Several years ago I was staying at a hotel in a small New Mexican town I used to live in.

This area is heavily populated with brutal gang members who traffic heroin from Mexico out into the rest of the United States.

I’d dealt with the gangs in the past as a security consultant and bodyguard and knew what they were capable of.

Around 1am, I was suddenly awakened from a sound sleep by a piercing scream in the hallway followed by a man’s voice yelling.

I jumped up and looked through my door’s peephole but couldn’t see anything in the hallway in front of my door.

When I heard the second scream, I slowly and cautiously opened my door and peeked out into the hallway to see a young man slapping a woman around and pulling her by her hair back into their hotel room, quickly closing the door. (more…)