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Report: Police Blotter Confirms Laredo Ranch Story Was Not A Hoax



Aug 11, 2010 23 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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The Examiner:

By Kimberly Dvorak

After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch.

Think about it for a moment.

One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner.

Intimidation has arrived along the southern border.

The police blotter tells the story of the events that unfolded on July 23rd;

“On Friday 7-23-10 Laredo Webb informed that their county SWAT Team is conducting an operation in the Mines Rd. area. According to LT. Garcia with LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) received a call from a ranch owner stating that the Zetas had taken over his ranch. As per the 17 (reporting person) he informed them that they stated La Compania (area name for Zetas) was taking the ranch and no one was permitted on the ranch without permission. SO (Sheriff Office) will have an unmarked green Ford Taurus with two officers stationed at Los Compadres and a white Chevy Tahoe with two officers stationed at Mineral Rd. The LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) will maintain surveillance in the area and advise if action is taken. Susp (suspect) Veh (vehicle) are described as a gray or silver Audi, a BLK (black) Escalade or Navigator and a van truck with a logo of a car wash spot free on the side. Border Patrol also has their response team on scene. Also known info of BMW’s and Corvettes entering and leaving the area. Auth LT Lichtenberger if assistance is requested LPD (Laredo Police Department) will secure the outer perimeter. (07/24/10 07:42:10 NR1873)”

Cartels have crossed the sovereign borders of the United States causing multiple agencies to respond and the end result was a media blackout. It’s well documented that media blackouts in Mexico are happening because the cartels are threatening reporters and news outlets with bodily harm. The question is why American law enforcement agencies are giving reporters the “We can neither confirm nor deny the incident happened line?”

It was a law enforcement officer on the scene that also confirmed the incident in fact happened and officers on the ground said they “considered this an act of war.”

The cover-up surrounding this story has reverberated throughout other federal law enforcement agencies. A recently retired ICE veteran, John Sakelarides had plenty to say about the latest U.S. incursion.

“What do you call an invasion by foreign nationals who are armed and occupy territory belonging to a sovereign nation? An act of war. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Anyone who is denying this is what has occurred and that it constitutes an act of war is either an idiot or is somehow involved in this act of war.”

He continues to say, “If they (those covering-up the story) are elected representatives or government officials and they are aware that an act of war has been perpetrated against the United States, and refuse to admit it has occurred, much less do anything about it, is violating their oath of office.”

The approximate location of the U.S. ranch taken by the Zetas was 10 miles northwest of I-35 off Mines Road and Minerales Annex Road.

The Los Zetas drug cartel is an offshoot of the elite Mexican military trained in special ops, many of whom were trained by the U.S. military. The mercenary organization is said to include members of corrupt Mexican Federales, politicians as well as drug traffickers. The group was once part of the Gulf cartel, but has splintered and now directly competes with the Gulf cartel for premium drug smuggling routes in the Texas region.

The leader of Los Zetas cartel is Heriberto “El Lazca” Lazcano and the Zetas are considered the most violent paramilitary group in Mexico by the DEA. These drug cartels routinely kidnap tourists, infiltrate local municipalities and smuggle large quantities of narcotics into the U.S. marketplace.

A media firestorm ensued after this reporter posted a story on Saturday July 24, 2010. Now that the story is corroborated, it will be up to local media to track down what events took place after the Zetas seized a U.S ranch.

Stay tuned for updates reports throughout the week.


  • richwill

    Hussein plays golf and basketball while the country if being invaded. He took an oath to defend the USA, it is time the flop-eared bastard is impeached. Send him and his bitch back to the plantation.

    • Razor

      Don’t kid yourself Rich, this is the perfect opportunity for the Dick-Taster-for-Life to hold a beer bash with these drugged fucks and swap stories about how easy it is to assume office/ take over sovereign property and not even be American.

      Screw impeaching – that costs money the US has been raped of. String the fucker up, just like the Klan used to do to its Uppities.

    • odin2012

      Obama….Lord of lies :gun:

  • Sentinel at the Gate

    I sure hope this somehow hits the cable news circuit for airing, the word needs to get out. Then the questioning can start with;
    1. Who ordered the black-out of this news?
    2. Who gave the order for the police to not take back the ranch(s)?
    3. Did HS officials know about this and when?
    4. What was ICE’s part in this?
    5. What was BP’s part in this?
    6. Who ordered ICE and BP to stand down?

    This really needs to be blown all out of proportion right now to get to the bottom of the complicity of the news media and the government as to what the real impacts of illegal immigration are. No more pussying around when it comes to the border. If the Feds won’t do the job and the states don’t have the manpower to do the job; then get the fuck out of the way and the Patriots will do the job.

    Time to stir the outhouse pit on this one.

