The Fall of Francisco Javier Guerra - Part II

 

Many called Fran Guerra "the Snowman" or "Mr. Snow." It was, after all, his artificial snow machine that put him on the map. The TimesDaily is calling him "Mr. Torres," seemingly not understanding family name protocol in Latin countries. Yet his associates say he was nothing if not Anglicized in his attempts to get ahead in business.

After his snow machine, other inventions followed, along with a long chain of marriages. Enemies and detractors also came with the lifestyle. We asked a highly placed citizen from Eastern Lauderdale County to give an objective opinion. This is what we received:

...always acting like he had SO much money and SO many businesses and had all this power. But not one single time have I ever witnessed him contributing any of those riches to help the school, the town, the fire dept, the senior citizens, the band, or any civic group.....NEVER!!! Not one thing. He always talked like I should know where he has been and all the magical things he has been doing. The only thing I ever heard of him doing is marrying one girl after the next and it lasting 3-6 months and boom, they are divorced. I think he has been married at least 6 times, maybe 7. Hello, red flag anyone?? 

He has always drawn red flags around everyone that I know of that he has approached about doing business. He is a fast talker, always trying to get you to agree with whatever he is saying and buy into his ideas. But whenever outside of town and his name comes up, the first question people ask is "you don't have anything to do with him, do you?" and they have this frightened look on their face, like....scary man!!!

We all knew there would come a day of reckoning for old Fran, the snowman. We just didn't know that all of these agencies were watching him and evidently been watching for a long long time. There is no way the FBI, the ABI, the Department of Homeland Security. US Marshals, AND the Department of Defense all zeros in on a business in small little Lexington without there being some major issues going on at a very very serious level. To have the US Marshals take your butt to Huntsville to process you for arrest should scare anyone to death. Not big Fran, he denies and claims that it was nothing to worry about....apparently they got the wrong guy. He was set up.

It will be very interesting to follow the legal maneuvering in this case...