Criminal mastermind
As his empire grew larger, his name made it higher up the list of the most sought-after criminals in the world. In September 2012, as he waited on a drug shipment from a Colombian drug kingpin in Liberia, Le Roux told him about his strict code of conduct, and how he would not hesitate to end the life of any employee that crossed him.
“You get caught doing anything, remember: You keep your mouth shut,” he said. There were those, he added, who “get afraid in jail and then they think that the government is going to help them. They think the government is their best friend…What’s going to happen when you get out, you make the deal? You think we’re going to forget about you?” Unknown to Le Roux, the supposed head of the Colombian drug cartel was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), who had mounted an elaborate sting operation to net the elusive programmer turned criminal mastermind.
Eight years later, in the midst of a global Covid-19 pandemic, Le Roux would be slapped with 25 years in jail for all his crimes, with his sentence mitigated by the fact that he assisted the DEA, helping them haul in some of his dangerous lieutenants.
“The violence in this case was wrong, and I am sorry for this,” Le Roux wrote in a letter to Judge Ronnie Abrams. “I accept full responsibility for my actions. I have blood on my hands.”
Although unconvinced by his late show of remorse, saying that there was “no question in my mind that Paul Calder Le Roux deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison,” Judge Abrams still gave Le Roux a lesser sentence.
“If judges don’t give cooperating witnesses a significant benefit at sentencing,” she said, “the criminal justice system will suffer, fewer people will be willing to cooperate.”
The ruling brought to an end Le Roux’s blockbuster criminal career, bringing to a close a run that made him one of the most infamous criminals born, and partly bred, in Bulawayo.
At his arrest and sentencing, more than a few lungs around the globe might have heaved a hefty sigh or two in relief. One of them was his cousin, Matthew Smith, whose house in Zimbabwe Le Roux had firebombed after a dispute over money in 2008.
“It’s closure to a long hard journey for everyone involved. Paul is a phenomenon that caused a lot of pain and hurt. Thank you to the brave people who helped end this nightmare,” Smith said.
that Job have you commanded your day that the wicked may be shaken off from your day. In Acts 16 we see Paul and Silas arrested and beaten because of delivering a lady who had a spirit of divination. The bible says at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto the Lord and the other prisoners heard them and there was an earthquake. Their chains fell off and all doors were opened. They understood that their release was captured by the day so they had to command the day.
May the Lord deliver the church from the spirit of slumber. We have slept over our businesses, marriages, ministries there has been a demonic exchange during midnight. As you wake up in the morning, you discover that you harvest that which you did not sow the previous day and you are now carrying dead things. I was shocked when I was reading an article written by a witchdoctor who was saying that any woman who wants to steal her husband, she would deal with them at midnight. She would only need the photo of that person and she would begin to release curses. Just imagine how many witches and wizards who have spoken your name, name of your company or ministry at midnight for evil. Wake up at midnight and resist every force that are being launched against you. May God bless you all.
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