  • B. Verner

    The blotter is based entirely on a phone call from a “ranch owner.” It does not detail any members of law enforcement actually verifying that the zetas have taken over a ranch. So I would add:

    7. Is possible this was based on a crank call?

    8. Has anyone actually spoken with the ranch owner?

    9. Has anyone actually spoken with another human being whose eyes saw any of this?

  • Sentinel at the Gate

    Well, well…well. I see Verner is back for another drubbing. Since you’re so well versed at Alinski type counters, I’ll answer your questions for you.

    7 A – If it were a crank call don’t you think the MSM would be all over this as more “right wing conspiracy” against the illegal immigrants. I’m sure Blubberman would be screaming at the top of his lungs if this were a hoax.

    8 A – Probably, but it’s not making any news, is it? Hence the news blackout.

    9 A- Did you not read the blotter report? The local LE was pulled back from action to establish a perimeter around the area? Kinda hard to get eyes on the target when the LE are keeping any civilian far away from the site.

  • B. Verner

    I’m not an Alinskyite. I’m a constitutional conservative.

    7. The original story barely got any play in the MSM – to the extent that it did, the story wasn’t that Zetas had invaded a ranch in Texas, but instead on the sloppy reporting by the woman. Invasion of Texas = big news, sloppy reporting by blogger not big news.

    8. After reading this, I decided to try and find someone who actually spoke to the ranch owner.

    ““The public would be the first to know if anything was going on,” said Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar on Sunday afternoon. “Our deputies went out there and talked to ranch owners in the area and found nothing.”” (Laredo is in Webb county – the Webb County Sheriff’s Office is colloquially referred to as the Laredo Sheriff’s Office).

    http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/officials_dispute_reports_of_ranch_takeover_by_zetas_99211144.html

    The only people I could find that actually spoke to a rancher (I don’t have the articles from the Laredo Morning Express) were the folks at Texas GOP Vote, who found:

    “just spoke with one of the ranchers who had been identified as being a victim in this story. Mr. Hector Farias of Laredo, spoke with me on the phone this morning about this matter. He told me the first he heard of this story was when he was contacted by the FBI. He has owned this ranch for over 30 years and has never had a problem on his ranch regarding illegal immigration or smuggling. He stated he was at his ranch over the weekend and everything was fine there and in the entire area.” (http://texasgopvote.com/blog/update-laredo-rancher-los-zetas-drug-cartel-story-07263)

    9. I’m sure they were doing exactly what they were supposed to do when investigating a threat. But the blotter doesn’t mention whether they actually found a threat or not. Does she have another blotter actually describing what they found?

    Because the next day that same Sheriff’s Office said that they had checked it out and there was no invasion (see the first above link).

    This story makes us look stupid.

  • http://HBCIndy.com Dr. Jerry

    Sentinel…Verner is a plant!

    Read the blotter, it describes a police operation on the scene of a ranch in Laredo, TX…there is no detail because, Police logs do not list detail, under most State Sun Shine Laws they are open and public documents…as little info as possible is listed on them…only enough to pass info on to the next shift and fellow dispatchers. I have read over 23 years worth myself…

    The Laredo Police Department and the Webb County Sheriff’s Department thought enough of the situation to send their SWAT teams to the scene, secure it, and post security in unmarked vehicles along the approaching roads to maintain surveillance for an extended period of time. Yeah…aint nuthin goin on there…Verner…and the rest of you pin headed, cowardly, head in the sand, ignoramous deniers of reality!

    Oh, and Verner…no need to respond to me with some Saul Alinsky-ited paradymed stupidity…I won’t carry on a conversation with you.

    • Sentinel at the Gate

      Dr. Jerry,

      Yes, I know he’s a plant by the deflection he’s always putting up. His responses are very much amateurish and he’s probably working his way up the blogger ladder to more “esteemed” circles like Huff-Puff.

      I’m not LE but career military and know that blotters are just formed from the information reported immediately and not a full reporting process. Further work is what you guys call “investigation”. From a military standpoint the blotter is essentially a “spot report” which would be followed up with a more detailed report, time and situation permitting.

      Vermin’s beef that it was sloppy reporting was also a dead give away as if true reporting is only defined as “Wolf Shitzer” or “Keith Blubberman” type reporting.

      I don’t doubt the authenticity of the report and my questions still stand.

      De Opresso Liber
      Sentinel

  • B. Verner

    I’m not a plant. I just think this story detracts greatly from the actual story we need to tell. We’re starting to cry wolf too much and need to be more disciplined. I’m hardly alone on this – other ‘plants’ like Michelle Malkin feel the same way.

    “Police logs do not list detail, under most State Sun Shine Laws they are open and public documents…as little info as possible is listed on them…only enough to pass info on to the next shift and fellow dispatchers.”

    That’s idiotic. So the dispatcher would include a detail like the van having a “car wash logo” on the side, but omit more important details, for example the fact that the officers have encountered armed men at the ranch?

    “I won’t carry on a conversation with you.”

    Then why are you starting one?

