'Mexican' said he'd set cartel on us. We all thought he was taking the mick...

THE Irishman alleged to have played a leading role in the deadly Sinaloa drugs mob used to threaten classmates with the cartel in school in Kerry, it was claimed.

"He used to say he would get the cartels on us," a former classmate of Morris 'Mexican' O'Shea said last night.

"We all thought he was taking the mick," the former schoolmate said - a day after we unmasked O'Shea, 32, as the Irishman alleged to play a key role in the feared narco gang.

Chile cops want to extradite O'Shea to face charges of allegedly trying to establish a cell there for the deadly Sinaloa cartel.

US drugs investigators consider it the biggest cartel in the world - and was once led by narco-terror boss Joaquin Guzman, better known as El Chapo, before he was for life in 2019.

We revealed yesterday that Mexicanborn O'Shea came to Ireland around 2005 with his mother and sister - after his father was killed in a car crash in South America.

The family came to Killorglin in Co Kerry where his father was from.