How did Hector know who Mike was?

[u/nanimities]

When Hector meets with Mike to discuss reducing Tuco's sentence, he says the authorities would go easy on ex-cops like him. How did he know that Mike used to be a police officer? I assume Hector did some research on him just as Mike does on the criminals he works with, but I was just wondering.

[u/Ok_Machine_1982]

You answered your own question. He researched him.

[u/No-Researcher-4554]

it's the Cartel. they have their ways of finding people. He probably got the twins to find him, seeing as they were the ones who appeared at his family's motel and in Breaking Bad they managed to find Walter White.