  • Tyler520

    While I will honestly say I doubted this story from the beginning, the police blotter is the first piece of objective evidence I have seen, and I will re-examine the story. However, I do not think it is too much to ask to send a news crew down there – give the People some solid evidence, not hearsay. I do, however, think it has been a little blown out of proportion: the smugglers probably purchased the property outright – it is a common tactic utilized in cities such as Yuma, Tucson, Phoenix, Sierra Vista, etc., just at a bigger, more remote scale: They will purchase 2 or 3 homes in a subdivision, each in close proximity to the others so they can all monitor one another. One house operates as the drop house/storage, one holds the cash, and the other houses the people and weapons. It makes it difficult to pinpoint which properties are involved, and if one gets busted, the others might be safe, or have time to bail out —quite ingenious, actually

  • prestonsbrooks

    Obama keeps pushing the envelope, more and more each day. He’s doing it on purpose. He wants chaos because he IS chaos. What’s the latest? Oh, yeah, he’s sending the NY mosque guy around the world on your dime to promote ‘american’ religion. Next week, another shit sandwich for you, then another. He’s going to do it until the dam breaks. When that happens, he will seize Absolute Power. Alinsky dedicated his book to Satan; Obama is his prohpet. Americans think it can’t happen here. I tell you the devil’s disciple will spill so much blood in this country people will cry for God’s mercy. The Roman Senate is finished. The barbarians are already thru the gate. Night is falling and it won’t be pretty.

  • afitgrad86

    I disagree with the premise this is an act of war … wars are waged between nation-states. This, if verified, is a criminal act to be sure and a definite provocation. But let’s not go to the “act of war” mode just yet … not without evidence that the Mexican Government was involved.

    Just my 2 Cents

  • hank

    I don’t want to go to war with Mexico. JUST BUILD A FUCKING WALL AND DEFEND IT PROPERLY :gun: !!! Enough of this border-crossing Bullshit! :gun: :gun:

    • Bobby E.

      Besides … if the Mexican government with its military and police can’t control what are essentially a bunch of gangstas, it wouldn’t be much of war … even without the use of our military and just ordinary citizens engaged in the fight. It has become obvious that our government is neither going to build a wall or protect the borders. In the end, the American citizens will have to do the job our government can’t and won’t do. By can’t I mean that the resources are available but the leadership is an inept bunch of whining liberals.

  • proud2beaninfidel

    When are we going to get the rest of the complacent, silent, sheeople to wake up and smell the coffee? Time has come and gone for action. What’s next, more car bombings, this time inside El Paso City Limits?

    This BS is condoned by the Annointed One and his corrupt unholy alliance with the Mexican drug cartels. Commerce, comrades, commerce. What’s a little puny desert ranch being another gateway for illegals, REAL terrorists, and more violence on US Soil?

    This is Chicago Thugacracy on Steroids. This is WAR and total sedition warranting full Impeachment proceedings if we can get the damn RINO’s to grow a spine. Talk about a “plant”, how about Scott Brown? And the changeling McCain? Change? I call more BS.

    The time for talk and the tired old rhetoric is OVER. John Wayne is spinning in his grave.

    Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid or our country. This culture of corruption needs swift and severe justice with extreme prejudice.

    Ted Nugent, your country needs you, and the Minutemen to lock, load, and saddle up.

  • Lock and Load

    If this story is true, and the ranch has been taken, why the hell hasn’t it been taken BACK :!: :?: Why does the blotter mention LE observation but no move to throw out the scum and return said property to rightful owner :?: There still seem to be a lot more questions than answers :???:

  • Pull

    When dimocrats like vermin come to my door looking for food or shelter, I will give them a lead sandwich. We are on the road to a huge depressing era. And the dims are the reason. Round them up and bury their traiterous asses.

  • David

    This is disgusting that WE THE PEOPLE can’t get the truth from the msm or our elected officials. What is going on in Laredo? Going to war is not my concern. As Charlton Heston said, “From my cold, dead hands”. WE THE PEOPLE are at war with the judicial, executive and legislative branches of the federal government and have been for some time. They trample on our rights and we keep putting them back into office.
    I would have liked to have heard about this from Beck, O’Reilly, et al. But nothing.

    • David

      Oh, yeah. If Pat says it’s a true story, I’ll believe it.

  • odin2012

    This story needs more investagation and brought into the light of day. If the ranch owner had his property taken over by the zetas, he may have loved ones held and yes he would lie about the claim. There is so much we don’t know, but I believe this can happen and it makes sense for our beloved dear leader to hide this story. he needs the illegals to keep the dems in power, and stand in as part of his civilian army.
    If this is true…We, the sons of freedom need to take all parties out. :mad:

    • Sentinel at the Gate

      Locked, cocked and ready to rock.

  • Syndrome

    GoshDamnit. Get a Facebook button please.

    Should we be suprised? No, they are shitass liars.