A high school basketball and track team coach died when he and his brother-in-law attempted to rob a Mexican drug cartel stash house in North Carolina.
Police say Barney Harris and his brother-in-law Steven Stewart Jr. used cell phone apps to pinpoint the locations of the Sinaloa New Generation Cartel stash houses.
Authorities say Harris lived a double life. He coached high school basketball while moonlighting to steal money and drugs from cartels.
Harris (left) and Stewart (right) apparently targeted the cartels because their members are unlikely to call the police when they are robbed.
Unfortunately, the cartel members had more firepower and a gunfight ensued when Harris and Alexander broke into the mobile home in the early morning hours of April 8.
Harris’s bullet-riddled body was found in one of the bedrooms. His bulletproof vest offered little protection against the cartel’s high-powered arsenal.
The high school where Harris coached basketball and taught Spanish honored him with a memorial page. However, the page was removed when the circumstances surrounding Harris’s death were revealed.
