Wetback Booked Into Jail for Killing White Student During THC Vape Canister Drug Deal

Juan Antonio Cardenas.

What was this student thinking, meeting up with three shifty beaners by himself?

If he was getting $1,500 out of this one deal, he could have at least paid for a bodyguard or something.

Dallas News:

The man who fatally shot an 18-year-old former Highland Park High School student during a January drug deal is in custody, authorities said.

Juan Antonio Cardenas, 19, was booked into the Dallas County Jail on Dec. 19 on a charge of capital murder.

Police wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit that Cardenas was one of three people who robbed Joseph Pintucci at gunpoint the night of Jan. 24 in a parking garage at The Shops at Park Lane in northeast Dallas.

Officers found Pintucci about 10:15 p.m., slumped over in the driver’s seat of a white Lincoln sedan near Dick’s Sporting Goods. He had been shot, and he died later at a hospital.

According to the affidavit, Pintucci had met with Cardenas, 24-year-old Rene Eduardo Montanez Jr. and a third person to sell about 50 THC vape canisters — worth about $1,500. As they negotiated a price, the trio all pulled guns on Pintucci, police said.

Rene Eduardo Montanez Jr.

The unidentified person grabbed the cartridges, which were in a Crown Royal whisky bag, and Cardenas fired a single shot at Pintucci as the three ran away, police said. A witness reported seeing them laughing as they fled.

Two days after the slaying, police arrested Montanez on a capital murder charge.

Joseph Pintucci.