Detective Javier Lamas is a detective working for the Mexican government in Baja California. He is called "Mexican Lassie" by Shawn and Gus since he bears a striking resemblance to Lassiter. He is revealed to be corrupt after it comes out that he attempted to steal engraving plates that had been stolen from the US Mint and frame Lloyd French for the crime.
Biography[]
Lamas was wanted on both sides of the border for robbery, extortion, and murder. At some point, he ran into Lloyd and learned of his gambling habits and his tendencies to leave without paying his debts. He also started an affair with two of his female coworkers behind his wife's back.
No Country for Two Old Men[]
Lamas sends two of his henchmen after Lloyd French to retrieve the engraving plates, but Lloyd manages to make his way to an airfield to get to Baja California, along with Henry who was dragged into his little adventure. After Henry and Lloyd arrive in Mexico to deliver a set of cufflinks to Pablo Nuñez, they are arrested by Detective Lamas and the Border Patrol. Expecting to see the engraving plates, he opens the package that Lloyd is carrying only to find the cufflinks which originally belonged to Pablo's father.
Shawn, Gus, and Juliet arrive to his police station to look for Henry and Lloyd. At first, Lamas is uncooperative and skeptical of Shawn's abilities, but when Shawn has a 'vision' and reveals that Lamas is having a dalliance with two of his coworkers behind his wife's back, Lamas tells them that he had Lloyd and Henry arrested when he believed that they were delivering engraving plates to Pablo Nuñez but released them once he learned the truth. He gives Shawn his business card to contact him if he finds probable cause for them to search his compound. When Nuñez takes Lloyd and Henry to Las Gravedas, a desert where he kills his victims, to make them dig their own graves after Lloyd tries to steal the engraving plates, Shawn, Gus, and Juliet catch up with them and Shawn texts Lamas. His men are able to infiltrate Nuñez's compound, arrest him and his men, and recover the engraving plates.
After Lloyd leaves to return the plane he used to cross the border into Mexico, his men capture Lloyd and send him back to Las Gravedas to make him dig his own grave, again. Upon returning to the Santa Barbara, Shawn is able to deduce that Lamas is corrupt and wanted to use the plates for himself and frame Lloyd for the crime. Shawn, Gus, Juliet, Henry, and the FBI return in time to stop his men. One of the henchmen shoots Lloyd in the chest before fleeing, but he Lloyd survives because he has been wearing a bullet-proof vest since his arrival in Mexico. It can be assumed that Lamas was arrested afterwards.
Trivia[]
- His first name is revealed to be "Javier" by one of the coworkers he is having an affair with before she fights with the other.
- Juliet says that Lamas reminds her of Erik Estrada, an American actor and police officer of Puerto Rican descent.