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Marine veteran was killed on Friday, Oct. 18 while driving with friends to the Mexican beach town of Puerto Pe&ntilde;asco, according to his family. Puerto Pe&ntilde;asco is roughly 50 miles southwest of the Arizona-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Quets worked for Pima County, home to Tucson, and had gotten off work around 2 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happening-now-california-trump-supporters-take-over-huntington-beach-pier-to-protest-curfew-videos\/\" title=\"HAPPENING NOW: California Trump Supporters Take Over Huntington Beach Pier to Protest Curfew (VIDEOS)\">local time<\/a> when he went home and then drove southeast to Nogales, a town on the Arizona-Mexico border. He picked up friends to come along for the trip. He last spoke with his father Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nicholas Douglas Quets (R) pictured with his father Warren Douglas Quets, Jr., (L) snorkeling on a family trip in&nbsp;September 2010. Courtesy image shared with the Washington Examiner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Warren Douglas Quets, Jr., described his son as an &ldquo;avid outdoorsman&rdquo; who enjoyed a variety of ocean activities and was a &ldquo;stand-up guy, doing the right things.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Quets&rsquo;s father received a call at 12:30 a.m. Saturday informing from the regional U.S. Consulate in Mexico, which informed him that his son had been killed while driving earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">significantly longer route driving west<\/a> through Arizona to the Lukeville border crossing into Mexico, Quets and his friends took a route that was shorter but entirely through a remote part of the Mexican state of Sonora.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot: Google Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quets&rsquo;s vehicle was ambushed by another vehicle, according to information shared by Quets&rsquo;s family and a general&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fgjesonora\/status\/1847504435922022733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;by the officials in Sonora. The family members said that based on information shared thus far, a criminal organization known as a cartel is believed to be behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have seen some pictures of my son&rsquo;s truck. I haven&rsquo;t seen any pictures of my son,&rdquo; the father said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics and police who arrived on scene were not able to revive Quets, who was fatally shot while seated in the driver&rsquo;s seat. The truck&rsquo;s glass window behind the driver&rsquo;s seat was riddled with bullet holes. Police on scene recovered Quets&rsquo;s cellphone&nbsp;and wallet. His father said his money was still in the wallet, untouched.<\/p>\n<p>The friends who traveled with Quets were not harmed and were left behind on site by the vehicle that ambushed them.<\/p>\n<p>Quets is a sixth-generation service member whose family has more than a century of time served in the military combined as active-duty and reserve time, as well as federal service.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A U.S. military veteran transiting Mexico was executed and four days into this and no official, outside of the consulate in Mexico, has made any effort to contact us or provide us with an update of what&rsquo;s happening,&rdquo; said Quets. &ldquo;What we want is an investigation and prosecution within the United States. We want the U.S. to take over the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If my case for my son is not worthy of the highest level of attention from the U.S. government then what is?&rdquo; said Quets. &ldquo;My end game for this is that this gets turned over to the U.S. and extradited, incarcerated here. There was more than one person on the site &hellip; and I need all those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city\/\" title=\"Gov. Andrew Cuomo Pleads With Citizens To Return To New York City\">people coming back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fgjesonora\/status\/1847504435922022733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/van-orden-accuses-rnc-protester-of-assault-in-political-violence-incident-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Van Orden accuses RNC protester of assault in political violence incident - Washington Examiner\">district attorney&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s office for the Mexican state of Sonora, where the shooting occurred, stated that it was searching for the individuals responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The family expects to receive Quets&rsquo;s remains Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department confirmed Quets&rsquo;s death in Mexico and extended deepest condolences to Quets&rsquo;s loved ones and family.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mexican government has taken over the local law enforcement investigation, but Warren Douglas Quets said it needs to be led by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It has to go and be prosecuted through the U.S. attorney general. And I&rsquo;m not going to stop until that&rsquo;s occurred,&rdquo; said Quets. &ldquo;If we go down there and exert pressure, we can solve this very quickly. It&rsquo;s just got to be made important enough.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1835328\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1835328\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance promises to confront cartels after Marine veteran&#8217;s murder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2358196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/jd-vance-rally-arizona.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13409,40073,5370,7202,15469],"class_list":["post-2358194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-retribution","tag-marine-veteran","tag-mexico","tag-murdered","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/jd-vance-rally-arizona.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}